Sentences with phrase «granting immunity to themselves»

Although HUD is settling with Fidelity, it is not granting immunity to the brokers that accepted the kickbacks from TransactionPoint, as far as we can tell.

The following cases suggest that if a claim is valid under Section 1983 of the Federal Civil Rights Act, that state law granting immunity to the official can not override Federal law under the Supremacy Clause.

Titles also have bonuses that come into play whenever they're equipped, such as offering the party additional XP or granting immunity to certain status changes.

Parliamentarians promoting and granting immunity to themselves can only serve to launder the rule of the powerful rather than the rule of law.

Instead of working with Schneiderman's office to determine jurisdiction in the case, Abelove is accused of presenting grand jury testimony and granting immunity to the officer involved in the case and withheld evidence in the process.

Did you know the Catholic church grants immunity to those that lie to get an annulment?

I am left confused because I am wondering why the petitioners weren't bold enough to ask the party to also call the founder to order or take a disciplinary action against him too, certainly it therefore defeats the ideals of fairness and justice that they sought to seek for which the quoted article 47 of the NDC party constitution as basis for their action; does it grant some immunity to the former president, I doubt and therefore see the action of the petitioners very flawed and skewed.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Jim Margolin, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose Manhattan office is prosecuting the Skeloses, declined to comment on why the government was willing to grant immunity to Walker, but not Mangano.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate leader Dean Skelos, according to a transcript of proceedings Friday.

The report chronicling Schneiderman's year - long investigation into the shooting death of Edson Thevenin, 37, highlighted the controversial decision by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove to secretly grant immunity to Sgt. Randall French when the officer testified before a grand jury that cleared him of wrongdoing.

The early release scheme was a necessary evil in order to achieve peace; there is no justification for exceeding its terms to grant immunity to callous murderers like «Soldier F».

Donovan granted immunity to other officers on the scene in exchange for their grand - jury testimony.

In the middle of the night, while mockingly echoing the SAFE Act's nefarious witching - hour birth, the senators voted to amend the SAFE Act law to grant immunity to law enforcement officers and retired LEOs from its unconstitutional restrictions.

The Department's tentative decision would grant immunity to «oneworld» alliance members American Airlines and Japan Airlines, and separately to «Star Alliance» members United Airlines, Continental Airlines and All Nippon Airways.

The FCC has been granting a series of waivers that grants immunity to the Twenty - First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.

Lawmakers first called for hearings into why the Justice Department granted immunity to a suspected drug smuggler so he would testify against two agents who shot him.

While the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) grants immunities to foreign sovereignties with respect to some aspects of United States law, it does not grant complete immunity.

What was the basis for the PTAB's earlier decisions this year to grant immunity to state university patent owners such as the University of Florida?

In response, the city claimed that it was entitled to immunity from the lawsuit based on the Indiana Tort Claims Act, which grants immunity to the government and government employees when they are performing a discretionary function.

Florida grants immunity to employers since employees are covered under mandatory workers» compensation insurance.

Because compensation is ensured, Florida also grants immunity to employers unless they committed an intentional tort, and to fellow subcontractors unless there was gross negligence.

Not exact matches

The revelations come at a time when the unregulated power of the tech companies is under increased scrutiny, and Congress is weighing whether to limit the immunity that it granted to tech companies in 1996 for third - party content on their platforms.

Skyteam was granted anti-trust immunity by the US and the EU, allowing them to legally collude on prices.

In yet another twist to the case, in early November of 2014, The Miami Herald reported that Rodriguez had actually admitted to federal agents that he had used performance - enhancing drugs from 2010 - 12, after being granted immunity from prosecutors during a drug investigation.

He will never leave Vatican city again, because he has lost his diplomatic immunity granted to him by George W. Bush, he will be able to be charged for his crimes against humanity.

If I were to guess — and that is all any outsider can do at this point — I would say that the language of intrinsic value still in the Charter, granting nature some immunity from human need, language which, as noted, the Earth Charter Commission regards as essential and nonnegotiable, will prove the final stumbling block to official acceptance.

If on the other hand you ask about «last resort» or «innocent immunity,» others will grant your fight to put the question.

While granting that each form of conflict generates ambiguous cases, he argues for the importance of maintaining the fundamental immunity of noncombatants and for intervening to protect victims of indiscriminate warfare.

Learning to detect the forms of self - flattery which grant us immunity from accountability is a vital part of ethical and spiritual growth, as is learning to detect where our cynicism about the victim language of others is justified and where, half - muffled and scarcely articulate, there are real victims on whose behalf we must extend ourselves.

Specifically, Omo - Agege's bill had stated that the immunity granted to the president, governors and their deputies in section 308 (1) of the constitution would no longer apply to criminal proceedings arising from allegations of financial crimes against them.

The independence granted the Commission under the Constitution does not mean immunity to flout all the financial laws of Ghana, waste public funds and unlawfully enrich corrupt public officials.

However, although the pre-disestablishment marriage law has been retained for the Welsh Church, including the putative right to be married in one's parish church, that right is abrogated by the third lock, which grants a conscience clause (and immunity from suit) to clergy who refuse to perform same - sex marriages.

Two months later, on April 10, Cameroon's parliament voted 157 to 5 to amend the constitution and allow Biya to run for another term, the reform likewise granted political immunity to the president when he departs office.

The first lady, who is seen as possible successor to her 93 - year - old husband, was granted diplomatic immunity by South Africa at the weekend and flew out of the country.

By law, the judge pointed out, neither lawyer can be compelled to testify before a grand jury unless granted immunity from prosecution.

The Minister insisted that she has absolutely nothing to do with the issue noting that it is an abuse of public office, the judicial process and her human rights for Governor Oshiomhole whom she stopped from taking a «highly suspicious N15 billion loan'to make false allegations against her while hiding behind the constitutional immunity granted state governors.

Mangano's chief deputy, Rob Walker, admitted under a grant of immunity during the trial that he was being investigated in a separate federal probe for allegedly awarding county contracts to campaign contributors.

«It is an abuse of public office, the judicial process and her human rights for governor Oshiomhole, whom she stopped from taking a highly suspicious N15 billion loan, to make false allegations against her while hiding behind the constitutional immunity granted state governors,» read the statement.

Some of those connected to the case call Ortt a Schneiderman «target,» noting he did not follow a string of Maziarz associates into the grand jury earlier this month and therefore was not granted immunity.

It does not grant immunity for future alleged crimes, nor does it grant immunity for current alleged crimes to the extent that they continue to be committed.

Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution, sources close to the negotiations said on Thursday.

Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.

South Africa has granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe, allowing her to leave the country without answering questions about an assault allegation.

Several times in recent weeks he also has attacked Clinton's closest Democratic primary rival, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, for his vote to back a bill that granted gun manufacturers immunity from lawsuits.

THE BRONX — Mayor Bill de Blasio was not granted immunity before speaking with federal and state prosecutors investigating his fundraising activities, according to his press secretary.

Citizens have a right to know that corporations will be held accountable — and not granted immunity — for failing to safeguard personal information adequately....

A 1995 article in the New York Times reveals that the US Army granted immunity from war crimes prosecution to the doctors involved.

The executor of the arrest warrants, Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander, essentially assuming the young authority role left by Commodore Norrington), is willing to grant the betrothed couple freedom and immunity in exchange for Jack Sparrow's enchanted compass.

The media largely neglected that the ruling was limited to similarly invasive searches for similarly innocuous drugs and that it granted qualified immunity to the school officials who were responsible for the search.