Sentences with phrase «court cases like»

The law books are full of court cases like the ones where the swimming pool or the septic bed was built on the land next door, where the new house was constructed on the wrong lot, where a buyer had to pay $ 129,000 to get a right of way to the property and where fences and retaining walls were built some distance from the actual lot boundary.

You can look up Supreme Court cases like Goldberg v Kelly and Matthew v Eldridge to start learning more.

It has also served as the basis for such critical Supreme Court cases like Brown v. Board of Education (barring racial segregation in education) and Loving v. Virginia (striking down laws against interracial marriage).

After making my predictions, I thought it would be cool if Vegas took bets on Supreme Court cases like they do on sporting events.

While it's typically used in court cases like divorces, it's a handy tool for laying out your legal rights and responsibilities in any number of situations, including business transactions.

The Act barred both free and enslaved blacks from the rights of citizenship, laid the foundation for the 1857 Dred Scott Decision, and triggered more than a century of Supreme Court cases like Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922), where Ozawa argued that as a Japanese man, he was white.

The CT reformers have been salivating for a court case like this in Connecticut.

Not exact matches

The case could still go to trial, but Irwindale officials would like to see a settlement outside court and do not want to shut down Sriracha altogether, City Attorney Fred Galante told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/17SSD2h).

The case and others like it pending in lower courts raise questions about how much companies protect the privacy rights of their customers.

Meanwhile, other big digital newcomers to the media scene, including BuzzFeed and Business Insider, have also been slow to take up the public interest banner long carried by the likes of the New York Times and the Press - Enterprise (a small California paper that, as Liptak explained, took two free speech cases all the way to the Supreme Court in the 1980s).

Hwang is the co-founder of FiscalNote, a startup that uses data from things like congressional regulations and court rulings to predict future legislation and court cases.

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

Preparing is like getting ready for a court case, many supervisors say: To avoid losing good members of their teams — which could spell doom — they must come armed with paper trails to defend the wrongfully accused and incriminate members of competing groups.

She said that while arbitration bars customers from pursuing class - action cases, it doesn't block them from other legal venues like small claims court.

The company was hauled into Canadian court because of hyped - up claims, like «bottled water is the most environmentally responsible consumer product in the world» - a classic and transparent case of greenwashing.

«Giving customers back their right to take Wells Fargo to court gives them the power to ensure they are made whole and helps prevent cases like this in the future,» he said.

Let's hope that when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case on October 2, the Justices will side with regular working people like Hobson, not with the big bosses and corporations who want to use the fine print to rig the rules against the rest of us.

Like a court case, how important is it to have all the facts before determining the judgement?

It's like there's a court case over who shot the other person first.

Courts still decide cases like this.

If it doesn't check out, you should try and refine the understanding, compare more, dig deeper, adjust... Like in a court case.

Same thing with lawyer who won't take cases, decides to live like a criminial and won't go to court.

«Same thing with lawyer who won't take cases, decides to live like a criminal and won't go to court.»

Like a jury in a court case listening to witnesses, we should ask if politicians in their tweets are telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (or as much as you can in 280 characters).

Saving the Constitution from the Courts By William Gangi University of Oklahoma Press, 326 pages, $ 45 Cases like Roe, Casey, and the recent Romer decision remind us of the degree to which constitutional interpretation has been supplanted by judicial lawmaking.

Instead of wasting a ton of money and time on a stupid court case, why not use it for something more meaningful like feed the hungry!

You are a real azz this is the way the gay agenda went forward you can trace this is one there is a court case associated with it so you may not like it but its truth which I know you cant accept.

Repressed memories are NOT 100 % accurate or valid in court and cases like these are the reason a statute of limitation should apply.

It's very emotional like waiting for the lotto numbers or the verdict for a high profile court case.

We saw cases like McCleskey in 1987 where the Court upheld the death penalty despite overwhelming evidence of racial bias.

The Washington Post reported that the Justice Department requested on Monday that a federal appeals court continue to negotiate with Christian schools like East Texas Baptist University, Houston Baptist University, and Westminster Theological Seminary for another two months, rather than dropping their case and allowing the schools to continue to not offer contraception coverage per a lower court decision.

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.

Probably in consequence of cases like this, Paul goes on in I Corinthians 6 to give instructions for the setting up of Christian judges and Christian courts (following Jewish models).

There have been shady cases «out oftown» at tracks like Florida Downs and Hazel Park and at those nasty placesup in New England that seem to court trouble.

As noted by The Express though, all is not well currently as he continues to fight a court case for alleged tax fraud, and he has conceded that he would like to return to England.

Who is David Boies: Boies is a high - profile lawyer who has taken up issues like gay marriage and even argued the Bush v. Gore recount case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

I do not think he is corrupt (at the moment) but from my point of view it certainly looks like bias.Also I doubt he would want to take the point many people are making (that he cheated) into a court and open what would be a very public discussion.Irrespective of the result the ramifications of such a case would be far reaching indeed and would maybe result in a fair system where footballers and not referees affect the outcome of football matches.

Cases like Patric's and Miller's, which involve fathers who never married the mothers, are relatively new to the courts, but divorce courts have a long history of trying to keep up with changing gender dynamics.

The courts should have to look at the individual circumstances of each case, paying attention to things like: which parent does the caretaking (or both), the temperament of the child, apparent bond of the child to each parent, and anything else that may be relevant and rule in a way that would be least disruptive to the child.

Like other child custody decisions, courts use the best interest of the child to decide disputed child visitation or custody cases involving unmarried fathers.

«One could understand why Wyeth would avoid a scandal of monstrous proportions like this that may prejudice its case before the Supreme Court.»

The group say regardless of today's verdict in court, they will continue to fight to highlight the case of this family and the many like them who have been turfed out of their homes.

Automatic removal of the name of a registered voter, who lawfully and legally registered to vote, using an ID Card that the Supreme Court has confirmed was legal to use at the time she registered, is like a dictatorial government divesting citizens of their rights, in this case, the right to vote enshrined in Article 42 of our Constitution, without due process.

Mayoral hopeful Bo Dietl said he knew he'd lose his court bid to run as Democrat when he saw the Supreme Court judge who decided the case — and she «looked like» de Blasio's wife, NYC First Lady Chirlane Mccourt bid to run as Democrat when he saw the Supreme Court judge who decided the case — and she «looked like» de Blasio's wife, NYC First Lady Chirlane McCourt judge who decided the case — and she «looked like» de Blasio's wife, NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray.

Attorneys representing former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted, along with his son Adam, on corruption charges, have — like Silver's lawyers — used the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of former Gov. Bob McDonald to appeal the conviction of the ex-Long Island Republican lawmaker.

Former city Correction Commissioner Martin Horn has, like Mark - Viverito, championed proposals to drive down Rikers» population by diverting the mentally ill and expediting court cases to speed pretrial detainees through the criminal justice process.

Prosecutors said like Silver, Skelos will not be saved by the Supreme Court ruling, and he should head to prison while he appeals his case.

The case law regarding aerial surveillance was settled decades ago when the Supreme Court ruled that viewing objects in plain view from the air but not the ground (like a marijuana patch hidden behind a high wall) did not constitute a «search» that cops need a warrant to perform.

In that case, the court found that governments could not force workers to pay for «ideological» political work by unions that is not related to things like contract negotiations.

Maybe because it sounded like most of the other court cases, few took notice of the Catskill Heritage Alliance losing again in state Supreme Court in its quest to delay or defeat plans to build a mega-resort at Bellecourt cases, few took notice of the Catskill Heritage Alliance losing again in state Supreme Court in its quest to delay or defeat plans to build a mega-resort at BelleCourt in its quest to delay or defeat plans to build a mega-resort at Belleayre.