Sentences with phrase «civil cases never»

About 98 percent of civil cases never go to trial, the judge says.

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To date, it has NEVER been allowed to be used as evidence in any case, civil or criminal... why is that?

In any case, there have been loads of articles on civil liberties and there are debates in the comments (I've never seen you there?)

The write - up titled, «The case for Biafra», credited to an American former government official, Bruce Fein, is most probably written by a young Igbo guy who never experienced the civil war and never read Nigerian pre-Independence history.

The civil case is another story, either way this man has been destroyed in the eyes of the construction industry and will never find work again in the NY area.

So for my last book, Underground Airlines, the nonfiction included several histories of slavery (especially Edward Baptist's 2014 The Half Has Never Been Told, various histories of the Civil Rights movement, Ta - Nahesi Coates's brilliant Atlantic essay «The Case for Reparations» and Ted Conover's devastating Harper's piece about slaughterhouses, «The Way of All Flesh.»

, or b) Your local salt - of - the - earth parish priest who's 100 % dependable... but will never actually be able to repay you (err, due to a looming civil liability case...)?

I think we have a tendency to think it's written in stone, but if that were the case, civil rights and women's issues would never move forward.

In fact, Spence has never lost a criminal case and never lost a civil case since 1969.

And while the collectibility of the $ 40 million judgment against Cerillo may be questioned (perhaps the family will never see ALL this money, though they will see some — hopefully), this case is a great example of how crime victims may seek justice through Florida civil law and damages under Florida injury and wrongful death statutes.

Kobie never lost a case as a federal civil rights prosecutor.

He has never lost a criminal case and has not lost a civil case since 1969.

According to Hogan's malpractice complaint, Zuckerman Spaeder never disclosed that Hulk Hogan's insurance company would have provided a free attorney to defend Hulk Hogan in a civil case that arose out of his son's car crash.

What the panel had to say: «Arvay never shies away from taking on divisive and socially controversial cases in his pursuit of civil liberties and human rights.»

By elevating the small claims court limit, we enable access to a simplified and affordable civil litigation mechanism to people who could never afford to hire counsel (a virtual necessity) to represent themslves in Superior Court case.

For an individual who has a simple civil complaint it's possible that he or she will never see the inside of a court room while often criminal cases will always require at least some time spent in a court room with a representative from a Toronto criminal law firm who will assist in making declarations of guilt or innocence with the defendant.

That is not to say that in principle Judicial Review proceedings could never determine a civil law claim, however in this case the Judicial Review proceedings had not in fact done so.

But, particularly for two jurisdictions like the US and England and Wales, where conventional civil legal aid is now hard to get even for cases with a significant public interest, this is a real additional resource — albeit one which could never match universal coverage of an appropriate legal aid scheme.

Defendants in civil cases used to try to bury opposing lawyers during discovery by handing over truckloads of documents and hoping they would never be able to find the one or two damning documents in the bunch.

Phillips had one opponent who called the Supreme Court soft on crime — a difficult charge to deny in a civil court that never hears criminal cases.

«There are arbitration case laws that go way back but it's never been a civil litigation issue until now.

Unlike all of my colleagues in the District of Nebraska, I almost never use a 12 - person jury in civil cases.

Unfortunately for the pensions, their civil fraud case never got far.