Tag: Justice Department
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Federal judge to government: Shutdown not an excuse for delaying noncitizen’s challenge to detention
A federal judge rejected the government’s request last week to extend the deadlines in an immigration-related case due to the lapse in congressional funding, reminding the U.S. Department of Justice that constitutional rights are at stake. “The Government is constitutionally obligated to provide due process to Petitioner,” wrote U.S. District Court Judge Gordon P. Gallagher…
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Justice Department works to protect elders from scammers
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Over the past year, The Justice Department ramped up efforts to protect older adults from fraud and return money to fraud victims, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado. Department investigators and law enforcement tracked 260 cases involving 600 defendants. The Department notified more than 500,000 eligible victims of…
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Federal judge considers ‘misleading’ prison explanation of Boston bomber’s restrictions
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Wednesday questioned a Federal Bureau of Prisons official about the accuracy of the bureau’s response to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man sentenced to death for killing four people in April 2013 in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing, and who is now challenging…