This federal statute is highly detailed and governs the structure and day-to-day operations of investment companies.
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Traditionally and by federal statute, only prosecutors can garner an immunity order for its witnesses.
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Tobin was found guilty of violating a federal statute that bars the making of harassing phone calls.
Tobin was found guilty last December of violating a federal statute that bars making harassing phone calls.
The impact of the federal statute is as appalling as it is ironic.
The federal statute also provided for stiffer sentences than wire fraud he said, providing a heavy cudgel in plea-bargain negotiations.
The federal statute governing judicial conflicts of interest covers only lower-court judges.
Federal statute requires schools to report the financials for their athletic department (if they receive the Title IV funding, which all ACC schools do).
Oftentimes, rules in place around accountability, for example, are interpreted at the state level as being locked in time, when federal statute is in fact agnostic.
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The argument that Feldman finds most interesting is that the prosecution of the Amish for a hate crime is an overly broad interpretation of the federal statute.
For one thing, while there is a federal statute empowering judges to grant immunity at the request of prosecutors, there is no equivalent for defense-requested witness immunity.
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Federal statute requires schools to report the financials for their athletic departments, and it also helps define itemized expense and revenue categories which builds uniformity in data reporting.
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The federal statute of limitations on such civil cases is six years, while their allegations involve relationships that ended more than 10 years ago, Berger said in a court filing this month.
At the heart of the problem is the fact that the Commission continues to believe the legal fictions incorporated in the Investment Company Act of 1940, the federal statute that regulates mutual funds.
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Despite erroneous and misleading statements suggesting otherwise, the new state misdemeanor crime of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document is adopted verbatim from the same offense found in federal statute.
Bryan and the other defense attorneys in the case also argue that the assaults didn't amount to a hate crime under the federal statute, arguing that the law wasn't meant to prosecute a given religious group's dispute among its own members.
Since a felony conviction may result in a manager being statutorily barred from managing a mutual fund under the Investment Company Act, the federal statute that regulates mutual funds, certain fund complexes have engaged in fraudulent document creation and destruction to conceal illegalities.
Whether the Court will agree with me depends on their definition of the word "scheme" under the federal securities statute.
In all fifty states under the Federal Wiretapping statute, at least one party must consent to a recording being made covertly.
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Defense attorneys for the Amish are attacking the group's prosecution under the federal hate crime statute, passed in 2009.
Vikram Amar, a constitutional law professor at the University of California-Davis, said that largely depends on how prosecutors argue that taking scissors across state lines to commit a crime amounts to a violation of the federal hate crime statute.
What is the Federal interest in enacting this statute and is it a valid Federal interest assuming, before we get to the equal protection analysis?
Likewise, Roberts won a Supreme Court ruling that the family of a woman who died in a fire could not use the federal wrongful-death statute to sue the city of Tarrant, Alabama.
The government said the arrangement violated the federal anti-kickback statute prohibiting the offer or payment of rebates and other inducements to cause the purchase of any drug or service covered by Medicare, Medicaid or other healthcare program.
To her, DOMA did have a significant impact because of the reach of the federal laws affected by the statute and the benefits it denied to same-sex couples.
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To put this into context, the only federal crimes that have no statute of limitations are capital offenses that warrant the death penalty and certain terrorism, child abduction, and sex offenses.
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The Federal Reserve has power under a statute that dates from 1932 that most of us weren't aware of.
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That statute protects marriage under federal law as the union of a man and a woman, and declares that one state may not redefine marriage for other states.
"This statute is not called the Federal Uniform Benefits Act, " Verrilli said.
This is double the three year statute of limitation previously mandated by federal law.
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