Sentences with phrase «scrutiny from the justice»

Not exact matches

«Secret arbitration takes away a woman's right to a trial by a jury of her peers and provides a dark alley for Uber to hide from the justice system, the media and public scrutiny,» according to the letter.

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

But his decision to do so while facing increasing scrutiny — the deepening FBI probe regarding his administration's contact with Russia and damning new Senate testimony from former acting attorney general Sally Yates about Trump's now - fired national security adviser Michael Flynn — instantly recalls Richard Nixon's infamous «Saturday Night Massacre» in which the 37th president purged the Justice Department during the Watergate investigation.

And though the Justice Department's push to overhaul troubled police agencies was a staple effort of the last administration, Sessions announced his desire to «pull back» on federal scrutiny of local law enforcement, winning praise from some quarters.

Underscoring the breadth of the scrutiny, the people said, the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have discussed the possibility of striking a wide - ranging settlement to conclude many of the looming mortgage investigations from federal authorities and state attorneys general.

The carriers, whose 2014 merger attempt was blocked, will face scrutiny from three major agencies, including the Justice Department.

When I found they tried to hide from me for ever, I have the braveness and candidness to post my testimony and evidence on the web, into the light for public scrutiny; By contrast, ZZZ / YYY / VVV continue to hide their real identities and materials they made up (e.g. Gabriele Scheler's recanted testimony) to mess up this case in the darkness, which leaves room for ZZZ / YYY / VVV to crook justice on their hands; I believe ZZZ / YYY / VVV had colluded with Scheler and Thrun to terrorize / extort authorities, as well, which should be another set of crimes from them against human society;

Because of this, he states that the proposed merger «merits close scrutiny» from the antitrust folks at the Department of Justice and FTC.

saying the policy had been in place for 30 years, dating back to a time when school districts across Mississippi came under close scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department over desegregation.

In discussing the choice to make the factors open to public scrutiny, Matt Alsdorf, the vice president of criminal justice at the Arnold Foundation, says that «it's important from a fairness per - spective for all the parties to understand what goes into a risk assessment.»

Scrutiny of conditions within our nation's prisons has steadily intensified from local coverage in the Miami Herald about wretched conditions in a Florida women's correctional facility to the Department of Justice Review...

That revelation has drawn scrutiny to nearly a dozen Detroit - area lawyers on charges raging from perjury and obstruction of justice to violations of legal ethics rules, as Crain's Detroit Business details in an article yesterday.

My blog work facilitates the exposure and scrutiny of my legal ideas to a national and international readership that includes not only judges, policymakers, and practitioners at all levels in many jurisdictions, but also academics from other disciplines, journalists of all stripes, many nonlawyers interested in criminal justice issues, and also — perhaps most valuably — the real people whose lives are most impacted by the policies and doctrines that I discuss.»).

In the same book, Farrow makes a number of arguments against what he refers to as the privatization of civil justice, such as the impoverishment of common law when cases are removed from the public system (this dovetails with Simpson's work), the use of a private (thus, confidential) system to circumvent public policies, public accountability, and basic notions of procedural fairness, and the shielding from the public of transactions that would not withstand public scrutiny.

Sometimes that scrutiny is thrust directly into the public forum, as with Justice Zabel's incident on Nov. 9, 2016, when he wore a hat from the American president's election campaign.

Barclays has faced intense public scrutiny in recent years: from the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into the bank's # 12bn fundraising at the height of the financial crisis, which resulted in criminal charges against the bank and former executives relating to a # 2.3 bn loan Barclays provided to Qatar, a multibillion - dollar legal battle with the US Department of Justice over allegedly - fraudulent mortgages and a New York currency trading probe that ended in a $ 150m settlement.

Surely the transition from the Fullilove plurality view (in which Justice Powell joined) to today's strict scrutiny (which will presumably be applied as Justice Powell employed it) does not signal a change in the standard by which the burden of a remedial racial preference is to be judged as reasonable or not at any given time.

«Tentative Deal Reached in Civil - Rights Case Headed for Supreme Court; Agreement Could Spare Antidiscrimination Law Justices» Scrutiny»: Jess Bravin and Robbie Whelan of The Wall Street Journal have a news update that begins, «Parties to a major civil - rights case before the Supreme Court have reached a tentative settlement, people involved in the dispute said Thursday, potentially sparing a pillar of antidiscrimination law from being overruled by the high court's majority conservatives.»

Apple is continuing to face scrutiny over the power management features it introduced in older iPhones last year, with the U.S Department of Justice and the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission launching an investigation into the company, reports Bloomberg.The DoJ and the SEC are aiming to determine whether Apple violated security laws «concerning its disclosures» when it launched an iOS 10.2.1 update that throttled some older iPhones with degraded batteries in order to prevent unexpected device shutdowns.According to Bloomberg's sources, the government recently requested information from Apple and the investigation is in the early stages.Apple in iOS 10.2.1 introduced a new power management feature to address complaints of unexpected shutdowns in iPhone 6 and 6s iPhones.