It added: "If properly implemented by the district court, the Fifth Circuit's order will help return the settlement to its original, intended and lawful function — the compensation of claimants who sustained actual losses that are traceable to the Deepwater Horizon accident".
"If properly implemented by the district court, the Fifth Circuit's order will help return the settlement to its original, intended and lawful function - the compensation of claimants who sustained actual losses that are traceable to the Deepwater Horizon accident," said BP's head of US communications and external affairs, Geoff Morrell.
The Kurds did offer to make available "lawful functions" to qualified Australian volunteers, he said.
Operating since 2014, the Internet Research Agency ran an increasingly sophisticated campaign against the U.S. by "impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of government," according to the indictment Mueller filed last month.
Starting as early as 2014, the operation allegedly paid for by Prigozhin, sought to attack the U.S. by "impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of government," according to the indictment.
In a presentation at the Black Hat security conference Wednesday, IBM Internet Security Systems researcher Tom Cross unveiled research on how easily the "lawful intercept" function in Cisco's IOS operating system can be exploited by cybercriminals or cyberspies to pull data out of the routers belonging to an Internet service provider (ISP) and watch innocent victims' online behavior.
The first charge against them, "Conspiracy against the United States" — to wit, "impeding, impairing, obstructing and defeating the lawful governmental functions of a government agency, namely the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury" — relates to actions "from in or about and between 2006 and 2017".
It authorizes detectives to use "lawful deception, deceit, trickery, etc".
The prosecutor may believe he is not arguing for censorship, but less speech (including all manner of lawful speech vital to a well functioning democracy) on blogs, social networks, and other user generated sites will most certainly be the effect.
Mr. Obama made the recess appointments on Jan . 4 Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel, said at the time that the installments were lawful because the Senate was "unavailable to fulfill its function".
"We are confident that the microprocessor market segment is functioning normally and that Intel's conduct has been lawful, pro-competitive and beneficial to consumers," Intel General Counsel Bruce Sewell said in response to the European Commission's move.
