Garden City, a legal-administration service, recently sent out a blanket proposed settlement for 298 initial public offerings that took place in 1999 and 2000.
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"Furthermore, Congress should immediately hold public hearings with independent experts to examine the administration's legal reasoning and ensure that the administration is following the 'rule book' for the use of lethal force that already exists: international human rights law and, in the very narrow circumstances to which it applies, international humanitarian law, " the group said.
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And secondly, did anybody suggest there was any legal reason for the administration to do this?
While maintaining it was legal, the Bush administration dropped the scheme in 2007.
The legal cover for the administration the generals are backing is wearing thin.
He notes that warrantless wire-tapping and the use of the CIA as secret police, which were issues in his case, were made legal during the Bush Administration.
Not only did the chief justice revive states' rights in the Medicaid ruling, he also rejected the principal legal basis the Obama administration invoked to justify the health-care overhaul, Congress's constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce.
We're cleaning up something that is, quite simply, a mess -- a misguided experiment that has left in its wake a flood of legal challenges that my administration is forced to deal with on a constant, almost daily basis, and it consumes the time of government officials whose time should be spent on better protecting our country.
The questions about the administration's legal position led to broader attacks from conservative justices.
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In its legal filing, the Obama administration noted that Dr. Deisher had never even applied for government research funding.
Mr. Kline and others said the waiver plan exceeded the administration's legal authority.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tells Congress that he will hand over some legal documents describing the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program.
The administration advised that legal counsel for both the CIA and the Department of Justice had concluded that the techniques were legal.
Senators aggressively sought the administration's legal reasoning for those operations.
The Cuomo administration requested a legal opinion on Jan. 31.
Other recently expired empires, such as the British, Dutch, French, had left some residue for locals grudgingly to admire: habits of administration, a legal system, even just a useful language.
Members of the House and Senate intelligence panels will be able to review the classified opinion explaining the administration's legal justification for the targeted killings of U.S. terror suspects abroad.
But even in draft form the proposal is drawing criticism from abortion-rights groups, who suggest it is an effort by abortion foes within the administration to create legal recognition for the fetus.
In truth, the factor that has changed the tactics of the American administration is less legal than mechanical: the advent of drones that can be directed with lethal accuracy (most of the time) from offices in Virginia.
Fresh off the announcement that it would prioritize deportation for those with criminal records over other individuals here without legal status, the Obama Administration could take a series of other measures within its authority to rationalize U.S. immigration policy.
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Washington (CNN) -- In a bold political and legal move, the Obama administration formally expressed its support for same-sex marriage in California, setting up a high stakes political and constitutional showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over a fast-evolving and contentious issue.
While the Treasury Department has attempted to invent a regulation whereby subsidies could be offered via federally-run exchanges, the Obama administration has no legal authority to do so, and any attempt of that nature would be immediately challenged in the courts.
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And he suggests that the administration might be splitting legal hairs.
In 2011, the Obama administration agreed with her legal stance.
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Justice Elena Kagan will not hear this case, because as solicitor general, before taking the bench last year, she had been involved in the administration's initial legal opposition to the law.
The Supreme Court stiffened the law which shows that the administration is respecting the legal branch as compared to Venezuela which had the majority of Supreme Court judges resign in the first year of Chavez's rule.
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He made a comparison with the long investigation into the CIA leak in the previous administration and that similar legal issues could apply in the CIA leak from "political officials" in a news story about Karzai's brother working for the CIA. My question is, is the Justice Department going to look into this matter?
His administration attempted to use a legal technicality to disband the MMD, the leading opposition party.
Here's an update on a growing legal dispute between Congress and the Bush administration.
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