Sentence examples for civil prosecution from inspiring English sources

It then instigated a civil prosecution.

No institution, especially a religious one, should be able to shield a predator from civil prosecution.

No religious institution has the right to shield its child abusers from civil prosecution.

Defendants are free to claim self-defense before a judge and request immunity from criminal and civil prosecution.

HP is claiming $5.1bn in damages in what is believed to be the largest ever civil prosecution against British nationals.

Law enforcement officials said that subjects of civil prosecution can be treated more leniently if they volunteer information about wrongdoing.

Mr. Greene has performed ably in various cases, including those involving antitrust issues against Microsoft and civil prosecutions of Enron.

Since their introduction in 2008, there have been only 14 civil prosecutions for breaching FMPOs, of which only two were proved.

Mr. Justice STORY, writing in 1883, said: 'This process is rarely recur ed to in America, and it has never yet been formally put into operation by any positive authority of congress, under the national government in mere cases of misdemeanor; though common enough in civil prosecutions for penalties and forfeitures.' Story, Const.

Under other military legal systems, the preliminary investigation is likely to be in the hands of a military magistrate and set in motion by a military procurator, who corresponds to the official responsible in such countries for initiating civil prosecutions on the public behalf.

We're talking about federal crimes and civil prosecutions if in fact that's what they're doing.