Sentences with phrase «cases against minor»

In addition to allowing the user to set their iPad at nearly any angle, the AnyAngle cases double as protective cases against minor troubles like bumps and «weather spills», as well as being scratch resistant.

Local court white papers have posted detailed statistics concerning many of these crimes (see a Ningbo court white paper on sexual assault cases against minors and a Shanghai district's court white paper on environmental protection crimes).

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As to the New Deal, FORTUNE has already pointed out («The Case against Roosevelt,» December, 1935) that Jewish influence in Mr. Roosevelt's Washington is minor.

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.

Canon 1395 — 2, on the other hand, reads: «If a cleric has otherwise committed an offense against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue with force or threats or publicly or with a minor below the age of sixteen [now raised to eighteen], the cleric is to be punished with just penalties, including dismissal from the clerical state if the case warrants it.»

«I have found no case where charges similar or analogous to those against Congressman Rangel resulted in censure — a penalty thusfar reserved for such serious violations as supporting armed insurrection against the United States and the sexual abuse of minors.»

Nolan called Bruno's convictions «minor,» and noted that the US Supreme Court is considering the theft of honest services statute that was the crux of the federal government's case against him.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner is asking a Manhattan federal judge to delay the sentencing date in the case against him for texting a minor sexually inappropriate messages.

The release of last week's 38 - page Electoral Commission report produced a minor political earthquake: as a result of the biggest investigation the commission has ever undertaken, it levied its largest - ever fine against the Conservative party and referred the case of the party's treasurer, Simon Day, to the Metropolitan police for further criminal investigation.

It is the only case against any state's top - two system that has been filed by minor parties Read more»

POLICE RATED HIGH OVER SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure -LSBCASES The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure -LSBcases against women and minors, which is a complete departure -LSB-...]

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure from previous low ratings.

There was a minor uproar on the internet over the fact that the first daughter wore a dress that is made in the UK and retails for $ 2,995 to a speech in which her father made a case against foreign - made goods.

Others may take the gamble that the FTC and CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) have bigger fish to fry, such as cases of identity theft and fraud, and that they won't bother to pursue action against a comparatively minor FCRA violation.

Last year, the American FTC settled a case against two social media personalities who had deceptively promoted the skin gambling site CS: GO Lotto, and the UK's Gambling Commission has been studying the phenomenon of skin betting among minors.

The case will consider whether the law against polygamy is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and also look at what are the necessary elements of an offence — that is, whether Section 293 requires that polygamy involve a minor or some other element of abuse or exploitation.

1 Dec. 10, 2010)(unpublished), a minor, through a grandmother who was appointed as guardian ad litem, had costs assessed against her in a case after it was voluntarily dismissed.

And, with the collapse of the now - discredited fire science evidence, he added, the state's case against Lee rested on «thin reeds»: minor discrepancies in his accounts of the fire; his daughter's disruptive behavior the day before the fire; his stoic nature after the fire; and the autopsy findings for Ji Yun, which suggested she could have been incapacitated prior to her death.

This case dealt with historical sex offences against a minor.

Reasons included (1) judges «grade on a curve» and, after sitting through 20 cases involving violent crimes, might not find a more minor crime as serious whereas a jury would not share this context; (2) defendants will select those judges who they believe will be more inclined to acquit; (3) judges are bound by fixed sentencing rules so rather than sentence a defendant of a nonserious crime to a lengthy term they avoid that dilemma through acquittal; (4) judges might better understand the complex elements of certain corporate crimes and, unlike a jury, would recognize when the prosecution failed to carry its burden and (5) some judges may just have something against prosecutors.

A legal defense in Hague Convention child abduction cases when defending against lawsuit for the return a minor child to the child's state of habitual residence because the child would be exposed to physical or psychological harm or placed in an intolerable situation.

The case involved a protection order that had been put in place against our client during a minor domestic incident a year prior.

One common strategy is to sue everybody, then to settle with a minor player early on for a fairly low dollar amount compared to risk at trial and to use that settlement to help finance the rest of the litigation against the primary person at fault in the case.

In that case, suit was brought against a minor after he caused injury to another.

Mr. Shiftan is currently litigating a variety of cases, including antitrust litigation on behalf of college football and basketball players against the NCAA and various athletic conferences, a wage and hour case on behalf of minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball, and an antitrust case on behalf of consumers against Carolinas HealthCare System for anticompetitive practices in the healthcare industry.

It gets some information wrong, but argues in favor of jury nullification as the last line of defense against unjust laws, citing numerous cases of people being arrested for minor offenses.

This case was thus two premises liability cases in one: first the case against the homeowner for allowing minors to use alcohol, and second the case against the regional rail line for still having an electrified third rail years after they had been removed from virtually every other system in the country.

Many of these cases pit the minor children against their parents, and bring grandparents into play.On...

You often pay extra for the coverage, but it protects you against a rate increase in case of a minor traffic violation.

However, in every case, an automatic injunction goes into effect immediately after filing (against the filing party immediately and against the other party as soon as formal service, also called «Notice,» is accomplished) and restrains both parties from inappropriately transferring or depleting assets, disturbing the peace or harassing one another, and removing any minor children from the state without the other parent's consent or a court order, among other restrictions.