Sentences with phrase «federal lawyers say»
There's nothing that prevents governments from consulting First Nations when laws are drafted, federal lawyers say.
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Republican lawyers filed a motion that was posted on the court's website Friday accusing Stein of engaging in legal antics and saying her recount request endangers Pennsylvania's ability to certify its electors by the federal deadline.
The news agency, citing two anonymous sources, said that Walgreens» plan announced last month to sell 865 drugstores to tiny regional rival Fred's (fred) for $ 950 million hadn't convince the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lawyers to sign off on the deal.
NEW YORK, April 16 - A lawyer for victims of terrorist attacks in Israel on Monday urged a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit against Facebook Inc, saying Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony undermined the social media company's argument that it bore no responsibility for content on its platforms.
Prosecutors say Edwards broke federal law by accepting about $ 725,000 from Mellon and more than $ 200,000 from Fred Baron, a now - deceased Texas lawyer who was his finance chairman.
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said that federal authorities who seized documents from the lawyer, Michael Cohen, would provide copies to Cohen's team.
«It's the nuclear option,» said Jeffrey Neiman, a lawyer in Florida who was one of the lead prosecutors on the federal government's initial 2009 case against UBS's Swiss bank.
A pattern of insulin makers matching each others price increases «certainly indicates a market that isn't competitively healthy,» said David Balto, an antitrust lawyer and former Federal Trade Commission policy director.
Lawyers say that the federal justice minister's response to recommendations by a Commons committee on how to improve legal aid in Canada is disappointing.
New comments by President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani about a payment to Stormy Daniels place the president at the center of questions about possible campaign - finance violations, two former Federal Election Commission leaders said.
The recent clarification of the powers of the federal Commissioner of Competition to assert privilege over documents is an opportunity for more efficient and fair proceedings in the future, say lawyers who practise in the competition field.
A long - awaited bill will bring federal corporate governance laws up to speed with standards already expected by the country's securities exchanges and regulators, lawyers say.
«It actually presents a relatively clean issue for the court,» said Lawrence M. Noble, a former top lawyer at the Federal Election Commission who is now the general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group.
Federal investigators kept logs of the phone lines of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, NBC News said on Thursday.
«It's very strong evidence that this was about the election,» said Larry Noble, a former Federal Election Commission lawyer who is now senior director of the non-profit Campaign Legal Center.
The suit's claim that Trump knew about the payment and that it was aimed at keeping the affair from voters «confirms what we suspected,» said Paul Ryan, a top lawyer with Common Cause, one of the groups that have lodged complaints with the Federal Election Commission about the payoff.
The federal government has said that the tax changes it has proposed are aimed at people who fall into the smallest - of - the - small category: many of them professionals such as doctors or lawyers — who incorporated their practices and are eligible for tax benefits available to small businesses.
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WASHINGTON / NEW YORK Federal investigators kept logs of the phone lines of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, NBC News said on Thursday, correcting an earlier story that said the lines were wiretapped to allow investigators to hear the calls.
Another of Ramirez's lawyers, Mark Rosenbaum of the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, characterized the DACA program as a promise from the federal government's executive branch that DACA recipients would not be targeted for deportation and said he hoped that promise would not be broken.
Former federal prosecutor Patrick Cotter said it makes sense for Trump to claim this so shortly after his lawyers asserted attorney - client privilege in the Cohen criminal investigation.
WASHINGTON / NEW YORK (Reuters)- Federal investigators kept logs of the phone lines of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, NBC News said on Thursday, correcting an earlier story that said the lines were wiretapped to allow investigators to hear the calls.
Norm Eisen, who served as an ethics lawyer in the Obama White House and now chairs the left - leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which has repeatedly challenged Trump, also said Trump should have disclosed the loan on his federal financial disclosure.
«People worry a great deal about retaliation when they bring forth these kinds of claims,» says Richard Salzman, a federal employment lawyer in Washington.
@ED, In many financial jobs the reasons for what you can and get you can and can't do is because there are federal regulations to avoid impropriety and high dollar scams (I'm not in any way saying you would do this, it tend so happen at really high individual levels), and the lawyers make strict company policies to make sure there isn't even an appearance of impropriety.
«The President's order makes clear that all federal agencies and lawyers must obey the law and respect religious liberty,» said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel at Becket, the firm that represents the Little Sisters and others challenging the HHS Mandate.
Ron Jenkins, a lawyer for Gateway, said his client notified federal regulators and state and city officials about the ammonia leak when it occurred.
As the federal government seeks a dismissal of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's hydraulic fracturing lawsuit, the state's top lawyer said he's dealing with the issue «at several levels.»
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni rejected a variety of reasons that lawyers for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver say his federal corruption indictment should be thrown out and no retrial should occur.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will once again not take the stand in his retrial on federal corruption charges, with his lawyer saying his defense will consist of documents «but no live testimony.»
De Blasio said he's «beyond frustration» with his debt of at least $ 250,000 to defense lawyers associated with state and federal investigations into his fundraising efforts.
His lawyer Chief Bolaji Ayorinde, SAN, while arguing Amosu's bail application after he was arraigned before Justice Mohammed Idris before a Federal High court in Lagos, said his client had returned «collossal sums».
Days after a federal judge forced Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to reveal that Fox News host Sean Hannity is a client, a new report says Hannity employed the attorney to help him build a real estate empire that is rife with conflicts of interest.
He was indicted on several felonies in March and his lawyer said over the summer in federal court that his client was «seeking to resolve» the case and hopes to be «working something out.»
Days after a federal judge forced President Trump's personal lawyer to reveal that Hannity is a client, a new report says Hannity employed the attorney to help him build a real estate empire that is rife with conflicts of interest.
A lawyer enmeshed in a federal corruption probe targeting state Sen. Carl Kruger said yesterday he is guilty of lying to FBI agents about a pay - to - play bribe.
Both men were handcuffed in front of their families and taken to federal court in Syracuse, where they faced a gantlet of media photographers, the lawyer said.
«[Underwood] is an extremely capable lawyer, and the office primarily does litigation, but there are also public policy decisions that have to made,» such as how aggressively the office challenges the federal government to represent the interests of New Yorkers, Horner said.
The New York Times didn't act with malice when it mistakenly suggested in an editorial that Sarah Palin incited the 2011 shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, a lawyer for the paper said in Manhattan federal court yesterday at the first hearing on Palin's defamation suit.
Huntley also warned the FBI that there is «a mole» in Schneiderman's office who has leaked information, said defense lawyer Sally Butler in Brooklyn federal court.
A lawyer for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says the U.S. Supreme Court should look at his case after a federal appeals court tossed out his conviction and ordered a retrial.
«You've heard witness after witness say there was no quid pro quo,» Steven Molo, a lawyer for the Democratic assemblyman from the Lower East side, said during his closing argument Monday in federal court in Lower Manhattan.
MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — The former NYPD deputy inspector charged in a public corruption scandal took no part in closing part of the Lincoln Tunnel as a favor to politically connected businessmen, his lawyer said Wednesday during his arraignment.
Burke's lawyer, Joseph Conway, of Mineola, who also represented Macedonio, declined to comment on either case Friday, except to say that «since his arrest, in 2015, Mr. Burke has not spoken with federal authorities.»
Gilman's lawyer, Jeffrey Liddle, said in his $ 60 million Manhattan federal court lawsuit filed Friday that while the column didn't mention Gilman by name, it's clear that «Mr. Spitzer made these statements with actual malice towards Mr. Gilman.»
On the first day of presenting their defense cases Thursday, their lawyers urged a federal judge to dismiss the charges on a number of grounds, not the least of which, they said, is that the government has failed to prove corruption occurred after nearly five weeks of prosecution witnesses and evidence.
Two weeks ago, a lawyer for Cuomo announced that a former federal prosecutor would lead the administration's own investigation into the Buffalo Billion and other economic development programs, saying the ongoing federal probe had raised questions of «improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest.»
Lawyers for Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker, said in a statement the McDonnell decision «makes clear that the federal government has gone too far in prosecuting state officials for conduct that is part of the everyday functioning of those in elected office.»
Public Advocate Letitia James is calling on lawyers to help represent unaccompanied children pro bono in federal immigration cases — and said she'd join them.
A police commander who was stripped of his gun and badge in April amid an extensive federal inquiry into municipal corruption has filed for retirement, his lawyer and the New York Police Department said.