Sentences with phrase «certiorari law»

Dec. 29, 2014: The Times reports that federal investigators are probing Silver over payments he received for referring real estate clients to the tax certiorari law firm of Goldberg & Iryami.

Not exact matches

Before the meeting came to an end a group of residents revisited the subject of Bronx GOP Chief Jay Savino's law firm winning the bid to handle town tax certiorari matters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York Times reporter Miller has petitioned for a writ of certiorari, specifically asking about journalists» rights under the First and Fifth Amendments, as well as any common law privileges that would apply under Federal Rule of Evidence 501.

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).

Hudson is the first time since I began this blog that the Supreme Court has issued a published decision dismissing a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted for a Court of Appeals opinion pertaining to family law.

The next, he's fooling law professors and the legal media with a story about the Supreme Court Justices recusing themselves from a certiorari matter involving rotisserie baseball to avoid a conflict of interest due to their own participation in the league.

They should be stripped of ephemera not necessary to the bulk of family law disputes, such as rules on interpleader, receivers, creditors» remedies and writs of mandamus, certiorari and habeas corpus.

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.

But, here, two of the Second Circuit's active judges ruled against Marblegate, the dissent was by a senior judge who can not vote on an en banc petition, and the Second Circuit has historically granted fewer en banc rehearings than any other circuit court.5 Other avenues could include Marblegate filing a petition for a writ of certiorari with the US Supreme Court and / or pursuing other federal or state law remedies, including state law theories of successor liability or fraudulent conveyance against the new EDMC subsidiary, theories that the Second Circuit noted as potential causes of action but did not analyze.

On Aug. 19, Argentina filed petition for a writ of certiorari, urging the justices to settle what it described as a significant split among circuit courts regarding whether an arbitration tribunal's «manifest disregard of the law» provides a sufficient basis for federal courts to undo that tribunal's rulings.

San Francisco, CA (Law Firm Newswire) January 27, 2017 — A team from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, led by Theodore B. Olson, the former Solicitor General of the United States, will represent Mandana D. Farhang and M.A. Mobile Ltd. in the Supreme Court of the United States in opposition to a petition for a writ of certiorari recently filed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IITK).

«It is the established rule of this Court that the proper method of reviewing a judgment for civil contempt of the kind here involved is by a petition for common law writ of certiorari...»

Apple has just responded to Samsung's mid-December petition for writ of certiorari (request for Supreme Court review) regarding two legal questions concerning design patents and, in the same document, to amicus curiae («friend of the court») briefs from major industry players, many IP law professors and various public interest advocates, all of whom agree with Samsung that the top U.S. court should take a look at this matter.

[15] Thus, «in addition to case law dealing with the same issue of law, an interpretation or application of a statute, a procedural rule, or a constitutional provision may be the basis for granting certiorari review.»

Circuit courts have jurisdiction over all civil cases at law over $ 2,500 with limited exceptions; all civil cases in equity; proceedings in habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto, prohibition, and certiorari; and all felonies and misdemeanors.

Cautioning that a departure from the essential requirements of law is «something more than a simple legal error,» the court said there must be a violation of a «clearly established principle of law resulting in a miscarriage of justice» to warrant certiorari review.

All of the district court certiorari decisions addressed above pertain to application of the correct law.

Moreover, as the Supreme Court explained, «a circuit court appellate decision made according to the forms of law and the rules prescribed for rendering it, although it may be erroneous in its conclusion as to what the law is as applied to facts, is not a departure from the essential requirements of law remediable by certiorari.»

Finding «significant» cases was difficult this year, because much of the real action in making class action law was occurring in the Supreme Court's certiorari pool.