Sentences with phrase «court legal press»

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The U.S. Supreme Court emasculated the controversial legal concept of «honest services» on Jun. 24th and in so doing, handed a moral victory to jailed former press baron Conrad Black.

The Supreme Court only accepts around 1 % of all appeals, and typically does so when there's a pressing legal question or a significant split between appeals courts.

According to the Associated Press, on Tuesday the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's gay marriage ban was legal, and thus would remain in place until a ruling comes down from the U.S. Supreme Court.

From a legal standpoint, Berg said Lake in the Hills is in a strong position if it decides to press ahead in the courts.

If Trump is truly libeled or slandered in the press, he knows he has legal recourse through the courts; he has tried it before unsuccessfully.

«As the New York State Supreme Court considers the serious voting - access and counting issues in the 13th Congressional District election, we are pleased to welcome Marty Connor to lead our legal team,» Mr. Espaillat's spokesman, Ibrahim Khan, said in a press release.

A statement issued by the organisation, which is also a centre for information gathering said although the matter is in court it is expedient for government to aid in the legal processes to exonerate itself from the bad press.

11 a.m. — The New York City Council's Progressive Caucus holds a press conference and rally to announce their legal filing urging the court to reject the NYPD's denial of all of FOIL request for records regarding the killing of Ramarley Graham, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

President Trump is barreling into a confrontation with the courts barely two weeks after taking office, foreshadowing years of legal battles as an administration determined to disrupt the existing order presses the boundaries of executive power.

At 12:30 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio hosts a press conference to make an announcement about legal representation for tenants in housing court following a roundtable discussion on the topic, High Bridge Library, 78 West 168th St., the Bronx.

(Associated Press) Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer says he has «serious doubts» that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is within what Democrats consider the legal mainstream.

The endorsement touts Long's recent work as a judicial activist promoting conservative appointments to the federal court, but says her «pro-life activism began on Capitol Hill,» where she served as press secretary to two pro-life senators, and says Long was subsequently inspired to pursue a law degree «to better defend pro-life principles,» and mentions she studied under professors like the late Victor Rosenblum and Mary Ann Glendon, two pro-life legal scholars.

Court sources have told the Press Association, the lost legal battle could cost Mitchell up to # 3 million.

The Commission went on to state that «If these claims go unanswered, or are not dealt with, confidence in the judiciary will be undermined as the public becomes convinced that the courts as now constituted are incapable of correctly resolving some of the most pressing legal issues of our day» (p. 11).

Faculty members argue before the Supreme Court, testify before Congress, produce outstanding legal scholarship and empirical analysis, and contribute regularly to the nation's press as legal and policy experts.

Leading Authors Press for Supreme Court Review of Google's Digitized Library The web giant's digitisation of millions of books — many in copyright — faces a fresh legal challenge, backed by authors including Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, Ursula Le Guin and Malcolm...

Leading Authors Press for Supreme Court Review of Google's Digitized Library The web giant's digitisation of millions of books — many in copyright — faces a fresh legal challenge, backed by authors including Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, Ursula Le Guin and Malcolm Gladwell.

Like other press barons one could name, Steve Brill was always somewhat larger than life — founding the American Lawyer, building the first online legal community, Counsel Connect and launching a cable channel dedicated to trials — Court TV.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed the lawsuit in Oregon state court, according to a press release and a story by KATU News.

In a post here two months ago, I reported on the launch by legal research service Fastcase of a new publishing arm called Full Court Press that will produce law journals, legal treatises, deskbooks, forms, checklists and workflow tools.

From the coverage in the legal press, you might think that the «crisis» was limited to the parlous state of legal aid system, but that 40 % cut will cover the entire MoJ budget including prisons and probation as well as our courts.

If a nursing home is opposed to going to court and potentially facing bad publicity or press, their legal team may push for a quick settlement.

In addition to the holidays, I argued at the Fifth Circuit; published two articles at The Huffington Post (here and here); produced a podcast episode on appellate practice for the ABA's Sound Advice series; gave a presentation to the Dallas Bar Association (about the post-election Supreme Court and Trump's list of possible nominees); participated in a panel discussion about e-briefs and legal writing at the annual meeting of the Council of Chief Judges of State Courts of Appeal (in North Carolina); was cited on SCOTUSblog and the Appellate Advocacy Blog (both here and here); and was quoted by Bloomberg (here, here, here, and here), CNN, and the Winnipeg Free Press.

As a first POMFR post I would like to present Gerard Conway's The Limits of Legal Reasoning and the European Court of Justice (Cambridge / New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Well, in its own quest for the Holy Grail, Fastcase is today launching a major initiative, a publishing arm called Full Court Press that will produce law journals, legal treatises, deskbooks, forms, checklists and workflow tools.

Anchored by a comprehensive introduction exploring the main themes of the legal history of the region, a group of distinguished historians from have contributed 11 substantive essays (three in French), on subjects as varied as women in court, grand juries, western law and aboriginal peoples, gun use and control, Quebec legal literature, married women's property, and imprisonment for debt — The Osgoode Society and the University of Toronto Press

Ontario Opposition leader says he'll ignore threats of legal action over comments, Canadian Press B.C. Crown wants four years for man who created revenge website against ex-wife, Canadian Press Ontario appeal court upholds convictions for former MP Del Mastro, Canadian Press Appeal filed in B.C. child - bride case by member of polygamous sect, Canadian Press

It is widely known that Microsoft has been working with the legal assistance sector in the USA for a couple of years https://law-tech-a2j.org/united-states/legal-services-corporation-announces-timely-microsoft-collaboration/. A press release in April 2016 stated: «Drawing on state - of - the - art cloud technologies, this portal will enable people to navigate the court system and legal aid resources, learn about their legal rights and prepare and file critical court documents in a way that is accessible, comprehensive and easy to navigate».

In addition to pressing criminal charges, the victims of drunk driving accidents and their families have the legal right to pursue claims in a court of law in order to recover monetary damages.

and other one - world liberals who have persistently pressed judicial nominees in recent years to consider the legal opinions of foreign courts and other bodies when deciding cases here at home?

«The panel finds that Justice Matlow participated in controversial political discussions, inappropriately used the privileged platform of judicial office, publicly offered legal advice and criticism, took a role in litigation that was likely to come before his court, communicated with the press in the course of advancing a specific point of view in a legal and political dispute against a party that was imminently to appear before him in litigation, and failed to ensure that his actions and the extent of his involvement in the dispute with that party were disclosed to his co-panelists [on Divisional Court] and to the parties,» said the pcourt, communicated with the press in the course of advancing a specific point of view in a legal and political dispute against a party that was imminently to appear before him in litigation, and failed to ensure that his actions and the extent of his involvement in the dispute with that party were disclosed to his co-panelists [on Divisional Court] and to the parties,» said the pCourt] and to the parties,» said the panel.

Since 2008, Legal Press China and the People's Court Press has published more than 10 books written by Zhihui.

The University of Chicago Press and the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association have launched the Journal of Law and Courts, an interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed journal devoted to the examination of legal institutions, actors, processes and policy.

And this morning, Peter Lattman of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog had the scoop on a «hot off the presses» ruling by federal district court Judge Lewis Kaplan, who found that that prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a group of former KPMG partners in pressuring the firm not to advance them legal fees (I originally blogged about the matter here in the context of how much we should expect corporations to stand up for customer or employee rights when government comes knocking on the corporate door).

The court's information office said 63 - year - old Sotomayor broke her shoulder in a morning fall at her home, report the Associated Press, the Washington Examiner and a tweet by legal editor Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News.

When I saw the press release, U.S. Courts Awards 5 - Year Legal Research Contract to LexisNexis, my first thought was, «Does this exclude Westlaw as a research option for federal judges and staff?»

And although, if anything, the Supreme Court press corps is hypercautious in its attention to legal detail at the expense of sensationalism, Scalia dismisses them, and their readers, because, in his view, «nobody would read it if you went into the details of the law that the court has to resolve.&rCourt press corps is hypercautious in its attention to legal detail at the expense of sensationalism, Scalia dismisses them, and their readers, because, in his view, «nobody would read it if you went into the details of the law that the court has to resolve.&rcourt has to resolve.»

The journal, which features law review - style articles and commentary from experts in the legal tech field, will be published six times per year and be the flagship publication for Fastcase's new publishing arm, Full Court Press.

Moreover, the strategy of many of those involved in the campaign to achieve legal recognition for same - sex marriage is predicated, so far, on pressing the issue in state courts under state law.

But as Pam Smith of Legal Press writes here, that's the scenario in Maughan v. Google, where Justice Miriam Vogel argued that the lower court judge erred in cutting Google's request for attorney fees after prevailing on an anti-SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation) motion.

According to Associated Press, Cutler filed a copy of the petition in the D.C. court, along with documents saying that she is unable to pay her credit card bill, legal fees and student loans.

The Ministry of Justice is firmly in This - Is - Fine - Dog - meme - mode, and is pressing ahead with its plans to (a) further «reform» criminal legal aid (by shuffling the deckchairs in such a way as to amount, in some complex cases, to a 40 % cut); and (b) do absolutely nothing about the chronic underfunding of the courts, Crown Prosecution Service, police, Probation, prisons and many other decaying limbs of the criminal justice system.

There are many audiences for your, and our reasons: the courts, the parties, the public, the press, the legal academics, and so on.

Press Release NEW EDITION October 2011 Courting Publicity: Twitter and Television Cameras in Court To tweet, or not to tweet — this is the question that has got our legal system all of a flutter Courting Publicity: Twitter and Television Cameras in Court is the first book in the UK to analyse the media's current freedom and use of social...

What I'm hoping will happen in the next three years is that funders of health care, social services, housing, etc. and legal aid providers and courts will embrace working with groups outside of the legal domain and start using forms and technology to bring preventative law into places where vulnerable communities go for help with other pressing needs.

I remember that the mere appointment of a court expert in this case became the subject of reports in the specialized legal press, showing just how unusual this was.

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«We are bitterly disappointed that, despite a sustained campaign emphasising that these proposals are contrary to the public interest, the government is pressing ahead with significant cuts to legal aid for advocacy in the Crown Court,» he said.

We have seen the Court of Appeal's rejection of the appeal in the case of British Airways and the employee wanting to wear a cross necklace in defiance of the company's dress code (Eweida v BA plc [2010] EWCA Civ 80, [2010] All ER (D) 144 (Feb)-RRB- and also that court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal of the heresy that the range of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's behaviour was so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-Court of Appeal's rejection of the appeal in the case of British Airways and the employee wanting to wear a cross necklace in defiance of the company's dress code (Eweida v BA plc [2010] EWCA Civ 80, [2010] All ER (D) 144 (Feb)-RRB- and also that court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal of the heresy that the range of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's behaviour was so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal of the heresy that the range of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's behaviour was so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-RRB-.

Her recent publications include Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy (Oxford University Press 2016); «How to Regulate Legal Services to Promote Access, Innovation and the Quality of Lawyering» (with Deborah Rhode)(Hastings Law Journal 2016); «The Microfoundations of the Rule of Law» (with Barry Weingast)(Annual Review of Political Science 2015); «Building Legal Order in Ancient Athens» (with Federica Carugati and Barry Weingast)(Journal of Legal Analysis 2015); «Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets» (Daedalus 2014).