Sentences with phrase «from federal justice»

Yes, just like anything else, there are exceptions to this rule, but the reality is that you are not going to get «the call» from the federal Justice minister unless you play by these well - established, unwritten rules.

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Trump's administration addressed one potential conflict when the Justice Department on Saturday said federal anti-nepotism laws do not prevent the president from appointing his son - in - law to his administration.

(Officials from the federal government's ministries of finance, industry, and justice did not respond to requests for interviews.)

The Justice Department urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to lift a stay imposed by a Maryland federal judge March 16th blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order.

In total, 15 billion pages of data were stolen from at least 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the states of Hawaii and Indiana, the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Justice Department alleged.

In January, Attorney General Jeff Sessions» decision to rescind the Cole Memo — an Obama - era Justice Department memo that essentially protected states that have legalized marijuana from federal interference — caused concern in the cannabis industry that a crackdown could happen.

It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.

In a recent court case, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of Justice is prohibited from using federal funds to prosecute businesses who operate within state laws regarding medical marijuana.

And though the Justice Department's push to overhaul troubled police agencies was a staple effort of the last administration, Sessions announced his desire to «pull back» on federal scrutiny of local law enforcement, winning praise from some quarters.

Underscoring the breadth of the scrutiny, the people said, the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have discussed the possibility of striking a wide - ranging settlement to conclude many of the looming mortgage investigations from federal authorities and state attorneys general.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

«I would suspect the «know your customer» they're doing on their ad purchasers is probably driven more by what information they need for internal business purposes and to best sell ads rather than to satisfy information requests from any third parties, such as the Federal Election Commission, the Department of Justice, etc..»

That payment is the subject of criticism from the watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice alleging it violated campaign finance rules.

The money, which Mr. Cohen has said came from his own personal funds, is the subject of complaints lodged by the group Common Cause with the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department.

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

You see, each and every year, Congress has to reapprove the Rohrabacher - Blumenauer Amendment (previously known as Rohrabacher - Farr), which is the amendment that disallows the Justice Department from using federal dollars to prosecute marijuana companies operating in states that have chosen to legalize in some capacity.

Moore held the job of Chief Justice from 2001 to 2003 but was forced out when he defied a federal order to remove a 2.6 ton stone monument of the Ten Commandments he had placed at the courthouse.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

According to the United States Department of Justice, percentages range from 45 percent of federal prisoners to 56 percent of state prisoners and 64 percent of inmates in local jails.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

Trump has appointed a pro-life Supreme Court justice, banned federal dollars from funding abortion overseas, and signed a law allowing states to withhold funding for abortion providers.

Trump has largely stood by his pro-life campaign promises, appointing conservative justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, signing a law allowing states to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood, and reinstating a ban on federal funds for organizations that perform abortions overseas.

On access to justice, claim «cost prohibitive for an independent supermarket or liquor store owner to bring an action with the Federal Court seeking relief from anticompetitive behaviours...» - argues for «no cost orders» and a mandatory enforceable Supermarket and Liquor store Code of Conduct.

But the other side, latterly weaned from the folly of awaiting justice, and now buoyed by «federal might», would certainly not lay to be slaughtered.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

In a concession to conservatives clamoring for new investigations into Clinton's emails and the Justice Department's actions in the Russia investigation, Attorney General Jeff Sessions named a federal prosecutor from Utah to head the review.

Justice John Tsoho of Federal High Court, Abuja who adjourned hearing in the trial of Kanu with his co-defendants in a motion of notice filed on their behalf by Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, asked the Judge to disqualify himself from hearing the case over alllegations of «manifest bias.»

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu, and his co-defendants, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu have asked Justice James Tsoho of a Federal High Court, Abuja to step down from trying them on the six - count charge, bordering on treason preferred against them by the federal goveFederal High Court, Abuja to step down from trying them on the six - count charge, bordering on treason preferred against them by the federal govefederal government.

The head of the federal Department of Justice's death penalty unit has been removed from his job after being investigated at least 12 times on charges of sexism and favoritism.

The convicted - of - corruption Sampson, 51, will get an additional 27 days of freedom after Brooklyn Federal Court Justice Dora Irizarry agreed to push back his surrender date from April 21 to May 18 so the deposed Democratic state senator can attend the festivities.

Rob Walker, a former Republican state assemblyman from Hicksville who served as chief deputy to former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, was indicted on federal charges of obstructing justice and lying to FBI agents on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018.

I have disqualified myself from sitting over this case, thereby the case file shall be transferred to the office of the chief justice of the Federal High Court.

Walker, 43, a Republican and former state assemblyman from Hicksville, surrendered Thursday to federal officials at U.S. District Court in Central Islip before pleading not guilty to obstructing justice and lying to FBI agents.

«We strongly belief that President Buhari, must be seen to be acting contrary to court decisions on the use of Military during elections as clearly stated in the rulings of Justice Aikawa of the Federal High Court, who in his judgment, restrained the President and Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and INEC from engaging the service of the Nigerian armed forces in the security supervision of elections in any manner whatsoever in any part of Nigeria, without the Act of the National Assembly.

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.

turned himself into FBI custody Monday morning to face a nine - count indictment including charges that he embezzled $ 440,000 from foreclosure escrow accounts, obstructed justice, tampered with witnesses and evidence and lied to federal investigators.

Sampson turned himself into FBI custody Monday morning to face a nine - count indictment including charges that he embezzled $ 440,000 from foreclosure escrow accounts, obstructed justice, tampered with witnesses and evidence and lied to federal investigators.

He was also charged with obstruction of justice for trying to get information about a 2011 federal mortgage fraud case against his unidentified crony from an administrative employee in the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from Agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» he said.

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.

In the lead judgment, Justice Agimnullified the July 25, 2013 verdict of Justice Abdukadir Abdu - Kafarati of the Federal High Court in Abuja, who had made an order of perpetual injunction restraining the EFCC, the Inspector - General of Police and the AGF, from prosecuting Ubah with respect to the subsidy fraud allegations.

Justice Agbim noted that «the fuel subsidy fraud involved corruption and fraud on a very massive scale»; that it involved many oil companies and officials of government's regulatory agencies «looting and stealing of trillions of naira from the Federal Government of Nigeria and threatening the security and economy of Nigeria.»

Ekwem, who was subpoenaed by the court to tender some documents that were said to have emanated from his chambers and testify on same, rather, urged Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos to set aside the summons served on him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to testify in the matter.

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

Earlier on December 6, 2017, Justice Muawiyah Idris of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Apo, Abuja, had ordered hat 86 luxury vehicles together with four houses and a quarry plant in Abuja, all of which the panel allegedly seized from the two defendants.

The Justice Department is following through on an executive order to withhold as much as $ 4.1 billion in federal grants from so - called «sanctuary cities,» generally defined as places where local law enforcement limit their cooperation with federal authorities on immigration enforcement.

Mr. Cuomo also has high regard for Janet DiFiore, the district attorney of Westchester County, and Denise E. O'Donnell, a former federal prosecutor from Buffalo who is the Paterson administration's top criminal justice official.