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In this video, Miami personal injury lawyer Ervin Gonzalez explains how the FTCA works and how federal cases differ from other types of negligence cases.

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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.

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are not likely to be subject to federal laws that govern how employers handle leave for family and medical reasons, bereavement, military leave, jury duty, court cases and voting.

Attorneys for the co-founders of the Syracuse - based COR Development are urging the federal judge in their corruption case to allow evidence that defends how their clients viewed economic development projects that have come under scrutiny in the investigation.

It will be watched nationwide as a test case, indicating how much federal law has been weakened in public corruption cases.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

Federal law bans gun ownership by those convicted in domestic violence cases, but the law varies by state and how it is enforced, as well as how it is reported to authorities, state officials said.

In building their case against Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, federal law enforcement officials sought evidence that proved just how powerful the Senate's top member is.

In another case, a federal magistrate judge acknowledged how security camera footage of an arrest contradicted officer testimony, writing, «The video seems to tell a different story.»

The recent case of Leadership Newspapers vs. Federal Government shows us how far we have come.

A federal appeals court's decision to overturn the convictions of former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver shows how public corruption cases have become much more difficult to substantiate in the wake of a Supreme Court decision narrowing what qualifies as corruption, legal analysts said.

The case has long been considered a high - stakes test of how far the federal Endangered Species Act can require changes to modern society aimed at ensuring the continued viability of species considered iconic.

«After a federal complaint, the university is changing how it handles assault cases.

The details of the distribution plan were devised by a state task force on ELLs that was formed to figure out how to implement provisions of a bill approved in March 2006 to comply with a federal court order in a long - running case, Flores v.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

Technology, case law, and federal guidance are slowly changing how we define «education record.»

Indeed, while serving as assistant attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department, and before becoming schools chancellor, Klein recalled how he was inspired to become a lawyer: He sometimes skipped school, he told an interviewer, so his father could «take me to the federal courthouse in Manhattan, and we'd just watch cases.»

According to another article published by Kate Taylor in the New York Times, «the complaint,» which was filed with the federal Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, «described how students with disabilities were repeatedly suspended or made to repeat grades and how administrators in several cases urged parents to remove their students from the school» (Taylor 2016).

Several case studies describe how some state and local agencies are taking advantage of federal flexibility to reconsider their use of LOS as they attempt to resolve broader transportation - related challenges.

Borrowers can still be sued for defaulting on federal loans, but the Education Department had no immediate figures on how often that happens, and attorneys said such cases are not common.

Based on this chart, the case could be made that the fate of passive investing's performance is tied to how the Federal Reserve Board acts going forward.

But the case both for and against Federal Reserve interventions changes with the shift from the Buy - and - Hold Model for understanding how stock investing works to the Valuation - Informed Indexing Model.

What is perhaps interesting about this case is how vigorously the federal government defended against it, in this instance through the Educational Credit Management Corp, which is one of the organizations that collect debt payments for the U.S. Education Department.

Canada has no regulations stipulating how animals should be treated on farms outside of federal and provincial animal cruelty laws, and these are only used to prosecute livestock farmers in cases of egregious abuse, such as when animals are neglected to the point of starvation or farm workers are caught torturing animals.

QUOTE Other experts share my opinion that there is sufficient probable cause to follow through with a thorough in - depth federal investigation into the Gleick» Fakegate» case to see how far the «post-normal» climate cancer has spread.

Later, Rabett Run will discuss the case where lab management has been put out to the highest bidder and pretty much no one works directly for the federal government (most DOE labs, JPL, etc.), but here Eli is talking about how many are hired on contracts with universities and private corporations, but work full time at government facilities alongside civil servants.

Actually, it could be emulated for US Supreme Court cases but I am waiting to see how the US District Court cases will be handled, unless someone decides to start scanning in the Federal Supplement and Federal Rules Decisions etc..

It aims to help attorneys gain insights into questions such as how long federal judges typically take to resolve cases, how they rule on dispositive motions, and how often they are overturned on appeal.

The question of what shapes, and how they are drawn, is at the heart of state and federal court cases across the country.

As I discussed here earlier this month, certain federal judges have zero patience for counsel who want to trot out exaggerated rhetoric about how bad their opponent's case is, how «stunningly incompetent» the other side's counsel may be, and so on.

But a new hot - button case — involving extreme sentences for two border agents due to the application of federal mandatory minimums — has lots of Republicans recognizing how federal sentencing can spin out of control.

A recent case illustrates how one federal court of appeals applied the assumption of the risk doctrine to preclude an accident victim's ability to recover compensation for his injuries.

It will be interesting to see how cases such as these impact the pending federal legislation and any provincial legislation that follows.

Federal criminal charges are very serious and it is invaluable to consult with an experienced attorney to learn about how they can help in a case.

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First off, as I tell every US attorney when I'm dealing with them in a federal case where I have no defenses, that if slavery was legal I would still advise people how to help escaped slaves remain free because I think it's our moral imperative that we do things that are moral, and I think that prohibiting people from using medication which we know works — which we would have more peer view journal studies showing that it worked — if the federal government didn't make doing the studies so difficult.

On Dec. 1, electronic - discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will take effect and change forever how civil cases are litigated.

A federal appellate judge warned Friday that patent reform bills circulating on Capitol Hill threaten to erode the power of the courts to decide how cases are heard.

The Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act regulates how background checks must be conducted and, in some cases, commands employers to give a job applicant an opportunity to correct potential screening mistakes before a final hiring decision is made.

In future cases, the Federal Circuit will need to define more clearly how much of this information is part of the «factual underpinnings» of the claim construction process.

Teva's practical effect on patent infringement actions will depend on how the Federal Circuit applies the «clear error» standard in subsequent cases.

The big story in today's legal news is how federal government lawyer Carla Martin may have botched the government's case against the thirteenth 9/11 hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui.

If so, did anyone there ever stop to think how much greater might be the damage to its name by making a federal case out of so trivial a matter?

Two legal scholars and a federal magistrate - judge have conducted an in - depth study of how trial judges decide cases and reached an intriguing conclusion: Their frequent reliance on intuition results in regular mistakes in their decisions.

The legal research service Ravel Law, which last year launched Judge Analytics to provide analysis of how individual federal court judges make decisions, today is launching Court Analytics, a similar feature that applies analytics to an entire court, including all its cases and judges.

The South Florida Lawyers blog reports that accusations of «the ancient method of «toe - tapping» to allegedly signal to a witness how to respond during a deposition» are being thrown around in a case pending in federal court down in Key West.

I think it would, in fact, be quite interesting to know how much attention the Federal Court of Appeal pays to earlier decisions of the provincial court of appeal of a province from which it is hearing the case.

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From 4th Amendment advice for federal agents making a bust to deciding which cases to take, when to seek indictments, and who to make plea agreements with, Mike tells us how he makes choices in pursuit of justice.

Our Portland federal crimes attorneys know how difficult these cases can be.