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Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
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Government Report: Separated Kids Traumatized
Coleen Long, Martha Mendoza, Garance Burke, Associated Press, Sept. 4, 2019 "Children separated during the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy” last year, many already distressed in their home countries or by their journey...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Immigration Law Blog
DHS OIG Faults ICE Detention Facility Inspections
DHS OIG, June 26, 2018 - "ICE uses two inspection types to examine detention conditions in more than 200 detention facilities. ICE contracts with a private company and also relies on its Office of Detention Oversight for inspections. ICE also uses...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Immigration Law Blog
CBP May Have Violated Court Orders While Enforcing Travel Ban
Alan Gomez, USA Today, Jan. 19, 2018 - "Customs and Border Protection agents were "caught by surprise" by President Trump's original travel ban against majority-Muslim nations and may have violated two separate court orders while implementing...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Immigration Law Blog
DHS Inspector General Accuses Own Agency of Bottling-Up Travel Ban Report
Josh Gerstein, Ted Hesson, Seung Min Kim, Politico, Nov. 20, 2017 - "The Department of Homeland Security's official watchdog is accusing his own agency of slow-walking the public release of a report about confusion that ensued earlier this year...
Babst Calland
over 7 years ago
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Fracking and Alternative Energy Blog
EPA Inspector General Reports on Hydraulic Fracturing Regulators
By Michael K. Reer The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report entitled, “ Enhanced EPA Oversight and Action Can Further Protect Water Resources From the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic...
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
over 11 years ago
Environmental
Public Health and Safety
EPA lacks authority to regulate nanomaterials, states EPA IG, even if regulations are soon issued under FIFRA and TSCA
Prior posts have noted the wide use of nanomaterials in consumer goods, and the threat to human health that particles of such size may pose. An example of the risk posed by nanomaterials is sunscreen. Dermal penetration of some nanomaterials into the...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Exchange Visitor Visa Programs Criticized in OIG Report
"State Department programs that bring foreign exchange students to the United States to work or attend school require urgent attention because students are being put at risk for abuse, according to a report from the federal Inspector General’s...
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
over 11 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law Blog
EPA lacks authority to regulate nanomaterials, states EPA IG, even if regulations are soon issued under FIFRA and TSCA
Prior posts have noted the wide use of nanomaterials in consumer goods, and the threat to human health that particles of such size may pose. An example of the risk posed by nanomaterials is sunscreen. Dermal penetration of some nanomaterials into the...
LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff
over 11 years ago
Energy
Oil, Gas and Energy Law Blog
AP Impact: Gulf Oil Industry-Government Ties Persist
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) Ties between offshore oil and gas companies and the agency that regulates them persist, nearly a year after the Obama administration announced an overhaul of ethics rules to deter such cozy relationships, documents obtained by...
Thomas O. Gorman
over 12 years ago
Securities
Securities Law Blog
Issues of Political Timing and PR: The SEC’s IG Reports on Goldman
The SEC's Inspector General found that there is no evidence the filing and settlement of the enforcement action against Goldman Sachs ( here ) was politically timed or that there were leaks to the media. The Report , made available yesterday,...
Thomas O. Gorman
over 11 years ago
Securities
Securities Law Blog
The SEC IG Report; Insider Trading
The IG Report The SEC inspector general issued a report on Tuesday referring the matter regarding former SEC General Counsel David Becker's involvement with the Madoff clawback suits to the DOJ. The report also contains a number of recommendations...