Sentences with phrase «over the justice of»

The justification for civil punishment provides such a problem, as does the controversy over the justice of abortion.

The Chief Judge of the Territorial Court has over-all supervisory power over Justices of the Peace.

Not exact matches

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Over the years, the Burnetts have been investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice, Canada Revenue Agency, the SEC and others, but no improprieties have been found.

Pascrell noted that Deutsche is still under investigation by the Department of Justice over the Russian trades.

Source code is sometimes inspected during lawsuits over intellectual property, and the Justice Department noted that Apple won permission to review some of rival Samsung's code in one such case.

Then, figuring that Snowden was savvy enough to use encryption that couldn't be cracked by brute force, the government also demanded that Levison hand over Lavabit's private encryption key — something the Justice Department has threatened to demand of Apple (aapl) as well.

The company still faces the wrath of the U.S. Justice Department, which is nearing a decision on whether to criminally charge GM over its failure to disclose the problem and recall affected cars after it staff first discovered issues with the switch in 2001.

The odds «clearly favor» AT&T if the wireless giant and the Department of Justice were to head to court over AT&T's merger with Time Warner, former FCC official Blair Levin told CNBC on Wednesday.

CNBC's Bill Griffeth reports that Takata and the Justice Department are discussing a settlement over the recall of faulty airbags.

These aspects of Comey's conversations with Trump before he was fired by the president in May 2017 are detailed in memos the Justice Department turned over Thursday to House committees.

However, in 2013, the US Department of Justice successfully convinced 100 Swiss banks to cooperate with it by handing over information about US customers suspected of evading taxes.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block the deal over concerns about the companies» pricing power in the media market.

Last year, the Irish High Court said that it would ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to decide whether the legal mechanism Facebook uses to send European's personal data over to the U.S. is valid or not.

Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, subsequently turned the floor over to the attorney general, who went on to say that he had consulted with senior Justice Department staff prior to his testimony about what he called a «longstanding policy» regarding communications with the president.

This kind of salary transparency quells the gossip mill and exaggerations over who is making what, and leads to «greater justice» in compensation.

«Pulitzer Prize - winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties» biggest names on Wall Street — Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine — created the greatest insider - trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.»

While eight US states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalise recreational marijuana, the White House has hinted that the Department of Justice will do more to enforce federal laws prohibiting recreational marijuana, raising concerns over how Canada's approach will coexist with a potential crackdown south of the border.

More Americans side with the Department of Justice than Apple in a legal tussle between the two over a disputed iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters in December.

Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has made combating illegal immigration one of his top priorities since taking over the helm of the Justice Department in February 2017.

The results of the poll were released late on Monday, in the middle of a legal battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department over a judge's order that Apple write new software to disable passcode protection on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters.

At a hearing on Thursday in state court in Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos will consider whether to permit the rare proceeding to go forward, potentially allowing the Club — whose tweedy Manhattan headquarters has, over the years, served the likes of Sir Ernest Shackleton, President Teddy Roosevelt, and Jacques Cousteau — to stop Diageo's (DEO) mighty Johnnie Walker brand from marketing its new Explorers» Club Collection.

CNBC's David Faber reports the latest on the Department of Justice's antitrust trial over the AT&T - Time Warner merger.

Rosenstein said that over the past year, «the FBI's reputation and credibility have suffered substantial damage» that has «affected the entire Department of Justice.»

Legislators from both sides of the aisle were receptive to this work, and were set to consider the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, called «the most significant anti-trafficking legislation to come before the Senate in over a decade.»

It's a lawyer from outside of government named by the attorney general to take over an investigation that poses a conflict of interest for the Justice Department.

The first blockbuster case on the court's calendar is Oct. 10, when the justices will hear argument in a fight over the University of Texas» affirmative action program.

The questions over the fate of Net Neutrality have grown larger since ISPs Comcast and TimeWarner announced a plan to merge in a $ 48 billion deal, although that plan is subject to a Department of Justice anti-trust review.

The company recently said it is going to pay $ 465 million to the Department of Justice and other government agencies over the way it classified the EpiPen in the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program.

The funding for the study is a $ 600,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has spent over $ 23 million on tools like predictive crime mapping since 2003.

Philosopher Robert Nozick famously raised this question of sports figures» salaries over 30 years ago as a way of investigating fundamental questions of justice.

Arguably the most pressing legal concern remains its long - running dispute with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over the mis - selling of mortgage - backed securities a decade ago.

But the positive news is overshadowed by its ongoing legal case and an impending multi-billion dollar fine from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over the bank's selling of toxic mortgage - backed securities ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.

In addition to The Jinx, several other true crime series and television programs centered on the issue of criminal justice have gripped viewers over the past year, including current series focused on O.J. Simpson and infamous Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff that are airing on FX and ABC, respectively.

When Justice has to race to fulfill some over-the-top promise of Glickman's, «it's hell at the time,» Richter says, «but when it's over you feel great.»

«Extra-judicial killing over justice in a court of law should not become the norm in the fight against terrorism,» he said in a statement.

The clash between Apple and the Justice Department has driven straight to the heart of a long - running debate over how much law enforcement and intelligence officials should be able to monitor digital communications.

Oil and gas multinational BP has agreed to pay over $ 20 billion in penalties over the Deepwater Horizon spill, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

Stephenson's comments came a day after the finger - pointing over whether the Justice Department demanded as a condition of approving AT&T's $ 85 billion acquisition of Time Warner that CNN parent Turner Broadcasting or Direct TV be sold off.

AT&T and the U.S. Department of Justice will come head to head in court this week over the telecom company's $ 85 billion proposed purchase of Time Warner.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block U.S. telecommunications company AT&T Inc's $ 85 billion deal to buy media company Time Warner Inc over concerns about how the two companies would consolidate their sectors.

While some have been criticized for not giving enough attention to the murder victims, the shows no doubt are contributing to the debate over the role that factors such as race, class, privilege, and (sometimes) plain bad luck can play in matters of criminal justice.

It seems that the rich certainly get a better level of justice than the poor over here.»

Famous as the site of the 1972 break - in that led to President Nixon's fall, the complex is a grande dame of Washington real estate that has counted senators, top administration officials and a Supreme Court justice as residents over the years.

The committee posted the 10 - page document Saturday after weeks of wrangling between the panel's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, and Justice Department officials over the contours of classified material he hoped to release.

Makan Delrahim, the head of antitrust at the Justice Department, has said under oath in Congress that he would not allow the White House to impact his decisions over that merger or any other cases.

NEO, a low - profile funding intermediary, moves over $ 40 million a year and works with a who's who of major foundations, managing projects that often focus on social justice and civic participation.

«Based on the extensive public comments and evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors in individual retirement accounts (in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,» wrote the Justice Department lawyers.

He has attacked former FBI Director James Comey for releasing memos he claims are classified, and briefly blocked a Democratic memo from the House Intelligence Committee over its inclusion of classified information, yet he grandstands against redactions insisted upon by his own Justice Department.)

It follows the news last week that America's Department of Justice is to investigate the carriers over the same issue.