Microsoft lawyer Jeff Fisher said defendants could not use this maneuver because they can not voluntarily dismiss a lawsuit if they want to get an automatic
appeal of a decision granting class certification.
Successfully represented financial institution in
appeal of decision granting motion to compel arbitration
Not exact matches
The High Court had
granted the Commonwealth
of Australia special leave to
appeal the
decision in Director, Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate v Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union [2015] FCAFC 59 (1 May 2015), in which the Full Federal Court concluded that they should not have any regard to the figures agreed by the parties in relation to penalties.
Gov. David Paterson said his administration will not
appeal US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn's
decision granting a preliminary injunction to block his furlough plan, and said he will again ask public employee unions to accept a pay lag instead
of moving straight to layoffs.
Today the High Court
of Australia
granted Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and the National Competition Council leave to pursue
appeals in relation to the
decision of the Full Federal Court.
A three - man panel
of the Court
of Appeal led by Justice Helen Ogunwumiju, unanimously agreed with the
decision of Justice A.M. Liman
of the Federal High Court in Enugu that there was no legal basis to
grant the prayer sought by the former Chief Judge.
LAKE GEORGE — In a split
decision, a local entrepreneur was
granted permission Feb. 1 by the Lake George Village Zoning Board
of Appeals to operate an outdoor lighting display that would normally be prohibited under local zoning laws.
Thibodeau's lawyer, Lisa Peebles, said she received notice today that the case can move forward to the Court
of Appeals, which will hear an
appeal of acting Oswego County Judge Daniel King's
decision not to
grant Thibodeau a new trial.
The institute dropped the lawsuit after EPA attorneys argued that the group lacked legal standing to bring the litigation; the agency also pointed to a 1999
decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals that concluded that receipt
of grant money didn't mean that advisory committee members were «susceptible to improper influence.»
In April, the California Court
of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group
of families had challenged the constitutionality
of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically
grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff
decisions.)
The
granting of a superintendent's suspension hearing allows the student charged with an offense to call and cross-examine witnesses, postpone, and
of course
appeal the
decision.
The Office
of Civil Rights receives and processes DBE
appeals regarding certification
decisions made by US DOT
Grant Recipients.
On Wednesday the Caribbean Court
of Justice overturned the
decision of Belize's Court
of Appeal and ordered Government to pay Belize Bank a little over ninety million dollars, an arbitration award that was
granted to the Bank in 2013.
Earlier last week, following the court's final
decision to
grant Prince's
appeal they released this statement as well as an illustrated catalog detailing all thirty works (twenty - five
of which were deemed non-infringing) comparing the work
of Patrick Cariou to that
of the Richard Prince works in question.
That shift was made possible by the 1965 2nd Circuit Court
of Appeals decision, which, for the first time,
granted environmental litigants standing to sue in federal court.
Next month, the Supreme Court is due to hear Owens v Owens, in which Mrs Owens will
appeal the
decision not to
grant her a divorce because the examples she provided
of «unreasonable behaviour» were deemed not «unreasonable» enough.
Recent court
of appeal decisions appear to suggest that the
granting of leave is so restrictive that once a care order has been made there is little prospect
of a parent being
granted permission to defend an adoption and the Legal Services Commission is reluctant to
grant funding to parents to cover such applications.
The Ontario Court
of Appeal decision in December overturned a ruling six months earlier by Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown, who had
granted Chevron a stay in the proceedings on the basis that the case had little hope
of success and that Chevron Canada's assets were not directly owned by Chevron Corp..
Summary judgment was
granted; that
decision was overturned on
appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal; the franchisee then sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which was refused in
appeal to the Ontario Court
of Appeal; the franchisee then sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which was refused in
Appeal; the franchisee then sought leave to
appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which was refused in
appeal to the Supreme Court
of Canada, which was refused in 2010.
The judge who
granted leave to
appeal acknowledged the
decision's «importance to the profession, as well as to the administration
of justice generally», and described the core issue raised by the
decision to be whether «pre-approval to use discovery evidence under one
of the exceptions contained in [Rule 30.1] is or is not required»: S.C. v. N.S., 2017 ONSC 2601 at para. 8.
This is illustrated by the recent
decision of the Ontario Superior Court in SC v. NS, 2017 ONSC 353, from which leave to
appeal was
granted on April 26, 2017.
The courts held that an injunction could be
granted where it was just and proportionate to do so and that a judge hearing an injunction application could not consider the merits
of the planning
decision as this was a matter for the
appeal stage.
The primary focus
of the Federal Court
of Appeal's
decision was on the scope
of the protection
granted by the family status ground
of discrimination in respect
of childcare obligations.
In some child custody and parenting time cases such, as child mobility, change
of schools, denial
of contact or changes
of child parenting time or
decision making powers, a stay
of that order while the
appeal is being readied to be heard can be
granted.
Granting his
appeal, the Supreme Court restored a trial judge's
decision to award the man $ 100,000 in non-pecuniary damages, despite his failure to offer evidence
of a medically recognized psychological illness.
Forcillo had been
granted bail pending the
appeal decision, but he has been behind bars since late last year as a result
of breaching his bail conditions.
However, following submissions made in court today, the Judge
granted permission to the local authorities to argue before the Court
of Appeal that the Government's
decision failed to comply with the SEA Directive and that the Government's failure to reconsult with the local authorities (51M) on their Optimised Alternative to HS2 was unfair and unlawful.
However, in unanimous
decision, the
appeal court upheld the argument
of the counsel to the Attorney - General
of the Federation, Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN) that Justice Abang was held in error in
granting some
of the injunctive reliefs sought by Kashamu upon inadmissible evidence.
In a unanimous
decision, the Supreme Court
of Canada dismissed the
appeal in Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society and ordered the minister
of health to
grant an immediate exemption to the safe injection facility.
The Divisional Court
granted a stay
of the ruling pending its
decision in the
appeal which is scheduled to be heard Jan. 7.
The
decision dismissed the
appeals of the AER and the OWA, which argued that Chief Justice Neil C. Wittmann erred in finding that
Grant Thornton should not have to carry out the abandonment, reclamation and remediation obligations
of Redwater's non-producing wells or perform the abandonment orders as issued by the AER.
In a
decision Tuesday, a three - judge panel from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, affirmed a lower court's
decision not to overturn the verdict or
grant TD Bank a new trial in a lawsuit brought by Texas investment partnership Coquina Investments.
The UK Supreme Court last week handed down its 5 - 2 split
decision upholding the extradition
of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden, but later the same day the Court issued a «Further Statement» explaining it had
granted Assanges's lawyer 14 days to apply re-open the
appeal for further written or oral submissions.
The United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
granted a new hearing this past Friday in Joffe v. Google, Inc., while affirming the
decision in September that denied a motion to dismiss by Google.
Hudson is the first time since I began this blog that the Supreme Court has issued a published
decision dismissing a writ
of certiorari as improvidently
granted for a Court
of Appeals opinion pertaining to family law.
That is the question the Supreme Court
of Canada will decide after
granting leave to
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In the area
of class actions, it is significant that a Respondent may now apply for leave to
appeal from a judgment
of the Superior Court
granting a Motion for Authorization (Certification)(article 578), a move which will likely have an impact on strategy in first instance and Respondents»
decisions whether to consent to authorization and proceed directly on the merits, or not.
The first appellate level
decision to interpret the threshold for a plaintiff to meet to be
granted leave in a secondary market class action since the Supreme Court
decision in Green was issued by the Ontario Court
of Appeal earlier this year.
«TCC claims 2.1 The following are examples
of the types
of claim which it may be appropriate to bring as TCC claims --(a) building or other construction disputes, including claims for the enforcement
of the
decisions of adjudicators under the Housing
Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996; (b) engineering disputes; (c) claims by and against engineers, architects, surveyors, accountants and other specialised advisers relating to the services they provide; (d) claims by and against local authorities relating to their statutory duties concerning the development
of land or the construction
of buildings; (e) claims relating to the design, supply and installation
of computers, computer software and related network systems; (f) claims relating to the quality
of goods sold or hired, and work done, materials supplied or services rendered; (g) claims between landlord and tenant for breach
of a repairing covenant; (h) claims between neighbours, owners and occupiers
of land in trespass, nuisance etc; (i) claims relating to the environment (for example, pollution cases); (j) claims arising out
of fires; (k) claims involving taking
of accounts where these are complicated; and (l) challenges to
decisions of arbitrators in construction and engineering disputes including applications for permission to
appeal and
appeals.»
A
decision not to
grant indefinite leave to remain to a 71 - year - old Nigerian national was
appealed after the judge stated that «the UK is not a retirement home for the rest
of the world».
The Supreme Court overturned the
decision of the Quebec Court
of Appeal and found that the plaintiff did not meet the test to be
granted authorization to proceed with the class action.
The Supreme Court
of Canada has
granted leave to
appeal in a British Columbia
decision involving the right to physician - assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Ct. 2007)- Steve Goldman argued this
appeal, in which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed a
decision (actually revoked its early
grant of certiorari as «improvidently
granted») denying class certification in a statewide overhead and profit class action.
(Order, p. 2) As the court notes in its summary
of the order, an acquittal can issue either when a jury returns a not - guilty verdict, or «when a trial court
grants a defendant's new trial motion for evidentiary insufficiency... or dismisses a case... for evidentiary insufficiency» (Id., pp. 2 — 3) The essence
of the court's
decision is in two parts: (1) The new trial motion should not have been
granted because there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Stern on counts
of conspiracy; and (2) Because the trial court did not rule on the majority
of the issues raised in Stern's motion for a new trial, those issues have yet to be decided, and should be addressed on remand by the court
of appeals.
Critical to the
decision of the Court
of Appeal was the wording
of cl 1
of the lease which set out the term
granted in the following way: «from and including 1 January 2003 to 28 September 2004 (hereinafter called «the term» which expression shall include any period
of holding over or extension
of it whether by statute or at common law or by agreement)...» Rimmer LJ, who gave the only substantive judgment in the case, referred to the words in brackets in this clause as «the words
of extension».
That is not a problem because the Supreme Court's mandate, having
granted leave, is to make the
decision that ought to have been made by the lower court from which the
appeal comes; or order a new trial if that is the proper
decision (if the
decision appealed from was «against the weight
of the evidence); or remand the
appeal or any part
of the
appeal to the court
appealed from for additional consideration in accordance with the direction
of the Court: the Supreme Court
of Canada Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. S - 26, ss.
The proposed
appeal involves matters
of such importance that leave to
appeal should be
granted,» said Lederer in his Sept. 12
decision.
The Ontario Court
of Appeal did not agree: Rouleau J.A. overturned the lower court
decision,
granted Mr. Figueiras declaratory relief, and awarded costs in the amount
of $ 5,000.00.
On the legal custody issue, the Court
of Appeals agreed with my client that the family court erred in finding he did not have final
decision - making authority under the previous order, finding that the old order «implicitly
granted him final
decision - making authority by virtue
of granting him primary legal custody.»
De Grandis v. De Grandis (1990), 48 B.C.L.R. (2d) 53 (S.C.) settles the issue that an
appeal of master's
decision to
grant or deny interim spousal support should not be interfered with unless it is clearly wrong.