Sentences with phrase «court as a private individual»

Under that False Claims Act, however, even if the Justice Department turns you down, you can continue to pursue your claim in court as a private individual acting on behalf of the government.

Not exact matches

Instead of taking place with a court and a judge, arbitration is a private process with an arbitrator and is generally preferred by companies as it can require individuals to each pursue restitution individually instead of banding together as a group.

In the pending court case for overturning California's Proposition 8, which banned «gay marriage,» two leading conservative legal scholars face off: Charles J. Cooper, taking the classical conservative line that organic social institutions such as marriage have an inherent value and can not be redefined by legal fiat, and Theodore Olson, taking the more libertarian line that government should simply regulate contractual relationships between individuals and not become involved in private matters.

Virtually no - one believes in absolute free markets (at a bare minimum, most people agree that courts should enforce a contract signed between 2 individuals or companies), and virtually no - one believes in complete state control of everything - even the USSR and China had significant amounts of private control over collectivised farms and allowed private farming as well for most of their history.

The Supreme Court, in cases culminating in Agostini [v. Felton], has established the general principle that state educational assistance programs do not have the primary effect of advancing religion if those programs provide public aid to both sectarian and nonsectarian institutions (1) on the basis of neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion; and (2) only as a result of numerous private choices of the individual parents of school - age children.

In addition, as subsequent Supreme Court rulings have diminished the ability of individuals to employ the private right of action, it is even more important that OCR act to protect survivors» rights.

In any action or administrative proceeding commenced pursuant to this Act, the court or agency, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee, including litigation expenses, and costs, and the United States shall be liable for the foregoing the same as a private individual.

In addition to its 25 guest cottages, the Pink Sands offers two private tennis courts and a classic library furnished and appointed in the British Colonial Style, as well as an expansive beach pavilion featuring individual cabanas with personal food and beverage service right at the shore of the crystal blue ocean waters.

HRA 1998, s 12 (3) may prove to be the death knell for the interim injunction as a guard dog of an individual's right to privacy pending trial, while the courts continue to uphold the freedom of an ever more powerful and invasive press it is only a matter of time before an individual's private thoughts and activities are presumed to be fair game for public consumption, whether that individual is the man on the Clapham omnibus or the Prince of Wales.

In that case, the court found that the state could not force individuals to either «use their private property as a «mobile billboard» for the State's ideological message» or pay a criminal penalty.

This Court concluded that, since the inhibitions of the constitutional provisions invoked apply only to governmental action, as contrasted to action of private individuals, there was no showing that the covenants, which were simply agreements between private property owners, were invalid.

Nicole's practice includes representation of private and public companies and individuals in a broad range of business and real estate matters, as well as in litigation in state and federal trial courts and on appeal.

We represent public and private companies, as well as individuals, in nearly every facet of commercial disputes in state and federal courts throughout the nation and in arbitrations throughout the world.

Unfortunately, the Court's mis - direction on the judicial reasoning protecting private life rights and sexual identity started by Dudgeon, is a shortcoming of the judgment, as the Court fails to engage with the impact that mere criminalisation has on gay and lesbian individuals, even without enforcement.

In the Court of Appeal, Sir Alan Ward LJ, dissenting, agreed that there was irresistible logic to the argument that Article 8 is engaged where a private landowner seeks possession against an individual occupying land as their home.

`... as the court is a public authority and the land is being occupied as a home, Article 8 is capable of application even though the landowner is a private individual and the occupiers are trespassers.»

As Québec expanded the jurisdiction of its provincial court over the last 50 years (for the most part, when it was governed by the Parti québécois), it took more and more out of the former exclusive jurisdiction of the Superior Court, impinging ever more on what the Supreme Court, in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law»As Québec expanded the jurisdiction of its provincial court over the last 50 years (for the most part, when it was governed by the Parti québécois), it took more and more out of the former exclusive jurisdiction of the Superior Court, impinging ever more on what the Supreme Court, in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law&racourt over the last 50 years (for the most part, when it was governed by the Parti québécois), it took more and more out of the former exclusive jurisdiction of the Superior Court, impinging ever more on what the Supreme Court, in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law&raCourt, impinging ever more on what the Supreme Court, in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law&raCourt, in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law»as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law».

Outside of court, he acts for condominium corporations and individuals in private mediation and arbitration proceedings in disputes dealing with such things as condominium governance and «people, pets and parking.»

Please understand that private licensed social workers are not able to approve individuals as adoptive parents; they can only recommend families for approval by the Court.