Sentences with phrase «appellate ruling reversing»
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D - New Jersey, has filed a new motion to dismiss corruption charges against him, finding hope in last week's appellate ruling reversing the bribery conviction of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
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A state appellate court in July unanimously reversed a lower court ruling and dismissed the case.
Fields, who ruled the opposite in 2015 and was reversed by the appeals court, refused Friday to stay the appellate decision.
The Texas Supreme Court, reversing the appellate court, ruled that this anomaly was just the tip of a troubling iceberg.
A Florida appellate court recently reversed a lower court's ruling that when the amount of the judgment in a tort case is modified on appeal, post-trial interest must accrue from the date of the verdict rather than from the date of the original judgment.
The ruling that makes clear that an appellate court can reverse a guidelines sentence, even when it is followed by the trial judge, implies far more latitude to deviate from the guidelines when the trial judge disagrees with the way the guidelines work in a particular case.
Co-wrote an appellate brief whereby the federal district court reversed a bankruptcy court and ruled that an architect could bring a third - party claim involving a large public project against a consultant who had previously obtained a discharge in bankruptcy.
Although this ruling was reversed on appeal, the appellate court directed entry of an attorney's fees award of only $ 1.4 million, based on the trial court's alternative finding that the prevailing party was not entitled to several million dollars in legal fees.
The appellate court did not address whether the evidence should have been admitted by the district court, affirming the lower ruling based on the plaintiffs» inability to show that they were prejudiced by the lower court's evidentiary ruling, a showing that is necessary for the appellate court to reverse the lower decision.
The Court reversed the rulings of the trial and appellate courts and remanded Lawson's case for a new trial based on the above standard.
In the end, the appellate court reversed the trial court's ruling terminating Wife's spousal maintenance but found the trial court did not consider Husbands» alternative request to modify Wife's spousal maintenance.
In the first comprehensive appellate decision interpreting Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1042.3 - 1042.6, Pennsylvania's tort reform measure intended to increase the threshold of merit for professional liability actions, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed the ruling of the trial court and remanded for the entry of judgment as a matter of law in favor of John's client, a physician, based upon the plaintiff's failure to file a certificate of merit in support of his medical malpractice claim.
First, its meager support in Texas precedent was blown away when the Texas Supreme Court unanimously reversed the «appellate court» decision that Murthy had followed and just an unanimously adopted the learned intermediary rule:
notable rulings from lower state appellate courts (both affirming and reversing long prison sentences) that I have not seen.
The Eighth Circuit granted discretionary appellate review under Rule 23 (f) and reversed both the order on the motion to dismiss and the class certification ruling, remanding with direction to dismiss the complaint.
That motion judge's ruling was reversed by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey (our intermediate appellate court), ruling that giving such a presumption in favor of the custodial parent is improper in cases where the children's surname was chosen by the parties at the birth of each child and especially in cases where the parents share joint legal custody.
However, the ruling was reversed by the state's appellate court.
The trial court ruled in favor of the City, but the appellate court reversed and found the TUF to be an impermissible excise tax.
The Lender and the Appraiser appealed, and the appellate court affirmed the compensatory damages but reversed the lower court's punitive damage ruling.
The trial court found in favor of the buyer, but on appeal, the appellate court reversed that ruling.
The Broker appealed this ruling, and the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously reversed the appellate court.
The appellate court reversed the trial court's ruling, determining that the Broker had potential liability in his capacity as owner, president, or designated officer / broker for Crank's actions because the Broker's duty to conform with the Act was non-delegable.
The appellate court reversed the trial court, determining that the Co-op did have the power to eject the Shareholder, so long as it followed its own rules and acted in good faith while furthering its corporate purpose.
Initially the trial court awarded damages to the buyers, but the ruling was reversed by the state appellate court and upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court.
Buyer appealed the trial court's ruling, and the appellate court reversed and assessed the costs of the appeal against the Managing Broker.
The Supreme Court of Washington has partially reversed the rulings of the appellate court in Svendsen v. Stock, a case previously summarized in The Letter of the Law.