Sentences with phrase «filed civil charges»

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 agency filed civil charges against Dominic Lacroix, his partner Sabrina Paradis - Royer and PlexCorps, for «misappropriating investor funds illegally raised through the fraudulent and unregistered» offer of PlexCoin.

In June 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed civil charges against Corzine for using funds from MF's customer accounts for corporate purposes.

As a victim, you can file a civil charge in a family court, a criminal charge in a criminal court, or both.

Not exact matches

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission also filed parallel civil charges against Sarao on Tuesday, calling him a «very significant player in the market.»

If you truly do not recognize the Const!tution as being the Supreme Law that governs your physical life here in this country, then you have some options, like giving up your Citizenship and moving to a different country, or staying here and refusing to follow the law — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

By filing a charge of discrimination with the EEOC, Davis begins a multi-step process for attempting to show that the Saints and NFL have violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

She filed an affidavit with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in early 2017, charging Quinnipiac with discrimination and retaliation.

Devine's civil action was filed the day after his office charged three former members of the Park District board with official misconduct and theft in a criminal complaint.

Wisconsin Atty. Gen. James Doyle said Wednesday that his office filed civil antitrust charges against the nation's two largest makers of infant formula, Abbott Laboratories and Bristol - Myers Squibb Co., accusing them of working together to reduce price competition in bidding on a state - federal program to provide infant formula to poor families.

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...

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit charging that North Carolina's bathroom law violates federal civil - rights law — a move that came hours after the state's officials filed their own suit saying the department was trying to rewrite national law by attacking them.

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:

The U.S. government has filed criminal and civil charges against a former Equifax Inc. executive over alleged insider trading linked to last year's massive data breach at the credit reporting company, officials said.

New Yorkers favor the passage of a bill to give child sex abuse victims more time to file criminal charges and civil lawsuits by a wide margin, yet that proposal — the Child Victims Act — has once again died in Albany.

Whenever the police kill, brutalize, or otherwise violate a citizen's civil rights, the US Department of Justice should be brought in to investigate and file charges if warranted because the DA's and police are constant collaborators.

Outgoing AG Andrew Cuomo plans to file civil fraud charges against Ernst & Young for its alleged role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

The Civil Service Employees Assocation has filed CSEA an Improper Practice charge with PERB over Gov. David Paterson's continuing threat of layoffs depite his signing of a no - layoff agreement with the state workers unions in exchange for their support of a fifth pension fund tier.

The attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, filed a civil suit in April charging Mr. Espada and others close to him with siphoning $ 14 million from the health clinics for personal and political purposes.

Civil charges filed by Cuomo last April that claimed Espada looted $ 14 million from his publicly funded Soundview Health Clinic were apparently just the tip of the iceberg.

Singas in 2015 charged Edward Korona Jr., Nassau's deputy commissioner of emergency management, with four counts each of felony perjury, felony offering a false instrument for filing and felony making a false sworn statement and misdemeanor official misconduct for lying on civil service applications.

Pantaleo is also still modified as a federal grand jury continues to mull whether to file civil rights charges against him.

He held a conference call with 100 reporters last week after filing a civil suit against the state Senate's majority leader, Pedro Espada Jr., on charges of siphoning more than $ 14 million from health clinics he founded for vacations, campaign expenses and $ 20,000 in takeout sushi.

Advocates hoped the Child Victims Act — which would give victims until their 50th birthdays to file civil suits and until their 28th birthdays to press criminal charges — would be passed in the state senate this summer, but Republican lawmakers refused to vote on the bill before their legislative session ended on June 21.

CANTON, N.Y. — Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick is among more than 40 public officials and agencies named in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a former Clarkson University soccer coach acquitted of murder charges.

Federal prosecutors said last year that there was insufficient evidence to file civil rights charges against Haste.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced last March that there was «insufficient evidence» to file federal civil rights charges against Haste.

In no distant time, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other - related offences Commission will file criminal charges against ex Chairman, House of Represensatives, Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Management, Farouk Lawan, and Boniface Emenalo a civil servant.

On Aug. 24, the women, all of whom work in nonacademic positions, filed individual charges with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; the same charges were also filed by the union with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars job discrimination on...

The notices are a product of the class action Williams v. California, filed in 2000 by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups, charging the state with reneging on its constitutional obligation to provide students with the essentials for an education.

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.

Therefore, the board of education should not file criminal charges against the parent of the child due to the fact that the due process procedure provides a civil remedy enabling it to recover the assessment for tuition.»

Darleen Mipro, 39, was charged with criminal trespassing and disturbing the peace on Nov. 30, when she says school officials called the police and told her she was being fired for misconduct, according to a complaint filed by her attorney in Orleans Parish Civil District Court.

Leaders of the Committee for a Fair Licensing Procedure in New York City have filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging that the demotion of many minority teachers for failure to pass the Educational Testing Service's NTE (formerly the National Teachers Exam) violates federal civil rights laws.

(b) The Secretary of State shall charge and collect a filing fee not to exceed the cost of filing the bond or the deposit in lieu of a bond pursuant to Section 995.710 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

Criminal charges can not be filed until the civil suit is completed.

Providing prohibited services can lead to severe professional penalties, and may include the filing of civil or even criminal charges against the vet assistant.

The recent CS: GO Lotto scandal involving Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cosmetic gun skin betting prompted Valve to issue cease and desist letters to gambling sites and has resulted in some civil suits, but no criminal charges have been filed yet.

In 2003, both men were charged with tax evasion related to the one - day transaction which included acquiring 62 works of art, selling 58 works of art, and earning about $ 17 million in taxable capital gains, according to a civil lawsuit filed against Gagosian and Brant by then - U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Comey in Manhattan.

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and Common Cause filed an 18 - page supplemental complaint to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calling for the termination of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)'s status as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization and requesting civil and criminal charges be brought against ALEC.

However, victims and families must pursue compensation through civil courts, regardless of whether criminal charges are filed against wrongdoers.

Successfully represented Vermont municipalities against charges filed with the Civil Rights Unit of the Vermont Attorney General's Office and the Vermont Human Rights Commission

Although the former police officer accused in this case was criminally charged for the alleged abuse, an individual who suffered sexual abuse may be entitled to recover financial damages by filing a civil lawsuit.

Depending on your type of file, you will be charged a one - time disbursement fee of either 30 dollars or 50 dollars (for civil files).

I've always charged flat fees for criminal defense files, while civil cases were billed either hourly or on a contingency fee basis.

Defended an aerospace parts and service supplier in a trade secrets civil lawsuit in Georgia and against potential criminal charges, resulting in a dismissal of the civil complaint and no criminal charges being filed against the client.

Government files criminal, civil charges accusing former executive of insider trading in eBay deal, Reuters

For lawyers like me to have what average civil servants have, I would have to charge more per file.

If you decided in Step 4 that you are filing your case in Henderson, a Small Claims Affidavit of Complaint form is available, free of charge, at the Civil Law Self - Help Center, or you can download it on you computer below.

Civil liability may be easier to prove when a semi-truck driver is given a citation following an accident that causes injury or death, but it is not impossible for an injured victim or their family to receive compensation even when no criminal charges are filed.