Sentences with phrase «proposals in the justice»

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The Justice Department offered a $ 17 billion settlement in the previous round of discussions and felt the bank's proposal was not serious, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Included in the IDA's proposal was a requirement for CEOs and CFOs to personally sign off on company financial statements, and «increase the penalties of criminal liability and obstruction of justice» for securities fraud.

Sen. Jeff Brandes hopes his «basket» of proposals will usher in a new approach to criminal justice in Florida that increases accountability, uses taxpayer money more efficiently and keeps people out of prison

Laura, a Yale - trained lawyer, has often taken the lead on the foundation's criminal justice work, helping to orchestrate a groundbreaking left - right coalition last year to advance reform proposals in Washington, among other things.

Andy Brenner, head of international fixed income securities at National Alliance Securities, said in a note that the hiring of a special prosecutor «and talk about obstruction of justice being an impeachable offense» could push back efforts to enact Trump's tax reform and fiscal stimulus proposals for months.

But the proposal languished in Congress, and while President Trump told the Justice Department last month to issue new regulations, thus far it has not.

Finally, in response to Pixley's paper, I want to articulate two questions which are pertinent to raise in the consideration of Marxism today, then to deal with the explicit question of justice, and lastly to make a proposal for the consideration of process thinkers.

Thus a characterization of theology and of what makes theological education theological that is cast, like Wood's, in terms of «action» already has conceptually built into it resources for addressing the justice issues so central to the sort of position illustrated by the Mud Flower Collective's proposal.

William Austin has developed Bohr's proposal mentioned earlier that the idea of complementarity may be applied to divine love and divine justice in biblical thought.

A direct link between the conciliar expression of church unity and the ministry of justice, compassion and concern in the midst of the world is of the essence of this proposal.

The movement has got to insist that these are not an either - or... There is one ecumenical movement committed because of the gospel to both unity and justice [from his review of the Princeton Proposal in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY, September 6, 2003].

Simply within the framework of Stackhouse's proposal, even if the implied picture of reason is granted, it is unclear that it can coherently hold together the wissenschaftlich education required by focus on God's truth and the paideia in piety called for by focus on God's justice.

The proposals, which look to increase the small claims limit for personal injury claims from # 1,000 to # 5,000 for all those involved in road traffic incidents, would mean that thousands of injured cyclists would be unable to recover their legal costs and therefore be denied access to justice.

The Monday of conference is always a bit of damp squib, a hump to get over before the final debates and leader's speech, but there is an important debate on some secret justice proposals today in which Lib Dems must reaffirm their stance on fair justice.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a series of proposals for reforming the state's criminal justice system, in response to heightened tensions over the death of an unarmed Staten Island resident after an encounter with police, as well as the recent murder of two police officers

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

The Assembly passed a «raise the age» bill on Tuesday as part of a 12 - bill criminal justice reform package, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo — as in previous years — has included a similar proposal in his executive budget.

In a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, the organizations argued the proposals are critical to ensuring a fair criminal justice system.

The Polish parliament has approved government proposals to hand the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) effective control of judicial appointments and the supreme court, in a move seen by critics as an erosion of judicial independence.

Heastie said the proposals would take 16 - and 17 - year - olds out of the adult criminal justice system and treat them as juveniles in family court.

The proposals in the criminal justice and courts bill show that, ironically for plans that have been sold as being about education, the government is failing to learn those lessons.

Updated: Schneiderman in a statement called Lippman's proposals «thoughtful» and said they should further the debate over criminal justice reforms.

Conservative and Lib Dem ministers have struggled to win over Labour to their proposals, which had concentrated on former justice secretary Jack Straw's work in a white paper published towards the end of the New Labour government.

The proposal, contained in the Refounding Labour document, which has been drawn up by Peter Hain, chair of the national policy forum, would also insert into the new clause I the statement that Labour is «a force for social justice».

The Governor's proposal will help at - risk youth find positive opportunities in their communities, while also providing citizens who enter the criminal justice system the opportunity to rehabilitate, return home, and contribute to their communities.

PROPOSAL 1: Restore economic justice by making New York the first state in the nation to enact a $ 15 minimum wage for all workers.

Many of the issues around the criminal justice system that Clinton addressed and the solutions she provided are similar to proposals de Blasio has made around policing in New York City.

PROPOSAL 13: Launch a «Right Priorities» initiative to further New York's status as a national leader in criminal justice and re-entry reforms.

A working group comprised of relevant state agencies — the Department of Health, Division of Criminal Justice Services, Office of Children and Family Services, Office of Victim Services and the state police — also played a role in the development of the proposal.

«Our carefully crafted common sense proposal was written in direct response to what the victims told us, the stories that came from them, what happened to them, the fact that they didn't trust the chain of command, that they were retaliated against, that they didn't think justice was possible,» Gillibrand said at a Capitol Hill event.

Most county probation directors are in favor of the proposal to steer children out of the adult criminal justice system, Essex County Probation Director Juliann Beatty told local lawmakers last week.

Justice Hassan admitted in evidence against the accused the certified true copy of the proposal written by the witness» company to the PDP campaign organisation.

«We support the governor's proposal to to raise the age of criminal responsibility in New York, but where will the juvenile offenders go as the juvenile justice system has been decimated under this governor?.

«For far too long, our antiquated criminal justice system has created a two - tier system where outcomes depend purely on economic status — undermining the bedrock principle that one is innocent until proven guilty,» Mr. Cuomo said in statement outlining the proposals.

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to ask the New York State Legislature to eliminate cash bail for many crimes and to speed up the disclosure of evidence in trials as part of a package of proposals intended make the criminal justice system fairer for indigent defendants, his aides said.

The proposal for the Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center follows several years of analysis and research that began in 2012 when County Executive Molinaro directed the Dutchess County Criminal Justice Council (CJC) to undertake a comprehensive needs assessment of the Dutchess County criminal justice Justice and Transition Center follows several years of analysis and research that began in 2012 when County Executive Molinaro directed the Dutchess County Criminal Justice Council (CJC) to undertake a comprehensive needs assessment of the Dutchess County criminal justice Justice Council (CJC) to undertake a comprehensive needs assessment of the Dutchess County criminal justice justice system.

Its coroners and justice bill contains proposals to allow some aspects of coroners» cases to be heard in secret by suspending the inquest and replacing it with an inquiry presided over by a senior judge.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Saturday released a petition email highlighting the push for juvenile justice reform in the $ 152 billion budget proposal expected to pass at the end of this month.

Without these strategic announcements, it's likely some of the governor's proposals — like, say, the broadband initiative or the juvenile justice piece — would have received just a line here or there in many media reports.

In the judicial pay commission's first meeting since court administrators urged immediate pay parity between state Supreme Court justices and federal district court judges, some members appeared to latch onto the court proposal.

He also recalls that to guarantee the A-G's position under the 1968 proposals the A-G's position was equated to that of a Judge of the Supreme Court and in 1978 linked the position to that of the Superior Court of Judicature other than the Chief Justice.

To be clear, the proposal under discussion is modeled after the special prosecutor established in the Justice Center, which has withstood legal challenge.»

In his State of the State speech, Cuomo plans to ask the state Legislature to eliminate cash bail for many crimes and to speed up the disclosure of evidence in trials as part of a package of proposals intended make the criminal justice system fairer for indigent defendants, his aides saiIn his State of the State speech, Cuomo plans to ask the state Legislature to eliminate cash bail for many crimes and to speed up the disclosure of evidence in trials as part of a package of proposals intended make the criminal justice system fairer for indigent defendants, his aides saiin trials as part of a package of proposals intended make the criminal justice system fairer for indigent defendants, his aides said.

The two proposals — to create a Civil Justice Coordinator and an Office of Labor — were just two of the expansive ideas trumpeted by Ms. Mark - Viverito in her first State of the City address since taking lead of the City Council over a year ago.

«To be clear, the proposal under discussion is modeled after the special prosecutor established in the Justice Center, which has withstood legal challenge,» he stated.

The two said they studied the recommendations made in a report by the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and claim their proposal could streamline the process.

The group, Movement for Justice in El Barrio, is countering the de Blasio rezoning proposal that they call a «luxury housing plan» with a 10 - point agenda of its own designed to preserve current housing stock and protect the community from gentrification.

The City Council and the de Blasio administration are currently in negotiations over another criminal justice proposal outlined by the speaker at this time last year, when she called for a change in how the city handles summonses for low - level, non-violent quality of life offenses.

In addition, according to the Post, Justice Department lawyers «found that Republican lawmakers and state officials who helped craft the proposal were aware it posed a high risk of being ruled discriminatory compared with other options».