Sentences with phrase «civil justice cases»

«Consumer and Civil Justice Cases in the U.S. Supreme Court: The October 2009 Term,» Conference on Teaching Consumer Law in the New Economy, Center for Consumer Law, University of Houston, May 21 - 22, 2010

There'd be only one requirement for this new hot spot: all those civil justice cases that ATRA abhors so much would be banned.

On Thursday, April 19, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin will hear oral arguments in one of the most important cases of the term, and one of the most important civil justice cases in the past decade.

Not exact matches

The Justice Department's civil case filings say more than $ 700 million was transferred from bank accounts used in the money laundering to the bank account of «Malaysian Official 1.»

Between 2009 and 2014, top executives and associates of Najib looted $ 4.5 billion from the fund, laundering it through the U.S., Singapore, Switzerland and other countries, according to a U.S. Justice Department civil case seeking to recover part of that money.

Most of the civil forfeiture cases have been put on hold while the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation.

Transactions related to 1MDB are under investigation in six countries including the United States, where the Department of Justice has launched civil cases to recover assets linked to the fund.

In a separate case, the Justice Department filed civil charges against S&P in February 2013, accusing it of failing to warn investors that the housing market was collapsing in 2006 because it would be bad for business.

The DNC may have concerns about exactly how much justice and / or transparency it is going to obtain under the criminal probe into the same matter by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and wants its own civil RICO action to move forward in case the former turns out to be a dud investigation.

When we seek instead to «pay something back to the victims and bring them closure,» we are doing a justice either lower (as in civil - court cases) or higher (as in repaying blood with blood)» but, in any case, something that should not be a model for how we deal with criminals.

Sanders also cited the oft - stated civil rights positions of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who like Douglas was called upon to vote on cases that concerned issues that were personally important to him.

Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman attracted so much attention that their servers...

Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman attracted so much attention that their servers couldn't handle it:

In a celebrated case brought by a group of civil libertarians to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1942, Chief Justice Robert Jackson, against the strong argument of civil libertarians on the issues of «interrogation without the due process of law» and prolonged detention of suspects, gave his famous ruling that the United States «Constitution is not a suicide pact».

As a Supreme Court Justice, Judge Fahey was assigned to handle a civil calendar as well as criminal Special Term and presided over a variety of cases in Erie County as well as the outlying counties in the Eighth Judicial District.

The five - justice panel heard appeals in a number of civil and criminal cases Friday, including a medical malpractice case, a divorce dispute and the legality of an arrest in a criminal case.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed court papers in a New York case arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, taking a stand against a decision reached under President Barack Obama.

She has been the lead and the inspiration, tirelessly campaigning to get Lib Dem MPs to do the right thing and kill part two of the justice and security bill — the provision for secret courts in civil cases relating to national security.

The justice secretary insisted the plans, which would make hearings private where they could «damage the public interest», would only apply to a «handful» of civil cases involving «highly sensitive intelligence material».

Ed Stradling's report on two Lib Dems, former election candidate Jo Shaw and Islington Councillor Greg Foxsmith, speaking out following their resignation from the party over the coalition's Justice and Security bill, which will allow judges in civil trials to hear evidence in secret in certain cases.

We agree that we will approach forthcoming legislation in the area of criminal justice on a case by case basis, with a view to maximising our country's security, protecting Britain's civil liberties and preserving the integrity of our criminal justice system.

In the way the city's criminal justice coordinator works to set and develop policy, so would the civil justice coordinator — and Mr. Levine said his goal would be scaling up to a universal right to counsel in cases that could be potentially life - altering, such as eviction, custody matters, and deportation hearings.

Ceresia won a full term later that year and added civil cases to his docket when he was named an acting Supreme Court justice in 2011.

She's also a mediator who has worked to resolve civil cases before the Town Justice Court.

POLICE RATED HIGH OVER SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure -LSBCASES The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure -LSBcases against women and minors, which is a complete departure -LSB-...]

With Cuomo: Served as the executive deputy attorney general for social justice for entire attorney general term, handling cases related to civil rights, environmental protection, health care and labor.

The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure from previous low ratings.

He said, «In the course of further review of facts of this case, it transpired that the legal issues arising from the originating motion of the applicant are very recondite and novel as there have not been concrete apex court decisions on them and they also affect and will affect many criminal and civil cases all over Nigeria where the Administration of Criminal Justice Act is being applied.»

Purchase, NY — Famed Civil Rights Attorney Mayo Bartlett discussed the Kenneth Chamberlain case and police - community relations in Westchester County at the 10th Annual John Howard Lecture on Law and Justice: Understanding The Blacks Lives Matter Movement At Purchase College, Tuesday Night.

As you may know, on Friday afternoon, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and the FBI, New York Field Division, announced that they are undertaking an investigation of the facts and circumstances of this case.

A lookback window is among the most controversial components of the Child Victims Act, which would make it easier for abuse survivors to seek justice as adults by extending the timeframes they can bring criminal and civil cases.

Supreme Court justices serve 14 - year terms, are paid $ 136,700 annually and preside over trial courts handling civil cases, such as negligence, personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability.

NYC About Blog New York Personal Injury Law Blog by Eric Turkewitz, is an attorney's blog on New York personal injury law, medical malpractice, the civil justice system and cases of interest.

David Oyelowo and Russell Crowe are set to star in Arc of Justice, based on a famous civil rights case from the 1920s.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

Charging that the Justice Department, which filed the suit in January 1981, will not adequately represent the black plaintiffs in the case, the civil - rights group filed its request late last month.

«It will be very difficult for Democrats to make the case that they are on the side of civil rights and social justice if they are defending unconstitutional laws that objectively harm poor kids and children of color,» said Austin, who serves on the board of Students Matter, the organization that brought the lawsuit.

«Alarmingly, the percentage of teachers of color in BPS is basically what it was 24 years ago, when the final judgment in Boston's desegregation case was signed,» said Matt Cregor, Education Project Director at the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.

This included a discussion of many cases, settlements, Federal Court Complaints and rulings issued by the US Dept of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights.

In April, the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York making very similar allegations to the civil case and citing much of the same evidence.

In a decision that could start an e-book price war in the publishing industry, a federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement between the Justice Department and three major publishers in a civil antitrust case that accused the companies of collusion in the pricing of digital books.

It is a victory for the U.S. Department of Justice and the 33 U.S. states and territories that brought the civil antitrust case.

In the Franklin American case, the Justice Department said the lender violated the False Claims Act, a Civil War - era law that extracts treble damages from violators.

The announcements came after several weeks in which Justice Department officials had publicly spoken only of civil cases.

New online courts for civil cases designed to help make the justice system more user - friendly could be introduced,...

Expect some meetings to take place before the Civil Justice Council grinds out numbers and percentage uplifts for special cases.

According to a survey by the U.S. Department of Justice, over 95 percent of civil cases (in state courts) are settled or dismissed without a trial.

Lord Justice Jackson has significantly scaled down previous plans to introduce fixed recoverable costs for all civil cases worth up to # 250,000.

In response, plaintiffs» lawyers argued that bringing the case to the Office of Special Counsel was «utterly unrealistic» and that the Civil Justice Reform Act did not contemplate the unique situation presented by the case.

If not, as was the case in SC v. NS where the civil lawsuit was before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the criminal proceeding was before the Ontario Court of Justice, then the motion for directions should be brought before the Superior Court of Justice.