Sentences with phrase «by the precedent who»

These judgments often get appealed up to a court that is not bound by the precedent who can then set a new precedent.

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It may set a precedent in other British lawsuits as well — for example four messenger companies are currently being sued by bicycle messengers who claim they should have employee status.

A lawyer for ride service Uber, which has been sued by drivers who contend they should be considered employees and are seeking class action status, said it would be preferable to have a trial just on the three drivers who filed the complaint in order to avoid setting a risky precedent.

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

It must in fairness be noted that there is ample historical precedent of holy men and women who were unjustly treated by church authorities.

If successful, I fear that Snyder's lawsuit would set a dangerous precedent whereby anyone who felt offended by a distasteful message could silence unpopular speech through massive fines imposed by the courts.

And while Aristotle eventually received Catholic blessing because of the precedent set by Thomas Aquinas, Arab Aristotelians were largely secular professionals (physicians mostly) who had to rely on worldly patronage from caliphs and provincial governors.

But once the law - finding power passed to judges, who began to exercise it by rendering written opinions that remained available for all to read, precedent threatened to impose a straight - jacket on future legal development and to bar all future legal change.40

Tragically, women who have been raped — especially by someone in the public eye and with a fanbase — must now be petrified by the precedent set in this case.

«To label all Muslims who promote and practice Sharia law as extremists is a dangerous precedent which will be strongly opposed by our community because the real reasons behind this new strategy are to score cheap political points on the back of the Muslim community.»

Meanwhile, Espada continues to be supported by Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, who has noted there's no precedent for any state lawmaker facing civil, not criminal, charges to be stripped of his or her title and lulu.

However, now that I do, I expect to see that precedent be cited by the people who want Hillary to win the election and nominate Obama to the Supreme Court.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke to his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader and, in the event the Republican - controlled Senate does not relent in its opposition to an Obama nominee, «our madam president will surely nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right - wing.»

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke about his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader, Hillary Clinton will be elected president and she will «nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right wing.»

The decision implies on page 17 that the precedent set in 1980 by John B. Anderson, who ran in Michigan's presidential primary and also ran as a minor party nominee, doesn't apply because Read more»

Ebright: The primary risks are accidental release through accidental infection of a lab worker who then infects others — for which there are many precedents — and deliberate release by a disturbed or disgruntled lab worker, for which the 2001 US anthrax mailings provide a precedent.

In a legal precedent dating back to 1983, the House of Lords decided a school had acted unlawfully by refusing to accept as a pupil who Sikh boy who wore a turban.

That happens because of a legal precedent found by Harlan's clerk, Kevin Connolly (Benjamin Walker, «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter»), who is so adamant in his belief that Ali was wrongly convicted that he's ready to resign from his job because of Harlan's initial intention to side with Burger.

As for precedent, in 2006 students who were displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and / or Rita were tested in the state assessment system but their results were removed from the accountability subset, as noted in Appendix I of the 2006 accountability manual.

In previous years, generous families have set a precedent of goodwill by contributing more than their per capita share to help our community and those who are less able to contribute.

Following precedent set by the recent «Bank Transfer Day» movement, consumers who are fed up with their credit cards are encouraged to participate in «Balance Transfer Day» on Dec. 11.

And with the woman in the film who «raises» them, the young puppies are subjected to threatening behavior by humans at a very young age, a dangerous precedent.

You see, once a law like this goes on the books at the state or local level, it becomes much easier for lawmakers — and the activists who have their ears — to promote similar legislation in other places by using precedent as justification.

Referencing past precedents of feminist art, installation, performance, and ideology, the artworks in the show present an expanded visual language that has resulted from a more inclusive art world, shaped in part by the social movements of the 1970's, thereby paying homage to a generation who has paved the way for contemporary female expression.

The precedents of modern abstract art are investigated through works by the followers of Hindu Tantric art (17th century) and the Theosophists (19th century) who used forms - color as sources for meditating and the immaterial transmission of thought.

Downstairs, an important precedent is honored in «Ellsworth Kelly: Black and White Works,» organized by Jack Shear, husband of the artist, who died in 2015.

While these women continue to be the black sheep who strayed from the established feminist flock, today they provide essential performative, discursive, and iconographic precedents for a host of contemporary art practices that explore hardcore, sex - positive terrain — from Jeff Koons's «Made in Heaven» series to more recent porn - inspired work by John Currin.

Some, like Geneva's Contemporary Art Center director, Andrea Bellini, and New York dealer Nathalie Karg, were foreigners, but an impressive number were Greeks who came on their own from Athens, attracted by a history of precedent - setting exhibitions on the island that began in 2009 with Matthew Barney's elaborate collaboration with Elizabeth Peyton.

At the time it was described as a «supreme act of philanthropy», welcomed by Gordon Brown and by Sir Nicholas Serota, now head of the Arts Council England, who said the act of «imaginative generosity» was «without precedent anywhere in the world».

There's even good precedent in the success of abstract work over the last few years by younger artists who produced at similar volumes.

The Nobel Prize committee broke with precedent — and recognized those who make it new — by awarding the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan.

Important precedents for Happenings included Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus experiments in abstract theatre, Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and the Theatre of the Absurd, and the simultaneous actions coordinated by John Cage at Black Mountain College in 1952, which included the poet Charles Olson, the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the artist Robert Rauschenberg, who went on to create a number of Happenings throughout the 1960s.

Marten said a precedent for sharing prize money had already been set by US artist Theaster Gates, who last year pledged to share the # 40,000 Artes Mundi prize with his nine fellow nominees.

Curator Alma Ruiz's «Suprasensorial» constitutes a valuable contribution to this regionalist project, attempting a double reorientation by locating precedents of Californian Light and Space art of the late 1960s in the work of Latin American artists such as Lucio Fontana, who made his first neon environment in 1951.

Writing in The Village Voice, Christian Viveros - Faune was reminded of art historical precedents, and concluded that these works by Ofili mark the latest stage «in the development of a painter who, as this retrospective amply demonstrates, became a modern master.»

25 oil and gas companies in Myanmar have set a global precedent by publishing who their real owners are, said Global Witness in a new report published today.

In our view, there is a significant difference between making court and tribunal decisions available online so that they are accessible to those who wish to consult past precedents and hold decision - makers accountable, and making those decisions — and their contents — indexable by popular search engines and available to anyone simply querying about another individual.

[M] aybe divisions of appellate courts think that if they ignore their own precedents they won't get called on this by their colleagues, especially if a judge on the appellate panel was part of the panel deciding the precedents; or there's nobody outside the court (who might matter) to to complain because it's an appellate court of final resort; or it's an inferior appellate court but the panel has good reason to believe the final appellate court won't grant leave to appeal.Whatever the reason, such judicial conduct unacceptable.

Smith's Blawg Review # 123 is styled as an appellate decision that sets a great precedent for future Blawg Reviews by covering a wide range of subjects, from the Nixon Peabody theme song debacle to judges who write and cite law blogs.

Many smaller firms are started by associates and partners in larger firms who take their precedents and research with them on their departure.

The Trial Lawyer of the Year Award is presented annually by the Public Justice Foundation to the trial attorney or attorneys who have made the greatest contribution to the public interest within the past year by trying or settling a precedent - setting case.

Notable mandates: Represented physicians involved in providing care to Ashley Smith during the 2013 coroner's inquest; acted for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in a defamation action against Ontario Progressive Conservative party leader Tim Hudak and energy critic Lisa MacLeod; in Wise v. Iran, acted for a Canadian victim of a suicide bombing (executed by individuals who received material support from Iran) who sought leave to intervene in ongoing proceedings commenced by United States plaintiffs in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice seeking orders recognizing the enforceability in Ontario of judgments they obtained from a U.S. court against Iran totaling about $ 370 million; in Khadr v. Edmonton Institution, acted as lead counsel for an intervener, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to argue that in interpreting Omar Khadr's sentence for the purpose of enforcing it in Canada, Correctional Services Canada was obliged to consider Khadr's right to liberty and principles of fundamental justice; acted for a physician in a malpractice claim in Moore v. Getahun, a precedent - setting case about restrictions on communication between counsel and experts in preparation of expert reports.

Metcalf interviewed immigration judges across the country in writing «Courting Disaster: Absent attendance and absent enforcement in America's immigration courts ``: «They described a system plunged into turmoil by appointees at the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security who ignored statutes, precedent, and regulation and imposed policies that dramatically increased backlogs and nearly halted adjudication.

The award recognizes the trial lawyer or lawyers who have made the greatest contribution to the public interest each year by trying or settling a precedent - setting case or group of cases.

Each year, Public Justice presents its Trial Lawyer of the Year Award to the attorney (s) who made the greatest contribution to the public interest within the past year by trying or settling a precedent - setting, socially significant case.

Used properly, they should (and likely already do) make the quality of legal work better by providing precedents to people who might not otherwise have ready access to these documents.

Every person who by his fault causes harm to another is liable» I'm glad scholars are thinking about the law and linking it together, and I appreciate the insights, but the only ones which help when the court opens are the ones which will persuade a judge with a job to do, and no amount of precedent will do that on its own.

* Bruce Feldthusen has a note in the latest Precedent magazine saying that there are about 500 foreign - trained law graduates, most from Ontario who have got a law degree abroad, in the competition for articling jobs this year (and by implication every year).

On one side, malicious mothers who often have legal precedent for primary child custody on their side take children away from good fathers by alienating them.