Sentences with phrase «of civil settlements»

In addition, authorities may perceive certain types of civil settlements (particularly those with witnesses for substantial sums) as suspicious.

A source familiar with the matter said Rattner has rejected the investigators» offer of a civil settlement, saying he did not like its terms.

Not exact matches

In December 2014, Judy's reached a $ 2 million civil settlement with the Justice Department for claims of improper dispensing.

Evidence of lack of business integrity (such as indictments, pleas of guilt in legal cases, convictions for violations of legal behavior, adverse civil judgements, or out - of - court settlements).

«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The settlement includes a $ 438 million federal civil penalty and total payments of $ 426 million to the states.

According to the Commerce Department, Monday's action stems from ZTE's failure to live up to terms of a March 2017 civil and criminal settlement with U.S. regulators.

Under the settlement, Stewart agreed to disgorge $ 58,062 (including interest from the losses she avoided), as well as a civil penalty of three times the loss avoided, or $ 137,019.

-LRB-...) A person close to SAC said the fund had chosen settlement over two to three years of civil litigation that would follow the trial of Mr Martoma, threatening prolonged uncertainty for investors and staff of the hedge fund.

The settlement is comprised of $ 28.8 million in disgorgement and interest, which will be distributed to investors, and a $ 10 million civil penalty.

In February 2014, JPMC agreed to pay $ 614,000,000 to settle charges asserted by the United States Attorney's Officer for the Southern District of New York, the Federal Housing Administration, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the United States Department of Veteran Affairs resolving False Claims Act, FIRREA and other civil and administrative liability for FHA and VA insurance claims that have been paid to JP Morgan Chase since 2002 through the date of settlement.

California passed a law last year that prohibited the use of confidentiality clauses in civil settlements if the «factual foundation» for the allegations involve acts that could be prosecuted as felony sexual offenses.

On November 19, 2013, the Department of Justice («DOJ») announced a $ 13 billion settlement with JPMC to resolve «federal and state civil claims arising out of the packaging, marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage - backed securities («RMBS») by JPMorgan, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual prior to Jan. 1, 2009.

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.

In all these settlements the local church was the backbone of the community, and through its freemen the final authority in all matters civil.

Advocates like Charles Ogletree hope to use civil litigation, through the sort of class - action lawsuits that won such immense victories as the tobacco settlement.

Recent sex discrimination cases resulting in large settlements, in some cases awards of multi-million dollars, to be split with aggressive trial attorneys, are the latest examples of misusing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Several civil personal injury / wrongful death suits are pending against Angel Valley, Ruda says, but they are on the verge of out - of - court settlement.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

The «civil» settlement doesn't really shed any light on things either way, since depending upon your point of view, it could condemn either one.

But one Erickson assistant, Gregg Smith, pleaded no contest to a charge of reckless driving after initially being charged with driving under the influence, and another, Ed Orgeron, reached a civil settlement after he was arrested in connection with a bar fight.

The fire occurred during Naper Settlement's Civil War Days weekend, but DeFalco said the event was able to go on as planned and the rest of the museum is still open.

Then canon blasts and rifle fire will erupt in downtown Naperville Saturday and Sunday as part of Civil War Days, a two - day reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St.. While the North and South will clash daily in impressive battles, complete with period costumes and weaponry, the real stars of the spectacle will be the more than 300 re-enactors.

Throughout the two - day event, re-enactors will mingle with the crowd and remain in character to replicate the era and the tension of the Civil War conflict, said Cynthia Lamb, marketing communications manager for Naper Settlement.

NAPERVILLE — Naper Settlement will be transformed into the fictional 1864 Illinois border community of Pine Creek for a re-enactment of Civil War Days.

A 19th Century village complete with a log house, a fort, businesses, a firehouse, schoolhouse, meeting house, chapel and homes, the 13 - acre Naper Settlement site is the perfect setting for Civil War Days, which feature re-enactors from a variety of Midwestern «regiments,» from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

Then canon blasts and rifle fire will erupt in downtown Naperville Saturday and Sunday as part of Civil War Days, a two - day reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St.

Civil War Days: Union and Confederate re-enactment forces will battle for supremacy Saturday and Sunday on the grounds of Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. in Naperville.

NYPD detectives have been warned to stay away from a private investigator who's allegedly part of a burgeoning «cottage industry» in which gang members score cash settlements from the city by filing bogus civil - rights suits against cops.

The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday morning the settlement of a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo City School District for what it charged was «the open and systematic discrimination of LGBTQ students at McKinley High School.»

Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the civil liberties organization that brought the suit, said it was now looking forward to achieving a court - ordered settlement to establish protections allowing farmworkers to organize.

But in a move which has sparked fury among senior party figures, the leader wrote to his MPs saying: «In my view, the PM has been unable to explain the contribution of additional UK bombing to a comprehensive negotiated political settlement of the Syrian civil war, or its likely impact on the threat of terrorist attacks in the UK.

Beach's confirmation was happening just after news emerged that the state had reached a nearly $ 2.7 million settlement to end an 18 - year - old civil rights lawsuit brought by a group of Native Americans.

«Shadow Cabinet members agreed to call David Cameron to account on the unanswered questions raised by his case for bombing: including how it would accelerate a negotiated settlement of the Syrian civil war; what ground troops would take territory evacuated by ISIS; military co-ordination and strategy; the refugee crisis and the imperative to cut - off of supplies to ISIS.»

One aide who worked for a legislator who resigned amid sexual harassment accusations suggested that lawmakers» campaign accounts, which lawmakers can use to pay for their legal defense, also be made available to harassment victims in case of a settlement or civil rights violation.

The real estate firm and U.S. Attorney's office reached a settlement that includes Glenwood paying up to $ 900,000 in compensation and a civil fine of $ 50,000.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

Thanks to a multitude of civil and criminal settlements with banks, New York state has a multibillion - dollar windfall to spend.

Over the years, Silver arranged payments of $ 1.2 million, nearly all of it in taxpayer money, for hush - hush civil - lawsuit settlements to six female ex - government staffers who suffered sexual harassment — or worse — at the hands of Silver's cronies.

Two other bills would void most confidential agreements for settlements and would add provisions to the state public officers law specifically prohibiting acts of sexual harassment and imposing a civil penalty of up to $ 10,000 for those found to have engaged in such behavior.

It includes $ 40 million of settlements with CSEA (Civil Service Employees Association), no money is in the budget for that.

Five full months into the new fiscal year, Lembo is estimating that the state will be spending more money in the settlement of a civil lawsuit by the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition against former Gov. John G. Rowland, who laid off state employees more than a decade ago.

Wednesday's decision by the Appellate Division in Brooklyn, New York came seven months after Greenberg, 92, reached a $ 9 million settlement with Eric Schneiderman, the current state attorney general, of civil accounting fraud charges first brought by Spitzer in 2005.

Chris Grayling was disingenuous on today's Any Questions when supporting Kitty Usher and Menzies Campbell in wanting to tamper with one of the cornerstones of the Post Civil war Settlement - he did not tell the audience he was a Catholic in favour of a measure to benefit Catholics - one with constitutional implications (it is the basis of the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland)... that was very disappointing and makes Chris Grayling suspect in a way David Davis was not

LA TIMES — Nov 19 — eHarmony will begin providing same - sex matches under as part of a settlement with New Jersey's Civil Rights Division.

And the Los Angeles Unified School District recently agreed to limit the use of seniority in layoff determinations as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

As part of the settlement, Disability Rights Advocates, the civil - rights organization that had represented Breimhorst, and the College Board, the consortium of colleges that owns the SAT, agreed to jointly appoint a panel of «experts» to study whether scores on the SAT should continue to be flagged when students take the test with extended time.

K - 4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) NSS - USH.5 - 12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) NSS - USH.5 - 12.3 Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 - 1820s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.4 Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861) NSS - USH.5 - 12.5 Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877) NSS - USH.5 - 12.6 Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900) NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)

The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education has reached a settlement agreement with the Milwaukee Public Schools over a complaint filed regarding discriminatory use of school discipline policy.