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The Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (Pub. L. 106–523 (text), 18 U.S.C. §§ 3261–3267) (MEJA) is a law intended to place military contractors under U.S. law. [1] [2] The law was used to prosecute former Marine Corps Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario, Jr. for the killing of unarmed Iraqi detainees, though he was ultimately acquitted.
On February 19, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill in Congress to create the Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870. [10] Grant appointed Amos T. Akerman as attorney general and Benjamin H. Bristow as America's first solicitor general the same week that Congress created the Department of ...
70.9% 61/86 9 6 3 13 31 Associate Justice: Sandra Day O'Connor: Ronald Reagan: September 25, 1981 90.5% 76/84 9 3 1 4 17 Associate Justice: Antonin Scalia: Ronald Reagan: September 26, 1986 79.1% 68/86 8 10 1 9 28 Associate Justice: Anthony Kennedy: Ronald Reagan: February 18, 1988 91.9% 79/86 9 5 0 1 15 Associate Justice: David Souter: George ...
The United States Department of Justice Civil Division represents the United States, its departments and agencies, members of Congress, ...
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the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 Section 102 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), as amended, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of national origin and citizenship status as well as document abuse and retaliation under the Immigration and ...
70 New York City housing employees charged in largest single-day bribery bust in DOJ history. ... The defendants typically demanded $500 to $2,000 depending on the size of the contracts, the U.S ...
The commissioners deadlocked with a 2–2 vote in 1993 and closed the investigation, but the Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Janet Reno, opened its own investigation later that year, resulting in a settlement on July 15, 1994, in which Microsoft consented not to tie other Microsoft products to the sale of Windows but remained free to ...