Sentences with phrase «appellate decisions»

Follow court decisions in significant cases such as two recent appellate decisions in recruitment cases, as well as a court's determination that data providers must foot the bill for redaction of personal information.

It has almost all of the characteristics of the adversarial litigation system — counsel present on both sides, a process focused mainly on resolving the substantive issues according to the statutory law and appellate decisions, and a third party neutral whose main experience has been in deciding adversarial cases in an imposed process.

However, each statute which attempted to raise grandparents» rights to the level of parents» rights has been struck down by the Florida Supreme Court and appellate decisions as violating the fundamental rights of parents.

The course will employ a «case method» — not the typical study of appellate decisions on particular issues but a «full» case method that examines entire cases, from dispute to filing to trial to appeals and beyond.

One also finds dateless statutory citations in the appellate decisions and briefs from such prominent states as California, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

He has appeared as counsel in more than 100 reported appellate decisions.

This link will take you to a CanLII search result for appellate decisions across Canada over the past year (Sept. 2014 — Sept. 2015).

In addition there are states that while not making such a declaration nonetheless maintain reliable online collections of final, citable copies of their appellate decisions as Oklahoma did prior to 2014.

The Oklahoma judiciary is not the first to declare electronic versions of its appellate decisions «official.»

Illinois appellate decisions (as well as those of several other states) demonstrate the comparative advantages of such an approach.

Even systems that boast comprehensiveness probably do not have trial court decisions for all the jurisdictions for which they have appellate decisions.

I've now added four more such Twitter accounts, so you can now use Twitter to stay fairly current with appellate decisions from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nova Scotia.

The remaining lawyers will focus on truly complex, unusual transactions; the little regulation that tech has not been able to circumvent; and litigation over law (just what you thought you would do when you were reading all those appellate decisions in law school, remember?)

Lots of «scholarly» skills, to be sure, like how to decipher appellate decisions, work on an appellate brief, and similar purportedly brain - expanding efforts.

There were some appellate decisions which should have caused judges to rethink how they were using Athey material contribution.

This may result in more appellate decisions, such that abuse / comity may give way to standard stare decisis principles (with lower court judges simply following binding legal findings from the FCA).

Louis Flannery reviews two important appellate decisions showing judicial support for arbitration

We have obtained numerous appellate decisions in the area of municipal law.

In the last month, we've seen two more appellate decisions definitively rejecting the idea of some sort of separate cause of action — apart from warning or design defect — for «failure to test,» whatever that might be.

And the range of materials goes well beyond the federal appellate decisions that dominate a typical casebook.

Slip opinions are issued Fridays after 9:00 a.m. and are retained on the court's website until they are published in the official reporter of Alaska appellate decisions - Pacific Reporter (P. 2d and P. 3d), and the Alaska Reporter, which contains the Alaska cases excerpted from P. 2d and P. 3d.

Several of his Superior Court trials have generated very important appellate decisions including Commonwealth v. Vinnie, 429 Mass. 161 (1998), Commonwealth v. Greineder, 458 Mass. 207 (2010), Commonwealth v. Mendes, 406 Mass. 201 (1989)(Polygraph), Lipchiz vs. Ratheon Company, 434 Mass. 413 (2001)(employment discrimination), Commercial Union vs. Boston Symphony Orchestra, 406 Mass. 7 (1989)(insurer's duty to defend).

Case - Related Orders issued by the Supreme Court are posted to the court's website on the day they are released, and are retained until they are published in the official reporter of Alaska appellate decisions - Pacific Reporter (P. 2d and P. 3d), and the Alaska Reporter, which contains the Alaska cases excerpted from P. 2d and P. 3d.

Several Kentucky appellate decisions make a distinction about comments made by a lawyer in a pending case, and statements made after the conclusion of a case.

This feature allows lawyers to quickly scan over the important issues raised in appellate decisions for the week, and when the user finds a case that relates to their practice they can immediately call up the full text of the case.

This is not a game for pseudo-dilettantes to pretend they get how this works by reading it in appellate decisions and on the internet.

Madam Justice Newbury considered other appellate decisions in which both an original tribunal decision and a reconsideration were at issue.

Citing appellate decisions from Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland, the insured successfully argued that modern jurisprudence was in favour of awarding special costs in favour of insured who are successful in coverage actions.

Our newish lawyers who have been practicing for less than five years will summarize recent appellate decisions in order for us to remain current.

[14] These «clearly established principles of law» do not emanate solely from precedential appellate decisions, but rather «can derive from a variety of legal sources, including recent controlling case law, rules of court, statutes, and constitutional law.»

Defeated class certification of Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA) and implied warranty claims in federal court cases involving claims against airplane part manufacturer and dental implant manufacturer; Defense of automotive class actions has led to several appellate decisions making certification of such claims very difficult in Florida.

There is a common complaint among attorneys who do appeals that they do not recognize the fact pattern described in their appellate decisions.

Lawmakers pass new laws every legislative session and appellate courts hand down new appellate decisions at a rapid pace.

Hopefully, the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court will revisit the application of the common - fund doctrine in light of recent appellate decisions that suggest the hospital lien codified in OCGA 44-14-470 is no different that traditional equitable, «shoe - stepping» subrogation.

You can receive regular summaries of appellate decisions in your preferred practice area and jurisdiction with Casemaker Digest.

IGGillis is one of the few appellate decisions on CIP in Canada, and among the clearest statements on its reach.

The experience of our lawyers has resulted in successful appellate decisions and innovative changes to our law.

John has also had substantial appellate experience, and been involved in a significant number of reported appellate decisions.

Fred convinced the Ohio Supreme court to put an end to the destruction and withholding of internal police investigative files, in Police Officers for Equal Rights v. City of Columbus, and has won numerous monetary awards and appellate decisions protecting and requiring the disclosure of records under Ohio's public records laws.

A review of major patent appellate decisions over the last year by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Canter has obtained favorable trial and appellate decisions as well as settlements benefiting his clients.

It's a step by step guide for finding statutes and appellate decisions to support your case.

Our Court's position on the ex post facto issue is at odds with appellate decisions in other states.

But, based solely on the appellate decisions covered here, one might think that this site is restricted to class action topics.

While it is true that the bulk of appellate decisions mentioned on this blog relate to class actions, that has more to do with the fact that class actions are an easily «ascertained» subset of complex litigation than any decision to limit coverage of other «complex litigation» decisions.

This blog discusses this defense and two appellate decisions explaining this defense.

But prior appellate decisions have held that the question of whether an action is statute - barred is a question of mixed fact and law.

Members of the group monitor state and federal appellate courts in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States, to report breaking appellate decisions important to our clients.

Although I have previously argued that the Piresferreira decision was legally wrong and, in fact, contrary to other appellate decisions including Sulz v. Canada, 2006 BCCA 582 and Queen v. Cognos, (the Supreme Court of Canada did not disturb or address the trial judge's award of $ 5,000 in damages for «emotional stress» in its decision in Queen v. Cognos Inc., [1993] 1 SCR 87,) this post will focus on a different issue: whether the decision highlights the differences to which claims of a hostile work environment can be put.

I mentioned public.resource.org last year, but since then, it has grown to include 50 years of federal appellate decisions and 20 percent of all the information available on PACER, the federal courts» archaic document management system.