JURIST - Justice department (us)

On January 24, 2007, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested a Mississippi man for the 1964 deaths of two black men in a reopened civil rights-era case. Ex-KKK member James Ford Seale was originally arrested in 1964 on suspicion of kidnapping Henry Dee and Charles Moore, who were later found dea....... [more]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has defended the use of recess appointments by President Barack Obama. Obama used recess appointments to install Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and appoint three other individuals to the National Labor Relations Board. The R....... [more]

The FBI (FBI) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an official update of the federal government's definition of rape to include the violation of "any person" rather than the previous definition that only covered women. The previous definition had been unchanged for 85 years. The new defi....... [more]

On December 27, 2010, global telecommunications organization Alcatel-Lucent agreed to pay more than $137 million to resolve investigations into its sales practices by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The DOJ filed charges in the US District Cour....... [more]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) clarified its stance on online gambling in a memorandum opinion released Friday holding online non-sports related gambling that crosses state or international borders is not covered by the Wire Act of 1961. The opinion dealt with the online, out-of-state sale of lot....... [more]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday rejected a controversial South Carolina voter identification law. The DOJ has authority under the Voting Rights Act to screen new voter laws in states with a history of discriminatory voter practices. The South Carolina law, enacted to prevent voter fraud....... [more]

The New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday alleging the government violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in refusing to release legal memoranda related to targeted killings of terror suspects. The suit relates to the death of the US-born r....... [more]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Bank of America (BOA) has agreed to pay a record $335 million to settle claims that its subsidiary, Countrywide Financial, discriminated against Hispanic and African-American home buyers. According to the DOJ complaint, Countrywide engaged....... [more]

On December 20, 2007, the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence subpoenaed Jose Rodriguez, former head of the CIA's National Clandestine Service (NCS), over the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of two terror suspects in 2002. Several investigations had been previous....... [more]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday announced the findings of its three-year civil rights investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). The investigation concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that MCSO engages in a pattern or practice of violating the Constituti....... [more]

On December 12, 2006, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an appeal against a November 2006 ruling that "the Treasury Department's failure to design and issue paper currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired individuals violates section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act....... [more]