Cases have been settled with consent decrees, decrees that many criticized as too weak.
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If the DOJ intended to allow fractional licensing under the decrees, there should at least be some record of this decision to write the consent decrees so that fractional licensing is allowed.
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The government plans to adopt the decrees on Sept. 22.
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He could issue decrees and declare a state of emergency.
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The decrees also shut 18 charities and nine media outlets.
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There are ten remaining implementing decrees that involve complex decisions.
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Such decrees would not be issued if they were unnecessary.
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The decrees require the approval of Congress to become law.
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Sessions has long been a public critic of consent decrees.
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She sleeps with Jamal, and harkens to his earnest decrees.
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Sessions, it would appear, is no fan of consent decrees.
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A: Look, I don't have the power to issue papal decrees.
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The Trump administration's dim view of consent decrees is not surprising.
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But government decrees take effect immediately and are harder to challenge.
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Prosecutors are enforcing consent decrees on police departments in 14 cities.
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Even some police chiefs might mourn a retreat from consent decrees.
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He de facto bypassed the Parliament and started ruling by decrees.
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The decrees are enforced by independent monitors who track reform progress.
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Cities including Baltimore, Cleveland, and Miami are also under these decrees.
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Over time, emergency decrees permeate legal structures and become normalized, said Douglas Rutzen, the president of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law in Washington, which is tracking new legislation and decrees during the pandemic.
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Beyond Chicago, the chance for new research on decrees will be limited.
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But without consent decrees, it falls upon police to fix problems themselves.
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How far are we with the implementing decrees of Axelle Lemaire's law?
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He uses it daily to attack enemies and hand down various decrees.
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Twelve Western nations urged Bucharest earlier this month to scrap the decrees.
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Consent decrees have been used to desegregate schools and reform police departments.
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In March the court issued decrees stripping the parliament of all powers.
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Gates emerged victorious, although the company had to abide by consent decrees.
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Thousands have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment under presidential decrees.
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The public comment period for the Volkswagen consent decrees ends on Friday.
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Consent decrees can last for years and cost cities millions of dollars.
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His critique did not extend to how well consent decrees actually work.
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I want the government to resign and these decrees to be canceled.
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Mr. Sessions has argued that consent decrees usurp state and local authority.
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Are the decrees being implemented and are they achieving their intended effects?
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One of Putin's first decrees was to protect Yeltsin from future prosecution.
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Not all union leaders agree that the decrees' costs outweigh the benefits.
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Consent decrees generally are supposed to be periodically reviewed, so in 2014, ASCAP and BMI asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review the consent decrees for performance royalties on digital music services, such as Pandora and Spotify.
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General Jarallah bin Mohammed bin Jarallah Al-Elwait becomes commander of the strategic missiles force The decrees related to military appointments were issued "based on recommendations of the Minister of Defense," according to one of the royal decrees.
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The question is: if the DOJ is having a hard time preventing ASCAP, BMI and their members from violating the terms of the consent decrees, then why are they entertaining calls to loosen other provisions of the same decrees?
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The prince's behaviour is idiosyncratic: he jails reformers even as he decrees reforms.
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Some of these decrees keep costs down, but they also reek of paternalism.
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He's introduced decrees that could undermine protections for indigenous populations and the environment.
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He agrees that consent decrees hurt police morale and could make officers leave.
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So far, Bolsonaro has issued a slew of decrees to advance his policies.
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Now clerics who push back too hard against decrees are muzzled—or arrested.
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The proclamation is not listed on the governors' website with other recent decrees.
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Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has tried to roll back these consent decrees.
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Mitsotakis has even passed a series of decrees and sent legislation to parliament.
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Although partially withdrawn, the decrees were the trigger for a confrontation that continues.
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He said the situation will be clearer when the full decrees are published.
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Mr. Widodo should act as soon as possible to reverse these discriminatory decrees.
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Sessions expressed skepticism about consent decrees during his Senate confirmation in January. 4.
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Despite these recent headline-grabbing decrees, Saudi women still have very few freedoms.
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Consent decrees often require agencies or municipalities to take expensive steps toward reform.
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But for institutional reform cases, courts approved consent decrees and supervised their fulfillment.
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It was not immediately clear whether the Decrees have been assigned an attorney.
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It's rule-making powers seem boundless, like the decrees of a sovereign lord.
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He saw consent decrees as unconstitutional federal intrusions into state and local affairs.
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The Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017, introduced by Rep.
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Currently 14 police departments, including Seattle and Miami, are operating under the decrees.
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By comparison, the Bush administration imposed just three consent decrees on law enforcement.
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Romanians have been protesting these special government decrees for more than two weeks.
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"This is the consistent process taken in all similar consent decrees," it said.
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Such "consent decrees" could end under the incoming Trump administration, analysts have pointed out.
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The measures could include using contentious emergency decrees, thereby bypassing parliament, to enact laws.
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The president can also issue decrees, prepare the budget and decide on security policies.
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The DOJ signed 20 such agreements with other police forces, including 15 consent decrees.
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Schroeder hereby decrees that June 30th will be the first-ever National #OOTD Day.
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Bolsonaro's decrees are seen as a precursor to inviting industries onto these nature reserves.
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As Spies in the Family illustrates, the decrees of leadership only go so far.
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Are consent decrees still the best way to rein in bad cops in America?
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Consent decrees are vital for police departments that have a multitude of systemic problems.
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Many of the consent decrees were drafted in response to fatal shootings by police.
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Seventeen consent decrees—the strictest form of federal oversight—have been issued since 1997.
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None of the many officials named to new posts in the decrees were women.
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"It's time to grow up, and growing up means loyalty programs!" the judge decrees.
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In truth, none of these decrees are binding on the actions of Fed officials.
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Body cameras here, consent decrees there, Black Lives Matter growing—there is a movement.
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"I will sign 25 decrees into law, first thing in the morning," he said.
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In Germany the Nuremberg decrees had expelled them from civic, business and professional life.
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Both moves came in middle-of-the-night decrees without legislative consultation or oversight.
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The agency, he added, is still overseeing consent decrees that are a century old.
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But the US President's latest flurry of decrees shows that was a bad bet.
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It has backed off using consent decrees to impose reforms on troubled police departments.
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" He added: "Printing the decrees on the website is not necessary for the process.
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As soon as I announce my resignation, I will put these decrees into effect.
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Click here for links to the plea agreements, consent decrees and other court documents.
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"I think Dodon will sign their (the ministers') resignation decrees with pleasure," he said.
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Businesses throughout America would have been harmed by any relaxation of the consent decrees.
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"Delrahim has been quite insistent that he does not want behavioral decrees," Jacobson said.
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The revocation of Kuczynski's decrees "is deeply disappointing," said George Cazenove, Tullow's head of communications.
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"Forget the franchisey shit like the KFCs—go to local fried chicken franchises," Action decrees.
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The decrees were designed to improve living standards and envisaged salary increases for state employees.
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Friday's decrees also give state-appointed administrators the right to sell companies they take over.
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Through the decrees, elections to choose a rector at the universities have also been abolished.
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Consent decrees have very mixed records of success, as Frontline and the Washington Post uncovered.
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To remain in force, such decrees have to be approved by lawmakers within 120 days.
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Republicans have tended to regard consent decrees as a manifestation of big government run amok.
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Meanwhile, consent decrees are unlikely to be used by the DOJ again any time soon.
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Two years ago, the DOJ began a review of the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees.
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Consent decrees—described as the DOJ's "crown jewel"—are an important tool for imposing reform.
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But climate change, no matter what Trump decrees, is an obvious threat to national security.
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Sessions also scaled back the use of federal consent decrees to reform troubled police departments.
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Even as Mr Rajapaksa's men took over ministries and issued decrees, things began to unravel.
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The decrees define the blocks and specify conditions for production and exploration tenders and contracts.
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The state of emergency, declared on July 20, allows the government to rule through decrees.
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These efforts have resulted in court rulings, laws, and decrees that protect waste pickers' rights.
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In contrast, the Obama Justice Department has led 23 investigations, and imposed 11 consent decrees.
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"The need for consent decrees and the oversight they guarantee," she said, "has not disappeared."
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ITALY'S ECONOMY MINISTER SAYS GOVERNMENT IS PREPARING TWO DECREES TO RESPOND TO CORONAVIRUS IMPACT - PAPER
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Those agreements, called consent decrees and approved by judges, impose rigid timelines for the work.
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The Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017, introduced by Rep.
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"Those decrees remain in force until and if they are changed," Sessions said, adding that consent decrees are "not necessarily a bad thing" but that "there's concern that good police officers and good departments" shoulder responsibility for the actions of a few bad apples.
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Pro-Kurdish opposition said the decrees were used as tools to establish a 'one-man regime'.
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The decrees were passed in January, and a second pre-qualification round was launched shortly thereafter.
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Surveys also often show that public support for the police rises when decrees are in place.
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That country's "one-China principle" decrees that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Chinese motherland.
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In a call to analysts last month, Adkerson had played down the impact of the decrees.
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Earlier this week, Sessions ordered a review of all police reform plans, including consent decrees. 5.
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Monthly payments related to the Medicaid and other consent decrees have totaled only about $160 million.
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The government has also appointed administrators to several companies through executive decrees following the abortive putsch.
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Where Consent Decrees were issued, police are handcuffed by an inability to proactively protect the public.
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Later that year, Justice concluded that no modifications should be made to their antitrust consent decrees.
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Recent decrees are making it possible for women to apply for business licenses on their own.
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None of these new decrees, laws or regulations garner headlines like a royal visit to Hollywood.
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The Justice Department said it had decided not to make any changes to the consent decrees.
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It remains unclear to what extent recent top-down decrees will be able to drive change.
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The Justice Department backed away from the use of consent decrees under President George W. Bush.
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Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic.
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But in a break with past practice, Mr. Sessions placed three key restrictions on consent decrees.
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Academics and researchers have contested his assertions about the links between consent decrees and crime rates.
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A growing (albeit not unanimous) body of empirical evidence suggests consent decrees measurably improve police practices.
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Consent decrees also involve the placing of federal monitors inside the police departments to ensure compliance.
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It also recommended that these rights be ensured through temporary decrees while governments pursue permanent laws.
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Trump and Sessions, however, have vowed to put an end to these investigations and consent decrees.
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The report analyzed consent decrees lodged by the Justice Department from Trump's first day in office, Jan.
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"The tried should not be tried," said the fatwa from Sistani, whose decrees are sacrosanct to millions.
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Universities have also been stripped of their ability to elect their own rectors according to the decrees.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered the Justice Department earlier this month to review all existing consent decrees.
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But outdated FRA decrees largely preclude the industry from relying solely on them to ensure safe trains.
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During the emergency rule, the president will be able to issue decrees on basic rights and freedoms.
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The plan would entail passage of two decrees and one resolution in the Senate, the report said.
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The president will be given additional powers to influence the judiciary by appointing judges and issuing decrees.
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It in no way has the aim, nor the power, to repeal to the consent decrees outright.
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The new decrees envisage investments of 8 trillion rubles ($128.60 billion) into Russia's infrastructure, healthcare and education.
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The assembly has twice used its constitutional power to reject Mr Maduro's decrees granting himself emergency powers.
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In January a new parliament approved most of the president's decrees, but rejected his civil-service reforms.
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The attorney general had on Monday ordered a sweeping review of similar decrees with police departments nationwide.
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Police reforms Attorney General Jeff Sessions is ordering a review of consent decrees and other police reforms.
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The existing consent decrees — in cities including Baltimore, Cleveland, New Orleans and Seattle — are still in place.
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Last year, King Salman signed a series of royal decrees that have loosened some of these restrictions.
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The consent decrees may remain as they are, or be changed or scrapped altogether, the department said.
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Since the early attempts, Mr. Walker said, consent decrees have evolved to be more sophisticated and comprehensive.
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It all looks a little bit like the minibureaucracies formed under consent decrees in institutional reform litigation.
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Confucianism decrees that a person's identity is largely determined by her position in the family and society.
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The first of numerous decrees was issued, ordering women to don the niqab as well as gloves.
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The Department of Justice made the correct decision by not making any changes to the consent decrees.
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Abdullah issued his own statement saying Ghani was no longer president and his decrees were not valid.
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Some police unions complain the decrees stigmatize police and impose overly restrictive limits on use of force.
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Sessions, as VICE News reported last month, has made it pretty clear he doesn't like consent decrees.
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"On areas where the law is unsettled, this department is not going to be issuing decrees," DeVos said.
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In areas where parliament has not passed any laws the president would have the right to issue decrees.
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There had been emergency declarations, and decrees prohibiting unvaccinated children from attending school, no matter their parents' beliefs.
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Eight years on, football fans could be forgiven for missing the authoritative decrees from his aquarium in Oberhausen.
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And Mr Rushin argues that cities can expect to pay less in civil suits after decrees take effect.
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As mayor of Bogotá from 2012 to 2015 he disregarded the city council, issued decrees and alienated allies.
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There are also some decrees that require judicial attention because they depend on European regulation and France's constitution.
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One of the decrees said Freeport would be barred from any activities in areas that lack environmental permits.
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At the same time, the Constitutional Court will continue to review decrees and laws to ensure their constitutionality.
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Sessions' comments come after he ordered the Justice Department earlier this month to review all existing consent decrees.
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The decrees are formal agreements between the federal government and local police departments overseen by a federal court.
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Make no mistake, these Consent Decrees had only one aim: To bully local government while masked as oversight.
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Senior members of the ruling party have criticized Toader in recent weeks for delaying passage of the decrees.
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Another measure in the decrees gave the president more choice in appointing the head of the armed forces.
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It is the price of long-standing agency timidity and making law through consent decrees and press releases.
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The consent decrees, which stemmed from cases filed in 1992, require Medicaid funding despite the state's budget problems.
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In both 1973 and 2000, the Justice Department issued policy decrees that a sitting president couldn't be indicted.
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She joked about having to get her divorce decrees at the last minute before she could marry him.
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Under the decrees, Turkey will also recruit 32,000 staff for the police, along with 4,000 judges and prosecutors.
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"Traffickers," he says, not his own violent decrees, are to blame for the cries of children in cages.
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These settlements are often enforced by court-approved consent decrees and the details are hammered out in private.
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These consent decrees allow ASCAP and BMI to operate as monopolists, but protect the marketplace from price manipulation.
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Consent decrees have not been abandoned entirely by the DOJ, a person with knowledge of the instructions said.
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Our decrees, despite the beautiful regalia with which they're presented, are temporary splints on an ever-changing world.
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"Obviously there's a new administration and their opinions of consent decrees are very well documented," he told me.
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The decrees were made possible by a crime bill signed into law during the Clinton administration in 1994.
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Among other things, Erdoğan now has the official power to appoint ministers, issue decrees, and make judiciary appointments.
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Since lockdowns were enforced, municipal decrees threatened operations of grain processors and grains shipments in key farm towns.
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The voluminous decrees, analysts say, promise months of administrative upheaval as agencies are abolished and government employees reassigned.
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But once Mr. Sessions became attorney general, he spoke skeptically of consent decrees and staunchly defended the police.
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Mr. Sessions wrote in his critique of consent decrees in 2008 that he is aware of that strategy.
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They intend to challenge application decrees that will spell out exactly how the law applies on the ground.
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These decrees arise when there is substantial evidence of patterns of racism that have ossified into organizational policy.
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Both Google and Facebook signed consent decrees with the Federal Trade Commission in 21920 over violations of privacy.
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Twenty of those investigations ended in consent decrees, a form of agreement that entails monitoring by the courts.
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The last of these decrees, made with Baltimore and Chicago, were threatened by Barr's direct predecessor, Jeff Sessions.
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"Although the court means no disrespect to the comptroller, who faces an unenviable situation, it finds that minimally funding the obligations of the decrees while fully funding other obligations fails to comply not only with the consent decrees, but also with this court's previous orders," the judge's latest order stated.
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Later on in Tuesday's hearing he expressed skepticism over the use of federal consent decrees to address police abuses.
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Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, asked the attorney general nominee whether he would commit to maintaining and enforcing consent decrees.
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Speaking to journalists, Maia criticized Temer's "excessive" use of decrees, saying he is putting himself ahead of representative democracy.
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One tenet holds that you must rely on others while the other decrees that people aren't to be trusted.
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As The Economist went to press, Mr Trump was reported to be preparing executive decrees to begin that effort.
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He is fond of issuing decrees; he may be surprised to learn that creditors cannot simply be bossed around.
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The decrees, issued Wednesday, were made public before dawn Friday in the kingdom's official weekly Um al-Qura gazette.
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Ronal Serpas, a former New Orleans police chief, says consent decrees can be a "key tool" in effective policing.
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An attempt to decriminalize several corruption offences last year via emergency decrees triggered massive protests and was ultimately withdrawn.
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The legislation enables the president to issue decrees, declare emergency rule, appoint ministers and state officials and dissolve parliament.
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They will enable the president to draft budgets, declare a state of emergency and issue decrees without parliamentary approval.
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Critics of consent decrees, including Sessions, argue that they hamstring police officers who need freedom to do their jobs.
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Unlike parliament bills, emergency decrees come into effect immediately and are much harder to challenge at the Constitutional Court.
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Today, the consent decrees are the only obstacles keeping these cartels from throttling the growth of innovative music platforms.
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Royal Decrees are approved directly by government but need to be ratified by a simple majority vote in parliament.
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Sessions on Monday instructed DOJ officials to review the agency's consent decrees with all police forces nationwide, including Baltimore's.
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But the DOJ's antitrust division believes the Paramount Decrees are out of date and has moved to end them.
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Its stores in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo were already closed following recent decrees from local authorities there.
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She added that public perceptions of the police regularly and significantly improved after consent decrees were put into place.
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Decrees issued by sultans introduced fines or prison sentences instead of corporal punishments, rendering the latter often practically obsolete.
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The central government has set specific targets and backed up its decrees with threats of fines and other punishments.
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That is why Khamenei issued absurd religious decrees (fatwas) declaring the casting of a ballot as a religious obligation.
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They targeted common types of police misconduct and designed consent decrees to be templates for reform at other departments.
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As a senator, Sessions had made no secret of his antipathy for consent decrees and Obama-era police reform.
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" The agency has a range of actions, including warning letters and consent decrees, for bringing manufacturers "back into compliance.
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All three of those cases were ultimately settled through consent decrees and divestitures within six months of complaints being filed.
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Their "seclusion decrees" barred Japanese ships from travelling to foreign lands and threatened to execute any Japanese returning from them.
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The watchdog group found the EPA lodged consent decrees for 48 civil cases against polluters totaling $30 million between Jan.
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Consent decrees have a profound effect on our legal system as they constitute an end run around the democratic process.
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Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that right grievousness -- (END VIDEO CLIP) INGRAHAM: OK, we get the point.
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"Further fiscal consolidation is necessary and should be based on decrees that will get rid of structural imbalances," Vasle said.
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In September, Macron formally signed five decrees overhauling France's labor rules, the first major economic reforms since he took power.
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MYANMAR'S laws are an abject muddle of colonial holdovers, socialist ukases and military decrees—a reflection of its troubled history.
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The ELS also has also not filed any consent decrees under Title VII since Trump took office on Jan. 20.
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Tuesday's decrees also announced the closure of 375 institutions or associations, including minority rights groups, lawyers' associations and women's groups.
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In it, a nefarious professor arrives at Hogwarts and begins issuing "Educational Decrees" that include the banning of student groups.
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The Obama administration signed consent decrees with 12 big-city police departments, among them Baltimore, Cleveland, New Orleans and Seattle.
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The textbook approach we've always heard decrees you pair a baggy top with a form-fitting bottom, or vice versa.
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Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, has signed two decrees this year making it easier for Brazilians to own and carry guns.
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In the days before he became Honduras's president, congress passed more than 60 decrees giving him more control over spending.
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Emanuel said such an arrangement was not an option because Sessions opposed consent decrees for the purpose of police reforms.
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He has stated that federal consent decrees get in the way and prevent police officers from getting the job done.
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He ordered a federal review of existing consent decrees, which he said were contributing to low morale among police officers.
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The 200-day package also includes revoking a series of presidential decrees deemed outdated or with no purpose, they said.
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For much of human history, government power has been the unavoidable constant in life – government decrees, and the people obey.
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The sign above mirrors the educational decrees from the book and the movie put out by the Ministry of Magic.
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During President Obama's tenure the Civil Rights division opened 25 investigations into law enforcement agencies, resulting in 14 consent decrees.
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Lefkow had issued an order on June 7 that concluded Illinois was not complying with federal consent decrees regarding Medicaid.
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In May, Bolsonaro signed decrees - that needed congressional approval - to ease restrictions on importing and carrying guns and buying ammunition.
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Delaying the committee votes could lead the reforms to miss a November deadline for full approval before Temer's decrees lapse.
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Royal decrees cut ministers' pay by 20 percent and forced them to pay their own telephone bills for personal lines.
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He will appoint ministers, vice presidents and high-level bureaucrats, issue decrees, prepare the budget and decide on security policies.
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Since 1994, seventy police and sheriff's departments have come under investigation; forty-one entered into reform agreements, including consent decrees.
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These court-ordered deals, known as consent decrees, have served as a cornerstone of police reform in America ever since.
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He compared concealed carry permits to marriage licenses or divorce decrees, and drivers' licenses, which are recognized in other states.
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Now, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the DOJ appears to be turning away from this storied tool, called consent decrees.
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Consent decrees can be a powerful tool, and spell out specific steps that must be taken to remedy the harm.
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IPAB's decrees will automatically become law unless Congress takes the immensely difficult move of overruling a decision through supermajority vote.
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State and federal regulators are now assessing whether the transfer of data violated privacy agreements struck under prior consent decrees.
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Many decrees passed contain measures that conflict with basic human rights safeguards and Turkey's obligations under international and domestic law.
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Consent decrees are monitored by a federal judge and violations of the agreements can be punished quickly with contempt orders.
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It wasn't the consent decrees or court decisions that made the difference, according to multiple current and former Microsoft employees.
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The majority — as should be expected — are goalkeepers, the one position where conventional wisdom still decrees that permanence is paramount.
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The consent decrees here involve violations of federal environmental laws like the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
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"I go back a long ways, there have been a lot of consent decrees over the years," said Mr. Brezenoff.
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But the department is capable of learning from its mistakes, and the consensus now is that consent decrees don't work.
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A bigger sin than insulting the prophet is disbelief in God, he reasoned, but Islam decrees no punishment for that.
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The political party decrees also dealt a death blow to the Senate, by now the South's last independent political institution.
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"Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature," the law decrees, can be sentenced to prison for life.
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Since the election, Mr. Erdogan has passed a flurry of decrees bringing the system of government under the president's control.
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The decrees also saw the appointment of Mohammed el Kuwaiz as head of the Saudi Arabian Capital Markets Authority (CMA).
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He has issued a number of royal decrees in recent months pertaining to the promotion and dismissal of palace officials.
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The government is preparing two decrees to respond to the effects of a coronavirus outbreak in the country, he added.
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A Washington Post report showed that law enforcement use of force increased in half of police departments with consent decrees.
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While the evidence clearly pointed toward no changes to the consent decrees, the DOJ's decision was not an easy one.
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The French decrees came amid a raft of radical restrictions announced across Europe Monday, as the Continent weathers the pandemic.
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Such systemic problems can theoretically be resolved through consent decrees with the DOJ, which mandates a department to implement reforms.
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During the Bush administration, by comparison, the department imposed only three consent decrees: one in Cincinnati and two in Detroit.
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Is Trump's inner politburo, the one often surrounding him as he launches his decrees, afraid that their project will be stopped?
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The CGT hopes it can win concessions for as long as the decrees are not physically written into the labor code.
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"The objectives set in the presidential May decrees must be met," Volkov told his parliament in December, according to local agencies.
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As "executive" president, he will be able to issue decrees with the force of law and pack the judiciary with loyalists.
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The experiences of other cities which have had decrees, such as Los Angeles, suggest it will last a decade or more.
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Meirelles dismissed press reports that the government could use decrees to reduce retirement benefits if its proposal was rejected in Congress.
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B RollJeff Sessions is reviewing police reform which may affect consent decrees, which are the impetus for reforms, across the nation.
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I think that he owes an obligation to the stakeholders in these individual communities to learn more about these consent decrees.
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That same month, Sessions had ordered a comprehensive review of all police reform activities, including any existing or contemplated consent decrees.
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The order also decrees a 2628-day ban on admitting any refugees and an indefinite halt on accepting refugees from Syria.
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Friday's decrees stipulate that all citizens have the right to work without facing any discrimination based on gender, disability or age.
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He understood the swift, decisive nature of upper-management bureaucrats, whose sudden decrees often fell into subordinates' laps like hot coals.
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EST: The House votes on measures, including the SCRUB Act and the Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2015.
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Regarding Esteves, Palocci plans to say how he sought him out for support on several decrees favoring private banks, Folha reported.
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Consent decrees are court-enforced agreements often used to create change within local police departments accused of civil rights violations. Reps.
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The "Paramount Decrees," which were enacted in 1948 to stop movie studios from owning movie theaters, could soon cease to exist.
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The decrees included adopting a new strategy to restructure the defense ministry for improved organization and governance, but provided few details.
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Now it's the leadership of the kingdom's military and security services: Royal decrees ousted dozens of officials and elevated younger successors.
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Isabel dos Santos, above center, Africa's richest woman, often took cuts of her country's wealth through decrees signed by her father.
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This includes compliance obligations, requirements under consent decrees or judicial orders, and obligations to pay associated administrative, civil, or other penalties.
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Decrees need to be later endorsed by parliament, but opposition parties have said they would not oppose such a popular step.
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Two other decrees were issued appointing Mohammed Abdullah Al-Hadhrami as foreign minister and Salem Saleh Bin Braik as finance minister.
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They commanded armies, enforced royal decrees, and took it for granted that the rulers who appointed them could claim their loyalty.
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Illinois' payments out of its operating fund for the Medicaid and other federal consent decrees total about $160 million a month.
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Russia needs additional budget revenue to meet economic goals set in decrees signed by Putin for his new six-year term.
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Modernizing this state health care was a priority that Mr. Putin enshrined in decrees early in his third term as president.
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Most judges approve consent decrees aimed at resolving competition concerns with no fanfare, and deals normally close before the judge rules.
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Parliament can ratify or reject his budget and the president needs parliamentary approval for emergency rule and decrees passed during that time.
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Labour Minister Muriel Penicaud described the five decrees laying out the reforms as "a transformation of labor rules on an unprecedented scale".
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Far more lawmaking is therefore done by the Supreme Court, through its decisions to overturn or uphold state laws or presidential decrees.
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Dozens of law enforcement agencies are currently legally bound to implement reforms according to the court-enforced agreements, known as consent decrees.
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Prior consent decrees have included direct-to-consumer benefits, such as refunds or discounts, or notifications to customers who have been impacted.
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Culture change doesn't happen overnight, and when you think about it, there's only 15 consent decrees out of 16,000 police departments [nationally].
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He called for a review of reform agreements, known as consent decrees, reached with local police departments to address allegations of misconduct.
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It limits some freedoms and allows the government to bypass parliament with decrees, although Erdogan says he will soon lift the measure.
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Right now, the DOJ is considering revoking the Paramount consent decrees that created separation between old Hollywood movie studios and movie theaters.
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Amnesty said that between November 2015 and 5 May 2017, authorities had used their powers to issue 155 decrees prohibiting public gatherings.
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"I think that France putting forth these two decrees makes a strong statement to the global fashion and media communities," she said.
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In that vein, members of both parties on the Judiciary Committee have been guiding the Justice Department on which decrees to retain.
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The idea got another look this month, when King Salman issued several royal decrees to revamp the oil ministry and other agencies.
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Treating judicial deference as a principle that only applies when a judge decrees that it does turns legal baseball into legal Calvinball.
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Simon uses plants as signifiers for bigger ideas — in this case, the international conferences and decrees that influence governmental and economic systems.
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"Consent decrees have a profound effect on our legal system as they constitute an end run around the democratic process," he wrote.
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The lack of explicit mention of fractional licensing in the consent decrees is important, but not for the reason Judge Stanton believes.
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If fractional licensing was not meant to be included in the consent decrees it would be a significant oversight by the DOJ.
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The DOJ also stated that neither BMI nor ASCAP could demonstrate a reason to modify the consent decrees to allow fractional licensing.
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Why it's not normal: Presidents don't usually take to Twitter to issue decrees that any negative responses to their policies are baseless.
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"I think judges are going to be very important to how much this memo undermines the effectiveness of consent decrees," she said.
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In 1975, he and thousands of other dissidents were jailed under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's emergency decrees suspending civil liberties and elections.
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Mr. Sessions conceded in his memo that consent decrees are sometimes the only way to ensure that government agencies follow the law.
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An earlier version of this article misidentified one of three princes who were named deputy governors in a series of royal decrees.
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The bill decrees that the medication abortion program will only take effect if supporters are able to raise $10,290,000 in private funds.
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Ramming through decrees that all but proscribed any other party, he then coerced bureaucrats and military officers into joining Democracy Party ranks.
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Problems with those mergers have generally been resolved with settlements known as consent decrees, which restrict the new company's behavior or operations.
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They also said the language of the 18 decrees was virtually the same and did not list specific reasons behind each deconsecration.
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Under the consent decrees, the two organizations are required to license to anyone upon request, with pricing disputes settled by a judge.
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English law decrees that the author of a letter retains ownership of its content, regardless of who possesses the piece of paper.
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If they failed to agree, the government would pass decrees guaranteeing the pension system is in the black by 2027, he said.
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But CFDT chief Laurent Berger also signaled misgivings last week about Macron's decision to use executive decrees to get his reforms through.
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"He is wrong to think legislating via decrees over the summer will help him avoid social conflicts," Berger told Les Echos newspaper.
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The Constitution decrees that a House member must be at least 25, a senator at least 30, a president at least 35.
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Mr. Erdogan can now appoint ministers himself, issue decrees, make crucial appointments in the judiciary, and authorize investigations of individual civil servants.
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The consent decrees, which require the state to continue to make Medicaid payments despite its budget problems, stem from two 1992 cases.
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While Trump has not publicly commented on consent decrees, he has expressed strong support for police departments and unions, and on Jan.
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Meanwhile, Illinois risks intervention from federal judges overseeing consent decrees requiring the state to fund medical and other services for the disadvantaged.
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A crackdown launched after the coup has seen 160,873 people detained, and the state of emergency allows Erdogan to bypass parliament with decrees.
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The EIP report found that in the first year of President Bill Clinton's tenure, the agency filed 73 decrees and collected $55 million.
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Chen also approved the consent decrees announced in January between Fiat Chrysler and California, Environmental Protection Agency and agreements with all 50 states.
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We take any allegations of violations of our consent decrees very seriously as we did in 2012 in a privacy case involving Google.
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Macron's plans, which he wants to carry out using executive decrees, include tackling unemployment of 9.6 percent by making hiring and firing easier.
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Sessions' concerns appear to echo those of police unions, with whom Sessions met ahead of launching a federal review of existing consent decrees.
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Notably, an intelligence law of 2017 decrees that all Chinese organisations and citizens are obliged to co-operate with national intelligence-gathering operations.
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Decrees issued three days later ban unlicensed gatherings and protests, as well as the trading or hoarding of fuel and other subsidised goods.
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The announcement came as part of royal decrees which replaced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef with Mohammed bin Salman, previously deputy crown prince.
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Other changes issued in the decrees allow women to register a marriage, divorce or child's birth and to be issued official family documents.
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In May, Bolsonaro signed decrees easing restrictions on importing and carrying guns and buying ammunition, which needed congressional approval to become permanent law.
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No religious leaders should be permitted to use the power of sworn law enforcement officers to hide their misdeeds and enforce their decrees.
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Russia has planned to increase issuance of OFZ bonds to raise financing for a new set of decrees ordered by President Vladimir Putin.
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The specific requirements companies need to abide by to get the regulatory stamp of approval are still to be defined by government decrees.
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The decrees published Friday also covered employment regulations that would expand work opportunities for women, who represent a big portion of unemployed Saudis.
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"We've absolutely got to go all out to simplify the labor code," Gattaz said, adding that "everything will be in the decrees details".
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He thinks consent decrees with behavioral conditions turn the Justice Department into a regulatory agency that has to police those settlements for years.
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Problems with those mergers have traditionally been resolved by adding conditions known as consent decrees, which restrict the new company's behavior or operations.
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Since his second term began last week, several lengthy decrees and presidential decisions have enabled him to exert control with almost unchecked authority.
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The leftist Socialists and the Democratic Coalition (DK) also said they could not back the legislation with infinite special powers to pass decrees.
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Yes, the department over the past two decades has allowed many mega-mergers or taken tepid steps to restrict them through consent decrees.
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In letters and congressional testimony, F.T.C. officials have pointed to the decrees as evidence of robust consumer privacy protection in the United States.
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China's plan — announced last March and intensified in August — demonstrated the power of centralized authority but also the bureaucratic shortcomings in Beijing's decrees.
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The leftist Socialists and the Democratic Coalition (DK) also said they could not back the legislation with infinite special powers to pass decrees.
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The reversal on private prisons, the review of consent decrees, the return to the failed drug policies of the '90s would make sense.
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Cleveland, Miami and New Orleans were all investigated by the Bush-era Justice Department, but none were required to enter into consent decrees.
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Mr. Delrahim's team started to review the Paramount consent decrees last year as part of a look at nearly 1,300 old antitrust judgments.
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He has also spoken against the court-enforced settlements, known as consent decrees, that usually result from investigations like the one in Chicago.
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ASCAP and BMI, as well as their largest member publishers, have recently once again aggressively lobbied the DOJ to relax these consent decrees.
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On its face, Mr. Sessions's order simply asks whether the consent decrees promote public safety, support officers, respect local control and are warranted.
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"I'd imagine that the DOJ would not go out of their way to disrupt consent decrees that are currently in effect," Rushin said.
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Justin Bieber and Nick Cannon also made public decrees on social media that show they too won't be swayed based on the arrest.
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The Turkish government closed the historic agency in October 2016 after the government's Cabinet of Ministers issued Statutory Decrees Article 675 and 676.
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By this point in their presidencies, the Environmental Integrity Project found, Bill Clinton had lodged 45 consent decrees, Bush 31, and Obama 34.
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It will concentrate power in the hands of the president, who will be able to form the government, issue decrees and prepare the budget.
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Wise but unpopular decisions to buy gas from Israel and to revise the school curriculum by removing troublesome Koranic verses were issued as decrees.
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It also decrees that all the heirs of the original "enemy" should also be considered enemies, in perpetuity, even if they hold Indian citizenship.
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But they also imposed a system of oppressive religious taxes and issued a series of decrees covering all aspects of public and private life.
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For most of its modern history Egypt restricted church-building under decrees written by the Ottomans and the short-lived monarchy of 1922-53.
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A newly formed government restarted the tender process in January by passing two important hydrocarbon decrees and holding a pre-qualification round in April.
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Well, Musk has made bizarre SpaceX decrees before, which have later become reality: The company did launch his Tesla into deep space, after all.
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The question is how to make certain this duty is carried out appropriately, and whether consent decrees are the best way to do it.
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This Hogwarts-inspired house rules print may look a lot like Dolores Umbridge's educational decrees, but the actual rules themselves are not so strict.
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Many of those investigations culminated in "consent decrees," court-ordered agreements that mandated troubled police departments to implement recommended reforms by a certain date.
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But fear of consumer abuse still prompted occasional antitrust action, typically with consent decrees, to increase competition in areas where large governmental footprints exist.
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No other country imposes these regulated consent decrees on their music industry, putting the U.S. out of step with the rest of the world.
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Consent decrees are often used to enforce an agreement between the Justice Department and a local police department to address a violation of law.
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Under the latest decrees, published in the government's Official Gazette, more than 900 civil servants from ministries, public institutions and the military were dismissed.
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That is exactly what is being considered at the Department of Justice (DoJ) in its review of the ASCAP and BMI antitrust consent decrees.
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In the key context of taxation, the governor of Puerto Rico can approve decrees that grant tax exemptions and tax credits without legislative input.
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"On areas where the law is unsettled, this department is not going to be issuing decrees," DeVos said during the Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.
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In a joint statement, the Ankara and Istanbul bar associations called Sunday's two decrees "the last two nails in the coffin of the law".
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On April 3rd, Sessions instructed the Justice Department to review consent decrees in more than a dozen cities, including Ferguson, Newark, and New Orleans.
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While traditionally done in person, in recent years men in India have issued their "triple talaq" decrees over email, WhatsApp, and even on postcards.
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In this case, the DOJ made a determination of how to interpret the consent decrees based on competition law which regulates potentially anticompetitive behavior.
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The DOJ seriously looked at fractional licensing and determined that if the consent decrees were modified to allow it, this value would be lost.
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Despite what you may hear, the sky is not falling in the wake of the DOJ's closure of its review of the consent decrees.
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The leagues themselves have been making decrees of their own—after all, their players are their product, so they can't have them getting sick.
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Usually, American lawmakers will use consent decrees — essentially, settlements that have to be approved by court order — to wrangle accountability from companies like Facebook.
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Several major cities negotiated their consent decrees during Mr. Obama's second term, a period of widespread protests over police killings of unarmed black people.
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The move means that the decrees, used aggressively by Obama-era Justice Department officials to fight police abuses, will be more difficult to enact.
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The new constitution authorizes Kim to promulgate legislative ordinances and major decrees and decisions andappoint or recall diplomatic envoys to foreign countries, KCNA said.
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"One of the most dangerous, and rarely discussed, exercises of raw power is the issuance of expansive court decrees," Mr. Sessions wrote in 8.5.
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A series of other decrees were also issued, assigning some mayoral posts and a new undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for security affairs.
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In April, he ordered a sweeping review of federal agreements with dozens of law enforcement agencies, including consent decrees with troubled police departments nationwide.
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From day one of his rule, his decrees as emperor were viewed as treasonous by the Russian aristocracy and military class, which alienated him.
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"They usually cut the best deal the could, figured future E.P.A.s would be more reasonable, and they signed these consent decrees," Mr. Calamita said.
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In the following year, more than 50,000 people have been jailed and over 150,000 people have been fired from their jobs with midnight decrees.
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In all, the Obama Justice Department would enter into 14 consent decrees, more than twice as many as the Bush and Clinton administrations combined.
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Consent decrees are agreements between a police force and the Justice Department that can prescribe changes to use of force, recruiting, training and discipline.
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"It is not uncommon for financial or staffing challenges to arise in the course of implementation of our consent decrees," Gupta said in the letter.
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The latest protests were sparked by two presidential decrees which doctors and teachers say would have opened the door to the privatization of their sectors.
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"There is a need for a combination of various decrees that would widely address the problem of aging, problems of productivity and competitiveness," Vasle said.
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A series of royal decrees published earlier this month further eroded that system as the kingdom comes under increased scrutiny over its human rights record.
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The president, Klaus Iohannis, urged the government on Friday to scrap the decrees, which he said would undermine the rule of law and anti-corruption.
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The decrees were issued under the emergency rule imposed in the wake of the failed coup, which allows Erdogan and the government to bypass parliament.
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Judge Joan Lefkow ordered renewed negotiations between Illinois and health care advocates for the poor to reach a goal of "substantial compliance" with the decrees.
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Because they apply to only a few of America's 18,000 police departments, it is hard to prove that consent decrees lead to fewer police shootings.
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The Inter-American Court, based in Costa Rica's capital San Jose, recommended that those rights be upheld via temporary decrees while governments pursue permanent laws.
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But then, the all-important Council Who Decrees The Trends gathered and generously decided to give us back what we'd been missing so much: color!
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Further decrees replaced the kingdom's information and civil service ministers and set up a committee to investigate allegations of abuse of the civil service office.
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Liberals and conservatives usually react to Trump's decrees in predictable ways, decrying the orders they do not agree with and supporting the ones they like.
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Although the officers were not charged, the DOJ issued extensive reports on each city's police department and mandated reforms in civil agreements called consent decrees.
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In France, President Emmanuel Macron has already signed decrees to cap payouts on unfair dismissals, while also giving companies greater freedom to hire and fire.
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" Hong Kong's 'one country, two systems' declaration, ratified in 1997, decrees that the "way of life (in the city) shall remain unchanged for 50 years.
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But some independently owned theater chains are concerned that shady practices from decades ago, which the decrees also prevent, will return if they are ended.
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Under the Obama administration, 12 police departments signed court-ordered agreements called consent decrees—four times as many as in the George W. Bush era.
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Such decrees, which skip competitive bidding, have been cited by Venezuelan and U.S. prosecutors as a means of extracting bribes in some recent corruption cases.
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FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra, a Democrat, has said the agency should hold executives responsible for violations of consent decrees if they participated in the violations.
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By the Marshall Project's count, the federal government launched 20 police department investigations under George W. Bush's administration, but entered only into three consent decrees.
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Judge Stanton seems to rest his decision on the fact that fractional licensing is not explicitly mentioned or otherwise explicitly covered under the consent decrees.
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He has been fulsome in his praise of Sessions on law enforcement, and last week said that he agreed with him on the consent decrees.
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"On the one hand, Iranian women must abide by restrictions imposed by official decrees of the state and imposed by the morality police," she said.
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The overhaul came in the form of five decrees, a constitutional device the Macron-dominated Parliament empowered the president to use to streamline the process.
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Any new policy the administration adopts must navigate the complex terrain of federal law and court consent decrees that constrain the conditions of migrant detention.
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Mr. Pasco argued consent decrees were not necessary, pointing to Cincinnati, where police reforms took place without that level of oversight from the Justice Department.
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The conflict arose in the context of Aráoz attempting to push through a series of decrees aimed at opening up the rainforest to commercial exploitation.
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But then, as now, he acknowledged, he was focused on the interaction of "narrative and politics," and how parties connect with people beyond policy decrees.
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The new constitution authorises Kim to promulgate legislative ordinances and major decrees and decisions and appoint or recall diplomatic envoys to foreign countries, KCNA said.
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"We have major parts of our industry that are regulated by consent decrees with the Justice Department," he said, referring to settlements with behavioral remedies.
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The decision to deconsecrate — which means transform the houses of worship to secular purposes — was announced in decrees posted on the archdiocese website in June.
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In a series of royal decrees published by the state news agency, the king appointed Abdulaziz bin Mohammed al-Howairini to head the new body.
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During Mr. Obama's tenure, the Justice Department negotiated consent decrees in Cleveland; Ferguson, Mo.; and other cities where investigators found a pattern of police abuses.
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The decrees also elevated two of King Salman's sons, empowering his branch of the vast royal family that has ruled the country since the 1930s.
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In cities including Baltimore and Chicago, consent decrees requiring police departments to adopt reforms are underway, and residents are working hard to ensure their implementation.
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"Consent decrees don't turn departments into A+ departments," said Christy Lopez, the supervisor for the Civil Rights Division's police-reform attorneys during the Obama administration.
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That is a milder instrument than "consent decrees", policing reform plans that are brokered by a court, of which the previous administration enforced over a dozen.
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There are various consent decrees and congressional mandates supposedly preventing this, but to even try to enforce them has required extensive litigation by advocates and organizations.
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The king swiftly reappointed the same unelected cabinet with only a few minor alterations, and since then has proceeded to push through a host of decrees.
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On top of Tuesday's decrees, authorities issued arrest warrants for 60 people, including air force pilots in the central city of Konya, over suspected Gulenist links.
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The royal decrees also merged the ministries of labour and of social affairs into a new department, and created a new Commission for Recreation and Culture.
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Before she's even pitched the show, a robot called Don Jr. scans her face and decrees that "this content will fulfill many quadrants of our algorithm".
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Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu told reporters the two decrees were not on the agenda this week, but that they could be once the judiciary is consulted.
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Under new rules to be implemented in two years, Turkey's president will have the power to appoint or dismiss ministers, issue executive decrees, and select judges.
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The group and Sessions agree that there is a problem with the over-application of some consent decrees, which can tend to be a financial burden.
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Stepping down for love Currently, imperial law also decrees that -- unlike in Europe or Great Britain -- any princess who marries a commoner must leave the family.
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Dauba-Pantanacce also alluded to how Macron can make changes without parliamentary approval, using an existing law which enables decrees to be passed without parliamentary debate.
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Additionally, the DOJ's Civil Rights Division's investigative findings and consent decrees on policing provide vivid documentation of the problem and a road map to constitutional policing.
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Within the federal government itself, much of what was once done by congressional legislation is now done by judicial decrees, agency rules or presidential executive orders.
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But they've run into an obstacle: their collection goons, ASCAP and BMI (aka the performance rights organizations, or PROs) are limited by federal antitrust consent decrees.
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But if the RFS remains in place, corn stands to lose out to products that do not pass the market test, simply because Washington decrees it.
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As music licensing is back in the headlines, there has been a new wave of misinformation about Performing Rights Organizations seeking to dodge their consent decrees.
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One of the decrees also ordered the closure of the pro-Kurdish news agency Dihaber and two newspapers, all based in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
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He sent along a link to the Journal Officiel, the newspaper that prints French government laws and decrees, and I saw that it was no joke.
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His government will announce decrees on Thursday aimed at making it easier for bosses to hire and fire while chipping away at long-cherished labor rights.
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The decrees were created as part of the 1994 crime bill to address situations in which a "pattern or practice" of the police violated citizens' rights.
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During his confirmation hearings for US attorney general this week, Alabama senator Jeff Sessions expressed skepticism about using consent decrees to force change in police departments.
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As Sessions' confirmation hearings were underway on Tuesday, Big Music took another giant stride towards undermining the Department of Justice's monopoly-restraining free market consent decrees.
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The consent decrees that regulate the music powers that be are all that is stopping the industry from becoming embroiled in intolerable price gouging and gridlock.
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"We think this is very significant, not only for Charlottesville, but nationwide," Ms. McCord said on Thursday, noting that similar consent decrees could be used elsewhere.
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Since his inauguration for a second term last week, he has issued several decrees and presidential decisions enabling him to exert control with almost unchecked authority.
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In part because of the difficulty of remedying violations, many civil rights attorneys believe that consent decrees are more likely to encourage compliance than settlement agreements.
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In at least two cases already, residents in the province were arrested after burning or selling coal, signaling the authorities' seriousness in enforcing the decrees here.
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Mr. Vouillamoz poured a wine made from gouais blanc, a white grape that had been banned across Europe, by various royal decrees, since the Middle Ages.
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She also discusses married life and, briefly, the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Rear Window" ("It was fine," she decrees, before doing a bit on Grace Kelly's voice).
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President Nicolás Maduro, beleaguered by a second month of protests against him, has prosecuted political rivals under terrorism laws and expanded his powers by emergency decrees.
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In April, Mr. Maduro announced what he called "the Zamora Plan," a set of decrees meant to combat "internal and external attacks" using the armed forces.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has criticized investigations of systemic police abuses and the use of so-called consent decrees, which stipulate specific reforms for entire departments.
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When members of the business and political establishment objected to a series of executive decrees in 2001, Mr. Chávez declared them enemies of the people's revolution.
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If Mr. Sessions's review is conducted in good faith, it will vindicate the Justice Department's existing police work and demonstrate the continuing value of consent decrees.
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The department's Civil Rights Division has investigated 25 law enforcement agencies over civil rights abuses during the past seven years; 14 investigations have ended in consent decrees.
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Lale Karabiyik, another CHP lawmaker, said the move was a clear misuse of the emergency rule decrees and described it as a coup d'etat on higher education.
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After the Emperor decrees that one man in each family must serve in the Imperial Army, Mulan takes her elderly father's place, disguising herself as a boy.
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Parliament can also shorten, extend or cancel a state of emergency, and presidential decrees passed during emergency rule must be approved within 90 days or become void.
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The FTC told Gizmodo that it could neither confirm nor deny an investigation was underway, adding it takes all allegations regarding violations of its consent decrees seriously.
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In other decrees, King Salman renamed several natural reserves after deceased Saudi clerics and royal family members from the first Saudi state of the early 19th century.
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The EPA under Bush lodged 112 consent decrees totaling $50 million in penalties while during Barack Obama's first year, $71 million was collected from 71 civil cases.
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"All of our fears have been confirmed," said Philippe Martinez, head of the hard-left CGT union, after the government presented the decrees to unions and employers.
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Just as no rule stipulates that an American must lead the World Bank or a European the IMF, nothing decrees that the ADB's president must be Japanese.
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Opponents say the new system, allowing him to enforce decrees, dissolve parliament and declare emergency rule, would abolish checks already eroded during his 15 years in power.
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They typically resulted in "consent decrees" in which the local government and Justice Department agree to a certain set of reforms that are supervised by the courts.
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While the Justice Department is investigating individual police departments and overseeing reforms through agreements known as "consent decrees," the truth is this will be far from enough.
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The ways in which the decrees were announced and the language used to announce the changes signal how sensitive these moves are among conservatives in the country.
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As part of Thursday's decrees, the king also appointed Mohammed el Kuwaiz head of the Saudi Arabian Capital Markets Authority (CMA), which regulates investments in the kingdom.
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Tarrant also said that his group sought to gauge the attorney general's interest and support of their public stances on consent decrees and use-of-force guidelines.
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Congress has yet to approve a separate measure to streamline the mining code, which appeared likely to expire at midnight without approval, when Temer's temporary decrees expire.
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It also decrees a fine of up to 200 million Congolese francs ($125,000) for failure to communicate to the central bank details of a foreign bank account.
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Asked about the decrees, Dancila said, "To approve an act in the government, I would have to have it on my table: I did not have it".
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered the Justice Department in April to undertake a comprehensive review of all police reform activities, including any existing or contemplated consent decrees.
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" Those decrees and committees and flow charts might be "necessary," but they were "insufficient," he continued, "because they cannot grasp and deal with reality in its complexity.
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In addition to the indigenous lands decree, the new administration issued decrees affecting the economy and society on Wednesday, while forging closer ties with the United States.
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Rapid growth proved possible partly because the king ordained it (his decrees get otherwise languorous civil servants to jump)—for example, in providing generous subsidies for training.
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They typically resulted in consent decrees, in which the local government and Justice Department agree to a certain set of reforms that are supervised by the courts.
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Shortly after taking office, he ordered a review of existing consent decrees, including those with multiple police departments involved in high-profile killings of unarmed black men.
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Washington should think carefully before it decrees regulation that could siphon from the limited dollars cities and small businesses use to keep people employed and localities functioning.
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Though he still publishes emotional decrees on Tumblr from time to time — his note on the death of Prince was heart-rending — he largely avoids social media.
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The re-examination could lead to a retreat by the Trump administration on the consent decrees that the Obama White House used to overhaul troubled police departments.
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ASCAP and BMI along with their major publisher affiliates rightly understand that these consent decrees limit their ability to obtain monopoly prices for the use of music.
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With its new decrees, the central government seems to be trying to halt the development of power plants that might well be underused if they were built.
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"It's not normal for a president, just before resigning, to sign five decrees giving away our resources," said Congresswoman Karla Schaefer with the conservative party Popular Force.
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Under President Obama, the department engaged in serious oversight, at times negotiating binding consent decrees with police departments that had demonstrated hostility, or worse, toward African-Americans.
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Some of the country's biggest police groups want to renegotiate Justice Department "consent decrees" from the Obama administration over these programs, citing wasteful spending among other problems.
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Francis approved the decrees on Tuesday confirming miracles attributed to the intercession of the former pontiff and the Salvadoran archbishop, the Holy See said in a statement.
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Is it really possible to break our creators' decrees, or are we programmed to fulfill functions, conforming to our destinies no matter what we think we're doing?
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She has signaled that her office is "not going to be issuing any decrees" on civil rights and that those should come from Congress or the courts.
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Since then, there have been consent decrees in 218 other cities, from little Steubenville, Ohio, and Ferguson, Mo., to Los Angeles, Seattle and, as of Friday, Baltimore.
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The DOJ has opened 25 investigations into law enforcement agencies and has been enforcing 14 consent decrees, along with other agreements, since 85033, according to the Post.
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The move granted Erdogan extensive powers, allowing the president to issue decrees that form or regulate ministries and to appoint or dismiss civil servants without parliamentary approval.
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Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally issued a decision in its multiyear review of the antitrust consent decrees that govern the licensing of music copyrights.
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After declaring a state of emergency and disbanding Parliament in 2013, he issued a series of presidential decrees that granted him unprecedented power to silence his critics.
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Moroccan police have broken up most of the previous teacher trainee demonstrations across the kingdom, but protesters say they will keep on fighting to cancel government decrees.
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Officialdom decrees, for example, that shampoo, wallpaper and fizzy water are luxuries to be taxed at 28%; eyeliner, curry paste and plain water will attract an 18% levy.
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Under his May 2012 decrees, Putin ordered that large parts of state spending on healthcare, education and utilities be transferred to regions, to keep the federal budget healthy.
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He spoke this month of creating more government jobs, new welfare for the poor and young, and opposing rule by executive decrees (which he routinely used in office).
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Under Barack Obama the Justice Department was keen on decrees, but Donald Trump's administration has frozen them, saying state or local authorities, not federal ones, should take charge.
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The department announced in August it was reviewing some 1,300 such decrees affecting a range of industries, which have no expiration date, with an eye toward cancelling them.
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And by keeping us in the abortion umpiring business, it is the perpetuation of that disruption, rather than of any pax Roeana, that the Court's new majority decrees.
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Italy's government is working on two decrees, one two revoke Austostrade's motorway concession and another to task Fincantieri with the rebuilding of the Genoa bridge, La Stampa said.
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He has said he intends to use executive decrees as soon as this summer to reform labor laws in a country where unemployment remains high at 9.6 percent.
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Other departments that went through collaborative reform or consent decrees saw similar drops, 27 percent on average in the first year, growing to 35 percent in subsequent years.
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Turkey will set up a commission to investigate potential complaints over emergency rule dismissals and the closure of media outlets and other associations, one of the decrees said.
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Turkey imposed the state of emergency, which limits some freedoms and allows the government to rule by decrees bypassing parliament, after a failed military coup in July 2016.
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In a series of royal decrees issued overnight, the King, 81, removed his nephew Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince and installed Mohammed Bin Salman in his place.
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ProPublica reports the DOJ is moving away from seeking settlements with consent decrees, which create court oversight for steps that must be taken to address civil rights abuses.
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Perhaps this is not so surprising given that Brazil's official arms policy is still largely based on decrees from the military dictatorship era of the 1960s and '70s.
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There have been 763 decrees under Act 22 and 528 under Act 20, but those numbers should climb to 4,1.73 and 3,500 respectively by 2024, the study estimates.
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According to the decrees, the president's permission will be required for the head of the MIT national intelligence agency to be investigated or to act as a witness.
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The Erdogan executive presidency means no prime minister, and Erdogan could now legally issue decrees unencumbered and have more authority over the supposedly independent judiciary and civil service .
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Details will be published with the decrees, but outlines so far indicate the reform would in particular shift collective bargaining to the company level and simplify staff representation.
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The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday that it would ask a court to scrap decades-old 'Paramount' consent decrees enacted to protect movie theaters from powerful studios.
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But some smaller chains and owners of single-screen art houses are concerned about heavy-handed business tactics that could come back with the loss of the decrees.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's new government on Wednesday passed two decrees concerning oil and gas exploration blocks, meaning a tender process for offshore reserves, stalled since 2013, can begin.
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During the Obama years, consent decrees were used to address problems such as racial discrimination and excessive force at big-city police departments, including in Baltimore and Chicago.
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It has also ordered reviews of existing consent decrees — which are a tougher, more punitive alternative to the collaborative reform initiative — negotiated under President Barack Obama's Justice Department.
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Antitrust consent decrees are usually approved without much fanfare but Leon has said that he was "less convinced" than the government that the agreement would resolve antitrust concerns.
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Mr. Putin has formalized in presidential decrees, most recently in 2018, a promise to raise incomes — measured by the very statistic that will no longer be published monthly.
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And then, of course, there's Sessions, who's directed his agency to put on hold any attempts to subject police departments to federal consent decrees for civil rights violations.
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Isabel dos Santos, above center, Africa's richest woman and the daughter of Angola's former president, often took cuts of her country's wealth through decrees signed by her father.
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Turkey issued presidential decrees on Sunday reshaping key political, military and bureaucratic institutions as part of the transformation to a powerful executive presidency triggered by last month's election.
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The royal decrees announced the creation of the State Security Directorate, which will assume some of the duties of the Interior Ministry, including efforts to combat domestic terrorism.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — King Salman of Saudi Arabia rescinded salary cuts for ministers and restored financial perks for public sector workers in a series of royal decrees late Saturday.
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The legal system has been augmented, during the eighty-three years since the kingdom was founded, by royal decrees, many of which overlap, or even contradict one another.
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In appearing to categorically oppose consent decrees and signaling a lack of interest in broad new investigations, Sessions appears to be going further than even police groups do.
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Sessions made clear his disapproval of consent decrees — legal agreements between the Justice Department and local governments that can be used to bind police departments to adopt reforms.
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In the meantime, civil rights groups will need to be vigilant in ensuring that the new administration enforces consent decrees that have already been filed in the courts.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. District Court judge on Wednesday said Illinois has failed to comply with federal consent decrees by minimally funding Medicaid during the state's budget impasse.
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Judge Joan Lefkow ordered renewed negotiations between Illinois and health care advocates for the poor, setting a June 20 deadline to be in "substantial compliance" with the decrees.
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It allows the president to issue decrees and declare states of emergency, and to appoint ministers, senior government officials and half the members of Turkey's highest judicial body.
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Sessions has made it clear in the past that he is no fan of consent decrees, which the DOJ has entered into with several other local police forces.
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Under Obama, 21996 law enforcement agencies, including in Seattle; Ferguson, Missouri; and Cleveland, have been forced to comply with changes recommended by the Justice Department through consent decrees.
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The FTC said it could not comment on any probe, but it hinted that past precedence, involving Google, indicating that violations of consent decrees are taken seriously and investigated.
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Three presidential decrees, published in the country's Official Gazette, set out the structure of the new presidential system and the regulations governing the appointment of officials by the president.
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The office of prime minister will be abolished and Erdogan will be able to issue decrees to form and regulate ministries and remove civil servants, all without parliamentary approval.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's top religious authority urged citizens to support government austerity measures, saying recent decrees were temporary moves necessitated by public interest, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Parliament, where Macron's Republic on the Move party has a commanding majority, has already voted to allow the government to issue the decrees without a vote in the assembly.
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Even if Mr Erdogan wins re-election, an opposition-controlled chamber will be able to speak out against his abuses, block his decrees and perhaps reverse his constitutional changes.
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The plaintiffs are from cases dating back to 1992 and that resulted in federal consent decrees requiring the state to continue to make Medicaid payments despite its budget problems.
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Ma Yansong, the founder of MAD architects, who designed the building, managed to meet the vague decrees of the authorities while keeping the sculptural sensibility of the mountain-towers.
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Law enforcement agencies under "consent decrees," a set of recommended reforms created in concert with the Justice Department, tend to see a drop in police shootings, VICE News found.
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"It is just as constitutional as the president attending a government meeting for us to issue emergency decrees in all areas that the law allows us to," he said.
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DeVos has previously said she is "not going to be issuing any decrees" regarding civil rights violations, particularly those she thinks should be left to the courts or Congress.
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"All orders, judgments, conditions of probation and/or other decrees entered or imposed by this court are void and must be immediately rescinded," the motion released on Wednesday states.
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In these detention centers, journalists, activists and civilians deemed in violation of ISIS decrees were subjected to unlawful deprivation of liberty, torture and ill treatment, according to the commission.
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The top economic adviser to Chinese President Xi Jinping argued that China could accomplish the policy changes through decrees issued by its State Council, or cabinet, the sources said.
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Since it doesn't have a budget, Illinois operates in part under a system of state and federal court-ordered consent decrees that take spending discretion away from the state.
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Measures in Wednesday's decrees will also enable former air force pilots to return to duty, making up for a deficit after the dismissal of military pilots in the purge.
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Chester also added that it's likely EPA's numbers dropped, and will drop further, as a result of the budget decrees, early retirements and job freezes happening at the agency.
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In their view, offering entire works is the only way to have a fair marketplace and prevent the monopoly power that consent decrees were put in place to block.
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Any relaxation of the consent decrees would raise costs on any business that licenses music – from radio stations to retail stores to gyms to restaurants, and everyone in between.
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Former political prisoners, people accused of being Communists in 1965 and their descendants face discrimination even today under old presidential decrees that blacklist them as enemies of the state.
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Thousands of Saudi women took to social media to celebrate royal decrees on Friday that allow women above 21 to travel without permission as of the end of August.
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The Obama DOJ began 23 investigations and entered 11 consent decrees mandating reforms in Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, and other cities, far more than presidents Clinton or George W. Bush.
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Top officials in the DOJ civil rights division have issued verbal instructions through the ranks to seek settlements without consent decrees — which would result in no continuing court oversight.
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This wasn't unusual: The Obama administration routinely opened investigations into police departments, looking closely at 25 of them between 2009 and 2016, and entering into consent decrees with 14.
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It is frustrating, and as a result of that, oftentimes consent decrees, however well-meaning, end up exacerbating problems between the police and the community rather than improving them.
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Among the changes in the decrees published Thursday is license for employers to directly negotiate with their workers over certain workplace issues rather than having to follow industrywide agreements.
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Parliament has to ratify the provisions in the decrees in the coming months for them to become law, but at this stage that is not expected to be difficult.
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Many parishioners complained that the decrees were posted the Friday before the Fourth of July, increasing the likelihood of missing the 153-day window the Vatican gives for appeals.
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Outlining a reform of unemployment insurance rights, Penicaud also said the government would not use executive decrees to bypass parliament, a move which should help defuse tensions with unions.
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Mr. Sessions has argued that consent decrees, like the one being negotiated in Baltimore, make officers less likely to do the kind of community policing that would reduce crime.
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Mr. Sessions has called for a sweeping review of such consent decrees, and the Justice Department unsuccessfully sought to delay Baltimore's implementation of its agreement to overhaul policing practices.
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The decrees, released through state news media, are a new step in the Saudi leadership's efforts to adjust the kingdom's finances, which have been undermined by low oil prices.
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The broad review announced Monday could threaten some of those decrees if the Justice Department seeks to change its past stance about systematic police abuses in the affected agencies.
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The attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has expressed skepticism about consent decrees between the Justice Department and local police agencies found to have engaged in a pattern of discriminatory practices.
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In this America, "refusal to comply" with authority -- resistance in the face of oppressive and capricious establishment decrees -- is a corporal offense and, all too often, a capital one.
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If everyone has the right to determine that they will live only by laws and decrees they deem appropriate and just, then no-one has any rights at all.
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His new powers include the ability to issue decrees which carry the force of law, to appoint top judges and officials, and give him complete control of the Cabinet.
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During his little more than a year in office, Morsi issued decrees that dramatically consolidated his power, eventually triggering protests and later a military coup that sparked his downfall.
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These are the decrees of the new England manager, and he's not going to put up with short passing, or tiki-taka, or any of that bloody southern nonsense anymore.
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Sharpton asked her, as he has all of the candidates who spoke to the convention, about whether she'd support consent decrees between the Justice Department and local law enforcement entities.
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Provisional decrees are effective immediately after being signed by the president but need to be confirmed by both houses of Congress within 120 days to be turned into permanent law.
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Since becoming president, Bolsonaro has issued eight separate decrees that seek to change gun laws without requiring Congress to change the law, although several of these are facing legal challenges.
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The dismissals, announced in two decrees, bring to more than 212,20.7 the number of people sacked or suspended in the military, civil service, judiciary and elsewhere since July's coup attempt.
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CHICAGO, June 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. District Court judge on Wednesday said Illinois has failed to comply with federal consent decrees by minimally funding Medicaid during the state's budget impasse.
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Saturday's decrees broke up the Water and Electricity Ministry, with the water portfolio added to a new Environment, Water and Agriculture Ministry, and electricity added to the new energy ministry.
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"You are more concerned with consent decrees, settlements, pandering to police-hating groups than negotiating a contract with us," Patrick Murray, union vice president, said, according to the newspaper report.
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"You are more concerned with consent decrees, settlements, pandering to police-hating groups than negotiating a contract with us," said Patrick Murray, union vice president, according to the newspaper report.
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Emergency rule declared after the coup attempt enables the government to bypass parliament in enacting new laws through decrees and to limit or suspend rights and freedoms when deemed necessary.
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Other decrees issued at the same time appointed one of Salman's sons, Prince Khaled bin Salman, ambassador in Washington and another, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, state minister for energy affairs.
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In a series of decrees King Salman removed his nephew Mohammed bin Nayef, 57, as crown prince and installed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman in his place.
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One of the presidential decrees signed by Temer cuts diesel prices by 46 centavos per liter, or about 12 percent of its retail price, for a period of 60 days.
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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said she will fire Justice Minister Tudorel Toader unless he resigns first, potentially making way for a replacement who would push the decrees through.
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If I ever became a president or prime minister anywhere, one of the few decrees I might pass is to stop people from trying to read Moby Dick too early.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) argued that the two decrees that impose checks on the major music collectives must remain in place to ensure that collusion and malfeasance do not occur.
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Nowhere in his decrees did Johnson, an inveterate racist, make any provision for the millions of newly freed black men and women in the South, and the results were predictable.
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As DoJ wraps up its two year - long review of the consent decrees, the major publishers are making a new request that would turn music licensing completely on its head.
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During a four-hour long testimony this week before the House Financial Services committee, Sloan revealed that the bank was operating under 14 separate consent decrees with his regulators. Sen.
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The other amendments, giving the president authority to draft the budget, declare a state of emergency and issue decrees, will not take effect until after elections scheduled for November 2019.
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These consent decrees exist because the DOJ and the Supreme Court have recognized that, in the music industry, these normally illegal practices also create tremendous value for all parties involved.
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Within a month of the meeting, Mr. Sessions ordered a comprehensive review of federal policing programs, a decision that resulted in the rollback of both collaborative reform and consent decrees.
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Since then, a series of government decrees have ramped up measures to try to contain the outbreak, including the nationwide closure of schools, bars, restaurants, sporting events and public gatherings.
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This latest outcry comes six months after the French Parliament published two new decrees aimed at protecting the health of models, preventing anorexia and promoting transparency around digitally retouched photographs.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey issued presidential decrees on Sunday reshaping key political, military and bureaucratic institutions as part of the transformation to a powerful executive presidency triggered by last month's election.
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In total, the country's Official Gazette published seven decrees affecting many state institutions, including the secretariat of the National Security Council, the Defence Industry Directorate and the State Supervisory Council.
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This is the sort of problem that Congress sought to address in 1994 when it authorized the Justice Department to overhaul troubled local police agencies under court-monitored consent decrees.
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There is little doubt that Staten Island, New York City's most conservative borough, is Trump country, and what the president decrees can trickle down to kitchen tables and backyard barbecues.
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Mr. Sessions has also made clear he is not interested in using consent decrees to impose reforms on troubled police departments and has initiated a sweeping review of existing agreements.
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"The decrees have helped mitigate anti-competitive behavior, while also ensuring songwriters and creators get paid when their music is played in the millions of American venues," the coalition said.
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Under the new system, the president would have the power to issue decrees, appoint a vast array of top officials and set the national budget, all with limited legal oversight.
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Under the proposed measure, the president would appoint 12 of the 15 judges on the constitutional court, the body with the ultimate authority to scrutinize the legality of his decrees.
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In a series of royal decrees, King Salman, the Saudi monarch, announced the creation of a new body to handle domestic security and counterterrorism issues and chose the officer, Gen.
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That is why his government has stopped issuing consent decrees (an Obama-era policy where the federal government monitors police departments accused of brutality; Baltimore has had one since 2017).
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The group contends that the images show violations of the federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, which decrees that animals must be "rendered insensible to pain" before they are slaughtered.
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The gimmicks were the furrowed brow and the underbite and the decrees of stewardship, the grandiose dressing up of a prolonged exit as a final inspection of the sport's soundness.
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The package of 18 amendments passed in the referendum gives the president the authority to draft the budget, declare a state of emergency and issue decrees overseeing ministries without parliamentary approval.
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Documentation, however, only goes back to the 16th century, Joudeh said, displaying dozens of "Fermans", or royal decrees by rulers of the Ottoman empire, bestowing the key custodianship upon his family.
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Interest rates and maturities of loans remain fixed by the Tunisian government through annual decrees, after taking into account CPSCL's proposals based on the entity's credit risk and own refinancing conditions.
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BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Brazil's government will issue two provisional decrees to raise taxes on closed investment funds and postpone salary hikes for public servants, the Planning Ministry said on Monday.
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The fantastical world of "The Explosion Chronicles", in which official decrees make flowers bloom out of season and skyscrapers rise overnight, follows the principles of what Mr Yan's afterword calls "mythorealism".
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Police forces in cities including Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle have been put under consent decrees, which try to end systemic police abuse and make officers more accountable to the public.
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The chief way it did this was by using "consent decrees"—binding agreements, brokered by a court, meant to force rogue local law enforcement agencies to undergo a series of reforms.
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A letter from Freeport CEO Richard Adkerson to the environment ministry, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, said the decrees imposed "undue and unachievable restrictions" on Freeport's basic operations.
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Macron passed a whirlwind of reforms in his first 12 months, including a major labor code reform which was rammed through parliament via special government decrees, prompting complaints from trade unions.
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Fate of consent decrees uncertain The apparent demise of Chicago's consent decree could signal how the Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions will handle accusations of police abuse or misconduct.
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But there's a perception out there, based on the things Sessions is saying about consent decrees and cops, that the DOJ is just going to let police completely off the hook.
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The Official Gazette said Zulfukar Sukru Kanberoglu of the TMSF fund was one of 367 people dismissed from state institutions under the latest four decrees, which also reinstated 124 civil servants.
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Yavuz also said the AKP would file a new appeal to the YSK to block individuals dismissed through government decrees after a July 2016 coup attempt from being able to vote.
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It has already adopted decrees offering amnesty to military personnel who support a return to democracy, and it has begun considering how to restructure CITGO, a key U.S.-based oil asset.
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The labour reform is due to become law in coming days after Macron formally signed five labour decrees on Friday, the first major economic reforms since he took office in May.
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Ascap and its rival, BMI, are both asking the Justice Department to make changes to their consent decrees, which the organizations both say need to be updated for the digital age.
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Seven states have passed decrees that are "without the force of law" expressing their intent to limit abortion to the greatest extent permitted by federal law if Roe falls, Nash said.
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This week, Pai also pledged to brief commissioners on proposals before they go public, release one-page fact sheets of proposals and require consent decrees to be approved by the commission.
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Most agencies have "backdoor regulations" — in the form of guidance documents, consent decrees, transaction agreementsand ad-hoc customary law — that are visible only to the agency, established industries and D.C. insiders.
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And despite no change in market concentration and a continued history of anticompetitive behavior, ASCAP, BMI, and their major publishers are lobbying DoJ to ease the protections in the consent decrees.
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The scandal brought more heat on the agency, with critics saying regulators had been lax in enforcing a series of consent decrees with tech companies, including Facebook, over their data policies.
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In contrast to large media coverage of the lifting of the ban on driving, neither state TV nor the news agency announced Friday's decrees, which were published in the official gazette.
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As the Federalist Papers observed, the Supreme Court is the "least dangerous branch" of our government because it has neither the purse nor the sword with which to enforce its decrees.
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The rest led to settlements or consent decrees in which the departments agreed to change how they did business: how officers used force, how citizen complaints were handled and so on.
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Without consent decrees, many localities or government departments would simply never make such comprehensive changes, said William Yeomans, who spent 26 years at the DOJ, mostly in the civil rights division.
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On March 31, Sessions ordered a sweeping review of all consent decrees with troubled police departments nationwide to ensure they were in line with the Trump administration's law-and-order goals.
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It remains unclear to what extent top-down decrees and dramatic announcements will spur meaningful change in a society long characterized by deep religious conservatism and heavy dependence on the state.
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"Such decrees are particularly offensive when certain governmental agencies secretly delight in being sued because they hope a settlement will be reached resulting in the agency receiving more money," he wrote.
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David Chizewer, an attorney for Medicaid recipients, said by accepting federal Medicaid dollars Illinois must comply with the consent decrees that stem from lawsuits filed in 1992 and with federal law.
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It would enable the president to issue decrees, declare emergency rule, appoint ministers and top state officials, and could see Erdogan remain in power in the NATO member state until 2029.
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For more than seven decades, the two collectives have operated under antitrust consent decrees, which have allowed ASCAP and BMI to maintain their monopolies in exchange for anticompetitive protections for consumers.
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The evidence clearly suggested continued anticompetitive activity in this marketplace, and relaxing the consent decrees would have only increased the collusion and price manipulation by ASCAP, BMI and the largest publishers.
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If opposition parties win control of Parliament, they could override the president's decrees with their own legislation, while also asserting greater control over judicial appointments, supporters of the new Constitution contend.
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While the number itself isn't much of a departure from the Bush administration, according to an analysis by Frontline, what's different is the number of investigations that led to consent decrees.
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You know, I have - one of the things I've been both criticized and, I think, praised for is that I don't believe these behavioral consent decrees as a solution to these mergers.
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"We are continuing with the fight against the labor law decrees," Fabrice Angei, a senior CGT unionist, told reporters after a two-hour long meeting with the CFDT, FO and other unions.
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The hope was that it would clarify rights that currently exist in a patchwork of decrees—and are often disregarded by local bureaucrats—creating a firm legal footing from which to advance.
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Unable to pass laws, Mr Obama turned to executive decrees and regulations much more frequently, notes one old acquaintance, than he would have countenanced in his days as a constitutional-law professor.
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The decrees ordered the dismissal of 2,153 police officers, 1,699 officials from the justice ministry, 838 from the health ministry, more than 630 academics and 135 officials from the religious affairs directorate.
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All have expressed concern about the drafts, as well as a lack of transparency and the intention to legislate through decrees instead of going through parliament, despite having a strong majority there.
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In response to questions about Ferguson's comments, Emanuel told reporters on Wednesday that the Justice Department has "walked away" from doing consent decrees, and so the city has sought a different strategy.
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As now written, it allows violators to be fined up to 1,000 euros ($1,170.) Although some Italian decrees technically require displaying the cross in public schools, not all schools abide by them.
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Abbas's increasingly strict rule — he has removed several opponents from their posts, issued decrees and rarely speaks to the media — has drawn criticism from within his party and from members of parliament.
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Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was careful to flag negotiations with unions, in contrast with the first raft of reforms, which Macron rammed through parliament via decrees, infuriating even the most reformist unions.
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It adopted four decrees in September 2015 that redefined the external limits of its continental shelf (the seabed and the soil under the seabed that can be included in a country's landmass).
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Current DOJ officials couldn't undo already existing decrees without going back to court, but not seeking them in future cases will mean less legal oversight ensuring civil rights reforms actually take place.
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Wednesday's decrees, published in the Official Gazette, also ordered the dismissal of 2,360 more police officers, more than 22013 military personnel and 215 staff at Turkey's information and communication technology authority, BTK.
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Temer proposed the policies raising royalties, overhauling regulations and creating a new government agency in three separate decrees in July as part of a market-friendly agenda aimed at attracting foreign investment.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that the Justice Department is rethinking its approach to the federal agreements, known as consent decrees, that have been reached with dozens of law enforcement agencies.
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In a series of royal decrees, the new king restructured the government and shook up the order of succession in the royal family in ways that invested tremendous power in his son.
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Iohannis, a strong critic of the Social Democrat-led coalition, wants Romanians to vote in the May 26 referendum against government plans to potentially weaken anti-corruption legislation further via emergency decrees.
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Though critics say the DOJ sometimes does not enforce consent decrees well enough, they are more powerful than settlements that aren't overseen by a judge and have no built-in enforcement mechanism.
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President Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in on Monday under the new system and now holds sweeping powers, allowing him to issue decrees on executive matters and appoint and remove senior civil servants.
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While Mr. Chávez was not wrong to see his country's political and business establishments as riven with cronyism and graft, he took them on with presidential decrees that consolidated power for himself.
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"The council of governors has responded to these movements by adjusting its decrees with a purpose of ensuring the necessary accommodation line of its monetary policy also in worsened conditions," Vasle said.
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DUBLIN, Ohio — Republicans everywhere are confronting an ominous political environment, a Democratic opposition rippling with energy and a president on their own side who is prone to divisive outbursts and policy decrees.
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Most were resolved through consent decrees, including Comcast's 2009 bid for NBCUniversal, which went forward after Comcast and the government agreed to a long list of restrictions on the combined company's behavior.
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The automobile industry has been particularly hard-hit by the global coronavirus outbreak, with operations in major industrial regions such as northern Italy and central China shutting down completely under government decrees.
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In a radio interview last year, Mr. Sessions said that consent decrees "reduce morale" among police officers and lead to increases in violent crime, statements that were contested by academics and researchers.
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"Omar has a multitude of negative tweets on topics such as austerity and the royal decrees," the author, who McKinsey says is a researcher based in Saudi Arabia, wrote in bullet points.
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The prime minister and justice minister have said the decrees were needed to get the criminal code in line with recent constitutional court rulings and ease the burden of Romania's overcrowded prisons.
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Mr. Putin signed decrees on Monday outlining his goals, such as reducing poverty and, by the end of his six-year term, raising Russian life expectancy to 78 years, from 72 now.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a sweeping review of federal agreements with dozens of law enforcement agencies, a move that could lead to a retreat on consent decrees with troubled police departments.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday that it would ask a court to scrap decades-old 'Paramount' consent decrees enacted to protect movie theaters from powerful studios.
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At issue were antitrust consent decrees between the DOJ and the two largest collectives for the music industry, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).
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The official gazette will publish 20 legal norms bundled into several decrees, as well as 14 complementary resolutions, Granma said, breaking down the details that emerged in a briefing with government officials.
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However, Delrahim delivered a speech in November to the ABA illustrating his thinking on behavioral consent decrees like those in Comcast/NBCUniversal, just four days before filing the complaint against AT&T.
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Should state and federal officials conclude that major tech companies are violating antitrust laws, they could levy heavy fines and put the companies under consent decrees meant to prevent future bad behavior.
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In the context of law enforcement, consent decrees can arise as a result of "pattern or practice" DOJ investigations, which probe allegations of systemic issues like poor jail conditions or racial profiling.
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Put another way, you're not being diluted because a VC decrees it; you're being diluted because you spent money building features that your customers didn't want, instead of the ones that they need.
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More recently, he ordered the DOJ to review agreements with local police departments, known as consent decrees, which required police to reform their practices after being investigated by the agency's Civil Rights Division.
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After 15 years at Turkey&aposs helm — first as prime minister and then president — Erdogan will now be able to institute changes through presidential decrees, and appoint vice presidents, ministers and top bureaucrats.
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Unfortunately, even though these policies have been announced and even enacted by Putin in his famous "May Decrees" (signed on his first day in office), almost none of these reforms have taken place.
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An investment law enacted in October builds on the generals' market reforms and, unlike their decrees, which were often imposed out of the blue, it was the subject of an extensive public consultation.
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I assume the king thought about his royal decrees prior to "Dragonstone's" meeting of lords and ladies — it's not like he showed up to riff off the cuff like other real-life leaders.
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The unreasoned decrees carry the feel of messages from the Delphic oracle, announcing truth without elaboration, but they have quite tangible effects on who is allowed into the country and who is not.
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Blame a 1920 law known as the Jones Act, which decrees that trade between domestic ports be carried by American-flagged and -built ships, at least 75% owned and crewed by American citizens.
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The future of similar agreements with 212 US cities -- including Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland and Baltimore -- was thrown into question this month when Attorney General Jeff Sessions placed all pending consent decrees under review.
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The judge had ordered negotiations aimed at getting Illinois to "substantial" compliance with the decrees, noting the state has managed to make its monthly bond and pension payments on time and in full.
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Trump ran on an explicitly pro-cop platform, and has been installing tough-on-crime zealots like Sessions—who doesn't like consent decrees, by the way—in the top levels of his administration.
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"Aside from presidential decrees, there will be a need to make several legal changes, implement new regulations or even constitutional changes until the new system is fully functional," Erdogan told lawmakers in parliament.
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In two days of meetings, Liu tried to persuade U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer that China could accomplish the policy changes through decrees issued by its State Council, or cabinet, the sources said.
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The reform was one of a series of measures outlined on Wednesday in two decrees under a state of emergency declared after the July 1113 failed putsch during which 240 people were killed.
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Consent decrees involving police departments are court-enforced settlements aimed at reforming departments where Justice Department civil rights investigations found evidence of a "pattern or practice" of biased policing on a wide scale.
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Turkey has been under emergency rule — which restricts some personal freedoms and allows the government to bypass parliament with emergency decrees — for nearly two years following an abortive military coup in July 2016.
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Since Ascap and BMI are collectives that sell music rights at set prices, they have long been under antitrust scrutiny, and since 1941 they have been bound by regulatory agreements called consent decrees.
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Under Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the DOJ entered into 11 consent decrees with police departments, some of them following high-profile shootings that helped catalyze the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Baltimore police commissioner Kevin Davis also noted that other cities have had much longer timetables to negotiate their consent decrees, and suggested Baltimore's agreement is shaping up to be among the most ambitious.
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The Department of Justice has shown no interest in continuing to seek consent decrees or court orders requiring police departments that have been found to have violated civil rights to reform their practices.
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After the family were labeled Nazi sympathizers, the castle was taken over by then-Czechoslovakia and remains in state hands under decrees from 1946 that expelled ethnic Germans and others and confiscated property.
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In November 2012, as part of a battle with the judiciary to push through a referendum on a new constitution, Mr. Morsi declared his own decrees above judicial review until it had passed.
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At that point, for those with divorce decrees and separation agreements entered into — or substantially changed — after 2018, the payments would no longer be deductible and the money received would not be taxable.
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Check out this chart: The fines come from consent decrees, a type of legal settlement where a party has to take a specific action but does not have to admit fault or liability.
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We know that she held a special position, unlike that of any other woman, because she issued royal decrees and coins were minted bearing her name, something done for sovereigns, not their wives.
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