Sentences with phrase «certiorari in»

Last Friday the Supreme Court granted certiorari in three important cases.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in United States v. Microsoft Corp., a case with potentially far - reaching impact on how and where U.S. companies store their customers» electronic information.

On January 13, 2017, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Kokesh v. Securities and Exchange Commission (U.S. Jan. 13, 2017)(No. 16 - 529) to determine whether disgorgement claims are subject to the five - year statute of...

The Supreme Court started its work this morning with this order list that include a grant of certiorari in one federal criminal case, Luis v. US.

The Supreme Court has granted certiorari in the case of T.C. Heartland v. Kraft Foods, which turns on a minor detail of statutory interpretation but raises high stakes indeed: if the Court agrees that a 2011 enactment narrowed venue in patent suits, it could end the current arrangement in which plaintiffs are free to steer most such suits into just a few friendly jurisdictions.

On August 25, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) granted certiorari in Murphy v. Smith, No. 16 - 1067 (U.S.), a prisoner's civil rights case involving interpretation of language in the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).

On September 29, 2016, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, No. 15 - 1406 (U.S.), a Ninth Circuit 2 - 1 decision [discussed in our July 21, 2015 post], and consolidated it with Musnuff v. Haeger, No. 15 - 1491 (U.S.).

Jason Franckowiak, a shareholder at Otjen, Gendelman, Zitzer, Johnson & Weir, recently petitioned the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari in the Johnson v. Stinson matter.

I noted in this prior post denial of cert in the closely - watched capital case of Hidalgo v. Arizona, and Justice Breyer's statement respecting the denial of certiorari in Hidalgo was not even the most interesting such statement on this morning's SCOTUS order list.

That honor goes to Justice Sotomayor's statement respecting the denial of certiorari in Campbell v. Ohio, which suggests importing more of the Eighth Amendment's procedural protections for the death penalty to life without parole sentencing.

Mr. Ackerman was successful in persuading the United States Supreme Court to accept certiorari in Standard Fire Ins.

Howard Neil Shipley, of Washington, D.C., is ordered to show cause, within 40 days, why he should not be sanctioned for his conduct as a member of the Bar of this Court in connection with the petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 14 - 424, Sigram Schindler Beteiligungsgesellschaft MBH v. Lee.

Excitingly for sentencing fans, today's final Supreme Court order list includes a grant or certiorari in Beckles v. United States, No. 15 - 8544, which SCOTUSblog has described this way:

«The claim is that Tom's aggressive search for circuit splits has led the Justices to grant certiorari in lots of cases that wouldn't have been granted a decade ago.

Bill Heinze recommends» «Not since the Supreme Court granted certiorari in seven patent cases in 1965 has there been as much patent law activity at the Court as today,»» writes Professor Wegner in the prelude to his update on the Top Ten Supreme Court Patent Cases.

The most notable judicial stab at noir came last year from Chief Justice John Roberts, in a dissent opposing a denial of writ of certiorari in Pennsylvania v. Dunlap.

And Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. issued a statement respecting the denial of certiorari in Marek v. Lane, No. 13 - 136.

The U.S. Supreme Court today denied certiorari in the case of Khadr v. Bush.

Justice Kennedy was talking about how law review case comments generally come out too late to be of use to the Court (especially in the context of deciding whether to grant certiorari in a case).

Bill Heinze reported Monday that «The U.S. Supreme Court... granted certiorari in Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc., Supreme Court No. 04 - 1329...»

He certainly disagreed with the court when it came to the denial of certiorari in the Second Amendment case out of California.

The Supreme Court granted certiorari in order to resolve «disagreement in the lower courts about how to address an application for attorney's fees in a copyright case.»

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of U.S. v. Alvarez, which presents the question of the constitutionality of the «Stolen Valor Act.»

With the news that the Supreme Court grants certiorari in the Grokster case, VC blogfather Eugene Volokh points us to his former writing on the subject.

Soon after the Court failed to resolve the case of Tom F., it denied certiorari in the earlier case from the Second Circuit, with Kennedy again recusing himself without explanation.

Not exact matches

The Supreme Court's denial of certiorari lets stand an August 2010 decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of World Vision and against three employees who were fired after the organization concluded that they did not believe that Jesus Christ is fully God.

Why, one may wonder, did the Windsor minority justices not see that certiorari was granted in one of the other marriage cases they were asked to hear?

In the matters M155 / 2011, M156 / 2011 and M157 / 2011 the appeal was allowed; the court set «aside the orders of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia made on 4 May 2011 and 16 May 2011 and, in their place, order that a writ of certiorari, directed to the Australian Competition Tribunal, issue to quash the Australian Competition Tribunal's determination the subject of the proceeding» and remitted the matter to teh Tribunal for determinatioIn the matters M155 / 2011, M156 / 2011 and M157 / 2011 the appeal was allowed; the court set «aside the orders of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia made on 4 May 2011 and 16 May 2011 and, in their place, order that a writ of certiorari, directed to the Australian Competition Tribunal, issue to quash the Australian Competition Tribunal's determination the subject of the proceeding» and remitted the matter to teh Tribunal for determinatioin their place, order that a writ of certiorari, directed to the Australian Competition Tribunal, issue to quash the Australian Competition Tribunal's determination the subject of the proceeding» and remitted the matter to teh Tribunal for determination.

Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu in his recent epistle said it is clear that the NDC government is «acting mischievously to politicize the excellent work of the Sole Judgment Debt Commissioner by connecting the NPP's Attorney - General who merely paid upon the consent judgment the Supreme Court had refused to quash by certiorari during the NDC 2 Government as a means of aborting the further investigations ordered by the Commissioner.»

Bronx GOP Chairman Jay Savino, who happens to live primarily in Congers and is Clarkstown's tax certiorari attorney, was arrested for allegedly selling the mayoral ballot line in New York City to Senator Malcolm Smith of the Independent Democratic Caucus, also arrested.

The trial further exposed how Silver received hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from a tax certiorari firm he had asked Glenwood to give its business to — a key component leading to Silver's conviction.

A contingency budget should not be a zero increase in the tax levy; it should be set it at the cap and contain necessary exclusions (debt service, increases in pension costs, tax certiorari payments and costs due to enrollment increases, etc.);

She also used to be in the Town Attorney's office purportedly handling the tax certiorari cases.

Glenwood was also revealed in the recent complaint against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver as one of the clients of a tax certiorari firm that paid the Democratic lawmaker undicslosed fees.

Instead he provided «indirect services to the law firm in the areas of corporate trusts, tax certiorari, wills and estate, land use and planning.»

Silver was accused of receiving $ 700,000 in payments from one law firm in exchange for using his official position to obtain recurring tax certiorari legal claims of two real estate developer clients with business before the New York State Legislature.

Of the remaining $ 15.6 mm, most of it has been designated for refunding tax certioraris ($ 6.1 mm) and reducing the impact on raising the property tax ($ 3.9 mm), leaving just $ 5.0 in undesignated funds.

According to the complaint and various reports, Silver earned «nearly $ 700,000» in referral fees due to tax certiorari firm Goldberg & Iryami's business with Developer - 1 and an unknown second developer.

Silver is accused in court documents of using his official position to get Glenwood to send its tax certiorari business to a law firm headed by a lawyer who served as Silver's counsel decades ago.

· The county budgeted for the issuance of $ 5 million in serial bonds to cover the costs of tax certiorari claims.

He is not known to have any expertise in the complex and highly specialized area of the law in which Goldberg & Iryami practices, known as tax certiorari, which involves challenging real estate tax assessments and seeking reductions from municipalities.

Samuel Casey, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement: «We are disappointed by the Court of Appeals decision and, given the reasoning in the two concurring opinions, we are evaluating whether and on what grounds our clients will be seeking certiorari before the United States Supreme Court.»

As I stated in a letter to the editor a few years ago and as repeated elsewhere, denials of certiorari convey no decision upon the merits of the case; the high court is merely exercising its discretion not to affirm,...

In their petition for certiorari, the teachers contend that «public - sector collective bargaining constitutes core political speech about governmental affairs that is not materially different from lobbying.»

On Thursday, May 23, 2013, 11 scientists submitted an Amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) et al Petition for a writ of certiorari.

It may be that Oregon's procedures guide juries so well that the «grossly excessive» verdict Honda projects in its certiorari petition footnote never materializes.

[Footnote 1] We granted certiorari to determine whether the actions of the Illinois Supreme Court constituted improper judicial interference with decisions of the highest authorities of a hierarchical church in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

We granted certiorari, 510 U. S. 1068 (1994), to consider whether Oregon's limited judicial review of the size of punitive damages awards is consistent with our decision in Has lip.

However, a court may reduce (modify) to include any of the requirements relating to probation and community control, a legal sentence imposed by it within 60 days of its imposition; after the receipt by the court of a mandate issued by the appellate court upon affirmance of the judgment and / or sentence upon an original appeal; after receipt by the court of a certified copy of an order of the appellate court dismissing an original appeal from the judgment and / or sentence; or if further appellate review is sought in a higher court or in successively higher courts, after the highest state or federal court to which a timely appeal has been taken under authority of law, or when a petition for certiorari has been timely filed under authority of law, has written an order of affirmance or an order dismissing the appeal and / or denying certiorari.

[3] The analysis did not consider firms that made fewer than 30 appearances as either a petitioner or respondent in petitions for certiorari since 2000.