Sentences with phrase «about being in a court»

I'm excited about being in court and negotiating contracts,» said Martins, of Old Westbury.

Not exact matches

It won a court victory in New York, and even extended an olive branch, with its CEO writing a blog post about it being ready to work out deals with governments.

In referring to 1964, Abrams is talking about the landmark Sullivan vs. New York Times case, in which the Supreme Court established what's known as the «malice standard» for libeIn referring to 1964, Abrams is talking about the landmark Sullivan vs. New York Times case, in which the Supreme Court established what's known as the «malice standard» for libein which the Supreme Court established what's known as the «malice standard» for libel.

The market is set to expand, too, after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that medical marijuana can be consumed in forms other than the dried leaf variety, opening the door to cannabis oils, teas, brownies, juices, and just about anything else.

About 300 members of Canada's business community gathered for cocktails in the Baillie Court event space at the AGO before the Randstad Award winners were announced.

In 2005, under very similar circumstances, Sears Canada was found guilty of being too liberal in advertising discounts on car tires and was assessed fines and legal costs of nearly $ 500,000; in fact, the recent court filings about the mattress business specifically mention the old tire casIn 2005, under very similar circumstances, Sears Canada was found guilty of being too liberal in advertising discounts on car tires and was assessed fines and legal costs of nearly $ 500,000; in fact, the recent court filings about the mattress business specifically mention the old tire casin advertising discounts on car tires and was assessed fines and legal costs of nearly $ 500,000; in fact, the recent court filings about the mattress business specifically mention the old tire casin fact, the recent court filings about the mattress business specifically mention the old tire case.

Not long after the Supreme Court deemed Aereo's service «for all practical purposes a traditional cable system,» the company, in a desperate last bid for survival, pulled an about - face and argued that it should be allowed to operate like one.

A woman named Colleen Gallagher, represented by the same law firm, is also a plaintiff in a 2014 lawsuit in the same court alleging that Bayer AG's claims about the health benefits of its One A Day multivitamins misled consumers.

Cohen is a defendant with Trump in Daniels» other pending lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court, which seeks to void the nondisclosure agreement about the alleged affair.

Because the case was tied up in court for years, he said, the narrative from the Democratic side ended up being about how unfair and difficult the law made it for many to vote.

The Internal Revenue Service revealed new details about its investigation into tax evasion related to bitcoin, filing court documents that suggest only a tiny percentage of virtual currency owners are reporting profits or losses in their annual returns.

Instead of asking Coinbase for a long list of details about its customers who bought or sold bitcoin between 2013 and 2015, the IRS told a federal court it is now seeking information only for those accounts that engaged in transactions worth $ 20,000 or more.

Although Thiel implies in his essay that the Gawker story about Hogan's sex tape would not have been published by any right - thinking journalistic outlet, and that the First Amendment doesn't and shouldn't protect such behavior, two higher - court judges ruled before the Hogan decision that the Gawker piece was clearly covered by the Constitution's free - speech protections.

With the NBA All - Star Game being held in Canada for the first time this year, the president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors talks about leadership on the court and off, the «Drake Effect» and when to drop the F - bomb:

Since it's never smart to fight the government in court, just about all of the involved parties have settled, with Penguin being the most recent.

U.S. courts have historically been careful about probing the motives behind laws, in part out of respect for the separation of powers between branches of government.

Those include a shareholder lawsuit before a court in the German town of Braunschweig that alleges company officials were too slow in disclosing the scandal, depriving investors of information they needed to make decisions about their holdings.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

Different administrators have come to different conclusions about how best to apply the law in view of the science, and many of their decisions have been challenged in court, sometimes successfully, for either going too far or not far enough.

«There are a lot of tasty restaurants in the food court area,» Hanks said in a December 2003 story about the making of the movie.

At first, Joey Grisham, president of the economic development corporation in Hutto, Texas, a town of 20,000 about 25 miles northeast of Austin, didn't even know who he was courting.

(2) Bringing this case into court for litigation may be unusual but is not surprising; and (3) The concern about political influence in making this decision is an unfortunate cost of candidate and President Trump's disregard for the institutions of justice.

«DOJ trial attorney Amy Matchison said at a court hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley Thursday that the IRS has been in talks with Coinbase about narrowing its request to only items the agency would need to look for unreported income,» reported The Recorder, a legal site that reported on the hearing.

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

I'm simply reading what she wrote about what the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be a federal court judge meant and what it would mean in history for her.»

So far, about 200 people have been arrested at a construction zone near the pipeline's terminal site in Burnaby for allegedly breaking a court injunction keeping protesters away.

If they did try to use it we would be in court immediately seeking an injunction to stop them from using it, but we would probably have to get in line behind oil companies that would be concerned about contracts that they have with companies in B.C. to deliver product.»

Here's something you may not know about court cases: There are often people in the public gallery who are paid to closely watch the members of the jury to see how they react to different witnesses.

Facebook says the updates are the result of a federal court order after users complained about their names and photos being used to endorse products in Facebook ads.

Similar legislation, which has arisen in response to federal court rulings allowing same - sex marriage in the 36 states, is pending in about 16 other states.

Yahoo, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all taken to the courts to try to get the government to provide more details about the information grab, or at least allow companies to be more expansive in what they can tell their customers and shareholders.

It may still be in trouble in California courts, though, which is where Damore says he'll next pursue his former employer under a law which makes it illegal to fire someone for complaining about illegal activity.

According to Mexican court documents obtained by Canadian Business, Vanier told authorities that Gary Peters, an Ontario - based private security contractor who served as Saadi Gadhafi's bodyguard in the past, contacted her in 2011 about a humanitarian trip he was helping put together for an organization called the Canadian Libyan Friendship Association.

«If you were to try to measure global precipitation on the ground — I mean currently I can fit all of the rain gauges on the globe in the area of about a basketball court,» he said.

Check out this free search tool and find information about individuals that have been named in SEC court actions or administrative proceedings and had judgments or orders issued against them.

Now, documents filed in BNY's case in the past few weeks 2014 the court proceedings begin Monday 2014 provide unprecedented detail about how STARS was crafted at a time when banks and accounting firms were offering deals for multinational corporations to take advantage of loopholes in rules governing foreign tax credits.

The couple filed their suit after being convicted in a Chinese court two years ago for illegally purchasing personal information about Chinese citizens, but argue that they were set up by Glaxo.

There's a lot of chatter right now about Instagram, an iPhone app for adding artsy filters to photos and sharing them across various social - media networks, which has taken the early - adopter crowd by storm and courted heavy investor interest in the mobile photo - sharing niche.

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

In 2014, Europe's highest court ruled that people had the «right to be forgotten» online, meaning they could ask Google and other digital companies to delete search results about them.

And while there is no legal requirement that underwriters like Mr. Thiel reveal their involvement to the opposing side or the jury, it is considered fair game for lawyers to ask questions about financial backing — something that Gawker Media did on Wednesday in court as part of its efforts to overturn the Hogan judgment.

His lawyers filed two motions in the United States District Court in California, where Daniels sued to get out of the NDA that bars her from speaking out about the alleged affair, saying that Daniels has violated the agreement at least 20 times and could be subject to damages of $ 20 million.

Ms. McDougal, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that Mr. Cohen was secretly involved in her talks with the tabloid company, American Media Inc., and that A.M.I. and her lawyer at the time misled her about the deal.

The rule, which will go into effect for new accounts in about eight months, will not prohibit individual forced arbitration — meaning individual consumers (as opposed to groups of consumers) could still be be blocked from going to court against financial firms.

Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles....

Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn was charged in federal court in Detroit with conspiring to mislead regulators about the German automaker's diesel emissions cheating.

«We thought we were getting first - class representation,» said Packer, who is seeking to get back about $ 400,000 in bankruptcy court.

«Indigenous peoples are being forced into long and costly court battles to defend their traditions and ways of life because governments in Canada still refuse to accept the need to work collaboratively with Indigenous peoples on important decisions about environmental protection and resource development,» said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

They're not talking about the Squamish, the Tsleil - Waututh, Coldwater or other First Nations currently challenging the project in court.

We expect that to happen again — particularly because the jury was prohibited from knowing about these court rulings in favor of Gawker, prohibited from seeing critical evidence gathered by the FBI and prohibited from hearing from the most important witness, Bubba Clem.