Sentences with phrase «cases make it to court»

The case made it to the Court of Appeals, and Espada won.

Working at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Hartigan and Haller were already representing tenants in eviction cases when they began to realize fewer than half these cases make it to court.

Too few legitimate cases make it to court for all kinds of reasons, including not only limits on state AG's ability to hire contingency fee attorneys but also the hundreds if not thousands of so - called «tort reforms» that have passed since the 1980s.

It will be interesting if these cases make it to court, and what the court's decision will be.

Not exact matches

Of course, when takeover appraisal cases do make it all the way to court, there's no guarantee that the hedge fund will reap a return on its efforts.

Apple's response is complicated, made more so because it includes Constitutional arguments (First and Fifth Amendment) that it will need if the case goes to the Supreme Court.

The suits are part of a group of at least four other cases with similar arguments in various courts around the country, and they make legal experts wary, particularly as the differences in opinion seem to indicate their destiny to go before the Supreme Court.

Because the case was tied up in court for years, he said, the narrative from the Democratic side ended up being about how unfair and difficult the law made it for many to vote.

The «fib» to which Journal was clearly referring was the government's claim, made repeatedly in those same court filings, that it was only interested in cracking the San Bernardino case, not in setting a precedent.

I wanted to make a body camera that can record an officer's day [so] complaints get settled quicker, court cases get won faster, and the cameras can eliminate all ambiguity.»

The president then alleged that Obama bypassed a court rejection in order to carry out the wiretapping, before suggesting that a «good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!»

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 court rejected (the plaintiff's) theory that the newspaper's publication violated her right to privacy because her post to MySpace was made virtually to everyone with an internet connection,» Zaller wrote in a blog post two years ago, asserting the case could apply to situations of employees posting on social media.

The case, meanwhile, made it all the way to the Supreme Court.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

While the courts usually side with the federal government in conflicts with the states, legal experts are split on whether in this instance the states have a legitimate case to make, Speta said.

Part of what makes fair use cases so difficult is that there are multiple factors a court has to consider: One is the nature of the work (i.e., whether it is a commercial work), the second is the purpose of the use — specifically, whether it is «transformative» — the third is the amount of the original work used, and the fourth is the effect of the use on the market for the original product.

With a number of organizations already in court making their case why this rule is unworkable, it's clear that jobs are on the line, and more importantly, families will lose access to sound professional financial advice.»

From allegations of sexual harassment against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to the court case against former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi stemming from complaints of abusive behaviour both inside and outside the workplace, recent high - profile cases of harassment and violence have made it clear that many organizations struggle to uphold appropriate standards of conduct within their ranks.

Khosrowshahi, who took the helm in August after former CEO Travis Kalanick was asked to step down amid a litany of regulatory problems, driver and consumer scandals and court cases, pledged to make a clean break with past practices that have lead to accusations of a toxic work culture.

Decisions made the B.C. Supreme Court in favour of lower levels of government having the authority to create environmental protections in relation to the Northern Gateway pipeline could also support the province's case, Ryder said.

After a volley of filings and rebuttals in the case, both sides appeared Tuesday in U.S. Federal District Court in New York City to make their cases.

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In a meeting at the White House, Mr. Sessions informed Mr. Trump that he would not defend what he considered an unconstitutional order in court, according to people familiar with the conversation, and officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security have made the case to the president that his administration would look foolish if it argued in favor of preserving it.

Investigators in the Aaron Hernandez murder case searched a Bristol storage unit rented in the name of his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, because they believed she made «overt attempts to hide evidence... and to hinder and mislead» the investigation, according to court documents released Friday.

And given that Mr. Hogan has had financial ups and downs, the cost of the hundreds of motions his lawyers made is significant, and the chances the award is significantly reduced based on previous cases he lost making the same claims in federal court, it's hard to completely understand the motivations at play.

The Public Accounts / Budget include provisions with respect to certain liabilities, such as environmental liabilities, potential losses resulting from court cases, potential losses on loans and loan guarantees, etc. even though no cash payments have been made.

«Giving customers back their right to take Wells Fargo to court gives them the power to ensure they are made whole and helps prevent cases like this in the future,» he said.

Christian bakers found to have breached equality laws by refusing to make a pro-gay marriage cake have lost their case at the Belfast Court of Appeal.

A Christian - owned bakery in Northern Ireland found to have breached equality laws by refusing to make a cake supporting gay marriage is taking its case to the UK's highest court.

You'll have a chance to make your case in His Court soon enough!

What made the Charlie Gard case different is that the UK medical team, hospital, and courts insisted that he be taken off his ventilator — despite the ethical judgment of his parents, and despite the willingness of medical teams in the US and Rome to provide an experimental treatment.

Mike joins the team in discussing whether you should «fake it til you make it», how to forgive yourself of money mistakes, and they take on a couple's court case that you won't want to miss!

A major part of the problem is that though Immanuel Kant wrote about dignity in the 18th century and the word was in use even earlier, strong efforts to elucidate and work with it have not been made (as have been made for, say, the notion of human rights, the subject of innumerable books, essays and court cases).

If the silversmiths felt he had in any way injured their business, they had the law courts in which to sue him and to make their case.

We talk about why kids shouldn't be the center of your life, discuss the importance of a regular date night, hear a tense couple's court case, find out how to make a family mission statement and a lot more!

A Christian - owned bakery in Northern Ireland found to have breached equality laws by refusing to make a cake bearing a slogan supporting gay marriage is taking its case to the UK's highest court.

Also, Ashers Bakery in Northern Ireland has taken its case to the UK Supreme Court after it was accused of breaching equality laws by refusing to make a cake which supported same - sex marriage.

Now court watchers are assessing whether the unusually straightforward legal case in Utah likely makes it, as NPR suggests, «the case that forces the high court to wrestle [directly] with the big issue.»

Superior Court Judge Gary Gavenus made the decision after a member of the jury handed out three documents to fellow jurors including North Carolina case law, according to the AP.

«We are grateful that the Circuit Court's ruling — which is substantially a victory for Wheaton College — makes it clear that the original judge was wrong to dismiss our case and that we are suffering real harm as a result of the HHS mandate,» said Wheaton College president Philip Ryken.

The decision comes weeks after a Christian cake artist from Colorado opened a case at the US Supreme Court over the right to refuse to make a wedding cake for a same - sex ceremony.

Moreover, some of those court cases may make it to the SCOTUS, and they'll take another look, or not, depending upon the case.

Preparations are already underway to make the case before the Supreme Court that state Blaine Amendments violate the equal protection clause and the free exercise clause of the Bill of Rights.

Thus, when the Court in Casey asks that its case law be given the obedience due to the Constitution, and when it insists that, above all, it must remain loyal to its own recently established precedents, it makes a reasonable request within the context of the new constitutional regime.

A cake artist from Colorado has opened a case at the US Supreme Court over the right to refuse to make a wedding cake for a same - sex ceremony.

«This makes Ossewaarde's case the first under the «anti-missionary» amendment to reach this level in the Russian courts, and the first to issue a challenge to the legislation itself,» Forum 18 reported.

Judging the constitutionality of laws by the Court's «appraisal of the wisdom of legislation,» as he accused the Court of doing in this case, «is an attribute of the power to make laws, not of the power to interpret them.»

Small claims court cases are much cheaper than superior court cases for both the plaintiff (the person doing the suing) and the defendant (the person being sued) because the parties are not allowed to have any attorneys represent them and other rules that simplify the lawsuit process, making the whole thing much cheaper, faster, and easier.

The claims and cross claims will make for a riveting court case and no doubt pique investor's interests as the success of a2 — and the surge in its share price from 55 cents to almost $ 2 in the past year — rests largely on its health claims, which will be scrutinised in open court.