Sentences with phrase «judicial court recently»
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently held in Dorrian v. LVNV Funding, LLC, [1] that «passive debt buyers» are not «debt collectors» required to be licensed under the Massachusetts Fair Debt Collection Practices Act [2](«MDCPA»).
https://www.consumerfinancialserviceswatch.com/ Not exact matches
Recently the Chief Justice of the Federation directed Heads of all our Courts of first instance and Appeal to accelerate hearings of corruption cases and dismiss any judicial officers found to have been compromised.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to charge suspended Federal High Court judge, Justice Mohammed Yunusa, who the National Judicial Commission recently recommended for retirement.
DAILY POST learnt that the Customary Court of Appeal, recently approved by the National Judicial Council (NJC), is on the same pedestal with the State High Court or Federal High Court.
The three judicial laws recently passed by the National Assembly, after seven minutes of debate, will compromise the independence of the judiciary by providing the executive branch of government, via the Ministry of Justice, with control over the courts» finances, personnel and general administration.
In a historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently blocked the EPA's carbon rule — which the administration calls the «Clean Power Plan» — from taking effect pending judicial review.
Recently, the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts ruled against energy companies having electricity consumers pay for the costs of new natural gas pipelines.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled recently that the 16 - turbine Bowers Mountain wind farm can not be built because of its unacceptably negative impact on Maine's scenic resources.
«The article suggests that the reason for this counterintuitive result may be Luttig's commitment to textualism as part of his larger judicial philosophy... This has been noted in the context of the recently completed Supreme Court term, where in several high - profile cases some of the individual Justice's votes were hard to explain in terms of political ideology, but instead seemed to reflect differences in judicial philosophy, such as principles of federalism.
Formed late in 2003 and supported throughout 2004 by Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, CTF recently reorganized as a private company and is seeking corporate sponsorships to support the site and allow it to expand.
I recently filed a petition for judicial review (Vancouver Court registry no S - 169130) and have noted in the book passages I could effectively quote when the matter is heard in cCourt registry no S - 169130) and have noted in the book passages I could effectively quote when the matter is heard in courtcourt.
A recently redesigned Web site, Judicial Clerkships.com, aims to help law students «successfully navigate the maze of courts and clerkship opportunities.»
(Relatively) recently, courts had begun to rely on Google Map results and take judicial notice of the information they contain.
He recently authored an amicus curiae brief to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in a case of great economic significance to condominiums, in which the right of associations to impose successive liens on owners who withhold condominium fee payments was upheld by the SJC.
HCR 119 filed along with HJR 110 lists Obergefell and other cases recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court as «judicial activism» and asks the U.S. House to investigate possible impeachment of the justices in those cases.
Guest columnist Anastasia Konina, writing recently in the online journal Jurist, says: «the proposed system of consumer rights enforcement has been heavily criticized for a number of reasons, such as «putting efficiency above judicial scrutiny,» loss of public access, pressure due to general confidentiality of ADR and ODR proceedings and banning access to courts.»
This high standard of review — higher than reasonableness — was recently confirmed by the B.C. Supreme Court in RM v. the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, 2011 BCSC 832, the first decision on a judicial review of an HPRB decision.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave a boost to on - line legal education (and declined to bow down to the ABA) recently when it allowed a graduate of Concord Law School, an entirely on - line law school owned by Kaplan, Inc., to sit for the Massachusetts Bar Exam, despite a state rule that prohibits graduates from unaccredited -LSB-...]
That's the lesson that can be derived from Frame v. Millinocket Regional Hospital, reviewed recently by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
The Expanding Access Working Group, an adjunct to the Supreme Judicial Court Steering Committee on self - represented Litigants, recently invited Davis Malm attorney Samuel B. Moskowitz to serve on an Advisory Group established to review and comment on the Working Group's «unbundled» legal services Pilot Program.
The case, recently before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, was challenging because the employee and dog owner lived in the same place where he worked.
Besides legislative changes, several meaningful court rulings of the supreme judicial authorities of Russia have recently been adopted.
My perspective is that of an experienced SRL who prevailed in the first of a series of court actions and who more recently, having acted for another person in bringing a complaint to the Law Society, challenged the result by filing a judicial review petition in her name.
Retired judges who return to court as counsel pose a serious threat to the perception of judicial impartiality, an issue that recently caught the attention of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
By: Sarah Burton PDF Version: What Happens when a Self - Rep Steps on a Procedural Landmine during Judicial Review Case Commented On: Raczynska v Alberta Human Rights Commission, 2015 ABQB 494 The Alberta Court of Queen's Bench recently rejected an application... Continue reading →
The Alberta Court of Queen's Bench recently granted Suncor Energy Inc.'s application for judicial review and quashed an arbitration award about Suncor's decision to institute a random drug and alcohol testing policy for certain employees.
In my continued efforts to track the judicial discretion of costs awards following trials with formal settlement offers in place, reasons for judgement were released recently by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, addressing costs consequences were a jury award was some 25 % of ICBC's best pre-trial formal settlement offer.
She recently represented a judicial candidate in which the process used to count ballots was challenged on constitutional bases before a federal district and circuit court, and was the subject of litigation in the Ohio Supreme Court as court, and was the subject of litigation in the Ohio Supreme Court as Court as well.
Colorado state district courts recently solidified judicial recognition of the Colorado General Assembly's delegation of primary jurisdiction to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission over royalty underpayment disputes, according to an alert by BakerHostetler.
In the recently decided Commonwealth v. McGonagle, the Supreme Judicial Court considered whether a Massachusetts statute that allows victims of crimes to recommend a sentence violates (1) the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article 26 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights (particularly in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Bosse v. Oklahoma, 137 S. Ct..
◊ Students of the University of Central Florida's Interpretation and Translation Certificate Program recently participated in a special court interpreter program hosted by the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida.
China's Supreme People's Court («SPC») recently issued two pieces of judicial interpretations, namely, the Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Certain Issues Related...
Superior Court Justice Kimberly Budd was recently confirmed to become an Associate Justice for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
In D (Appeal: Failure of Case Management)[2017] EWHC 1907 (Fam)(24 July 2017) the Court of Appeal recently considered the mother's application for an appeal which raised issues about judicial case management and in particular the Court's...
Recently, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court considered a lawsuit against a homeowners» insurance company brought by the family of a man killed by another on property belonging to attacker's grandmother.
From 2009 - 2010 he served as one of the first Judicial Assistants at the UK Supreme Court, where he worked for Lord Collins of Mapesbury, with whom he has more recently written The law on international custom in the case law of the UK Supreme Court, published by the Council of Europe.
Recently, in the case of Haddad v. Walmart Stores, Inc., the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court clarified the standard for the award of punitive damages.
Recently, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) Judicial Cases Research Center (最高人民法院司法案例研究院)(affiliated with the National Judicial College) issued a big data report on contested divorces in 2016 - 17, a follow up to their report of 18 months ago (the charts below are from the report).
Moreover, the Supreme Court of Canada recently noted that a full analysis of the standard of review is necessary «if the relevant precedents appear to be inconsistent with recent developments in the common law principles of judicial review» (para. 48).
The Honorable John F. Fader II -LRB-» 68), recently retired from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, currently serves as a Senior Judicial Fellow.
On issues such as the content of the record on judicial review applications, the extent to which administrative decision - makers can participate in judicial reviews of their decisions, superior court review of federal prison decisions and tribunals» capacity to reconsider their decisions, Canadian courts have recently come under pressure to update the procedural law to bring it into line with the substantive law.
The SPC highlighted that in the past five years it had issued 119 judicial interpretations (some of which have been discussed on this blog, many translated by Chinalawtranslate.com) and issued 80 guiding cases (link to cases and analysis)(as Jeremy Daum has written, and Mark Cohen has also noted, the statistics show they are not often used by the courts), but did not release numbers on the other types of documents it had issued (this blog has discussed some of them) or the number of model cases or other cases issued by SPC divisions (this blog has recently focused on ones issued by the criminal divisions).
This suggests that there is as yet no judicial appetite for fining companies similar sums to those which the courts have recently awarded in relation to corporate manslaughter.
Despite all the energy and resources being devoted in our modern system of civil justice to mediation, alternative dispute resolution and most recently judicial dispute resolution, in its 111 page judgment in Combined Air and four other cases, the Court of Appeal reinforces the primordial elements of the trial in our system of civil justice.
The Ontario Court of Appeal granted leave recently to hear an appeal of Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. v. Ontario, a judicial review by the Ontario Superior Court holding that private product label regulations in s. 12.02 of Ontario Regulation 201/96 to the Ontario Drug Benefit Act («ODBA») and s. 9 of Ontario Regulation 935 of the Drug Interchangeability and Dispensing Fee Act («DIDFA») were ultra vires and of no force and effect.
Despite all the energy and resources being devoted in our modern system of civil justice to mediation, alternative dispute resolution and most recently judicial dispute resolution, in its 111 page judgment in Combined Air and four other cases, the Court of Appeal reinforces the primordial elements of the trial in our... [more]
But in a sign of at least some movement on the transparency front, the Indiana Judicial Ethics Commission recently concluded that live - tweeting does not run afoul of that state's prohibition on «broadcasting» court proceedings.
From 1996 to 2004, he was a director of MassHousing (Massachusetts» low income housing finance agency); from 2005 until 2010 he served on the Governor's Judicial Nominating Commission; and he was recently appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court Business Litigation Session Advisory Committee.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has recently upheld the long standing exclusion the standard automobile insurance policy has that excludes optional coverage when a vehicle being used as «livery or public convenience» In addition, the Massachusetts Department of Insurance has also recently approved another endorsement being used by auto insurers in the state, that further addresses car - sharing, saying in part «We will not pay any claim for injury or property damage under the policy while your auto is being used in a personal vehicle sharing program....»
And on this subject, it was noticeable that in the hearing over a judicial review on the Electoral Commission recently all three teams were criticised by the Court: Jolyon's, the EC's, and VL's.