Ralph Boyd is Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights. According to whitehouse.gov: Most recently, Ralph Boyd was a partner with the law firm of Goodwin Proctor in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously, he was Assistant U.S. Attorney for...
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Ralph Boyd is Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights. According to whitehouse.gov: Most recently, Ralph Boyd was a partner with the law firm of Goodwin Proctor in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously, he was Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. While serving as a federal prosecutor, he received the U.S. Attorney General's Special Achievement Award for Meritorious Acts and Service on Behalf of the Department of Justice. He is a graduate of Haverford College and received his J.D. from Harvard University.
The Justice Department will roll back a set of rules that penalized companies if they insisted on paying employees’ legal fees or protecting their confidential communications with corporate lawyers.
The Justice Department announced that it was backing away from the practice of pressing companies to share secrets with prosecutors and not pay the legal fees of employees accused of crimes.
A civil rights figurehead visited Lynchburg for the second time in less than four years, and upward of 60 residents and city leaders gathered Saturday afternoon to hear his words.
Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Grace Chung Becker, U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Diane J. Humetewa, and Special Agent in Charge John E. Lewis of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Phoenix Division announced today that former Fort Mojave Tribal Police...
Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Grace Chung Becker, and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, Sheldon J. Sperling, announced today that Jarrod Anthony Yates, a former Sequoyah County, Okla., corrections officer, pleaded guilty to violating the civil...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) praised the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice for its successful prosecution of Christopher Szaz on federal civil rights charges for threatening employees of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and the Council on American Islamic...
Internal Justice Department report finds that department officials recruited and hired law school graduates with conservative credentials over more qualified candidates with potential liberal backgrounds; report, prepared jointly by office of Glenn A Fine, inspector general, and Office of...
Justice Department prosecutors are using a grand jury to investigate criminal accusations that grew out of the dismissals of nine United States attorneys, lawyers in the case said Monday.
The Justice Department is reviewing a 2002 decision by department officials to send a Canadian citizen to Syria, where he was tortured, American officials said Thursday.
A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges for threatening employees of two civil rights organizations because of their race and national origin. The Department of Justice said Wednesday that Christopher Szaz of Raleigh sent threatening e-mails to employees at the...
Walgreen has agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle allegations by the Department of Justice and four states -- Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan and Minnesota -- that the company improperly billed Medicaid, DOJ said in a statement on Monday, the Miami Herald reports (Miami Herald, 9/30).
WASHINGTON (AP) - A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges for threatening employees of two civil rights organizations because of their race and national origin. The Department of Justice said Wednesday that Christopher Szaz of Raleigh sent threatening e-mails to...