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Recent Examples of subagencyThe Executive Office for Immigration Review, the U.S. Department of Justice subagency that oversees immigration courts and established the dedicated docket, did not respond to a request for comment.—Cindy Carcamostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022 Employers would likely have to present their plans to OSHA, a subagency of the Labor Department, during a workplace inspection and could be fined for violations.—Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021 House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro, D.-Conn., asked the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate whether or not the FDA, a subagency of HHS, took appropriate and effective action.—NBC News, 15 Apr. 2022 ASHINGTON — Health secretary Alex Azar suddenly appointed a new top lawyer at the Food and Drug Administration just hours after the subagency had announced its own pick for the post.—Nicholas Florko, STAT, 11 Jan. 2021 Some progressive groups are also homing in on the top role at an obscure but key subagency: the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which reviews proposed regulations by executive agencies.—Tarini Parti and Eliza Collins, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2020 The subcommittee took particular aim at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a subagency within the Executive Office of the President.—Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020
Right Wing Shoots: Right 2024-25 stats: 33 goals, 57 points, 77 games
Age: 26
Contract: RFA coming off two-year, $4 million deal
Geekie finds himself in a prime negotiating position, coming off a 33-goal season and sitting one year away from unrestricted free agency.
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Chris Johnston,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
Two hikers had called 911 to report that the third member of their hiking party had died, said the agency.
Separately, attorneys for the families of victims of the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012 filed a civil lawsuit under a different provision of the law concerning unfair trade practices.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
31 May 2025
If any inmates were denied parole because of the faulty tests, they could be owed a new hearing before the parole board, said attorneys representing inmates affected by the defective drug tests.
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Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2025
The executor of Humphrey’s estate sued on his behalf, claiming that the termination was unlawful and that $3,043.06 in unpaid wages plus interest was owed to the estate.
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Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
29 May 2025
Under the terms of the legislation, the digital replication right does not expire at a person’s death, and can be transferred and licensed by heirs, executors and others.
The result that the purchaser at the judicial sale ends up only as an assignee of the distributional rights, but without governance rights, is the result that will ordinarily be obtained outside of bankruptcy too.
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Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
As a mere assignee of Addington's interest, BAL did not gain Addington's governance rights.
Any deputies who fired their weapon will be placed on administrative assignment pending the outcome of the investigation.
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David Fleshler,
Sun Sentinel,
1 June 2025
The White House deputy press secretary, Harrison Fields, said the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is creating media to support a particular political party on the taxpayers' dime.
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