Sentences with phrase «civil appeals reversed»

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We bring nearly 30 years of practice experience to people who are involved in civil appeals, whether as the petitioner (seeking to reverse a lower court ruling) or as the respondent (looking to enforce a verdict or other ruling).

The 11th Circuit reversed on appeal, arguing that the bulk of her claim reached back to salary decisions made years earlier, well outside of the 180 - day limit for raising claims of discriminatory employment practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

The supreme court reversed the court of civil appeals, holding the court should not consider all the stock as marital property.

With regard to (b), the incidence of trial decisions reversed in whole or in part on appeal is high (40 % of civil cases appealed).

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56

A sharply divided panel of the Seventh Circuit, led by Judge Posner, addressed the issue of such research in deciding an appeal by a pro se prisoner alleging his civil rights had been violated by inadequate medical treatment.21 Judge Posner's majority opinion reversing the judgment below cited facts from various extrarecord medical websites, including Wikipedia.

Most legal commentators have since argued that this decision is more than likely to be reversed on appeal, primarily in light of the religious underpinnings of the judge's decision, which raise First Amendment concerns (according to the New York Times, the American Civil Liberties Union has offered to appeal the ruling on behalf of the child's mother).