Donald Ayer, a Washington lawyer who represented Weyhrauch, said the ruling will put the brakes on prosecutors» increasingly aggressive and creative efforts to win convictions under the 28 -
word fraud law that makes it a crime «to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.»
Not exact matches
He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in
law when «
law is ever more a hollow
word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by
fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a
word, by egoism»; when civil
law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international
law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian
law or spatial
law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»
[13] When read in the context that Professor St. Lewis had agreed to undertake a review of the SAC report which alleged systemic racism in the academic
fraud process and that she was providing her evaluation of that report as a lawyer,
law professor and expert in the field of Human Rights and Research, the
words in their natural and ordinary meaning would more than likely be considered defamatory by the ordinary fair - minded individual.
Fourth, in § 160.203, several criteria relating to the statutory grounds for exception determinations have been further spelled out: (1) The
words «related to the provision of or payment for health care» have been added to the exception for
fraud and abuse; (2) the
words «to the extent expressly authorized by statute or regulation» have been added to the exception for state regulation of health plans; (3) the
words «of serving a compelling need related to public health, safety, or welfare, and, where a standard, requirement, or implementation specification under part 164 of this subchapter is at issue, where the Secretary determines that the intrusion into privacy is warranted when balanced against the need to be served» have been added to the general exception «for other purposes»; and (4) the statutory provision regarding controlled substances has been elaborated on as follows: «Has as its principal purpose the regulation of the manufacture, registration, distribution, dispensing, or other control of any controlled substance, as defined at 21 U.S.C. 802, or which is deemed a controlled substance by state
law.»