Sentences with phrase «against the case brought»

Mr Hogan - Howe has a mild reputation for authoritarianism after he spoke out against the case brought against the Met for the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and the downgrading of cannabis from class B to C.

On the basis of «CREATOR principles» previously set by the SoA, demands include that authors should receive «at least» 50 % of the revenue from e-book sales, «not a mere 25 %» they do currently, that authors don't have their «hands tied with contracts that can not be terminated when a book is no longer being exploited», for publishers to drop non-compete clauses and for indemnity clauses, often included to help protect publishers financially against cases brought on the basis of plagarism and libel, «to spread the risk fairly between the publisher and the author».

In any event would a concern for overuse of the courts be available as an argument against cases brought by those with little real connection to the forum?

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, May 1 - A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.

His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

Only shareholders who vote against a merger are entitled to bring an appraisal suit, and a fairly small number did in Dell's case.

The strongly worded ruling from Judge Leon was in a case brought against the governors of the Federal Reserve by a group of plaintiffs including the National Association of Convenience Stores, the National Retail Federation, the Food Marketing Institute, Miller Oil Co., Boscov's Department Store and the National Restaurant Association.

Hogan brought the case against Gawker in 2012, after the media site published an excerpt of a Hogan sex tape.

Until now, significant cases have not been brought against mutual funds although the law applies equally in each case.

Labor laws France not only levied fines against Uber and its managers but also brought a criminal case over unlicensed taxi operations.

The Philippines brought an arbitration case in 2013 over the South China Sea, eventually lodging 15 claims against China related to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea — a critical piece of international law that both countries have ratified.

They have brought a case of fraud against him claiming that they have had their money stolen.

He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted in a pending criminal case — one of several prosecutions brought against him.

Of the five lawsuits filed against DOL, a Topeka, Kansas court will hold the first hearing on Aug. 24 in the case brought by insurer Market Synergy.

A hearing in NAFA's case is scheduled for Aug. 25; the hearing in the case brought by insurer Market Synergy against DOL was set to take place on Aug. 24, but it has been pushed back to Sept. 21.

On October 13, 2017, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed a case brought by the blockchain firm R3 Holdco against Ripple Labs, another company active in the space, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit.

Mr. Lighthizer brought such trade cases against foreign actors for decades as a lawyer for the steel industry, and he has criticized the World Trade Organization for interfering in what he sees as the United States» efforts to enforce its own laws.

The case involved a claim of attempted monopolization levied against Uber, brought by the Philadelphia Taxi Association and a number of individual taxi drivers.

The first oral arguments in the string of lawsuits filed against DOL's fiduciary rule were heard on Aug. 25 by Judge Randolph Moss, U.S. District judge for the District of Columbia, in the case brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

That said, the SEC has brought a number of cases against blatant fraudsters in the cryptocurrency markets as well as against ICOs that clearly fall under the scope of securities law (e.g., Munchee).

Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents and investigating whether the group bears criminal responsibility for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cyber-tools, according to people familiar with the case.

We believe that market - rigging tactics of which banking institutions have been repeatedly accused — and, in many cases, are legal defendants in actions brought against them — have been disguised but are still widely practiced.

Additionally, Mr. Harder has brought two new cases against Gawker that seem puzzling.

A look at economic developments and stock market activity around the world Wednesday: ------ WASHINGTON — Financial firms that play a dominant role in the energy futures market brought their case against broad limits on speculative trading to...

But in recent weeks, in the face of several new lawsuits brought against Gawker that are unrelated to Mr. Hogan's case and seem to personally attack certain Gawker writers, Mr. Denton is having second thoughts.

The legal case brought by Benchmark against Kalanick was not formally ended as part of this deal, but might happen in the near future if the deal finalizes.

He said a chief reason the S.E.C. doesn't often bring cases against senior individuals is that they are unlikely to settle.

The NAFA case is one of several that financial industry groups and business advocates brought against the rule.

However, some commentators have suggested that Gareth Lee who brought the case against the Ashers is a member of a secular activist group.

A review of Kierkegaard's treatment of the temporal «moment of vision» or «instant» (Augenblick) in this work is probably the best insulation against supposing too quickly that what Heidegger means to bring out about Dasein by insisting that in each case we «are» it is the simple subjective immediacy of psychic life.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

Her attorney, Saif ul Malook, based the appeal on the argument that the person who brought the case against Bibi, a local cleric, should not have been allowed to do so since he didn't hear the blasphemy first - hand.

In Bring Up the Bodies, he pulls her down, building a case against her and beheading her for adultery.

The failure was particularly egregious in notorious cases when canonical action was not brought against serial child abusers.

But you can always make a case that every person has the potential to make society better or more advanced and bringing harm to another human being should be against the law.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

By Christmas, dozens of cases were brought against Christians and members of other religions, and though some have been dismissed, arrests and fines have been made in about half of all cases.

The note, which appeared in Wednesday's Daily Telegraph, says: «The notion that a criminal case could be brought against Lord Carey is so bizarre that we can only surmise that the object of the persistent pressure that brings these public attacks is not only Lord Carey but what he represents of biblically faithful Christianity.»

Before the federal court as we write is a case brought by the U.S. Attorney against a co-op building on the Lower East Side for refusing a woman permission to keep a stray pit bull she adopted.

«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

While the Crown Prosecution Service admitted that evidence did exist to bring a case against the two doctors, it decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute.

Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»

Undaunted, the supposed guardians of civil liberties — except the free exercise of religion, it seems — recently brought a case against a Catholic hospital for refusing to permit doctors to perform an elective hysterectomy as part of a sex - reassignment surgery.

In recent years the International Court of Justice — the World Court — has ruled against the U.S. in human rights cases brought by Nicaragua and Paraguay.

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

Not many of the cases have held against street preachers or against Christian preaching being classified as hate speech... but the very fact that these cases are being brought and that there are real cases of teachers being sacked or from the health service... I think it is under threat, yes.»

If you truly do not recognize the Const!tution as being the Supreme Law that governs your physical life here in this country, then you have some options, like giving up your Citizenship and moving to a different country, or staying here and refusing to follow the law — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.