Topic: Charles Breyer

Brocade Communications Systems Inc's former CEO was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison for backdating stock-option grants in a scandal that has ensnared scores of U.S. companies and led to billions of dollars of restatements. Gregory Reyes, 45 ...
Government Revising Plan for Penalizing Businesses That Hire Illegal ImmigrantsThe government says it will rewrite rules for penalizing employers of illegal immigrants to try to satisfy a federal judge in San Francisco who put the crackdown on hold.U.S. District Judge ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday he supports a decision by a district court judge that halts new Department of Homeland Security rules designed to make businesses accountable for employing illegal immigrants -- but the senator seemed confused over the court ...
Federal Judge Delivers Blow to Bush Plan to Crack Down on Employers With Illegal LaborA federal judge has blocked a proposed rule requiring employers to fire workers whose names don't match their Social Security numbers, dealing a major blow to the ...

Plan to enforce labor rule stalled

Judge Grants Request to Block U.S. Gov't Plan on Illegal LaborA federal judge on Wednesday granted a request by labor and civil liberties organizations to temporarily block the U.S. government from proceeding with a program to crack down on ...
A federal judge Thursday barred the planting of genetically engineered alfalfa nationwide until the government can adequately study the crop's potential impact on organic and conventional varieties.. Monsanto Co., the St. Louis-based biotech company that developed the crop and makes the ...