Sentences with phrase «seek civil remedies»

Represented a regional construction firm and its owner in a five - year federal grand jury investigation of minority business enterprise fraud, persuading federal prosecutors not to pursue criminal charges or seek civil remedies against the firm or any of its employees.

This case will act as a strong precedent for fraud - victims seeking civil remedies and provide a process for appealing ex parte orders where stealth is key.

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Some of the more notable of these expressions of discontent include the American [Know Nothing] Party, founded in the decade before the Civil War to counter the influence of immigrants; the Prohibition Party, founded after the Civil War to rid America of the scourge of demon rum; the Populist Party of the 1890s, which sought to remedy the lot of debtor farmers; and, in this century, the pro-segregation States» Rights Party of 1948.

Icelandic Glacial reserves the right to enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including but not limited to seeking remedies under civil or criminal law for such violations.

(vii) CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS PROMOTION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND / OR CIVIL LAWS, AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ATTORNEYS» FEES) FROM ANY SUCH ENTRANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

This suit seeks to remedy the violations that occurred at Pan American and ensure that the New York City Department of Education protects its employees» civil rights in the future,» Bharara said in announcing the lawsuit, which came a day after his office charged the city's Correction Union President Norman Seabrook with fraud and corruption.

«The legal strategy that we decided was optimum from our point of view was to file the civil suit yesterday, lay out the entire case in a civil suit, seek certain remedies in the civil suit and commence a criminal investigation today on the same basic underlying facts and proceed with the criminal investigation jointly with our federal counterparts.»

William Bradford Reynolds, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said that the Justice Department's practice of seeking desegregation remedies other than the mandatory busing of students «is not evidence of any decision to countenance unlawful school segregation.

If a board of education prevails at the hearing before the State Department of Education, the local or regional board may seek to recover the amount of assessment for tuition through available civil remedies.

In the civil sphere, it may be appropriate to issue claim against the fraudsters for deceit, misappropriation, unjust enrichment, knowing receipt, conspiracy, dishonest assistance etc, and seek interim remedies such as search information, freezing, Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust orders.

There are also remedies and laws in effect that can allow somebody who is the victim of domestic violence to seek a civil protective order which does various things, including forcing the offending party to stop contacting the victim, forcing the offending party to stay away from the victim, and other things that will be related to protecting of domestic violence.

It is also clear that, while a judge in civil proceedings will seek to prevent a manifest risk of injustice, ensuring a fair trial is ultimately a matter for the criminal court, which has extensive powers to remedy any prejudice.

[92] I therefore find that Mr. Bruce was entitled to seek compensation by way of grievance and arbitration under the 2014 Collective Agreement for the matters raised in his notice of civil claim in these proceedings and had he done so, could have obtained a meaningful remedy for those complaints.

Civil litigation may involve a car accident where injuries were sustained, a broken contract, a real estate dispute, a divorce, or a variety of other circumstances where someone is seeking to recover money or some other sort of remedy for damages they have incurred.

Working with lawyers for companies under investigation, we have also sought resolutions for our clients via a civil law remedy.

Instead, there are two bases of claim in the Lithuanian Civil Claim, namely (1) a claim for in personam relief under the law of unjust enrichment because there was no commercial justification for the various transactions, seeking the reversal of that unjust enrichment; and (2) a claim for a declaration that the various transfer instructions were null and void and that Snoras remains the beneficial owner of the relevant assets; this is said to be a claim for an in rem (or proprietorial) remedy.»

The ACCC's enforcement powers are extensive — for some contraventions it can seek remedies such as criminal or civil pecuniary penalties up to $ 1.1 million for companies and $ 220 000 for individuals, infringement notice penalties of up to $ 108 000 for publicly listed companies, $ 10 800 for corporations and up to $ 2160 for individuals, disqualification orders, injunctions to prevent ongoing conduct and corrective advertising orders.

He has particular experience of the sale of goods and supply of services, contracts of agency (estate agencies, recruitment agencies and financial consultancies), franchise agreements, seeking and resisting injunctive relief in cases concerning covenants in restraint of trade and misuse of confidential information, contracts of guarantee (enforceability and construction of terms), civil fraud, bailment and conversion, debt recovery and restitutionary remedies.

CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY ADMINISTRATOR»S SITE OR ANY THIRD PARTY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND / OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

In other cases, the Justice Department or the Federal Trade Commission can file civil action seeking to forbid future violations and remedy the anticompetitive effects of past violations.

Anyone who seeks to deal with monetary or contract matters must pursue a civil remedy through legal proceedings.

Any attempt to deliberately damage any web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this promotion is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Style at Home (TC Media G.P.) reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution.

Any attempt to deliberately damage any website or to undermine the legitimate operation of this Contest in any way (as determined by Contest Organizer in its sole and absolute discretion) is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, the Contest Organizer reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.