Sentences with phrase «civil court case»

February 1992 — The longest civil court case in Canadian history ends when a Quebec Superior Court judge rules there is no proof that urea formaldehyde insulation poses a health threat.

This program is designed for low income Kansans, or advocates assisting them, who are representing themselves in a non-criminal or civil court case.

So, hire an attorney as soon as you can to consider a civil court case against a casino.

Its presentation in the Brooklyn Museum's Sensation exhibition in 1999, a touring exhibition that had controversial showings at the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Royal Academy, was a culture - war fire starter, leading to a civil court case by Rudolph Giuliani to block the funding of the museum.

A civil judgement means a legal entity has determined you must pay a debt to the plaintiff in a civil court case.

If You Understand Football, Then You Can Understand a Civil Court Case.

Backers of Mitts, meanwhile, point to a 1999 civil court case filed by the Illinois attorney general to recover $ 1,970 from Stamps after she allegedly failed to report income from temporary work at Chicago Public Schools while receiving government assistance as a single mother.

There was a cloud over Brian Kolb's candidacy: He was mentioned in a 2004 civil court case brought by a former female Assembly aide against the chamber's former counsel, Michael Boxley.

There was a cloud over Kolb's candidacy: He was mentioned in a 2004 civil court case brought by a former female Assembly aide against the chamber's former counsel, Michael Boxley.

Martin's family isn't exactly struggling after winning a boatload of cash from their civil court case against the city of Sanford.

Is the inquiry to be held in public, what evidence will be published, what witnesses will be called, will the civil court cases being taken against the government be stopped, how will compensation, if any, be distributed to victims of torture?

At the time, the News of the World maintained phone - hacking was the work of one rogue reporter, but civil court cases - by celebrities who believed their phone had been targeted - have brought evidence to light of a more widespread practice.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today told the state's top judge that he believe the day is approaching when government will guarantee all citizens a lawyer in civil court cases — but said that the funding for the attorneys will have to come from the federal level.

Running a background check needs to enable you to find their phone details, house address, relatives, associated individuals, criminal, as well as, civil court cases, bankruptcies, and associated social media accounts like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

In civil court cases, the main focus of the plaintiff is usually some specific remedy like receiving money from the defendant, or the receipt of a court order.

A more critical finding by the majority of the Supreme Court in Kokopenace would encourage further action by the province to ensure representative jury rolls in criminal and civil court cases as well.

The consequences for civil court cases, spousal support claims and child custody issues are serious indeed, but the devastating impact of this tax will be felt most acutely in my area of practice — criminal law.

Not exact matches

Evidence of lack of business integrity (such as indictments, pleas of guilt in legal cases, convictions for violations of legal behavior, adverse civil judgements, or out - of - court settlements).

On Ash Whitaker's second to last day of high school, he learned that he had won a major civil rights case at a federal appeals court.

The judicial system does not track civil cases filed in circuit court by the section of law cited, but he does not remember hearing of any lawsuit based on the disparagement law being filed in circuit court anywhere in South Dakota.

In a separate civil case, a Hamburg court in May granted an injunction ordering Boehmermann not to repeat most of the offending poem.

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear four appeals this week, all in civil cases.

Also March 20, 2018: New York state Judge Jennifer Schecter rules against Trump's lawyers» motion to dismiss the defamation case by Summer Zervos, citing the Supreme Court's ruling in Clinton v. Jones that presidents are not immune from civil suits.

Strange that the pedophile cases have been taken to civil courts instead of criminal courts by the families of the victims for compensation.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and will decide whether businesses run by religious objectors to gay marriage may refuse to cater a gay wedding.

When we seek instead to «pay something back to the victims and bring them closure,» we are doing a justice either lower (as in civil - court cases) or higher (as in repaying blood with blood)» but, in any case, something that should not be a model for how we deal with criminals.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

It would not have been a civil case only (as the victim would retain the right to sue in civil court as well) but a criminal matter, punishable by time in prison.

«This is the first case in the United States in which a court has affirmed that how a church conducts its baptisms is only the business of the church and is not subject to interference by the civil courts,» attorney John Tucker said.

Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop lost a case in 2014 in Colorado Civil Court.

(I have worked as a paralegal for famous civil rights attorneys in the U.S., they won hundreds of millions of dollars, the US Supreme Court heard one of their cases a couple of years ago, and they move in to legal action very quickly.)

On Monday, the US Supreme Court announced it will take on the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which involves a Christian baker defending his decision to turn down wedding cake orders for same - sex couples.

The Martin may file a civil case but if they lose they have to pay Zimmerman's court cost.

In the Roman case, Coontz isn't entirely wrong in calling it a contract, insofar as marriage law would more often than not be adjudicated in the civil courts just like a contract law.

In an action that seems very ahead of its time for any institution, the case was reported to the civil authorities in 1973 though these did not bring it to court.

A New Jersey Superior Court Judge ruled Thursday that fraud claims against New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning in a memorabilia civil case will still go to trial.

The Illinois Appellate Court this week found that the judge in the McHenry civil case erred by raising the bar too high for state prosecutors seeking to ban Yvonne Cryns from practicing midwifery without a license.

Monday Questions — Civil servants training and development; progress of the national offender management service prisoner co-ordination group; flow of road traffic in the UK; definition of an exceptional case needing surgical and medical care through the NHS Legislation - Crime and courts bill

The state's highest court will decide whether to make NYPD disciplinary records public in a case filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union with the support of multiple news organizations.

An Italian case on similar issues - the deprivation of civil rights, as it happens - is currently working its way through the court.

In a celebrated case brought by a group of civil libertarians to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1942, Chief Justice Robert Jackson, against the strong argument of civil libertarians on the issues of «interrogation without the due process of law» and prolonged detention of suspects, gave his famous ruling that the United States «Constitution is not a suicide pact».

A civil case pending in a state appeals court is testing the limits of the Shield Law, signed in 1970 by then - Gov.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, in a federal district court in Washington, D.C., the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a brief requesting that a federal judge not dismiss a case of litigation against senior CIA and military officials for the 2011 targeted killing of Anwar al - Awlaki (a suspected al - Qaeda leader) and his 16 - year - old son, both U.S. citizens.

In a case that could have wide - ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation.

As a Supreme Court Justice, Judge Fahey was assigned to handle a civil calendar as well as criminal Special Term and presided over a variety of cases in Erie County as well as the outlying counties in the Eighth Judicial District.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed court papers in a New York case arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, taking a stand against a decision reached under President Barack Obama.

A seventh alleged victim, whose case is being handled by a different law firm from the other six defendants, planned to sue in U.S. District court, claiming civil rights violations, according to people familiar with that case.

That's according to a May 10 court filing in a New York civil case brought by a landlord against Jeffrey Yohai.

The government stated that there are 1,390 cases on civil litigations (legal disputes between two or more parties that seek money damages or specific performance rather than criminal sanctions) in Magistrate, High Courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Nigeria.

The Lagos State Government is presently, prosecuting no fewer than 2,926 court cases involving murder, rape as well as civil litigations across various courts in the state.