Sentences with phrase «court cases over the years»

Rulings in many court cases over the years have determined the scope and limits of what can be taught and how it is presented in public school.

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And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.

The Supreme Court has refined the rules of affirmative action over the years, and this case gives the opportunity for it to do that again.

Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self - driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high - profile court case that commenced last week.

Indeed, Scalia himself noted that the high court came within a vote of declaring videocassette recorders «contraband» when it ruled for Sony Corp. in a case over recordings of television programs 30 years ago.

And over the years, it has gone to considerable lengths to protect the rights of its users to say pretty much whatever they wish, including fighting a French court case that was designed to identify users who posted anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks.

Attorneys for Waymo have said in court that over the nearly year - long case they have amassed a file of evidence against Uber and were ready to go to trial before the revelation of the Jacobs letter, which came days before the original trial date.

Phillips, who is from Lakewood in Colorado, opened a case at the US Supreme Court earlier this year over the issue.

A modernization of the state court system over the last year continues as part of an effort to streamline cases and reduce backlogs, Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said Tuesday during her state judiciary addcourt system over the last year continues as part of an effort to streamline cases and reduce backlogs, Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said Tuesday during her state judiciary addCourt of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said Tuesday during her state judiciary address.

It's ABSURD to suggest that ANY U.S. court (at the federal or state level) is going to suddenly ignore over 200 years of American legal precedent and decide a case based on Islamic law.

New Scotland Town Justice David Wukitsch, who presided over the case in City Court, also ordered Lee's license revoked for at least a year and directed her to pay a $ 500 fine, plus $ 395 state surcharge in addition to an as - yet - undetermined amount of restitution to the woman whose car was damaged.

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is to admit that over a period of «many years» hundreds of cases never came to court because warrants were not issued for the arrests of defendants when they failed to show up at court.

However, on May 5 this year, the Supreme Court in a case filed by Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako ordered the EC to remove from Ghana's current voter's register, the names of over 56,000 people who used NHIS cards as proof to register and voted in the 2012 elections.

Over the past few years, cuts to legal aid and changes to lawyers» fees have made it harder for alleged victims of human rights abuses by UK - linked companies to have their cases heard in UK courts.

«We cite the case of Sambo Dasuki who has been in detention for over two years and running even when many courts in Nigeria and the Ecowas Court have ordered for his release, but the President has fragrantly disobeyed these court orders which again are a violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of NigCourt have ordered for his release, but the President has fragrantly disobeyed these court orders which again are a violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigcourt orders which again are a violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Lawyers for the defendants deny the charges and have been seeking to toss the case on a number of grounds over the past year, including court decisions in unrelated public corruption cases.

The House and the Trump administration are asking to keep a pause on a years - long court battle over the legality of crucial ObamaCare payments to insurers, while Democratic attorneys general are seeking for the case to proceed.

A Supreme Court judge will likely preside over both criminal and civil cases during the 14 - year term.

This lawsuit and today's motion demonstrate how H.B. 194 contains language already deemed by the Ohio Supreme Court to be unconstitutional based on its rulings in similar cases over the past few years.

Fisher, 47, is a former assistant public defender and court attorney in Kingston City Court who has been in private practice for 17 years and has been pushing «over 20 years of experience trying cases at all levels of courts of New York, including Supreme, Family, County, federal and town and village courts.&rcourt attorney in Kingston City Court who has been in private practice for 17 years and has been pushing «over 20 years of experience trying cases at all levels of courts of New York, including Supreme, Family, County, federal and town and village courts.&rCourt who has been in private practice for 17 years and has been pushing «over 20 years of experience trying cases at all levels of courts of New York, including Supreme, Family, County, federal and town and village courts.»

A Nassau County jury yesterday convicted John Restivo and Dennis Halstead of the rape and murder of 16 - year - old Theresa Fusco, bringing to an end an arduous seven - week trial and two years of court battles over one of Nassau County's more celebrated murder cases.

He refused to jab back at the governor for calling out the judiciary in such a public fashion (which sort of reminded me of President Obama's verbal slap at the US Supreme Court justices at last year's State of the Union address over the Citizens United case).

In terms of experience, Beisel seemed to have the edge over Riccardi, citing «over 40,000 cases» handled during 20 years in court.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, who presided over the case at the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, found him guilty of 77 counts and sentenced him to 2 years imprisonment on each count, to run concurrently.

Supreme Court justices serve 14 - year terms, are paid $ 136,700 annually and preside over trial courts handling civil cases, such as negligence, personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability.

Just over a year after the attacks, as the court case against Anders Breivik was intensely covered in the media, a new — although smaller — increase in the number of trauma - and stressor - related disorders was observed.

The case, heard in the District Court of Los Angeles, took over a year to prepare and lasted four weeks.

Nearly a year after declaring Montana's system of paying for its public schools unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court early this month relinquished its jurisdiction over the school - finance case.

Some of these courts had retained jurisdiction for years or even decades over the «remedial» phase of the case.

The most famous of these was the Abbott case in New Jersey in which the courts have issued over a dozen funding orders since the commencement of the case almost 40 years ago.

«It is important for the U.S. Supreme Court to take this case, as the Ninth Circuit opinion ignores 20 years of precedents on special education law and represents yet another example of a federal agency exceeding its authority over educational decision making,» NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel said.

After three and half years, much of it mired in controversy over technology missteps like the rollout of a $ 1.3 billion iPad program and a court case that struck down teacher tenure laws in California, the schools chief and the board have agreed to part ways.

Posted on December 23, 2016 · A new Texas education commissioner vowed to crack down on district and campus accountability, a drawn - out court case over school finance ended and federal officials began investigating an alleged cap on special education services in Texas school districts — those are among the highlights of the year 2016 in Texas public education.

If a creditor does challenge the discharge of a debt, Ginsberg states that the recourse is to negotiate a partial payment plan for that particular debt or to convert the case to a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, which requires a court - ordered repayment plan over several years.

Over the years, the case escalated from LTB hearing, to small claims court, to a criminal matter before the Ontario Superior Court of Juscourt, to a criminal matter before the Ontario Superior Court of JusCourt of Justice.

However, in a Chapter 13 case, you will propose a plan of reorganization to the court and to your creditors, stating how you intend to pay your debts over a 3 - year or 5 - year term.

You might not have heard about it — but over the last few years there was a case working its way through the court system that could have made it easier for student loans to be discharged.The plaintiff in the case was Mark Tetzlaff, 57, a man who owed over $ 260,000 in student loans.

You might not have heard about it — but over the last few years there was a case working its way through the court system that could have made it easier for student loans to be discharged.

After over a year and a half, the case has been settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.

The ACCC wants to find Valve $ 3m after Valve lost a court case that's stretched on over the course of three years.

My main point though is that it isn't gambling in the legal sense (there have been a number of court cases brought against card distributors over the years and they've all been dismissed).

When I began my intensive search for anything showing the «reposition global warming» memo in its full context, what I found in just the first day was essentially wall - to - wall quotes about Ross Gelbspan's big revelation of it to the world — except for one lone exception, which was a March 13, 2008 US News & World Report article noting phrase was part of Kivalina v Exxon court case documents (more on that separate problem here) which themselves led me to the New York Times revelation of the phrase and the ICE campaign, over six years earlier than any accolades about Gelbspan's exposé.

Especially given the case was argued before the appeals court on February 28 and 29, 2012 — over a year after the Timing Rule went into effect.

After an Odyssey of nearly 10 years, the legal proceedings of Switzerland against German restrictions on flights to and from Zurich airport have come to an end: The CJEU, in its judgement delivered on 7 March 2013 (Case C ‑ 547 / 10 P), has rejected Switzerland's appeal against the judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2010 (Case T ‑ 319 / 05), by which the General Court had rejected Switzerland «s action for annulment against Commission Decision 2004 / 12 / EC of 5 December 2003 (OJ 2004 L 4, p. 13), thus allowing Germany to continue to apply unilateral restrictions on flights to and from Zurich airport over German territory.

We prefer not to run around toilet courts and haggle over $ 500 whiplash cases for 45 K a year and no health benefits.

We have assisted tens of thousands of British Columbians over the years through law reform, test case litigation, systemic advocacy, delivery of public legal education, summary advice, workshops and representation of clients before administrative tribunals and the courts.

The case was brought by five Unions2 under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.3 While the Charter contains no express reference to collective bargaining, over the past ten years, the Supreme Court of Canada has recognized that the right to freedom of association, which is protected by section 2 (d), encompasses the rights of employees to join together to make collective representations to the employer, and to have those representations considered in good faith.

An estranged lesbian couple's Supreme Court fight over their seven - year - old daughter is the first case of its kind and raises key issues, a lawyer has said.

It is clear however from a review of the case law over the last ten years, that the courts are increasing letting costs follow the event.

As a Partner in the firm's Litigation Division for over 25 years, John dealt with a wide range of substantial commercial disputes, with experience of resolving cases in the Courts, by arbitration and through ADR.