To proponents of the bereavement exclusion, denying such a diagnosis when the symptoms merit it does not make sense, deprives clients of needed help, and may even give a message that grief somehow shields someone from depression.
Mr. Baugh had written complaining that the jury fee was too low and would deprive his client, Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, of a representative jury.
"It interfered in an ongoing judicial process and deprived our clients of their right to claim back what was wrongly taken from them.
In the weeks since, when an indigent client charged with a serious crime has come their way, the attorneys have refused to take it on, cognizant that the alternative accepting the case and not giving it their all could deprive that client of justice.
The disclosure of the investigation raises the prospect of an institution bailed out by UK taxpayers in 2008 facing penalties for helping its clients deprive other countries of tax revenue.
It contends that the onerous nature of the rescue — the taking of what became a 92 percent stake in the company, the deal's high interest rates and the funneling of billions to the insurer's Wall Street clients — deprived shareholders of tens of billions of dollars and violated the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits the taking of private property for "public use, without just compensation".
The dramatic request for a criminal prosecution is justified, Bryan Johnson believes, because the DHS presides over a system that has deprived his child clients of their constitutional rights to adequate food, shelter, clothing and medical care while detained at border stations.
The properties are among the 545 that federal prosecutors say were part of a scheme that stretches back 35 years, in which Albert Schussler, an 85-year-old tax consultant, bribed assessors to reduce tax rates for his clients, depriving the city of tens of millions of dollars in revenues.
Though the trades were ultimately posted properly, clients were deprived of instantaneous reports on their positions.
Jason Adkins, the lead lawyer for the policyholders, estimated his clients were deprived of $1 billion in the transformation.
