{"id":303,"date":"2021-09-01T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/?p=303"},"modified":"2021-09-01T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:08:42","slug":"prosecution-for-noncompliance-with-agency-guidance-documents-allowed-by-attorney-generals-memorandum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2021\/09\/01\/prosecution-for-noncompliance-with-agency-guidance-documents-allowed-by-attorney-generals-memorandum\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution for Noncompliance with Agency Guidance Documents Allowed by Attorney General&#8217;s Memorandum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1, 2021, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland published a memorandum that rescinds two previous memoranda\u2015the Sessions Memorandum and Brand Memorandum\u2015that prohibited Department of Justice attorneys from using noncompliance with federal agency guidance documents as a basis for civil and criminal enforcement cases. Garland\u2019s memorandum states these previous policies were \u201coverly restrictive,\u201d \u201cdiscouraged the development of valuable guidance\u201d and hindered DOJ\u2019s litigation of cases when relevant agency guidance was available.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/attorney_generals_memorandum_allows_prosecution_noncompliance_agency_guidance_documents_0921.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1, 2021, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland published a memorandum that rescinds two previous memoranda\u2015the Sessions Memorandum and Brand Memorandum\u2015that prohibited Department of Justice attorneys from using noncompliance with federal agency guidance documents as a basis for civil and criminal enforcement cases. Garland\u2019s memorandum states these previous policies were \u201coverly restrictive,\u201d \u201cdiscouraged the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2021\/09\/01\/prosecution-for-noncompliance-with-agency-guidance-documents-allowed-by-attorney-generals-memorandum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prosecution for Noncompliance with Agency Guidance Documents Allowed by Attorney General&#8217;s Memorandum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[288,138,287,289,157,217],"ppma_author":[241],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-brand-memorandum","tag-doj","tag-garland-memorandum","tag-noncompliance-with-guidance-documents","tag-sessions-memorandum","tag-u-s-department-of-justice"],"authors":[{"term_id":241,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}