Justice Department Retention of Private Legal Counsel to Represent Federal Employees in Civil Lawsuits: Staff Report to the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate |
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... effect-- DEPARTMENT MEMORANDA ON WHICH ATTORNEY GENERAL'S ORDER 683-77 ( JANUARY 19 , 1977 ) Is BASED Exhibit 3 : Memorandum of Antonin Scalia , Assistant Attorney General- Office of Legal Counsel , March 4 , 1976 , regarding ...
... effect-- DEPARTMENT MEMORANDA ON WHICH ATTORNEY GENERAL'S ORDER 683-77 ( JANUARY 19 , 1977 ) Is BASED Exhibit 3 : Memorandum of Antonin Scalia , Assistant Attorney General- Office of Legal Counsel , March 4 , 1976 , regarding ...
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... effect on that date . By letter of June 11 , 1977 , ( exhibit 23 ) the Department was given interim authority by the Judiciary Committee to retain new private legal counsel pending completion of this review on the condition that the ...
... effect on that date . By letter of June 11 , 1977 , ( exhibit 23 ) the Department was given interim authority by the Judiciary Committee to retain new private legal counsel pending completion of this review on the condition that the ...
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... effect . This revision makes it clear that the ethical obligation of private counsel retained at the Department expense runs solely to the Federal employee . All re- tention letters to private counsel make this responsibility explicit ...
... effect . This revision makes it clear that the ethical obligation of private counsel retained at the Department expense runs solely to the Federal employee . All re- tention letters to private counsel make this responsibility explicit ...
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... effect of dis- couraging vigorous investigation of these Federal employees by the Department ; ( 4 ) retaining private legal counsel is prohibitively ex- pensive . Each of these criticisms will be evaluated in turn . A. ABSENCE OF ...
... effect of dis- couraging vigorous investigation of these Federal employees by the Department ; ( 4 ) retaining private legal counsel is prohibitively ex- pensive . Each of these criticisms will be evaluated in turn . A. ABSENCE OF ...
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... effect on the public interest to preclude the Depart- ment or retained private counsel from raising absolute or qualified good faith defenses on behalf of Federal employees . 2. ARGUMENTS REGARDING LEGALITY OF CONDUCT OF FEDERAL ...
... effect on the public interest to preclude the Depart- ment or retained private counsel from raising absolute or qualified good faith defenses on behalf of Federal employees . 2. ARGUMENTS REGARDING LEGALITY OF CONDUCT OF FEDERAL ...
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Page 859 - Any claim based upon an act or omission of an employee of the Government, exercising due care, in the execution of a statute or regulation, whether or not such statute or regulation be valid, or based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.
Page 802 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 654 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 437 - States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all. suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments, and shall receive such compensation for his services as shall by law be...
Page 602 - The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury.
Page 612 - Some play must be allowed for the joints of the machine, and it must be remembered that legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts" (Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry.
Page 44 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made, and for no others.
Page 866 - Any claim arising in respect of the assessment or collection of any tax or customs duty, or the detention of any goods or merchandise by any officer of customs or excise or any other law-enforcement officer.
Page 114 - ... dampen the ardor of all but the most resolute, or the most irresponsible, in the unflinching discharge of their duties.
Page 750 - USC 605) shall limit the constitutional power of the President to take such measures as he deems necessary to protect the Nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of a foreign power, to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States, or to protect national security information against foreign intelligence activities.