The Madoff saga drags on for both the criminal charges and with regard to the civil litigation.
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In a Dec. 3 decision Selna said he would make permanent a May 27 preliminary injunction he issued containing these prohibitions against Jason Gilliam and his father, Richard Gilliam, who is also a defendant in the civil litigation.
In it, the Deputy Director of the Office of Civil Litigation David Kline repeated an offer of a consultation between the Miami relatives and government mental-health experts.
It's the Executive Branch's ability to keep sensitive information out of civil litigation in the courts.
The lawyers plan to file civil litigation, Mr. McLaughlin said, but not until the criminal case is concluded.
As that suit makes its way through the New York state court system, the civil liberties watchdog is taking its litigation to the next level.
In that capacity, she oversees the work of the Employment Litigation and Educational Opportunities Sections of the Civil Rights Division and spearheads interagency policy projects related to combating discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity in education and employment.
But on a more general level, the court's order highlights the challenges that inhere in applying a civil litigation framework to wartime decisions that often must be made on the basis of the best available intelligence.
The makers of the first VCRs, the first MP3 players, and YouTube all faced civil copyright litigation from content companies accusing the firms of promoting piracy.
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Our national security framework, in short, is not -- and should not be -- designed primarily to handle the burdens of discovery accompanying ordinary civil litigation.
Mr. Beisner, who will help the oil-rig owner fend off civil litigation, didn't respond to requests for comment.
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Now she has lost her plea to have her conviction overturned and faces months of litigation in the Eappens' civil suit.
In its continuing litigation, the CFTC seeks a civil monetary penalty, restitution, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, trading and registration bans, and preliminary and permanent injunctions against further violations of the federal commodities laws, as charged.
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Of the total, two or three planes are under litigation with the leasing companies, Arun Mishra, director general of civil aviation, India, said.
The feds threaten to sue the cities unless they agree to a civil-rights monitor, and most cities agree, to avoid the cost of litigation.
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What this means is that whatever fines and damages BP et al ends up paying as a result of civil litigation, it could be on the hook for double that amount after a criminal trial.
Because of his extraordinary knowledge of fire and explosives, companies in civil litigation frequently sought his help in determining the cause of a blaze.
To be sure, statistical disparity is the source of much mischief in post-1964 Civil Rights era litigation.
Allowing a disappointed vaccine claimant who lost in Vaccine Court to then seek compensation for design defects via civil tort litigation would exacerbate, not ameliorate, the costly burden of litigation that initially prompted Congress to pass the Vaccine Act, WLF argued.
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Every civil section and its respective litigation support staff participates in the group in order to uncover and implement best practices.
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Since Delaware law indemnifies company officers from paying most civil damages, they are rarely exposed to the direct cost of shareholder litigation anyway.
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Additionally, you do not have the number of frivolous law suits in patent litigation that you have in other civil litigation because it is so expensive to litigate patent infringement.
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She said the set of guidelines had ended up being overly bureaucratic because of a fear of civil litigation, cost-cutting and because it was an easy way to avoid work that was regarded as more difficult.
Once the property is seized, the owner may file a claim, at peril of being indicted, or of incurring heavy civil litigation costs.
The outcome could affect a wide swath of class action suits in areas including civil rights enforcement and tobacco litigation, says Prof.
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He has advised on the tax consequences of marquis antitrust, civil rights and wrongful conviction cases, SEC restitution, and environmental contamination litigation.
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