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6 Feb 2017, 3:51 am by SHG
Now, with Jeff Session’s confirmation all but inevitable, the most piercing wails have been reserved for the fate of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which oversees everything from voting rights to police abuse litigation. [read post]
5 Feb 2017, 10:34 am by Florian Mueller
I'm from the civil division if that helps get me off the hook.THE COURT: Let me tell you. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 6:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) imposed the $3,217,000.00 Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) under a January 18, 2017 Final Determination based upon findings that Children’s for years knowingly violated HIPAA by failing to encrypt or otherwise properly secure ePHI on laptops and other mobile devices and failing to comply with many other HIPAA requirements. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 7:22 am by Ken White
Similarly, in litigation, DOJ Civil Division lawyers are charged with advancing reasonable legal arguments that can be made supporting an Executive Order. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 6:32 pm by Jack Goldsmith
Similarly, in litigation, DOJ Civil Division lawyers are charged with advancing reasonable legal arguments that can be made supporting an Executive Order. [read post]
22 Jan 2017, 4:13 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
 Here's a useful Texas Appleseed handout promoting bail reform.See a roundup of state decarceration initiatives from 2016.Proud of my friend Vanita Gupta as she leaves the DOJ Civil Rights division. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 9:30 pm by Griffin Davis
Departments of Defense (DOD), Justice (DOJ), and Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct research on gun safety technology. [read post]
28 Dec 2016, 5:03 am by SHG
Absent such an agreement, the Civil Rights Division has the authority to initiate litigation to compel compliance with the Constitution and federal law. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 2:36 pm by Patricia Salkin
From the DOJ Religious Freedom in Focus Newsletter: On December 15, the Civil Rights Division sent a letter to mayors and other municipal leaders throughout the country highlighting the requirements of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 2:48 pm by Ben Vernia
These cases are just a tiny fraction of the thousands of cases the division handles each year, but they illustrate the Civil Division’s steadfast commitment to enforcing the law and protecting American consumers. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 3:59 am by SHG
  In the years since, the Civil Rights Division has vigorously enforced this landmark statute. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 11:55 am by Benjamin Wittes
” But it’s not all business as usual: My correspondent closes with “two quick anecdotes”: “First, one of my best friends . . . is in the Civil Division, and I sent him the link to your first piece the morning after the election. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 7:54 am by Victoria Kwan
… I don’t think that’s going to work in a republic or in a civil society. [read post]
11 Nov 2016, 5:49 am by Patricia Salkin
More information about the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the laws it enforces is available at https://www.justice.gov/crt. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 7:25 pm by Richard Hunt
The Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice has long been a law unto itself with respect to both regulation and enforcement, ignoring decisions from the courts that it happened to disagree with, and using the power of unlimited resources to expand the ADA’s reach beyond its actual language. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 7:22 pm by Kevin LaCroix
In the following guest post, John Reed Stark, President of John Reed Stark Consulting and former Chief of the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement, examines these issues as part of a comprehensive review the legal issues pertaining to electronic evidence gathered and sought during criminal and civil investigations. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 7:50 am by Amy Howe
The FVRA was enacted in the wake of Clinton’s efforts to fill a vacant position as the assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice’s civil rights division: After the Senate declined to confirm Bill Lann Lee, whom Clinton had nominated for the job, the Clinton administration brought Lee into DOJ as the first assistant to the vacant position and then named him as the acting assistant attorney general. [read post]