Sentences with phrase «court brief cites»

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By contrast, the brief, shared with The New York Times by its drafters, cites past Supreme Court rulings dear to conservatives, including the Citizens United decision lifting restrictions on campaign financing, and a Washington, D.C., Second Amendment case that overturned a law barring handgun ownership.

In urging judges to think like scientists, the Court cited the AAAS / NAS brief to the effect that «Science is not an encyclopedic body of knowledge about the universe.

Ogle says he suspects that the friend - of - the - court brief that Stanford University sent on Proctor's behalf helped sway the Florida court, because the decision cited arguments from the brief (though not the brief itself by name).

I wonder if the United States Court Of Appeals For The District Of Columbia Circuit and the Virginia Bar Association have noticed that Virginia's Attorney General Cuccinelli's brief against the EPA mischaracterizes the allegations of one of his his «cited» sources — Andrei Illarionov's Russian Institute for Economic Analysis (IEA)-- as cited in RIA Novosti (12-16-09) via the Russian business daily Kommersant.

If you do cite authority in your motion or brief, you can save it from winning by making sure the only authority you cite is not binding on the court.

In the advanced civil litigation course, students Cite Check and Shepardize an actual brief and format it for filing in federal court.

The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that husband had waived his argument that the circuit court erred in ruling that Husband's adultery was the primary cause of the dissolution of the marriage because Husband failed to cite legal authority in support of his argument in his appellate opening brief as required by Rule 5A: 20 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of VirgCourt of Appeals ruled that husband had waived his argument that the circuit court erred in ruling that Husband's adultery was the primary cause of the dissolution of the marriage because Husband failed to cite legal authority in support of his argument in his appellate opening brief as required by Rule 5A: 20 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virgcourt erred in ruling that Husband's adultery was the primary cause of the dissolution of the marriage because Husband failed to cite legal authority in support of his argument in his appellate opening brief as required by Rule 5A: 20 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of VirgCourt of Virginia.

Even though the case law Samsung cites gives Judge Koh more than enough ammunition to at least stay the case, Samsung's lawyers also present an argument that would enable the district court to reject Apple's demand for premature enforcement even if the court interpreted the Federal Circuit's mandate the way Apple proposes: «Manifest injustice would warrant deviation from a decision rejecting, without briefing, collateral estoppel or a stay»

Explicitly citing the Innocence Network Brief, the Court held that Oregon's previous standard for the admissibility of eyewitness identifications (i.e. the Classen test) was «insufficient to ensure that unreliable evidence will be excluded» (24).

One is that the Court had in mind the amicus brief authored by Harvard Law School's Jack Goldsmith, which Justice Kennedy prominently cited for the proposition that: «No other nation in the world permits its courts to exercise universal civil jurisdiction over alleged extraterritorial human rights abuses to which the nation has no connection» (emphasis added).

It's true that most courts would rather cite to case law than to an amicus brief or a law review article, but that doesn't mean that legal scholarship doesn't help to shape legal discourse.

Mr. Liskin assisted in drafting an Amicus Brief to the United States Supreme Court that was cited by the majority opinion in a First Amendment case.

Jones v. Flowers, 373 Ark. 213 (Ark. 2008)(established, on remand from a U.S. Supreme Court victory in a constitutional challenge to state tax foreclosure procedures, that attorney's fees may be recovered under federal civil rights law even when the plaintiff's original complaint did not cite the federal statute)(briefed, co-counsel)