Sentences with phrase «city court cases»

They countered at ZERO dollars if I was willing to let them quit - claim it to me and transfer all the liabilities from the city court cases to me.

He joined the DA's office in 1998, working his way up from handling City Court cases to running the bureaus that prosecute sexual crimes, DWIs and, in 2011, homicides.

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The case could still go to trial, but Irwindale officials would like to see a settlement outside court and do not want to shut down Sriracha altogether, City Attorney Fred Galante told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/17SSD2h).

The ruling by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes, who is overseeing the historic case, came more than two months after the start of a hearing to determine whether the 1,165 - page plan was fair to creditors and feasible for the city to implement.

The firm lost its most prominent case to date, however: Kelo v. City of New London, in which it challenged a city's sweeping eminent domain powers before the Supreme CoCity of New London, in which it challenged a city's sweeping eminent domain powers before the Supreme Cocity's sweeping eminent domain powers before the Supreme Court.

After a volley of filings and rebuttals in the case, both sides appeared Tuesday in U.S. Federal District Court in New York City to make their cases.

In this most recent case the City of Burnaby was trying to get the support of the Supreme Court of British Columbia for an issue that it had already lost before the NEB and which, to put it in neutral terms, had failed to attract the interest of the Federal Court of Appeal.

For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

The court's ruling was a backhanded decision that favored the theater circuit but added that if the city were to improve its system, such cases might be decided in its favor in the future.

Santeria came to the attention of Americans through a landmark Supreme Court case, Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993).

Martin's family isn't exactly struggling after winning a boatload of cash from their civil court case against the city of Sanford.

Opponents of the proposed 23 - story Queen City Landing on Lake Erie won a victory in state Supreme Court, with Justice Catherine Nugent Panepinto allowing their case against the project to continue.

Once the resolution is formally confirmed by the court, the city will move to withdraw its initial appeal of the case striking down the broad aspects of stop and frisk.

«After almost two years of this sustained and intensely - focused attention to court operations, I am pleased to report that outside New York City our cases are being resolved more efficiently and promptly, and our backlogs are shrinking rapidly,» she said.

An Albany City Court judge ordered former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek to pay a $ 1,000 fine for violating a state campaign finance law in 2012, after he pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors working on the case against former State Sen. George Maziarz.

McDonald recently discussed the case on Road to City Hall with Errol Louis, expressing frustration that it took so long for the court to rule on his case.

The case is City of New York vs BP Plc et al, U.S. District Court for Manhattan No. 1:18 - cv - 00182

P.S. 276 has a case of «Linsanity» The students at P.S. 276 in Battery Park City have taken it upon themselves to court a keynote speaker for their graduation ceremony.

Exxon this week hit back against the California lawsuits in a filing with a Texas state court pointing out none of the cities disclosed such risks to bond buyers and arguing the lawsuits were politically motivated and linked to cases brought by the states of New York and Massachusetts.

The FDA has filed court papers in support of an effort to overturn a New York City law requiring calorie counts to be posted by certain establishments — at least the second time the Trump administration has inserted itself into a local case.

Prosecutors in Bharara's office filed court papers in two separate corruption cases giving notice that they were adding the pensions of two state senators, a city councilman and two other officials to the list of property subject to forfeiture if the officials are convicted.

For eight years, a case has wandered through New York's court system: impoverished small cities suing Albany, saying the state's system for allocating school aid is not fair to them.

Former city Correction Commissioner Martin Horn has, like Mark - Viverito, championed proposals to drive down Rikers» population by diverting the mentally ill and expediting court cases to speed pretrial detainees through the criminal justice process.

The Court of Appeals found that Brian Novak's appeal should be re-heard at the county level before someone other than Judge Matthew Sypnewski, who as a city court judge presided over Novak's original case, then considered his appeal after being elected as a Schenectady County Court jCourt of Appeals found that Brian Novak's appeal should be re-heard at the county level before someone other than Judge Matthew Sypnewski, who as a city court judge presided over Novak's original case, then considered his appeal after being elected as a Schenectady County Court jcourt judge presided over Novak's original case, then considered his appeal after being elected as a Schenectady County Court jCourt judge.

Does Corey Johnson understand that Roger Adler was given the job of Special District Attorney to investigate the Debi Rose case by Fern Fisher, the Chief Administrative Judge of the City Courts?

«Change does not happen without an honest conversation in our communities, in our courthouses, at City Hall about how we have real reform in the criminal justice system, real reform in our communities and real relationships between NYPD and the people they serve,» Tina Luongo, attorney - in - chief for Legal Aid Society Criminal Practice, the plaintiff in the court case, said.

MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. joined other city prosecutors in asking the city to reconsider cutting funds to the city agency responsible for referring cases of elder abuse to authorities.

City Court Judge William Carter has dismissed the cases against four Occupy Albany protesters — nearly three years after they were arrested during a demonstration on Lark Street.

To prosecute cases in the 38 Justice Criminal Courts for misdemeanors and other offenses originating in Erie County cities, towns and villages outside the City of Buffalo.

The city of Baltimore took down monuments to Lee, Jackson and pre-Civil War Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the majority decision in the Dred Scott Case, ruling that the descendants of slaves were not US citizens.

City Court prosecutors must also direct follow - up investigation, conduct legal research, respond to motions, obtain statements from witnesses, locate and secure evidence, conduct pre-trial hearings, and take cases to trial if they can not be resolved by a plea bargain.

On Tuesday, Sept. 12, with Brodhead due in City Court for another hearing in the case, about 20 protesters turned out.

To prosecute cases in the 12 City Court criminal courts for misdemeanors and other offenses originating in the City of Buffalo.

Sources and records show Rechnitz became a cooperating witness for the feds after he was snared in yet another bribery case involving Norman Seabrook, the head of the city Correction Officers union, who allegedly received $ 65,000 in bribes in exchange for funneling $ 20 million in union funds into a hedge fund operated by a friend of Rechnitz's, according to sources and court documents.

Eliot Spitzer and the state Legislature agreed that while the court case was brought by a group of New York City parents, the ruling should apply to all schools in the state.

A State Supreme Court judge ruled against the city in the controversial Broadway Triangle rezoning case in which a coalition of community groups allege...

A preliminary hearing in Joyce Mitchell's case was waived in Plattsburgh City Court and the case was transferred to Clinton County Court.

She has not argued a case in some time, she said, though she did represent some juveniles in criminal court while serving in the City Council.

«We believe the court decided the case correctly,» a spokesman for the city's Law Department said in a statement.

Several children whose cases were in court today were accompanied by their mother or aunt, but all of them entered the country alone before being brought to the city.

New Scotland Town Justice David Wukitsch, who presided over the case in City Court, also ordered Lee's license revoked for at least a year and directed her to pay a $ 500 fine, plus $ 395 state surcharge in addition to an as - yet - undetermined amount of restitution to the woman whose car was damaged.

The turn in court comes after Ms. James had previously called on the city's lawyers represent, pro bono, children facing deportation cases in the federal government's surge docket, and had promised to do so herself after a refresher on family and immigration law.

Filed A Small Claims Case In Rye City Court Seeking Monetary Judgment From Latimer And Robin Phelps - Latimer For An Unpaid Gas Bill.

The case against state Senate aide Robert Nickol was sent to an Albany County grand jury during an appearance in Albany City Court on Thursday.

(3) Neither the Executive Committee nor the County Leader shall designate, nominate or propose any candidate for judicial offices which are to be elected county - wide in New York County, or which are to be proposed for appointment by the Mayor of the City of New York or by the Governor of the State of New York, exclusive of recommendations for interim appointment by the Mayor or the Governor, unless such candidate shall have been approved in that calendar year for such office by the independent panel., except that once a candidate for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court has been reported as highly qualified by at least two of the last four independent screening panels for that office, that candidate shall be considered as having been approved by the panel for such office during each of the four calendar years after the year in which the candidate shall have last achieved such status, (not counting a year in which there are no vacancies for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an application.

In a series of cases called the Campaign for Fiscal Equality, which lasted from 1995 to 2006, the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, found that the state was not providing enough money for New York City, leaving students without access to a «sound basic education.&rcourt, the Court of Appeals, found that the state was not providing enough money for New York City, leaving students without access to a «sound basic education.&rCourt of Appeals, found that the state was not providing enough money for New York City, leaving students without access to a «sound basic education.»

The New York State Court of Appeals agreed to take up a case that poses the question of whether New York City's effort to limit law firms trying to collect debts violates the state's power to regulate attorney conduct.

Mohamed Albanna, who was barred from taking the Lackawanna City Council seat he won in the November election because of his prior felony conviction, told lawmakers he could be taking his case to the state's highest court.

De Blasio is lending the city's legal support to labor unions in a key case heading for the U.S. Supreme Court.

A review of the litigation filed by her office, along with prior court rulings, suggests NYC Public Advocate Tish James lacks the legal authority to sue the city in some of those cases.