The attorney general - the government's senior law officer - must now respond, explaining his decision.
As the government's chief law officer, he was seldom out of the news.
The Lord Advocate is the principal law officer of the Crown in Scotland, responsible for the system of public prosecution.
Mr Grieve, the government's most senior law officer, made the application to the High Court, paving the way for new hearings.
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Meanwhile, Scotland's most senior law officer, Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland, has met Mr El-Keib in London to discuss further inquires into the Lockerbie bombing.
Magoon, Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department, wrote a report that Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published.
Like all senior judges, they are in effect appointed by the Lord Chancellor, who is the government's senior law officer and sits in the cabinet, after secret consultations among judges and top lawyers.
Likewise, in 1902 Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published a report by a Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department which dealt with the treaty obligations of extinct States.
We have also launched the new Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability (VALOR) initiative, designed to reduce and prevent law enforcement officer injuries and line-of-duty deaths.
I'm not sitting here defending Bill Clinton, I'm sitting here saying that our criminal justice system, the top law enforcement officer should be out there protecting and upholding the rule of law.
On average, a law enforcement officer dies on the job every 54 hours, he said.
The TSA then moved to administratively upgrade TSOs uniforms to resemble those of a federal law enforcement officer.
While TSOs may have the appearance of a federal law enforcement officer they have neither the authority nor the power.
And besides, where else is Mr Bush going to find a chief law enforcement officer who is going to be equally pliable?
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Whenever a group wanted a law enforcement officer or squad car for a community event, Bachmann was always the first to volunteer, Hamlin said.
Years would pass before McQueary spoke to a law enforcement officer.
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We'd like to hear if you have an experience with Stop and Frisk, either as a person who's been stopped, as a bystander or as a law enforcement officer.
Using a trust means you do not have to obtain the approval of your local Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) and the application can be sent directly to BATF.
"Although the attorney general is, of course, the federal government's chief law enforcement officer, you have an independent obligation to ensure that the nation's laws are upheld, " Hatch wrote.
As Attorney General, he is the chief law enforcement officer of the state and his office represents Wyoming in all criminal appeals and civil suits before state and federal courts.
"There isn't a law enforcement officer who doesn't go into every situation without suspicions on how that situation could turn on them and pose a threat to them, " Schwartz said.
Dowdy is charged with obstruction of justice for making a false statement to a law enforcement officer following the shooting death of Linda Franklin in Fairfax, Virginia, on October 14.
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My father was an amazing law enforcement officer.
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Although the contaminated bills do not affect health, Negrusz said, they could cause in a false positive drug test if a person, such as a law enforcement officer or banker, handles contaminated currency repeatedly.
Also released Thursday were reports on interviews with agents of the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, who arrested Zimmerman in 2005 on suspicion of battery against a law enforcement officer and obstruction of justice.
At the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, a 12-gauge shotgun discharged as its owner unzipped its case for a law enforcement officer to check at a security entrance, injuring three people, state Agriculture Department spokesman Brian Long said.
The wounded man -- Scott Davis from South Carolina -- told the law enforcement officer that he had answered an ad on the Craigslist website offering work caring for cattle on a 688-acre property in eastern Ohio before he was shot by Beasley.
But, In all honesty, your parents name will be a reminder to other officers to maintain the oath they swore and to stay along the shoreline that has guided them from childhood to that of a local, state, or federal law enforcement officer.
For example, under the old NCIC, if someone stole a car and a gun as part of the same crime and if a law enforcement officer later stopped the car thief on the highway, the officer could use the system to find out easily that the car had been stolen.
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