Sentences with phrase «told by attorneys»

Public - sector unions were told by their attorneys that their members could sue if they did not defend the teachers in court against school district management seeking to deprive them of their jobs.

He was told by attorneys that he could have sued the hospital for millions, but now he just wanted justice.

I've been told by my attorney that I need one for the person who is laying out the book and the cover, the copyeditor, website designer and artists.

Once again I'm not an attorney, but this is what I was told by an attorney.

Not exact matches

An attorney for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC told a federal appeals court panel in Houston Monday that it'll be providing «appropriate compensation» by re-establishing forested wetlands elsewhere in the swamp.

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee earlier this year that she had warned the White House about Flynn's conversations with Kislyak so that the Trump administration «could take action» amid concerns that Flynn could be subject to blackmail by Russians.

Daniels» attorney, Michael Avenatti, told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell he was rendered «speechless» by Giuliani's admission.

Also an elder law attorney told me recently that several states are looking into «filial duty» laws where families must step up to care for aged parents rather than game the system to have parents cared for as indigents by the states.

Former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg told NBC News that a wiretap would have to be approved by a federal judge.

Former federal prosecutors told POLITICO that Cohen's team likely intended to appeal to Wood by suggesting members of the tight - knit club of former and current employees of the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.

Even more troubling, we have been told that Benchmark has been conferring with Lowercase Capital with respect to adverse action against Uber, indicating that they are seeking to remove Arianna Huffington from the Board and, in clear violation of their fiduciary duties, wrongfully leaked highly confidential details from the investigation by former Attorney General Eric Holder.

Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in a lawsuit brought by adult entertainer Stormy Daniels.

At the same time, it is likely that Cohen's attorney will send New York prosecutors a list of names of clients or people associated with clients, telling the prosecutors that any material related to those individuals is protected by the attorney - client privilege.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP)-- The «abhorrent» criminal conduct by now - convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar while he was a sports doctor at Michigan State did not violate NCAA rules, an attorney for the university has told the governing body of college sports.

«It sounds like another effort by this administration to really empower employers to hide pay discrimination under the rug,» Emily Martin, an attorney at the National Women's Law Center, told Bloomberg Law.

The Post's Emma Brown and Roz Helderman: «Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in a lawsuit brought by adult entertainer Stormy Daniels.

The AR - 15 used in the mass shooting was legally bought by Cruz, attorney Jim Lewis told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

One of the shopkeepers» attorneys told the Post, «Frankly, it's very troubling that the commission thinks it's OK for the Four Seasons restaurant to impose a dress code but not a bakery owned by a Hasidic businessman.»

Some telling commentary was offered by Paul Van Dam, the Attorney General of Utah, in 1990:

«Kathy is an ordinary American with some sincerely held religious beliefs, and like a lot of Americans and a lot of people in Colorado she was pretty upset by some of the displays at a city - owned museum,» one of her attorneys, Cliff Stricklin, told CNN Friday.

Then how come McLaren wasn't told by said attorney that McLaren is a public figure and that his life is open for public discussion?

On Feb. 20, Barnes told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he had been offered $ 1.5 million by an attorney for Spinks and Top Rank to buy him out.

Park Board attorney Bruno Tabis told the board that it might not have the authority to place a referendum question on a ballot because it doesn't have home - rule powers and that authority is denied by statewide park district code.

A CapTon viewer was struck by Andrew Cuomo's recitation last night of all the corruption - busting he's done as the state's chief law enforcement official and his plan to tell New Yorkers: «You know what I've done as attorney general, imagine what I'd do as governor.»

Saying acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, an Obama administration appointee, had «betrayed» the Department of Justice by refusing to defend the president's immigrant travel ban, Donald Trump told her: You're fired.

Nearly a month after he was fired by the Trump administration, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in his first interview since his ouster that he remains mystified by the circumstances of his ouster, saying he had never been told why President Trump changed his mind about wanting him to stay on.

The Midtown lawyer caught yelling racist comments at Spanish - speaking restaurant workers in a viral video was treated like a pariah by fellow attorneys at a Queens court, lawyers there told The NY Post.

But now Christie appointees Bill Baroni and David Wildtsein have been ensnared by the U.S. Attorney's office, and I'm told former Chair David Samson may soon be in handcuffs over the «Chairman's Flight.»

Indicted restaurateur Harendra Singh told investigators that he disclosed to de Blasio his use of straw donors in fundraising for de Blasio and that he falsified a campaign receipt at the direction of the mayor's office, according to a court filing by former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's attorney.

In response to an earlier epistle by Mr Amidu against the NDC, Mr Anyidoho told Accra - based Kasapa FM that the former Attorney General only «comes out to spew gibberish whenever the NPP is under pressure and looking bad, but the NDC is looking so good in terms of the psychological warfare; that is when Martin Amidu strikes.

The county accused Potocki of telling «stories that were in direct opposition to the testimony given by many of the county's witnesses,» according to a written filing from Deputy County Attorney Thomas Kutzer.

Treinis Gatz — picking up on an answer that Spence had stopped in mid-sentence under cross examination last week by Mangano's attorney, Kevin Keating — asked Spence what Singh had told her about why he visited the Mangano home.

Sampson's lawyer, Zachary Carter, downplayed the embezzlement charge, telling Pohorelsky: «This is a very simple transaction that has been sliced and diced by the U.S. attorney's office.»

When asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tatiana Martins whether Bonomo had told Curcio why he hired Adam Skelos, Curcio said: «He was helping a friend.»

Just hours after Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan took herself out of the running for the seat held by Sen. Roland Burris (D), Rep. Mark Kirk (R) has begun telling influential folks in Washington that he will make the race.

The bow - tie wearing attorney was originally kicked off the ballot because the BOE found that Luthmann was short by 171 signatures of the required 2,000 needed to run, Luthmann previously told DNAinfo New York.

This summer when a Lake Katrine man was on trial for using a civilian drone outside a Town of Ulster medical building, Ulster County Assistant District Attorney Tom Colonna summed up «drone anxiety» by telling the jury that the machines «put human eyes in a place, like 30 feet in the air outside an exam room window, where human eyes normally wouldn't be.»

Schneiderman's staff is looking to see if it falls within the guidelines of a July 8 executive order by Gov. Andrew Cuomo which requires the attorney general's office to investigate all police - involved deaths of unarmed civilians, sources told the Daily News.

«Dealers have figured out that they can make much more money by adding in fentanyl because it's much cheaper,» Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon told DNAinfo New York.

Meng, 68, who was elected in 2004 and served one term before retiring, sleazily told the witness - an accused tax cheat referred to him by friends - that he could persuade the Manhattan District Attorney's office to reduce its plea offer, from 2 to 6 years in prison to just a year, in return for an $ 80,000 bribe, according to the court documents.

Citing a statement from New York Attorney General Preet Bharara, Killian told the audience, «There are two kinds of people in Albany; those that are corrupt and those that stand by and watch....

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said on Tuesday that detectives are planning to reach out to the two women who told the New Yorker they were choked and slapped by Attorney...

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Questions about whether he's been contacted by federal prosecutors in their review of the Moreland Commission's work should be directed to the U.S. attorney, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters in Albany on Wednesday.

Interestingly, Kruger's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said last summer that he had been told by the US attorney for the Eastern District (Bharara is the Southern District) that Kruger was no longer a target of an inquiry that began in 2008 — a probe that was not connected to the one that has since ensnared the senator.

«I think we're making a mockery of this whole process if we try to pretend that a group of us that's been appointed by the attorney general and the governor is investigating the attorney general or the governor,» Mahoney told me.

Suffolk Sheriff Vincent DeMarco told county legislators that federal investigators had to step into the prosecution of former county Conservative Party Chairman Edward Walsh as a result of a «true moral failure» by Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota's office.

What your friend told you likely stems from comments made by our current Attorney Genrral, Eric Holder.

«I think it was put very well by one of my predecessors last week who said there can't be any question of an attorney general standing aside because of the special constitutional and indeed statutory responsibilities that I've got,» Lord Goldsmith told Today.

Grayling was criticised by lawyers on his own benches however, including former attorney general Dominic Grieve and former solicitor general Edward Garnier, the latter of whom told the justice secretary the public interest clause was «moderately nonsensical».