Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel: Consisting of Selected Memorandum Opinions Advising the President of the United States, the Attorney General and Other Executive Officers of the Federal Government in Relation to Their Official Duties, Volume 7, 1983

• NCJ Number: 141881
• Date Published: 1983
• Length: 267 pages
• Corporate Author: US Dept of Justice
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Legislation/Policy Description
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This report presents 27 selected memorandum opinions of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued in 1983 pertinent to the official duties of officers of the executive branch of the Federal Government, including the President of the United States and the Attorney General.

Abstract

Opinions that bear upon criminal justice address the designation of Interpol as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act, authority for the removal of fugitive felons to the jurisdiction where the crime was committed under 18 U.S. Code Section 1073, the granting of additional power to the President's Commission on Organized Crime, church sanctuary for illegal aliens, and the delegation of the Attorney General's authority to investigate credit card fraud. Some of the issues pertinent to civil proceedings are termination of an assistant U.S. attorney on grounds related to his acknowledged homosexuality, the litigation authority of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the commencement of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the payment of attorney fee awards against the United States under 28 U.S. Code Section 2412, and the proposed Commission on the deregulation of international ocean shipping.