Sentences with phrase «appeal their cases on»

The Justice Department is appealing the case on behalf of the White House.

Menendez is appealing his case on the grounds that he is protected by the so - called «speech or debate clause,» which prohibits prosecutions of congressmen for legislative activity.

Through the site, veterans can either appeal their cases on their own or request a free attorney to help with the appeal.

There were two major Court of Appeal cases on the English Land Transfer Acts 1875 and 1897, Capital and Counties Bank, Limited v. Rhodes, [1903] 1 Ch.

Elizabeth - Anne Gumbel QC and Justin Levinson in key Court of Appeal case on liability of Catholic church for abuse by its priests - Mar 2010

Cloisters has always been at the cutting edge of clinical negligence law, playing a lead role in many of the major cases such as A v Powys Local Health Board (# 10.7 m), the highest ever clinical negligence award at trial and the first to break through the # 10m barrier; Masterman - Lister v Brutton & Co and others, the leading Court of Appeal case on capacity; Iqbal v Whipps Cross University NHS Trust leading Court of Appeal case regarding compensation for the «lost years» and the doctrine of precedent; Crofton v NHSLA in respect of the impact of local authority payments on damages for care; and Lucas v Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust, the leading case on disclosure of draft witness statements and expert reports.

It is the leading modern Court of Appeal case on good faith in commercial contracts.

We suggest that our powerful Ontario Real Estate Association or Toronto Real Estate Board should take the responsibility to appeal the case on behalf of the broker / owner.

Not exact matches

In an emailed statement, a Gawker spokesman said that nothing has changed, and that the company has «always said we're exploring contingency plans of various sorts» in case the Hogan judgment is upheld on appeal.

From a purely financial point of view, there may have been companies and investors who were willing to buy a stake in Gawker before Peter Thiel's involvement became public on the assumption that it might win the Hogan case on appeal or that damages might be reduced.

The jury spent a total of just 14 hours in the penalty phase of the trial after finding Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 criminal counts, but an automatic appeal means his case will drag on.

Still, experts said those comments were likely to hurt the government's case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard arguments on Tuesday night over whether the TRO should be upheld while the order's legality is established.

Separately on Tuesday, a judge for the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled narrowly in favor of the subsidies in a case called David King.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

We hold workshops on how to conduct case interviews that appeal to business consultants.

Biotechnology entrepreneur William Ardrey faces a retrial on fraud charges after Western Australia's Court of Appeal found the jury had been misdirected in the original court case.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

Even if Schneiderman does take the case to court, it will probably go through years of appeals through the New York system, with the case going in front of 13 judges who will each have their take on what constitutes gambling.

On Ash Whitaker's second to last day of high school, he learned that he had won a major civil rights case at a federal appeals court.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

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.

While the case is expected to be appealed by either losing side, it will nevertheless have implications for the emerging class of on - demand services.

A New York Court of Appeals is set to hear a case brought by Microsoft in response to a search warrant for emails that are on a server in Ireland.

The case: a federal appeals court's decision to strike down Illinois» ban on carrying concealed weapons, according to the Associated Press.

And there is a chance that this number will fall further depending on the outcome of the appeal in another case — Gillette v. Uber Technologies, Inc..

Despite the fact that at least five of the judges involved in the two appeal court judgements were originally appointed to lower courts by Brian Mulroney's Conservative government, Harper insisted: «It was the government that decided to put the judges on the bench, the government that decided not to appeal, the government that decided to lose the case and the government that decided not to come back to Parliament.

DUBLIN Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe's top court by requesting a last - ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential ban on the legal instrument it uses to transfer users» data to the United States.

An Ontario Court of Appeal justice has warned against «summary judgment at all costs» in her dissent of a ruling on the application of the doctrine of emergency in a personal injury case.

A U.S. appeals court vacated the conviction of former Jefferies Group trader Jesse Litvak, the latest turn in a case that has spanned more than five years and helped usher in changes to sales tactics on Wall Street.

The provincial government filed a reference case Thursday in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether amendments it is proposing to the Environmental Management Act are valid and if they give the province the authority to control the shipment of heavy oils based on the impact spills could have on the environment, human health or communities.

Qualcomm has appealed the South Korean fine in court and contends the FTC's case, which was filed in the waning days of the Obama administration, is based on a flawed legal theory and fails to show harm.

Gawker CEO Nick Denton has long said that he plans to win the case further down the line, on appeal.

Sentencing one to a prison term for a currency that's unrecognized will be a first and this case could (potentially) be appealed on such grounds.

DUBLIN (Reuters)- Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe's top court by requesting a last - ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential ban on the legal instrument it uses to transfer users» data to the United States.

But when the courts dallied, the new cabinet voted to deny GMR the right to operate the airport, and on December 6, 2012, the Singapore Court of Appeals — where the case was being considered — gave the green light for the government to take over.

An appeals court in Georgia on Monday affirmed a lower court's denial of Coinbase's appeal of the case, which blames the company for failing to stop Cryptsy's -LSB-...]

An Indian generic drug company on Monday urged a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that revived a patent infringement case against Google LLC, saying the ruling could spur «vexatious lawsuits» by makers of brand - name pharmaceutical products.

He has been instrumental in some of the Firm's biggest successes, such as In re Comverse Technology, Inc., in which Pomerantz obtained one of the largest recoveries for shareholders from an individual; and In re Chesapeake Shareholder Derivative Litig., which came to fruition thanks to Mr. Gross» diligence in pressing for the case to be heard on appeal.

However, faced with two irreconcilable lines of cases, the district court requested that the Ninth Circuit resolve the conflict on interlocutory appeal.

«As the case is subject to appeal, the University of Sheffield will not comment on this case at this time.»

Update (Jan. 16): Pakistan's Supreme Court has dismissed a final appeal in against Rimsha Masih in her blasphemy case, effectively ending all legal proceedings on the issue.

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.

The political use of Hindutva has survived several court cases, most notably a major one in 1995 brought by those who felt that its allure was primarily religious in nature and hence violated India's constitution, which prohibits candidates from appealing to voters exclusively on religious grounds.

On January 20, a federal appeals court heard arguments in the highly publicized case of Kimberly Jean «Kim» Davis, county clerk of Rowan County (population 23,000) in mountainous northeastern Kentucky.

Their case is now on appeal.

There are many different kinds of experiences we could appeal to and analyze in connection with this first line of criticism — let me assume that I have made my position clear enough for the reader to go on and work out the kind of analysis I would provide in each of these cases.

Here again I appeal to Susanne Langer's evidence, which consists largely in noting cases of irrational fear on the part of chimpanzees, fear that can not be explained either by instinct or by learning.

But by the time Brandeis memorialized his arguments in his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, the first wiretap case, the focus on factual circumstances has disappeared, replaced by a broader appeal to constitutional «values»:

There is literally no way that anyone can prove that anyone who claims to be acting on God's commands isn't — you can't even appeal to the Bible to tell you it must be wrong because god said in there not to do it, because even on the Bible he routinely commands people to do things in specific cases that are otherwise forbidden.

On the other hand, I would concur with James Felt that the thesis has a prima facie appeal to it because in that case one would be able to consider «the perceptual unities of ordinary experience as ontological unities» (PS 10:59).