defendant

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The bill says a plaintiff “shall receive statutory damages in an amount of $6,250 per incident in any action in which the plaintiff establishes that the defendant falsely impersonated a union representative.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The Justice Department charged six new defendants in schemes to defraud Minnesota’s Medicaid program.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It makes it harder for me to convict dangerous felons when … witnesses are getting deported, victims are getting deported, and the defendant or the perpetrator themselves are getting deported,” she said.

From Salon

“What else could defendants’ decisions to cut funding to specific counterterrorism programming by conspicuous round numbered amounts — including by slashing off the millions-place digits of awarded sums — be if not arbitrary and capricious?”

From Salon

The prosecution said it would appeal, arguing that "the evidence collected clearly established reasonable suspicion against all defendants".

From Barron's