Sentences with phrase «appellate courts»

The news comes as a large number of ERISA lawsuits are playing out in the district and appellate courts across the U.S., testing whether 403 (b) plan sponsors of major universities have sufficiently exercised their bargaining power or allowed inefficient recordkeeping arrangements to persist over long periods of time.

Trial and appellate courts both dismissed the tax credit scholarship case after concluding the union and other groups backing it (including the NAACP and League of Women Voters) could not show the program harmed public schools.

Unfortunately for students, appellate courts in California and North Carolina have just handed teacher union bosses -LSB-...]

Since then, a high - profile court battle ensued, resulting in a Superior Court judge finding that the program violates the state's constitutional mandate to use public funds only for public schools — but thanks to a Court of Appeals ruling last month, the state must disburse school vouchers that have already been awarded while the case winds its way through the state appellate courts.

The Illinois state supreme court, in declining to hear further challenges, affirmed the appellate courts» rulings.

The trial and appellate courts had held that the Lobato was not appropriate for judicial resolution, since Colorado's constitution clearly commits control over the issue to the legislature, and because there are no judicially manageable standards that the courts could apply.

In the Myspace cases, appellate courts held that the fake pages did not create a substantial disruption and thus couldn't be punished.

It is thus significant that the number of cases reaching state and federal appellate courts has surged back up to levels attained during the early 1970s when civil rights cases had a central place on the national political agenda (see Figure 1).

«Governor Paterson's appointment of Richard Ravitch as Lieutenant Governor is legally sound and we are confident the appellate courts will ultimately rule in our favor,» said the governor's communications director, Peter E. Kauffmann.

«The Supreme Court has acted well in setting the standard and precedence for proper interpretation of our electoral procedures,» noting that with the standard set by the apex court, «the contradictory verdicts experienced in the appellate courts will not repeat itself in the years ahead.»

He had the 5,300 - pound granite monument installed in the building housing the state appellate courts in August 2001, and a lawsuit ensued shortly afterward.

An election case that reaches the appellate courts can cost clients between $ 5,000 and $ 15,000 in attorney fees, according to Greig — a hefty price tag for a chance to be elected to an unpaid position.

I'm very grateful that the appellate courts agreed with me, but I could have used a better choice of words to describe by reaction to the original decision.»

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

«We consider this a VERY big victory for the WEP, as now all three appellate courts to hear the issue agree with us that the Gold WEP rules govern the operation of the WEP,» said Steven C. Russo, an attorney for Greenberg Traurig, which argued the cases for the governor's allies.»

Pigott, an Army veteran who was an interpreter in Vietnam before returning to New York, came up through the trial and appellate courts, and was appointed to the Court of Appeals by Gov. George Pataki.

This office is also responsible for all post-conviction litigation in the state and federal appellate courts.

This office provides prosecutors to all local, county, state and specialty courts that maintain a criminal docket and we respond to all post-conviction litigation brought by defendants in the county, state and federal appellate courts.

Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos was paid between $ 150,000 and $ 250,000 from his outside employment as an attorney with business before state appellate courts on Long Island.

In several cases, Bharara expanded the definition of misappropriated information so much that it appeared — at least according to the appellate courts — to criminalize information that the trader might not have known was stolen in the first place.

And again, rulings can be appealed through appellate courts, potentially up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which would have the final say as per Article III.

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What appears to have been a carefully crafted strategy then unfolded: The state authorities acted; Griswold and Buxton were charged, tried, convicted, and fined $ 100 each; and the lower court decision was upheld by the relevant Connecticut appellate courts (including the splendidly named «Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors»).

Results will include opinions issued by the SEC and federal appellate courts that relate to FINRA disciplinary actions that have been appealed.

«But there is going to need to be some major lawsuits or decisions by federal courts, appellate courts or more to decide what are acceptable practices online for a real shift to take place.

Both the trial and appellate courts first looked at the isolated moment of the shooting and concluded the force was reasonable.

The team also includes highly experienced trial attorneys with extensive experience in trial and appellate courts and arbitration proceedings, and veteran practitioners who regularly litigate high - stakes, «bet the company» matters.

On Friday, however, an appellate court in Rome ruled to give Uber a little bit more time.

Nicastro then took his case to the state's intermediate appellate court.

The appellate court ruling could open the door for internet providers to charge different rates based on the content people download.

«Today's ruling is a major milestone in our efforts to recover damages for our investors,» said James Dondero, co-founder and president of Highland Capital Management, L.P. «We are pleased the appellate court recognized the harm caused to our investors by Credit Suisse's fraud and breaches of contract.»

«Now the appellate court will need to review errors» made by the judge, attorney John Beisner said in an e-mailed statement.

According to a U.S. appellate court, the public can now begin suing the company for its practice, which a group of iPhone users claim as anticompetitive.

World Watch Monitor reports that Bibi's attorney Naeem Shakir challenged the testimony of the women who feuded with Bibi, arguing to the appellate court that their testimony had been hearsay because the complainant in the case had not heards Bibi's words himself.

A Chinese Christian's hopes for asylum in America now have new life, after an appellate court overturned a denial from a judge who found that the applicant's answers to questions about Christianity were «hesitant» and «evasive.»

When the case was heard by the appellate court, the prosecutor pushed for a lengthier sentence, arguing that Green's sermon was extreme.

The decision was later overruled by an appellate court, but the case sparked a firestorm.

Noonan wrote a dissent from the appellate court's opinion that the firm could not require its employees to attend company prayer services, even though the owners allowed them to sleep, read, or otherwise ignore the service so long as they were present.

«Once you get a decision like this, it's open season,» John Burns, the Canadian lawyer who represented the group at a Moscow appellate court, told The New York Times.

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

The appellate court granted the Writ of Kalikasan and ordered for the permanent stopping of Bt - talong field trials in the country.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and other groups today filed a brief with a federal appellate court explaining that a district court judge erred in refusing to block implementation of Vermont's law mandating warning labels on products with ingredients from genetically engineered (GE) plants.

An Illinois appellate court has upheld a ruling that most of the 230 - acre lake bed of Crystal Lake belongs to the Crystal Lake Park District.

But according to the motion filed Friday, the appellate court ignored the words of Cook County Circuit Judge Dorothy Kinnaird, who said the state had «virtually no chance of success» in its lawsuit.

An Illinois appellate court panel eventually sided with the opponents, and ruled in early May that the school had to stop construction.

CRYSTAL LAKE — An Illinois appellate court has upheld a ruling that most of the 230 - acre lake bed of Crystal Lake belongs to the Crystal Lake Park District.

Just last May, an Illinois appellate court upheld a ruling that most of the 230 - acre lake bed of Crystal Lake belongs to the Park District.

Latin has finished construction of more than half of the $ 2 million artificial soccer field.The one - paragraph ruling from the appellate court says no construction or excavation can occur on the field until a decision is reached by the Cook County Circuit Court.

The private school had completed more than half of the artificial field north of LaSalle Drive and west of Lake Shore Drive when an Illinois appellate court ruled this week that the school must cease construction.

In a 1984 fight between Lake in the Hills and Crystal Lake over the property that is now the Lake in the Hills Airport, an appellate court judge ruled that the first valid eminent domain nullified subsequent condemnation efforts.