Sentences with phrase «acts as a court»

Circuit Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird said that though she had not selected a receiver, who would act as a court - appointed administrator, «I am beginning to think that's an appropriate step.»

Prosecutors originally charged the once - powerful Democrat with embezzling funds while acting as a court - appointed referee for home foreclosure proceedings.

The CJEU's job is to work with national courts and to provide assistance on the meaning of EU law, not to decide cases or in any way to act as a Court of Appeal.»

Clinton the Criminal Defense Lawyer Who knew that once upon a time, Hillary Clinton acted as a court - appointed criminal attorney?

Mr. Whiteman is also a mediator and arbitrator, having acted as a court appointed arbitrator in numerous family law and civil cases.

We also are available to act as court - appointed guardians ad litem in the event that incapacitated individuals need an attorney to act for them.

During court action, a barrister acts as a court or tribunal advocate, they may be asked to provide advice on the merits of a party's case and to draft the court papers that set out the case that a party wishes to bring or defend.

Justin routinely acts as a court appointed estate trustee during litigation and is counsel to the Oakville Community Foundation.

He has acted as a court appointed pre-trial judge and as pro-bono disciplinary counsel for the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Attorney Blomberg acts as a court - appointed attorney and Guardian Ad Litem for children in contested custody cases and has completed all mandatory requirements for the Guardian Ad Litem / Attorney for the Minor Child comprehensive Basic Training.

He has acted as a court appointed expert witness in numerous parental alienation cases and has been at the forefront of efforts to have the problem recognised and understood within the UK.

He offers training and seminars and acts as a court - appointed administrator in extreme cases to settle disputes between condo owners and their boards and to get condo corporations back on track.

A lawyer in Michigan acting as a court - appointed receiver («Receiver») for certain properties sought to list his properties on a local multiple listing service («MLS») without joining the MLS.

Not exact matches

After Verizon beat the FCC in court in 2014, then - FCC chair Tom Wheeler turned to Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to achieve his goal of mandating net neutrality (the court had said that, without broadband providers being classified as common carriers, the FCC did not have the authority to force them to maintain an open internet).

As the nine justices grappled with the technological complexities of email data storage, liberals Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the court needed to act in the data privacy case in light of Congress now considering bipartisan legislation that would resolve the legal issue.

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

«Thus, in a preliminary analysis, the chief justice... suspended what he saw as an act apparently little reasonable and proportionate, which, in addition to generating legal uncertainty, would leave millions of Brazilians without this communication tool,» a statement from the supreme court read.

In August, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that taxpayers who devote a «significant emphasis» to farming activity that is subordinate to their primary source of income are no longer limited to the $ 8,750 deduction limit under Section 31 of the Income Tax Act for losses from business ventures such as thoroughbreds.

As the Supreme Court gets ready in June to rule on the issue for the second time in two years, conservative states have rushed to enact so - called Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) laws that would allow businesses to object on religious grounds to serving LGBT people and same - sex couples.

But as with the executive order on immigration, which is already being challenged by the courts, Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises by acting decisively, even when it's unclear how the order will be applied.

McDonald's and the National Labor Relations Board will finally go head - to - head in court on Monday as the fast - food company faces long - standing allegations that it violated employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

In January, a federal appeals court ruled that because ISPs are not regulated as utilities, equal access regulations could not apply to these providers, as they do with telecommunications carriers under the Communications Act of 1934.

Jackson was in court Monday, as prosecutors charged him with murder as an act of terrorism in addition to the murder as a hate crime charge he'd already been facing.

At a hearing in Moscow's Tverskoy District Court to decide whether Magomedov and his associates should be detained before their trial, Judge Maria Sizintseva said they had acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

To obtain a warrant to surveil Manafort, investigators would have had to demonstrate to the court that there was probable cause to believe he was acting as an unlawful foreign agent.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could derail the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as Obamacare, and potentially increase the cost of insurance for millions across the U.S.. It's a big deal, and it has insurance companies, medical providers and everyday workers holding their breath.

As you recall, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order vacating Rule 151A under the Securities Act of 1933.

Obama's other measures include plans to work with Congress to pursue reforms of Section 215 of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act that governs the collection of so - called «metadata» such as phone records, and reform of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which considers requests from law enforcement authorities on intelligence - gathering targets.

The Court found that the language of the bonus plan, requiring «active employment» as a condition to receive a payout, did not violate the Employment Standards Act.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

In 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

On January 15, 2015, Target Canada Co. and the Additional Applicants listed below (collectively, the «Applicants»), together with the Partnerships also listed below (the «Partnerships», and collectively with the Applicants, the «Target Canada Entities») commenced court - supervised restructuring proceedings under the Companies» Creditors Arrangement Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C - 36, as amended (the «CCAA»).

However, consistent with the Rollover Opinion's reliance on the Supreme Court decision of Varity v. Howe [1], many believed that an advisor engaged to provide plan - level fiduciary services, would not be acting as a fiduciary when acting in a wholly separate non-fiduciary capacity, such as selling personal rollover services unrelated to its status as a plan fiduciary.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

Kali Digital Ecosystems, the company behind upcoming cryptocurrency exchange CoinRecoil had filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court, calling this move by the government as «unconstitutional», as it violates various articles and acts in the Indian legal system.

But he also acted in a manner consistent with the rule of law as it has been clearly interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Tax Court invalidated the regulation under the Administrative Procedure Act, as arbitrary and capricious.

The fiduciary standard is getting a lot of attention in the United States once again as the Department of Labour's rule requiring advisors to act in the best interests of their clients was denied by an appeals court

Not as an act of kindness from the administration but because the pace of removals is limited by the court system, which can only process so many cases per year.

The lawyers may have as much of an aversion as I've had to Donald Trump, but they are the ones who are sent into court to resist the mandates of Obamacare and to defend the Little Sisters of the Poor, the owners of Hobby Lobby, or the doctors and nurses who are invoking their rights under Hyde - Weldon Act not to be forced to participate in abortions.

With the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takeCourt striking down the Defense of Marriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takecourt after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takecourt, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takeover.

Senate Democrats are moving forward with legislation to fix the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling which interpreted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) as guaranteeing closely - held private corporations the right to deny birth control coverage to women.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

But — as one court recently held — if a student hands another student a piece of paper stating that «if any man is in Christ he is a new creature,» that act violates the principle of separation of church and state.

He was proved to be absolutely prophetic when, just ten years later, the court ruled in United States v. Windsor that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional — thus striking down the federal statute defining marriage exclusively as the union of a man and a woman.

The Associated Press reports that lawmakers modeledKansas House Bill 2203 — known as the Religious Freedom Preservation Act — after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which originally provided federal religious freedom protections in state courts.

As Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver - based Kennedy Childs, argued in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court «should not overturn the long - standing rule in Colorado that the term «person,» as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alivAs Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver - based Kennedy Childs, argued in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court «should not overturn the long - standing rule in Colorado that the term «person,» as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alivas is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive.

Whitehead notes that many school districts continue to resist the Equal Access Act, passed by Congress seven years ago and upheld as constitutional by an 8 - to - l vote of the Supreme Court.

This Court was specifically mandated to «proceed and act and give relief on principles and rules which, in the opinion of the said Court, shall be as nearly as may be conformable to the principles and rules on which the ecclesiastical courts of Ireland have heretofore acted and given relief» [and] the [Irish] Constitution has inherited and amended this former jurisprudence in matrimonial matters.

That celebration is a bit premature — though as Justice Scalia feared in his dissent from the Court's invalidation of the Defense of Marriage Act's definition of marriage, the second shoe may indeed drop shortly.