Sentences with phrase «of gag orders»

Jim Garland and Alex Berengaut are quoted by The Litigation Daily in an article regarding the role Covington and co-counsel Davis Wright played together on behalf of Microsoft that led to a groundbreaking policy memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein curbing the government's use of gag orders on tech companies.

Just days into the Trump administration, alarm bells are ringing in the scientific community amid confusing and whiplashing reports of gag orders and funding freezes at the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies.

And if the hypothesis was not falsified, if it appears that cosmic rays do seed clouds, why would that positive result, indeed a very exciting scientific result, be worthy of a gag order?

By doing so, you have revealed the existence of the subpoena, and you are in violation of the gag order.

Attentive listeners or readers would infer that you have been served a warrant, contrary to the intent of the gag order.

The Patriot Reauthorization Act of 2005 modified some of the gag order provisions.

Part of the gag order on Open Whisper Systems was lifted after a court challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union, and redacted versions of documents related to the information request were made public last week.

Oh that's a looooooong story for my memoirs... except I can't write them because of a gag order from another previous employer

Not exact matches

«Gag orders» on banning complaints and annoying behaviour are just the tip of the condo craziness iceberg

Reuters writer Valerie Volcovici reported on Wednesday that the news agency heard of the order to take down the website from two agency employees who were defying the gag order.

The auditing agency, established by Congress and known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, revealed the new gag order in its latest three - month assessment of conditions in Afghanistan.

The auditing agency, established by Congress and known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, revealed the new gag order in a three - month assessment of conditions in Afghanistan released overnight.

It released a gag order Thursday night on reporting the details of talks that are underway to enlist a state witness.

The Post's Spencer Hsu: «The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates imposed a gag order in the case Wednesday, ordering all parties, including potential witnesses, not to make statements that might prejudice jurors.

The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates imposed a gag order in the case Wednesday, ordering all parties, including potential witnesses, not to make statements that might prejudice jurors.

Once the family broke the gag order and got some national coverage there was huge outcry from first amendment lawyers about the illegality of that order, and also others speaking out about having been legally gagged in court cases with big power differential.

We're well on our way to a national gag - order against any criticism of Islam should this action stand.

These four men have a gag order as part of the settlement, but you a «long time supporter» have the freedom to trash the reputation of these men?

* 24 Department of Defense officials who learned of the FBIs congressionally mandated investigation tracking the money trail as they do for banl robberies and the woman who blew the whistle remain under federal gaga orders in spite of two US senators writing letters requesting those gags be lifted, rather.

The battle scene then shifted to the local annual conferences where various antislavery resolutions were introduced, but they were ruled out of order by the presiding bishop and a «gag rule» was applied.

Since Budenholzer is tied to the Hawks there is a non-stated gag order as to talking about the inner - working of the Hawks front office.

The player in question has apparently attempted to get a gagging order issued, but has failed to extend the terms of said gagging order so is apparently about to have the whole mucky story plastered over the tabloids.

In other words, your baby hasn't yet learned to deal with lumps and gags in order to stop any food at the back of his tongue from entering his airways.

Wikileaks editor @julianassange has been gagged and isolated by order of Ecuador's new president @Lenin Moreno.

... We've got to be much more small c and big c Conservative on crime, law and order, some of our traditional policies... That's what our supporters are waiting, indeed gagging to see.

The statement said, «We want to inform Nigerians that this is an opportunity for those who are suffering and undergoing the suffocating hardship, poverty, hunger, comatose economy, insecurity, crass ineptitude, gagging of the press and opposition leaders and members, and more atrocities; to get registered in order to vote out this none performing APC - led Administration at all levels.

And that is because he has forced all of his town employees to sign an illegal gag order.

The microblogging platform also announced the FBI had informed the company it was no longer under a «gag order» that prevented the disclosure of five cases involving «national security letters» — special requests from the US law enforcement agency in national security cases.

Defence secretary Des Browne has sought a gagging order forbidding coroners criticising the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in military inquests.

Violating a court gag order is a contempt of court issue that would get you a few days in jail.

saying that she should be cited for contempt of court for violating a gag order that was instituted last week

A Russian woman who was accused of blackmailing disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is seeking to lift a court - mandated gag order so she can talk about what she says are Spitzer's fetishes.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — New York state's top official on public information bemoaned a gag order preventing Onondaga Community College from disclosing the terms of a court settlement.

They have refused to publicly disclose the chemicals that are used in fracking, won gag orders in legal cases and restricted the ability of scientists to get close to their work sites.

In a highly publicized case last year, a lifelong gag order was imposed on two children who were parties to a legal case that accused one gas company of unsafe fracking operations that caused them to fall sick.

In a bungled attempt to anticipate the wishes of their new political bosses, the U.S. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) on Monday imposed what was widely interpreted as a gag order on its scientists communicating with the public.

Maybe the filmmakers needed to insert these gags in order to stay sane, but what about the rest of us?

In the past few months, a spirited game of he - said / they - said has played out in the press, with a gag - ordered Schrader accusing his producers of taking the film away from him when he refused to make all of their desired changes to his director's cut, and said producers firing back that Schrader quit the picture without ever completing it, and that their version is, well, a lot better.

If the Church says this isn't true than let these people speak freely, though there seems to be a gag order on members of the Church.

Kurt also caught an early screening of Park Chan - Wook's Stoker and despite being under a gag - order, encourages people to flock to the cinema for this unusually stylish blend of Hollywood and Korean aesthetics.

It features some excellent sequences that include breaking the fourth wall, shutting down production because of funding, an argument with a member of SAG over paying actors because they spoke while on camera, and a series of product placement gags in order to get funding to finish the production.

Some gags are inspired, such as the dropping of the traditional action film score during montages in order to let us really hear what's going on in the scene.

It's useless to get mad at this movie, which is nothing more than a collection of jokes about bodily functions that occasionally laughs at people injuring themselves in order to take a break from gags about urine, vomit, soft - serve chocolate ice cream that looks like it's coming out of a man's rear end, a showroom - floor toilet that a different man sleepily decides to use to deposit what the ice cream is representing, another guy showing off his ability to «burp - sneeze - fart,» and more.

Skywalker has presumably not been under a gag order in the many Star Wars parodies and fan films produced in the time since Return Of The Jedi.)

When executives at Pearson, the world's largest for - profit education company, held their London shareholder meeting Friday, they were greeted by activists from the American Federation of Teachers, urging them to oppose so - called «gag orders» restricting teachers from revealing information about Pearson's Common Core tests.

Title: Dr. Slump Genre: Comedy, Gag Author: Akira Toriyama Synopsis: Basking in the glow of his scientific achievement, Senbei scrambles to get Arale in working order so the rest of Penguin Village won't have reason to suspect she's not really a girl.

If they offer an out - of - court settlement, it might include a gag order to keep you quiet.

A proposed scheduling order concerning the ag - gag law was filed in October of this year and a trial will likely take place by the end of next year.

Questions must be asked before answers can be found, and these questions sometimes need to be shouted and accompanied by expletives and fart gags in order to sidestep the unspoken veto of advertising revenue.

Were it any one of these things which prompted the director to issue his gag order, one might at least have some sympathy for his position.