Sentences with phrase «american jury found»
An American jury found last week that the sleeping pill Halcion (triazolam) was partially responsible for turning a former assistant police chief into a murderer.
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«We must never cease», Churchill said, «to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English - speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence».
After a trial which might best be described as a rush to judgment, Hunt was found guilty by an all - white jury which took the word of a couple of shady characters over that of an innocent African - American kid with a solid alibi.
Slow West (2015), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2015, stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as 16 - year - old Jay Cavendish, the son of Scottish aristocrats on a romantic (and foolhardy) journey to find the girl he loves on the 19th century American frontier, and Michael Fassbender as bounty hunter Silas who volunteers to be the boy's guide and bodyguard... for a price, of course.
Her prize winning art work has been accepted in regional and national juried shows including the American Watercolor Society, Salmagundi Club and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Exhibitions in NYC, and can be found in private and corporate collections in the USA.
He is a founding director of the Smithsonian Institutions Renwick Gallery, and has written, lectured and juried on American crafts throughout the United States and abroad.
If the jury found the corporation guilty, it would have been the first time in history an American corporation was charged in an American court for human rights abuses abroad.
This was a milestone in English - American legal tradition, because it not only established the power of the jury to find whatever verdict it wishes, without punishment, but also the rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.
In addition, the proposed Congressional bill would allow American authors and publishers to countersue, and if a jury found that the foreign suit was an attempt to suppress protected speech, it could award treble damages.
My understanding of American law is that no defamation occurs if the «sting» of the actual facts (as found by the judge or jury) is greater than the sting of the false allegations.
Outdated juror lists, rundown jury rooms that feel like jails, and growing time pressures on Americans are mostly to blame, their research has found.
As reported in The American Lawyer, Bloomberg News and IP Law360, a federal court jury awarded Paul, Weiss client Edwards Lifesciences $ 393.6 million after it found that Medtronic Inc.'s CoreValve...
The FDCC was founded in 1936 as an international defense organization dedicated to the principles of knowledge, justice, fellowship, and the preservation of American civil jury trials.
Four former senior executives of General Reinsurance and one from American International Group were found guilty of securities fraud and conspiracy by a federal jury.