Sentences with phrase «case against self»

Not exact matches

Alphabet's (goog) Waymo self - driving car unit asked a U.S. judge on Monday to postpone an upcoming trade secrets trial against Uber Technologies (uber), so Waymo could investigate whether Uber withheld important evidence in the case.

Levandowski, who is not a defendant in the civil case, has asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege against self - incrimination and has refused to testify.

Human Rights Watch just released a new, rather self - explanatory report titled Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, For the first time since 1991, self - initiated anti-dumping duty and countervailing duty cases against China.

Now, Alphabet, which filed a lawsuit against self - driving truck startup Otto and Uber for patent infringement and stealing trade secrets back in February, says the contents of the letter might contain information that could be relevant to the case.

History repeats it self... See examples such as the separation of India in to India and Pakistan but left them Kashmir to fight over and remain alert against each other all those years, then another example is the Koreas South and North, then the case of Cyprus for Turkey and Greece, planting of Israel among the Arabs to control, exhaust them, consume their wealth and drain their resources?

For Hobbes the marginal case of the war of all against all is not escaped through any semblance or trace of divine justice but through a social compact made by individuals to maximize their self - interest.

But before that, it is worth saying that the kind of mind - body situation which we have been considering provides a strong case against the notion of some continuation after death of the conscious self that had existed before death.

There is also a chance that Ole Miss could revise and expand its self - imposed scholarships and bowl ban to potentially appease the committee on infractions, which will review the NCAA's case against the Rebels likely this fall.

But don't take our word for it; watch and listen to the «golden man for the common man» making an 11th - hour case for his heroic self and against his «disgusting» and «pathetic» adversary:

This self - declared «gender identity» would then be a legally protected characteristic and it would be prohibited to discriminate against you on the basis of it, even in cases where provision of women - only services is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, and even where there is a genuine occupational requirement to employ a woman.

Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer, claimed proceeding in the case would implicate his Fifth Amendment rights against self - incrimination.

The US attorney didn't make any specific recommendations about how to purge the state of dirty pols, but he did make clear that the growing list of cases against elected officials at the state and local levels brought by his office indicate that the problem is far from solved — despite claims to the contrary by any number of self - appointed «reformers.»

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.

The Fifth Amendment says that nobody may be «compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,» which has become known as the right to avoid self - incrimination.

«Most people seem to weigh motives of self - interest against honesty on a case - by - case basis; they cheat a little but not on every possible occasion,» said Michel Marécha, a professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Zurich, in a press release.

When the amino acid sequence is homologous between the target antigen, such as gluten, against which the immune system is mounting a response, and tissue proteins, such as the thyroid tissue, a case of mistaken identity occurs, and the immune response can become directed against self tissues, manifesting as autoimmune disease (Hashimoto's thyroiditis in this instance).

You did such a good job present the case for and against self - publishing.

For more information about bad literary agents, get the following: 1) The Street Smart Writer: Self Defense Against Sharks and Scams in the Writing World by Jenna Glatzer and 2) Ten Percent of Nothing: The Case of the Literary Agent from Hell by Jim Fisher (this is the incredible story of the ultimate example of bad literary agents, former literary agent Dorothy Deering).

And one of the few that does not try to pit traditional against self - pub, when in many cases the hybrid authors see much of the success.

how can i protect my self by buying options on the dollar in case it appreciates against this currency.

Mr. Jacobs's letter is part of a trade secrets case that Uber is fighting against Waymo, the self - driving - automobile business that operates under Google's parent company.

(It reads, «Grandiosity is the defense against depression which masks the deep pain over loss of self»; as is often the case with Martin's references to cultural icons, one senses a perfect balance between respect and irony.)

I know I'm going over old ground here, but it's interesting how such a case of misrepresentation of the science doesn't seem to merit much attention by the self - appointed «skeptics» and hasn't resulted in any sanctions against the authors.

This amounts to the ordinary rule of privilege against self - incrimination: that no - one can be compelled to provide evidence for a case against them.

In Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada, 542 U.S. 177 (2004), the Court held that a Nevada statute requiring such identification did not violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, nor, in the circumstances of that case, the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self incrimination.

It can clearly be seen that this situation runs the risk of creating a climate in which journalists self - censor, but whilst this aspect may be difficult to quantify, a case such as that involving David Miranda offers a concrete example of counter terrorism laws being used against journalists.

Brian C. Kalt, «Pardon Me: The Constitutional Case against Presidential Self - Pardons» 106 Yale L.J. 779 (1996 - 1997)(obviously adopting my position).

As The Boston Globe describes it, the case «pits Nesson, a self - avowed marijuana user who has tried only four cases (one was the Pentagon Papers case in which he defended Daniel Ellsberg) against a team of battle - tested lawyers for the recording industry.»

Essentially, a defence of self - defence can be raised in domestic abuse cases where the accused argues that they reasonably believed there was a serious threat of harm being applied against them or another person, that the act they are committing in self - defence is actually intended to be in self - defence and that the act that was committed is reasonable considering the situation.

A brief look at the Court's case - law on the privilege against self - incrimination, in Orkem as well as in more recent cases, shows that legal persons at times benefit from little protection.

Until such time as there arises a consistent body of case law addressing the issue of costs in response to sharp lawyering conducted against a self - represented litigant, an increasing number of self - represented parties in our legal system will remain vulnerable to procedural abuse and an overall miscarriage of justice.

The Supreme Court of Canada has made it clear in the case of R. v. Suberu that avoiding delay helps to protect against the risk of self - incrimination and interference with an individual's liberty.

The three major cases heard so far — against Uber, CitySprint and Pimlico Plumbers — have involved individuals claiming the rights of workers against a company attempting to classify them as self - employed contractors.

In these cases, even if the protection against self - incrimination in section 13 of the Charter applies — which provides that «A witness who testifies in any proceedings has the right not to have any incriminating evidence so given used to incriminate that witness in any other proceedings, except in a prosecution for perjury or for the giving of contradictory evidence» — the SKCA held that prior false statements are admissible where the deceit is the substance of the offence, regardless of whether it was «incriminating evidence» or related to «perjury or for the giving of contradictory evidence» (Staranchuk SKCA at para 5).

This is decided entirely by the judge's own self review and if the biases continue is evidence against the decision on appeal at worst (if he still sits but the case is not as biased as you feared, it could have been a non-issue or the judge realized that he was getting close to the line and reeled himself back to the center).

What I want to look at briefly, therefore, is the law of self - defence in what lawyers euphemistically refer to as «householder cases» — where force is used by a householder against a trespasser in a dwelling.

In this case, given the seriousness of the Charter offending conduct, that the principle against self - incrimination is a general organizing principle of in criminal law and that the applicable decision is not new in impaired driving or motor vehicle investigations, it is something that should have been known by these officer.

That means that you could only argue the Fifth Amendment if your tax return might help prove a criminal case against you (the fact that disclosing income leads to you needing to pay tax does not qualify as «self - incrimination»).

Another useful tool in civil cases is that the 5th Amendment privilege against self - incrimination does not apply, so if the defendant refused to testify (perhaps claiming the 5th Amendment for fear of criminal consequences of truthful testimony) that refusal to testify can be used to infer that his testimony would have hurt him and to find civil liability.

To apply the adverse inference for invocation of the right against self - incrimination, a party in a civil case must have been asked questions the answers to which would have been potentially incriminating in a future criminal action, and the party must have invoked his Fifth Amendment rights.

We do not interpret Constitutional case law as supporting the view that a federal agency's review of information pursuant to statutory mandate violates the Fifth Amendment protections against forced self incrimination.

A typical attorney who self - identifies as an «employee rights» attorney will usually have much more experience (as compared to the typical attorney identified as an «employment attorney» or an «employer defense» attorney) with: (1) representing workers on a contingency - fee basis (where no fee is paid unless the case wins or settles) and offering risk - sharing fee arrangements generally; (2) playing offense, so to speak — analyzing, identifying and prosecuting specific legal violations (whereas employer - side attorneys tend to have more experience in broader - stroke compliance / employer - training matters, and reactive work in litigation that responds to claims they are presented); and (3) identifying with the «little guy» who has been harmed by a larger opponent, often having well - tested strategies that have worked while representing individuals against large organizations and wind up with good case results.

In the case of the License Appeal Tribunal, for new home warranty disputes, the consumer is usually a self - rep and up against 2 corporations, the warranty co and the builder, so it's complex, time - consuming, and costly.

The Fifth Amendment right against self - incrimination applies only in criminal trials, but it permits a witness to refuse to answer a question in either criminal or civil cases, including in a deposition.

As the court cases played out, the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations) argued that women who challenged section 12 (1)(b) were selfish and «anti-Indian» because they fought against the very law (the Indian Act) they viewed as guaranteeing the right of Indigenous self - determination.

Some courts issue orders against self representation in civil cases.

By limiting your liability coverage, you are analogously deciding to self - insure against the threat of liability expenses, because any costs due that fall above the limits of your policy will in most cases become your responsibility to pay.

Furthermore, such options seem to imply that there is no specific case of anticipatory self - defense against weapons of mass destruction (WMD), assimilating it within the «regular» self - defense framework, where the type of weapons does not actually matter.

The self - driving patent infringement case initiated by Waymo against Uber has been delayed by two months following a decision made by U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Tuesday.