Civil Congress

• Civil Congress Tackles Health Care Repeal

House lawmakers, still shaken by the shooting of a colleague, will vote today to repeal the ever-divisive health care law in Washington, D.C. Congress spent last week honoring victims of the Jan. 8 rampage in Tucson, Ariz., where six people were killed and 13 others were wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• January 19, 2011

• Twenty-Eight Words: Enforcing Corporate Fiduciary Duties Through Criminal Prosecution of Honest Services Fraud

This article examines the federal government's growing use of 18 USC § 1346 to prosecute public company executives for breaching their fiduciary duties. Section 1346 is a controversial but under-examined statute making it a felony to engage in a scheme "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Although enacted by Congress over twenty years ago, the Supreme Court repeatedly declined to review the statute, until now. The questions before the Supreme Court are of particular interest to public company executives and their professional advisors. Traditionally, Delaware law has governed the content and enforcement of executives' legal duties, largely protecting public company fiduciaries from civil liability. Now, with the emergence of honest services fraud as a weapon ...

• Delaware Journal of Corporate Law
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, January 2010

• Lgbt, Immigration, Civil Rights and Faith Groups Praise Congress for United Effort to End Discrimination Against Lesbian & Gay Binational Families

WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A coalition of organizations and leaders from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), immigrants' rights, civil rights and faith communities issued the following statement today as members of Congress gathered on Capitol Hill to call for passage of immigration reform legislation that ends discrimination against LGBT binational families: Today, key Congressional leaders joined forces on Capitol Hill to call on their colleagues to support passage of the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) as part of any future immigration reform effort. Tens of thousands of LGBT binational families are counting on this critically important legislation in order to achieve the most basic equality: The freedom to be with their families, and the peopl...

• U.S. Newswire
• July 15, 2010

• Compliance procedures: Administrative fines; reporting requirements violations; civil money penalties; transmittal to Congress,

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• Congress Amends Civil False Claims Act

The amendments expand the scope of liability under the False Claims Act and give the government enhanced investigative powers. On May 20, 2009, Pre...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
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• William L. Patterson, as Liquidator of the Civil Rights Congress, and as Former National Secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, Petitioner, v. Subversive Activities Control Board, Respondent., 322 F.2d 395 (D.C. Cir. 1963)

Mr. Reuben Terris, New York City, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, argued the motion to dismis...

• Federal Circuits

• Some Members of Congress Move to Restore Civil Rights, America's Honor

McArthur discusses several actions in the US Congress that are designed to curb some of the more egregious violations of civil liberties undertaken by the Bush Administration. Among these is the Defense Authorization bill, which includes amendments to affirm that the US may not engage in torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment for the punishment of prisoners.

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 7, September 2004

• Robert Mann, When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954-1968.

Robert Mann, When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954-1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. 31...

• The Journal of African American History
• Vol. 94 Nbr. 1, January 2009

• Congress Amends Civil False Claims Act.

The amendments expand the scope of liability under the False Claims Act and give the government enhanced investigative powers. On May 20, 2009, Pres...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Congress passed a bill containing several anti-civil liberties provisions.

On April 14, Congress passed a bill containing several anti-civil liberties provisions. The legislation would reinstate a ban on Washington, DC, abort...

• The Humanist
• Vol. 71 Nbr. 3, May 2011