Sentences with phrase «of civil enforcement»

Speaking of «asking questions later,» according to a Texas Health and Human Services Commission official, the «notice of termination» sent to Planned Parenthood was the start of a civil enforcement process and not a final determination to terminate Planned Parenthood's Medicaid contracts — but the language in the notice sure seems final...

ADAM KUSHNER has left the Environmental Protection Agency, where he was director of the office of civil enforcement, to be become a partner in the environment practice with Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C..

Moreover, it is just one of many cases to show that this dearth of civil enforcement was about to change with several high - profile cases that have spun off from Commission and national competition authority decisions involving notably big institutional purchasers.

«President Trump's dismantling of the EPA means violators are less likely to be caught, making illegal pollution cheaper,» said Eric Schaeffer, executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project and former director of EPA's Office of Civil Enforcement.

In April 2009, the Indiana Post-Tribune reported that David Joest was appointed assistant commissioner for the Office of Legal Counsel of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), which puts him in charge of civil enforcement and criminal investigations of the state's largest polluters.

Each year the SEC brings hundreds of civil enforcement actions against individuals and companies for violation of the securities laws.

Not exact matches

The new administration will also need to grapple with how local police involvement in immigration enforcement impacts the civil rights of Latinos.

These civil rights abuses show the potential costs of state and local law enforcement assistance in federal immigration enforcement efforts.

But «those incidents don't obliterate the well - established record of hostility to civil rights enforcement in other areas,» said Wade Henderson, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Ricivil rights enforcement in other areas,» said Wade Henderson, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RiCivil and Human Rights.

Cook wrote that the government should drop the legal request and instead «form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology, and civil liberties, to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy, and personal freedom.»

The Attorney General of Massachusetts has already filed a civil enforcement action.

A 2009 memo from then - Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department is to advise the White House on pending criminal or civil investigations «only when it is important for the performance of the president's duties and appropriate from a law enforcement perspective.»

Although enforcement of the Equal Pay Act and other civil rights laws has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, these actions only cover segments of the American working population, and many important protections are not yet codified in law.

Without a valid Officer of the United States in place at CFPB at the time the suit was filed, WLF argues that CFPB had no standing to bring a civil enforcement action in federal court.

During that time CFPB (at Cordray's direction) brought a civil enforcement action against a California attorney, Chance Gordon, for alleged violations of consumer protection laws.

Although in the civil enforcement action the SEC got a $ 12 million default judgment, the U.S. Attorney got a guilty plea for one good, old - fashioned count of wire fraud.

The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»

As I've noted before, the greatest act of respect for American troops would be for the Bush Administration to extract the U.S. from the role of occupier and to legitimize its role as peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matters.

In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.

Enforcement: Ensures strong and robust rules for the civil, criminal and border enforcement of IP rights, including appropriate remedies to combat trade in counterfeit and pirated goods in line with Canada's Combating Counterfeit Products Act; Contains border enforcement measures so that border officers can detain suspected counterfeit or pirated goods in a manner consistent with CaEnforcement: Ensures strong and robust rules for the civil, criminal and border enforcement of IP rights, including appropriate remedies to combat trade in counterfeit and pirated goods in line with Canada's Combating Counterfeit Products Act; Contains border enforcement measures so that border officers can detain suspected counterfeit or pirated goods in a manner consistent with Caenforcement of IP rights, including appropriate remedies to combat trade in counterfeit and pirated goods in line with Canada's Combating Counterfeit Products Act; Contains border enforcement measures so that border officers can detain suspected counterfeit or pirated goods in a manner consistent with Caenforcement measures so that border officers can detain suspected counterfeit or pirated goods in a manner consistent with Canadian law.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), working in coordination with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California (USAO - NDCA), assessed a $ 700,000 civil money penalty recently against Ripple Labs Inc. and its whollyowned subsidiary, XRP II, LLC (formerly known as XRP Fund II, LLC).

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Bishops are required to cooperate - if approached by law enforcement - but are ALSO still under direction to keep silence on cases of abuse they learn about, and NOT to turn over priests to civil authorities.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

Dearborn, Michigan city government and law enforcement is in the process of stripping Terry Jones of his civil rights simply because they're afraid of terroristic threats from «Muslims Gone Wild.»

«During the Civil War, the military became the primary form of law enforcement in the South,» reports Olivia B. Waxman for TIME magazine.

The literature clearly establishes that a legally sanctioned law enforcement system existed in America before the Civil War for the express purpose of controlling the slave population and protecting the interests of slave owners.

The HBPA — which represents about 60 Southern Baptist congregations nationwide — raised concerns about possible civil rights violations, discriminatory policing, and fear of law enforcement among immigrant communities.

The recommendations were immediately attacked by critics ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the panel of waging «war against innocent American citizens,» to, perhaps more surprisingly, The Wall Street Journal, which called the commission's proposal «an example of enforcement mentality run amok.»

The pigshit thick Scousers have just told the entire law enforcement community (who all they will already be on first name terms with, of course) where their poor attempt at civil disorder is going to take place, and they will no doubt be dealt with accordingly.

In most states in America, there is not and enforcement provision; however in the states that do have enforcement provisions outside of a lawyer and related to breastfeeding violations that are not an assault charge, you would normally typically have to go through the attorney general's office and do a civil claim.

The goal of NetCode is to strengthen Member States» and civil society's capacity to respond to weaknesses identified in national Code legislation, monitoring and enforcement, and evidence of continued violations of national legislation.

Their exclusionary tactics coupled with Gaddafi's policies of undermining national institutions, meant that the NTC lacked enforcement authority and a monopoly of force to subordinate the myriad of militias that sprang up during the civil war.

With law enforcement officials aggressively pursuing gang members on Long Island after a recent spate of homicides by the transnational gang MS - 13, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a class - action lawsuit on Friday that federal authorities had gone too far.

The civil lawsuit, filed in Albany County Supreme Court on July 2, pits Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel for the state Board of Elections, against the campaign of Shirley Patterson, a little - known candidate who ran unsuccessfully for a Brooklyn state Assembly seat in a May special election.

On the day the city celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leaders in southeast Queens urged residents and law enforcement agencies to continue the civil rights leader's work for peace by getting guns off the streets.

Thus, THE ADOPTION BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE «TRNC» OF CIVIL, ADMINISTRATIVE OR CRIMINAL LAW MEASURES, AND THEIR APPLICATION OR ENFORCEMENT WITHIN THAT TERRITORY, may be regarded as HAVING A LEGAL basis in domestic law for the purposes of the Convention»OF THE «TRNC» OF CIVIL, ADMINISTRATIVE OR CRIMINAL LAW MEASURES, AND THEIR APPLICATION OR ENFORCEMENT WITHIN THAT TERRITORY, may be regarded as HAVING A LEGAL basis in domestic law for the purposes of the Convention»OF CIVIL, ADMINISTRATIVE OR CRIMINAL LAW MEASURES, AND THEIR APPLICATION OR ENFORCEMENT WITHIN THAT TERRITORY, may be regarded as HAVING A LEGAL basis in domestic law for the purposes of the Convention»of the Convention».

«Some enforcement must come internally,» Leveson says, and Murdoch agrees with that happily, before then explaining that some sort of mechanism is needed to resolve complaints which fall short even of the middle ground, justifying civil legal action.

The speaker said she would expand legal aid for New Yorkers in some civil cases, like evictions and credit disputes, and fund more stringent enforcement of laws that protect workers.

«They're trying to threaten and bully us into having our local police departments to become the tools of enforcement of federal, civil immigration law,» the mayor said.

Creating an independent counsel to investigate claims of wrongful convictions and alleged civil rights violations by law enforcement.

At a separate news conference in Mineola with law enforcement and civil service unions, Martins, a former state senator from Old Westbury, stood by the mailer and accused Curran of politicizing the issue.

The Lords committee warns: «The exchange of information between the law enforcement authorities is important, but not so important that civil rights can be eroded.»

The civil suit pits Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel for the state Board of Elections, against the campaign of Shirley Patterson, a little - known candidate who ran unsuccessfully for a Brooklyn state Assembly seat in a May special election.

«This exercise will therefore be conducted with the involvement of other security agencies such as the Nigerian Police and Nigeria Security, Department of State Services, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Nigeria Customs Service and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, just to mention a few.

«However, he would be happy to comment on the campaign of «Don't take me literally» Schneiderman, specifically his 12 years in the Albany cesspool, his lack of any law enforcement experience, his radical social agenda, his ranking as one of the worst senator for jobs, his 12 votes to raise taxes, his votes against civil confinement for sex offenders, and his attempted cover - up of a hit and run....

Probably the best way to sum up his views, with apologies to a much more nuanced position, is that inside information should be viewed a property of a corporation rather than something that it «breaks the rules» to disclose, so civil lawsuit enforcement by the owner of the information ought to be the limit of any regulation.

A joint probe by Schneiderman and Connecticut AG George Jepsen into whether their states incurred losses as a result of interest - rate manipulation by banks in the LIBOR scandal could lead to civil enforcement action, including possible breaches of antitrust and fraud laws.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman thinks Cuomo's bid to expand the civil law enforcement authority of the state Department of Financial Services represents «a wholly unnecessary overreach by the Executive (that)... should be rejected by the Legislature.»