Sentences with phrase «big cases involving»

The court has already heard — but not decided — big cases involving immigration, abortion, affirmative action and public employee unions.

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That was a big deal, legally speaking, because gender stereotyping was key to one of the biggest Supreme Court cases upholding federal anti-discrimination laws, involving a woman's inability to make partner at the former accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

The business leaders involved, however, have a history of big, bold moves, and in many cases they've worked together before.

It's tricky to select a jury that won't be biased when the court case involves one of the biggest bands in the world.

In the theoretical example of Germany and Ireland, the Irish regulators no longer would automatically have the biggest say, while German regulators — who generally take a harder line than do their Irish counterparts — would be able to more effectively push their views in cases involving companies likGoogle (GOOG) and Facebook (FB).

The case has a David and Goliath element, pointing to controversy involving big banks and their role in an ongoing home foreclosure crisis and a stalled recovery of the feeble real estate market.

Especially in the latter case but also in the former, however, it's not typical for whole neighborhoods to be targeted in fraudulent cases, as that is (a) a lot riskier than doing something to your own property both in terms of getting caught in the first place as well as the penalties you will incur, (b) makes you at most part of something apparently bigger and denies the fraudster of the unique victimhood they seek and (c) in the case of insurance fraud, involves damaging things you can't collect on.

In this first big case, Cordelia becomes involved with the people she encounters, making herself vulnerable.

Abu Kaf said that «most cases involving big events are based on investigations and no tangible evidence.

In this case, the drama involves the fate of a big Chicago food company, Hillshire Brands, but the apparent outcome, while unsettling for employees, isn't a tragedy.

Unless it involves sexual preferences, religious beliefs, the right to die with dignity or recreational substance use, in which case they are major supporters of intrusive big government.

This was based in part on a view that this case was bigger than the individuals involved and in part on the understanding of the law, when this case began, that even such egregious deception as that carried out by the police officers concerned was not sufficient to allow such a claim.

I hope those Fabian members and other Next Left readers who are not already part of the Avaaz network will look at getting involved in this campaign and the other initiatives and campaigns: the case for sustained and positive civic pressure over time is massively important in between the big summits which hit the headlines.

According to a recent filing in the federal case, prosecutors have sought records from more than a dozen individuals, companies and campaign accounts that were not named in a 2016 indictment that alleged key officials and developers were involved in rigging bids for some of the state's biggest projects.

Thursday, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara threw that book first, charging 9 people in a sweeping corruption case involving Cuomo biggest economic development projects in Buffalo, Syracuse, and elsewhere.

The Supreme Court, hearing its biggest - ever case on the issue of global warming, spent half of its time Tuesday indulging in a desire to keep the federal courts involved in such cases, and half the time addressing the seeming reality that such a case would simply not be manageable as a lawsuit.

In today's SkaDate Dating Software digest: Queen Sofia of Spain gets involved in a notorious case featuring dating site advertisement, big names compete in online dating business, while UK's largest internet dating company is exposed of creating fake profiles to make users pay for the service.

In fact, online romance scams are big business in Canada in 2015 there were 990 reported cases of romance fraud, involving 672 victims who.

The Big Lebowski is the funniest movie ever created, the Coen Brothers deliver one of their best movies about a slacker caught up in a case of mistaken identity that leads him into a ludicrous situation involving kidnap.

Rob Legato, an effects supervisor, told the Hollywood Reporter that in the future, actors involved in big - budget blockbusters might need to have a variety of facial expressions digitally scanned, in case something were to happen.

By the halfway point, with guns still blasting, strippers cowering (yes, one of the many situations they must deal with during the day involves two armed men in a nightclub full of bikini - clad women) and Ben's video game «skills» suddenly providing clues in the big case, I'm beginning to sense the blitheness of my optimism.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 24, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Changeling (R for profanity, violence and disturbing content) Clint Eastwood directs this psychological thriller, set in L.A., inspired by events arising in 1928 during a real life case involving a single - mom (Angelina Jolie) whose hopes for the safe return of her kidnapped nine year - old (Gattlin Griffith) were seemingly answered but then dashed when she realized that the boy brought to her was not her son.

The setup is different, but the basic premise is the same, involving an adult who enrolls in college and turns into the big man — or woman, in this case — on campus.

Synopsis: When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.

AGATHA PASSED ON STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Tom Donaghy (w, ep), Mark Gordon (ep), Nick Pepper (ep), Michael McDonald (ep), Jace Alexander (d) LOGLINE: A character - driven procedural about a former convict - turned - big - city criminologist who is brought in to help local police crack a case involving a perplexing disappearance.

We talked with the B&N legal team last week about the recent DOJ case involving the big six publishers and Apple, I talk about one of the motions in court they are filing to stop the settlement from the three companies that bowed out of the court case a few months ago.

As is the case in lawsuits involving major corporations having to pay monetary damages to their customers, the payouts from the Apple and Big Five ebook price fixing scandal will be slow in coming.

The case involves allegations that Apple and its late CEO Steve Jobs organized a conspiracy with the Big Six publishers to introduce a commission - style pricing system in order to wrest pricing power from Amazon.

This was just the latest in a string of big, public cases of insider trading, many involving hedge funds, traders, or other Wall Street insiders.

This is the least passenger - affecting move as it will involve replacing the big staircase towards the front of the aircraft with a smaller one and moving it adjacent to the stair case leading down to the crew quarters.

But the big reason is that I just upgraded my PC with a brand new XFX R9 290 graphics card, a process which involved me getting a new power supply to run everything and a whole new case as well, plus an SSD for Windows as an added bonus.

Moreover, it is just one of many cases to show that this dearth of civil enforcement was about to change with several high - profile cases that have spun off from Commission and national competition authority decisions involving notably big institutional purchasers.

For starters, you need to think a lot less about your particular case and a lot more about the bigger picture involving lots of other courts and cases.

If the AG would be followed by the ECJ, the tribunal in the Gabriel Resources case (concerning the biggest cyanide based open pit mine project in Europe) would potentially become a court common to two Member States and have jurisdiction to resolve disputes which may involve questions of EU law.

Acted as coverage counsel for Lloyds Market excess layer insurers in cases involving big 4 accounting firms in respect of litigation domiciled in Europe for several claims worth between US$ 3 million and US$ 140 million.

Up to this point, all the Mr. Big cases had involved only the accused's own confession to a Mr. Big character.

We are an alternative, or a step before the court process — so many of the cases that we see involve big - ticket purchases such as furniture, kitchens, bathrooms, electrical goods and other home improvement projects.

CAMPBELL: The difficulty in talking about the big cases, I look at the little cases, and part of my concern is that where you may see some of the court decisions that become problematic for the areas in which you are involved because, think of the companies, and they may be reasonable size but not huge, that don't have an in - house IT person, don't have an in - house counsel and maybe cloud computing for servers, and they have got a major piece of litigation and they don't have a policy.

This year, the Supremes may be saving some of their big cases for release just in time for Christmas: maybe Whatcott, the case involving the hate speech provisions of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code which was heard in October 2011?

RT @dtanovich: First - degree murder charge dismissed against N.S. man in case involving Mr. Big sting https://t.co/JUI80lwAnJ

Crain's Detroit Business Southfield, Mich. — Crain's Detroit Business has issued their «Top Verdicts, Settlements of 2011» and the trademark infringement lawsuit, Innovation Ventures LLC v. N2G Distributing Inc. involving the popular 5 - Hour Energy ® drink, made the list of big cases.

This case involves auto - parts delivery drivers who allege that they have been misclassified by Big...

This case involves auto - parts delivery drivers who allege that they have been misclassified by Big City as independent contractors, rather than employees.

In the world of international arbitration, cases come in all shapes and sizes, from billion - dollar blowouts with big geopolitical consequences to minor dustups involving commercial disputes, regional backwaters or arcane treaties.

As a matter of political mood, I suspect the «average» voter now is not too troubled by historic problems with the administration of the death penalty, largely because some recent big capital cases involve mass murderer with no concerns about a possible wrongful conviction or terrible defense lawyering.

Someone like this associate, who is good with people, facts, and «big picture» thinking, will be more motivated and engaged when working on factually interesting matters; lawyers with a greater propensity for analyzing the fine points of documents or financial data may be more motivated in cases that involve more precise, detailed study.

She has litigated accounting malpractice cases involving the Big Eight accounting firms and is panel counsel for one of the largest title insurance companies in the country.

The cases he handles most often typically involve truck and big - rig accidents, wrongful death, serious injuries, and first - party insurance claims.

The lawyers of our practice have been involved in all of the biggest competition cases in Finland — covering the infringement and / or the damages aspects, including e.g. several of the largest cartel cases and the largest ever abuse of dominance case.

Although the biggest block of DWI charges involve a first violation, there are also many second offense cases heard in Holmdel.