Sentences with phrase «civil cases stemming»

But an equally important consideration is the protection from civil cases stemming from accidents and other events that could occur in and around your rented home.

Does repeat offense create a presumption of fault in a civil case, when that civil case stems from a criminal act?

Not exact matches

«One case, Godfrey v. Spano, stems from the Westchester County executive's 2006 decision to begin officially honoring out - of - state marriage licenses for gay couples the same way it did for heterosexual couples.The other case, Lewis v. New York State Department of Civil Service, was filed after the department agreed in 2007 to begin recognizing out - of - state, same - sex marriages for the purpose of extending health insurance to spouses of public employees.»

That plan stems from the 1974 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the landmark civil rights case, Lau v. Nichols, that ordered San Francisco's schools to provide Chinese children who didn't speak or understand English with a bridge to the curriculum.

But, in most cases, a criminal conviction for conduct relating to a car or truck accident is inadmissible to establish liability in the civil lawsuit stemming from the wrong committed in the accident.

«matrimonial cases were different from ordinary civil cases in that the binding effect of a settlement embodied in a consent order stems from the court's order and not from the prior agreement of the parties... in family proceedings there is always a duty of full and frank disclosure, whereas in civil proceedings this is not universal».

This week, St. Lewis won her three - year libel case against Rancourt and was awarded $ 350,000 in damages by an Ottawa civil jury, based on damages to her reputation stemming from Rancourt's use of the pejorative term in a 2011 blog.

In 2008 the National Center for State Courts reported that tort cases [where one party sues another for a civil wrong that doesn't stem from a contract] represented only 4.4 % of all filings in the reporting states.

Its only concern is the possibility of you being subjected to liability suits in civil court and of judgments being rendered against you as a result of cases stemming from incidents at and around your rented loft.

And liability protection is also important, because just like anyone else living in any kind of home, you might end up facing a civil negligence case stemming from an accident or other event that occurs at your loft or other rented home from something you or a family member did, or even from something you might have had nothing to do with other than the fact that it happened inside your rented dwelling.