Sentences with phrase «criminal penalties by»

Companies concerned about possible internal wrongdoing may reduce exposure to loss, liability or civil and criminal penalties by proactively investigating those circumstances.

That widely distributed pitch prompted Nevada regulators to issue a «fraud alert» warning that «consumers, brokers and lenders that complete, submit or participate in the completion and submission of an application for credit that contains misrepresentations or false information are subject to administrative actions and potential criminal penalties by the state.»

Not exact matches

The conflicts of interest law — which carries federal criminal penalties — avoids those issues by exempting the President and Vice President from its provisions.

They represent a 1984 charge, eventually dismissed, of theft by check; a 2001 charge of criminal mischief in the first degree, also dismissed; two disputes with clients; and a regulatory penalty.

A constitutionally - valid exercise of the feds» criminal law power requires (1) a prohibition (partial or absolute), (2) backed by a penalty, (3) for a valid criminal purpose.

Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life.

We earn the death penalty by doing something much more severe as such of criminal cases.

Moreover, this «paradox»» if we are given to such language» is only the paradox of government generally; for through criminal law government defends freedom by incarcerating lawbreakers and through civil law it defends our property by imposing penalties on those who have harmed it.

You know the penalty laid down by Roman law for harbouring a known criminal?

The former assemblyman allegedly solicited an $ 80,000 payoff by claiming he could fix an associate's criminal tax case by influencing assistant district attorneys in Manhattan to reduce the penalty, sources said.

David Cameron appeared to back down in the face of calls for criminal penalties for bankers today, when he pledged to bring forward recommendations made by a parliamentary commission.

Increases the penalties for the criminal sale of a controlled substance by a pharmacist or practitioner by making the crime a class C felony.

In the case of any failure by a taxpayer to timely pay any penalty imposed by this section, such taxpayer shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty with respect to such failure.

Despite bringing more prosecutions, most cases will continue to be dealt with by HMRC levying financial penalties rather than seeking a criminal conviction.

Article 14 (1) Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of his personal liberty except in the following cases and in accordance with procedure permitted by law; Article 19 (1) A person charged with a criminal offence shall be given a fair hearing within a reasonable time by a court; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitution.

The legal power of these international conventions is enforced in Russian Federation by the article 236 of the Criminal code «Using prohibited means and methods of waging war» with the penalty up to 20 years in prison.

Desecrating a cemetery or spraying hate - crime graffiti would come with higher criminal penalties under a package of bills sponsored by the IDC.

«Toughening up criminal penalties helps us level the playing field and protect tenants victimized by greedy, negligent landlords who put their own profit ahead of the rights of those paying the rent,» de Blasio said.

Brooklyn Sen. Martin Golden, a former city cop, plans to introduce legislation stiffening penalties against people who plant so - called community guns — weapons hidden in key locations for use by groups of gang members and other criminals.

Increasing the penalties for the criminal sale of a controlled substance by a pharmacist or practitioner by making the crime a Class C felony.

ALBANY — New York will require insurance companies to provide improved coverage for heroin addiction recovery while stiffening some criminal penalties for sale of the drug under a wide - ranging effort agreed to by state leaders Wednesday.

«Continuing the Governor's commitment to reduce the number of nonviolent individuals who become needlessly entangled in the criminal justice system, Governor Cuomo will advance legislation amending the State's marijuana drug laws by removing the criminal penalties that too often result in the over-prosecution and jailing of non-violent individuals.

In New York State, the majority of gun crimes are committed by criminals who are using illegal guns, and therefore he believes we should take steps to curb illegal gun use by increasing penalties and enacting mandatory minimum sentences.»

Criminal penalties, including jail terms, for employers who allow access to children and vulnerable people to those who have been barred by the scheme, come into force in October.

The legislation states that «any formal or informal association... of two or more individuals identified by a common name, sign, dress, symbols, tattoos, or other mark or markings» and «a pattern of criminal street gang activity,» subjects a person to increased penalties after two or more offenses are committed over a period of years.

After noticing a spike in use in homeless shelters and an uptick in hospitalizations from the drug, Mark - Viverito called on the council to take action by adding criminal penalties.

Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»

Prisons are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is the legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime.

Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.

Violation of this restriction may result in infringement of intellectual property and contractual rights of Humor Rainbow or third parties which is prohibited by law and could result in substantial civil and criminal penalties.

Contracts made by officials with a financial interest in the outcome may be voided in some cases, and the officials can even face civil and criminal penalties.

By toughening penalties for commercial - scale online offending we are offering greater protections to businesses and sending a clear message to deter criminals.»

At the time of the DUI conviction you were assessed criminal DUI fines and penalties by the court.

Generally speaking, the following debts will not be discharged: taxes; spousal and child support; debts arising out of willful misconduct and / or malicious misconduct by the debtor; liability for injury or death from driving while intoxicated; nondischargeable debts from a prior bankruptcy; student loans; criminal fines and penalties and forfeitures.

Financial penalties ordered by the court in connection with a criminal court proceeding are not discharged in a bankruptcy case.

However, an ordinance that mandates such sterilization, especially when that ordinance contain criminal penalties, is not supported by Spay and Neuter Kansas City.

Indonesia also has a zero tolerance for drugs, with the death penalty being imposed on a few convicted criminals so never put yourself at risk by carrying packages for people or even going to parties where you know drugs would be present.

Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.

You are advocating that opposing scientist's views be judged by the government and if they are found to be «misinformation», whatever that might be at any instant, various civil and criminal penalties should be imposed... have you lost your reason?

Investigations by Global Witness found illegally felled logs from Liberia in ports in France shortly before the ban came in, underlining the need for companies to to carry out checks on their supply chain and avoid possible criminal penalties.

Regulation typically involves formal laws and policies imposed by governments or international organizations, often backed by the threat of criminal penalties or other formal sanctions.

ExxonMobil now faces the prospect of civil lawsuits and possible criminal penalties, for allegedly suppressing its internal awareness about the serious risk to the environment as well as to shareholder value, from climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

What the ECJ meant was that under Italian law «the requirements of foreseeability, precision and non-retroactivity inherent in the principle that offences and penalties must be defined by law apply also -LRB-...) to the limitation rules for criminal offences relating to VAT» (para. 58, see also para. 45).

Specifically, they have asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to allow death penalty petitions and briefs to be filed electronically - a practice allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. federal district courts in Texas.

In the CLE session, sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section, Stubbs walked the audience through the current state of the death penalty in the United States, how racial discrimination affects who is sentenced to death, and how the diminished use of the death penalty could form the basis for a future Supreme Court decision abolishing it entirely.

The UK — the Member State from which the preliminary reference was submitted — elected to implement the Regulation's penalty provisions by imposing criminal sanctions on those who sell cosmetics in violation of the marketing ban.

In August 2013, the DOJ issued a joint statement with the Swiss Federal Department of Finance announcing the Swiss Bank Program which, subject to certain conditions, encouraged Swiss banks not subject to ongoing criminal investigations to disclose information about accounts held by US taxpayers and pay a penalty in exchange for an NPA.

A new common penalty system for criminal offences created by federal environmental statutes was introduced in the Environmental Enforcement Act (the legislation that enacted the Environmental Violations Administrative Monetary Penalties Act).

Note that this is different than what many people are familiar with in the context of criminal law, where assault and battery are terms that are defined by specific criminal legislation, which defines the criminal penalties imposed for engaging in certain acts, rather than the right to monetary recovery which is governed by personal injury law.

As a direct result, one estimate places the number of federal regulations currently punishable by criminal penalties at over 300,000.