Sentences with phrase «case law against»

That same year, in Los Angeles, a trial judge allowed a prevailing party to include $ 24,000 paid to the trial technician operator in their cost memo to recover from the other side, even though that is not one of the enumerated recoverable costs and there was actually case law against including it.

It's a surprising choice, given the overwhelming case law against this plaintiff.

Recently, the grant of a Norwich Pharmacal order came under close examination by the Supreme Court in The Rugby Football Union v Consolidated Information Services Limited (formerly Viagogo Limited)(In Liquidation)[2012] UKSC 55, [2012] All ER (D) 236 (Nov), which considered the facts of the case and balanced case law against the right to protection of personal data guaranteed by Art 8 of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Not exact matches

The employer should make sure that they have a legitimate case against the employee in this instance because many situations are covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and other laws that protect employees.

His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

The case pits the interests of tech companies and privacy advocates in protecting customer data against the demands of law enforcement in gaining information vital to criminal and counterterrorism investigations.

That figure includes 487 individual cases of alleged insider trading, 365 for stock manipulation, 343 for violations of laws and rules related to financial disclosure, 196 for contempt of the regulatory agency, and another 94 for fraud against customers.

The law also requires a civilian review when commanders decline to prosecute, requires dishonourable discharge or dismissal for those convicted, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts - martial in rape and sexual assault cases and criminalizes retaliation against victims who report an assault.

The move came on the heels of the NLRB's case against Browning - Ferris Industries, which resulted in loosened requirements for who can be considered a boss under labor law.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Until now, significant cases have not been brought against mutual funds although the law applies equally in each case.

Labor laws France not only levied fines against Uber and its managers but also brought a criminal case over unlicensed taxi operations.

The Philippines brought an arbitration case in 2013 over the South China Sea, eventually lodging 15 claims against China related to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea — a critical piece of international law that both countries have ratifiLaw of the Sea — a critical piece of international law that both countries have ratifilaw that both countries have ratified.

The film examines the potential consequences that arise when law enforcement officials zero in on one suspect and work to build a case against that person while ignoring any contradictory evidence.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

Among his other accomplishments, he led a group of 20 law firms that prosecuted cutting - edge class action cases against financial institutions, such as Countrywide, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase, concerning destructive negative amortization loans that unknowingly caused borrowers to assume tens of thousands of dollars of additional debt.

According to law, unless the creditors file a case in the court, they are not allowed to take action against people who have gone bankrupt.

Mr. Lighthizer brought such trade cases against foreign actors for decades as a lawyer for the steel industry, and he has criticized the World Trade Organization for interfering in what he sees as the United States» efforts to enforce its own laws.

The coalition against the pipeline is already challenging the first permit granted to ETP by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources with a case filed by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, with a court date set for Jan. 4, 2018.

Hagens Berman is one of the most successful auto litigation law firms in the U.S. and is presently leading nationwide cases against Volkswagen, GM, Mercedes and Fiat Chrysler for use of diesel emissions - cheating software.

[62][In cases dealing with federal works and undertakings such as] pipelines, railways and airports, it is not the case that validly - enacted provincial laws, in this case municipal bylaws, somehow cease to be valid enactments when they come up against the federal undertaking.

That said, the SEC has brought a number of cases against blatant fraudsters in the cryptocurrency markets as well as against ICOs that clearly fall under the scope of securities law (e.g., Munchee).

Paul has tried repeatedly to get law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to pursue a case against Kivimaki, but says he was told that since he was a minor in Finland, there was little they could do.

The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.

AUSTRAC will up the ante in its case against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with the transactions regulator expecting to file fresh allegations on Thursday that it breached the law 100 additional times while facilitating banking by criminal syndicates involved in money laundering and terrorist financing.

In this case, Canada and the European Union are both threatening to retaliate against the US after President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he planned to impose big tariffs on imported steel and aluminum by using an obscure trade law.

I have also filed a complaint against Tony Jones» attorney and the family court judge (is she the attorney's former law partner and if so why didn't she recuse herself from this case?).

But you can always make a case that every person has the potential to make society better or more advanced and bringing harm to another human being should be against the law.

Listen, I'm not against some kind of DREAM Act - type law that deals with several kinds of hard cases when it comes to immigration (though I want to see the details.)

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»

RB Phillip E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against NATURALISM in Science, Law and Education.

In a more recent work, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against NATURALISM in Science, Law and Education (P. 3), Johnson continues his argument, and makes clear what was implicit in the earlier work.

«We have a law against discrimination and in these cases it is question of particularly insulting treatment.»

In a shocking case out of Pennsylvania, an American judge has thrown out an assault charge against a Muslim immigrant based on Sharia law.

With turning the other cheek, my take (again rightly or wrongly) is in the context of Roman occupation and it being an act of active resistance, using laws that exist against in this case a Roman that would slap a Jew in the face.

But in any case, such laws again reflect the stern moral nature of the Israelite against what appears in contrast as the extreme laxity of the Babylonian or the Canaanite.

If you truly do not recognize the Const!tution as being the Supreme Law that governs your physical life here in this country, then you have some options, like giving up your Citizenship and moving to a different country, or staying here and refusing to follow the law — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospitLaw that governs your physical life here in this country, then you have some options, like giving up your Citizenship and moving to a different country, or staying here and refusing to follow the law — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospitlaw — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

The story of philo «Semitism is not presented as an alternative way of considering the modern Jewish experience: indeed, as the Rubinsteins show, it arose in large part in response to worldwide persecution and violence against Jews» from the infamous Damascus «blood libel,» to the institution of anti «Jewish laws in Italy, to pogroms in Russia, to the Dreyfus case, and on into the Nazi era.

All we need are Americans to stand up against this church and demand lawmakers change laws enabling these cases to come forward and to make those cases public.

A 2015 case in Washington ruled against pharmacists who refused to carry the drugs; however, state law allows that «an individual pharmacist with religious objections may refuse to fill the prescription if another pharmacist working for the pharmacy does so.»

One had to be either a Roman citizen, as in the case of Paul, or else guilty of a crime against the empire rather than an infraction of a provincial or racial law over which the recognized authorities among the conquered people had the right of judgment.

All are accusations that have been made against Protestants under the new law, reported Forum 18 in its analysis of all cases thus far.

The ACCC secured its first criminal case under the laws in 2017 against Japanese shipping company NYK, which was fined $ 25 million, and has launched another case against Japanese shipping company K - Line, however Mr Sims said they were «foreign companies and don't involve individuals».

See also Lucy Barbour, «Competition watchdog ACCC head Rod Simms (sic) denies claims an «effects test» would be «economically dangerous» (ABC Rural, 18 August 2014), in which the ACCC Chairman defends the ACCC's proposed effects test (and is also reported as saying that the current case against Coles was brought under the unconscionable conduct provisions rather than under s 46 because the misuse of market power prohibitions is a law that exists only between competitors...)

Professor Christine Parker, an expert in competition law from Monash University, says that this current investigation «only treats the symptoms and diverts attention away from the real cause of the problem: supermarket power»; and that because of the way the legal provisions are worded, it will be very hard for the ACCC to win any case against the supermarkets.

State prosecutors took over the case against Kerrick early on, when it came to light that Mecklenburg district attorney Andrew Murray had once been a law partner of a member of Kerrick's defense team.

Much depends on the outcome of the CAS case against Manchester City — if Man C win then the laws relating to trading in players have more or less gone.

After a case that had been going on for many months against my father - in - law for heinously abusing my daughters (which resulted in his imprisonment last month), my girls gathered up the courage to tell me their own father had been committing the same abuse against them.