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...The former head of its US equity syndicate desk, Pawan Passi, was issued a $250,000 civil penalty by the SEC and barred from working in the industry....
...Those earlier guardians of American conservatism might have approved of plans to shrink the civil service (even or especially if it meant abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency), but it’s safe to...
...A couple of years ago, I received a phone call from Henry Louis Gates Jr, director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard (and a friend), telling me that he had just...
...The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement that most of these hearings never materialised, leaving individuals waiting for long periods of time “in inhumane conditions and [who] were subjected...
...But Pfizer did insist on indemnity against civil claims and required the government to provide finance for an indemnity fund....
...Carolyn J Ruff, founder of the group Black Lives Matter Women of Faith, travelled from Chicago for the protest. “If we don’t get justice,” she says, “America is going to be shut down.”...
...It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause too....
...“Ours is part of a longstanding quest for justice . . . there’s not some great new master plan. But we know that the justice that we’ve been calling for, for generations, has yet to be achieved....
...William Barr, the US attorney-general, accused Apple of double-standards on Monday for working with authoritarian regimes while refusing to help the Department of Justice unlock iPhones....
...public health crisis in the US: the opioid epidemic that killed close to 50,000 people in 2017 alone, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Another called possible fines “manageable” for J&J, which is the world’s largest healthcare company. Meanwhile families such as the Fullers live with their loss every day....
...According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 183,000 Americans died from an overdose involving a prescription opioid between 1999 and 2015....
...Opioid makers and distributors are facing over 1,600 legal cases related to the epidemic, as more than 130 Americans die every day of opioid overdoses, according to the Center for Disease Control....
...AstraZeneca and J&J did not immediately respond to requests for comment....
...Multiple federal agencies including the US Department of Justice are investigating the Equifax data breach that exposed 143m Americans’ most sensitive personal information....
...In 2016 it added an antitrust lawyer, Seth Bloom, with experience on Capitol Hill and in the justice department....
...El-Erian has served on several boards and committees, including the US Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, the International Center for Research on Women, the Peterson Institute for International Economics...
...Academic research, including a 2007 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, have found few cases of the cheating such measures are intended to prevent....
...The Supreme Court delivered a big win for RJR Nabisco in its long-running legal fight with the EU, ruling on Monday that a US anti-racketeering law could not be used to justify civil lawsuits alleging criminal...
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...It cited Apple’s demand that Samsung reveal its source code in the two smartphone makers’ long-running patent dispute as an example of how “compelled speech runs throughout both the criminal and civil justice...
...The civil rights activist wants Silicon Valley to hire more black people and has little time for the most common excuse: that suitably-qualified African Americans are hard to come by....
...“A civil conviction would impact Chinese SOEs’ ability to operate lawfully in overseas markets, apply for stock exchange listings and even settle payments in dollars,” he says....
...Obama—or even exchanging a handshake—at the U.N....
...(Financial Times) And what it means for Latin American debt markets....
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