Sentences with phrase «for justice department»

Instead, Pence pointed to Trump's call for members of Congress to «strengthen background checks» and for the Justice Department to expedite new regulations for «bump stocks,» devices that can convert a legal semiautomatic weapon into one that fires like a fully automatic one.

That's great for the Justice Department, but law firms should be concerned about the cream - skimming that goes on.

«This Week in The National Law Journal Main Ginsburg, GE Counsel Speak Up For Justice Department Lawyers»

A spokesperson for the Justice Department told Canadian Lawyer that it is consulting with stakeholders and once it is ready to announce any changes they will be made public.

A spokesperson for the Justice Department stated that the number of appointments reflects the number of female applicants.

If a respected private lawyer can be prosecuted for his legal advice, should not the same hold true for Justice Department lawyers?

One of the lawyers interviewed is the daughter of former SCC Justice Louise Arbour and a prosecutor for the Justice Department.

Clinton joins a growing number of politicians — including both of her Democratic presidential challengers — calling for the Justice Department to investigate ExxonMobil for sowing doubt about climate change after the company's own scientists had confirmed and accepted the role of fossil fuels in global warming.

The group that drafted the Democratic Party platform recently called for the Justice Department to prosecute energy companies that don't see eye - to - eye with Democrats on climate change.

Whitehouse, for one, has outlined the case for a Justice Department probe of whether Exxon violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO.

«The AEP settlement will have an unprecedented impact on air quality in the eastern United States,» said Ronald J. Tenpas, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division.

The FHA set off a firestorm in September when it released a loan certification plan that appeared to make it easier for the Justice Department to pursue FHA lenders for minor loan defects.

These are the main questions that Apple has to answer for the Justice Department, and it is likely this case will drag on for another year or two.

Although Apple and the publishers may have cooperated in ways that violated the nation's sometimes contradictory antitrust laws, for the Justice Department to single this matter out and not address other issues in the book industry or in business in general seems misguided.

Gina Talamona, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department's antitrust division, and representatives of Apple, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin and Macmillan, which is a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, declined to comment on prospects for lawsuits or settlements.

In the case of books, Apple did what it believed it had to do to try and compete with Amazon, and whether that involved collusion is ultimately for the Justice Department or the courts to decide.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

Elsewhere in Washington, attorney Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright) is charged with the task of garnering information for the Justice Department regarding a merger between two giant oil companies that will open a huge operation in a country along the Persian Gulf.

It's the largest case to date for a Justice Department unit that investigates alleged kleptocrats.

Yul - san Liem, co-director of the Justice Committee — which is part of Communities United for Police Reform — said there is no precedent for the city waiting for the Justice Department to make a decision.

Maffei, a Democrat from Syracuse, says while Katko worked for the Justice Department, he let former Oswego mayor John Gosek off easy because he was a fellow Republican.

Maffei, the Syracuse Democrat, has been focusing on Republican Katko's record and actions as a federal prosecutor for the Justice Department.

De Blasio said he's waiting for the Justice Department to complete its probe before taking any action, and said he'd veto the chokehold ban.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has called for a Justice Department inquiry into the death of Philando Castile, 32, who was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota just two days after Sterling's death.

He claimed there had potentially been voter suppression and called for the Justice Department to investigate.

«We're not prosecutors anymore,» said Rice, who like Katko is a former federal prosecutor for the Justice Department.

But in a brief filed this week in federal court, lawyers for the Justice Department tell U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe that if he does set a primary for New York, that he make the date earlier than Aug. 18.

The liberal Democratic speaker was participating in a panel discussion with colleagues while Sessions was addressing reporters in Washington, revealing his intention to require cities applying for Justice Department grants to cooperate with ICE — and use «all lawful steps to claw back» monies disbursed to recalcitrant areas.

If that isn't hot enough for you the Justice Department is said to be considering having federal agents and prosecutors from the Southern District of New York join the jamboree originally launched by feds in the Northern District.

A spokesman for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to questions about a federal probe.

The biggest sign of whether Trump's intent will turn to action will come when he anoints the new heads for the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission.

«It's appalling behavior by the department,» Matthew Miller, a former spokesperson for the Justice Department in the Obama administration, told Business Insider about the release of the texts.

But legal experts have already begun to weigh in on the coming legal battle, and there seems to be a consensus that it might be tougher for the Justice Department to lobby against this vertical integration, because blocked mergers in the past have typically been among direct competitors.

A spokeswoman for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday about the complaint.

Because if he, as a proxy for the Justice Department (specifically the FBI), can be painted as anti-Trump, then it means his hiring of special counsel Robert Mueller had ulterior anti-Trump motives.

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

Given recent reporting on the company's international business dealings and apparently strategic spread of misinformation using the internet, untangling CA's political maneuvers may turn out to be an entirely separate, and daunting, task for the Justice Department.

«Legal marijuana has become so entrenched in the U.S. — it's a multibillion - dollar industry — and I don't see the people who are behind this, people like myself, rolling over for the Justice Department, which means Congress will have to act,» Morse said.

As for the Justice Department, it has Donald Trump on its side, who called Apple «disgraceful» on Wednesday.

Sen. Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, called for the Justice Department and other government agencies to investigate the company.

It's a lawyer from outside of government named by the attorney general to take over an investigation that poses a conflict of interest for the Justice Department.

In his 1994 study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, both conservatives, hinted during an hour - long argument in the case at support for the Justice Department's stance that because Microsoft is based in the United States it was obligated to turn over data sought by prosecutors in a U.S. warrant.

He said it would be hard for the Justice Department to argue that such a commitment did not address its concern that AT&T would raise the rates it charges for Time Warner content to rival pay - TV companies.

Sufficient questions were raised for the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel with wide - ranging powers of inquiry — work that is only recently underway.

Not exact matches

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

Alsup referred the case to the U.S. Department of Justice for investigation of possible trade secret theft on Thursday, when the ruling was released under seal.

The Justice Department's application for the search warrant for Rosen's Gmail account reveals the extent of the administration's Orwellian maneuvers.

From 1998 to 2001, he worked for the Department of Justice's antitrust division, focusing on the telecommunications sector.

The FTC, which works with the Justice Department to enforce antitrust law, said that Qualcomm used its dominance in supplying baseband processors used in smartphones and tablets to extract elevated royalties for patents in what the complaint dubbed a «no license - no chips» policy.