Sentences with phrase «court made an example of»

Ahead of the sentencing, the government had asked for a «lengthy sentence» for Ulbricht, saying if the court made an example of him, it could stop the proliferation of «dark markets» like Silk Road.

Not exact matches

You may have a life emergency, for example, which demands the use of your retirement monies; or, you may need the money to make court - ordered payments.

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»

For example, in Lee v. Weisman the Supreme Court protects a dissenting student from the burden of having to hear a prayer at graduation exercises, while in Lyng v. Northwest the same court approves the building of a logging road through sacred lands, making it impossible for a whole tribe of Indians to practice their reliCourt protects a dissenting student from the burden of having to hear a prayer at graduation exercises, while in Lyng v. Northwest the same court approves the building of a logging road through sacred lands, making it impossible for a whole tribe of Indians to practice their relicourt approves the building of a logging road through sacred lands, making it impossible for a whole tribe of Indians to practice their religion.

His argument on the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, rests on a strained parsing of the Reconstruction debates intended to show that the Privileges and Immunities Clause (which the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated shortly after the Amendment's adoption) was intended to make the Bill of Rights operative against the states.

The child's preference, as stated in court, if the child is of a sufficient age and intelligence to make such a decision (for example, if the child is over age 12)

He has also made multiple populist claims, that would be inconstitutional for any president to perform, for example pledging that if any member of congress was involved in corruption, he would personaly take them to jail, showing little for any due process, and ignoring the fact that members of congress have political - immunity that can only be withdrawn by the Supreme Court.

Starmer said that criminal charges were suitable where there were examples of harassment; where court orders were flouted; or where «grossly offensive» or «threatening» comments were made - but that the free speech threshold must be set very high.

For example, last month, a Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn ruled in favor of an Empire Center position that public pension information should be made available for taxpayer inspection.

On the same day community watch volunteer George Zimmerman made his first appearance in court to face murder charges in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tells WAMC that the case is a good example of what can happen when the public takes an interest in pursuing justice.

DiFiore's address was delivered in the Bronx, but she used Brooklyn as an example of gains made in civil courts.

He also wants the court to «make an example of the anti-graft agency and slam the hammer» on it with a N520m damages.

The prime example is the scene where Ms. Graham is leaving the Supreme Court through a sea of silently admiring women — an unbelievably disproportionate crowd make - up.

«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.

For example, it fails to consider Hunter v. Pittsburgh, the century - old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that essentially renders districts (as well as other local governments) as subservient to state government, essentially making the very concept of local control a fiction.

You may have a life emergency, for example, which demands the use of your retirement monies; or, you may need the money to make court - ordered payments.

In the case of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, for example, the Supreme Court didn't make a final ruling until 2008, 19 years after the spill.

If you are sued you must prove to the court that two years have elapsed (since you last made a payment, for example), so the burden of proof is on you.

They are akin to Public Events from the first game - with the likes of the Arsenal Walker making a comeback, for example - but have a hint of Court of Oryx about them, with disguised challenges to figure out and complete.

The pair were made for the court of the Qianlong Emperor and only four similar examples have been sold at auction.

He also reacted away from European Modernist fashions, towards the kind of narrative painting that had long existed in India, for example in the miniature paintings made for both Mughal and Hindu courts.

One only has to look at the courageous examples out there — the man who single - handedly saved a species of snail, or the man that courted a rare whooping crane for three years in an effort to get her to lay eggs — to see that sometimes, one person can make a huge difference in ensuring the survival of an endangered species.

The court has a discretion as to whether repayment should be made by a losing payee spouse; and thus for example «to order repayment unconditionally or subject to a prohibition against enforcement against her without further leave»; but such discretion «should certainly not be equated with that of determining the incidence of costs at the conclusion of an appeal».

However, in cases where a failure to give proper disclosure has made a fair trial impossible, or prevented the court from doing justice, or in instances of a flagrant abuse of process, a superior court will exercise its inherent jurisdiction — its power to control its own procedure so as to prevent it from being used to achieve injustice — to strike out the case before or during a trial (see for example Raja v Van Hoogstraten and others [2006] EWHC 1315 (Ch) and CPR 3.4 (5)-RRB-.

A Power of Attorney, for example, lets you appoint a trusted family member to make financial and medical decisions on your behalf, while a Living Trust can help you provide for your children without the hassles of probate court.

Ironically lack of such an assessment can lead to the secondary legislation being nullified by the very courts which are under no obligation to make such an assessment (see for example ss 1 and 149 Equality Act 2010)

For example, if you tripped and fell in your hotel grounds because of a badly maintained footpath, then you could make a holiday accident compensation claim against your UK - based travel agent through the courts of England and Wales.

Examples of complaints about court procedure include unfair scheduling practices, delays in decision making, or inconsistent information on filing procedures.

If the Supreme Court eventually rules that litigation funding is permitted in Ireland, it will mean that Irish parties who are lawfully entitled to compensation, for example due to a breach of contract by a large multinational corporation, or mis - selling of financial products by an international bank, can make use of the financial resources and the strategic experience of professional funders like Woodsford to get justice from the Courts».

The court can make a variety of orders, for example, for payment of a capital sum, transfer of property, a pension share, and for spousal maintenance.

Another example is a motion for summary judgment, which asks the court to rule in the requester's favor because essential facts are no longer in dispute (perhaps because of what has been learned in discovery), making a jury's decision unnecessary on some — or all — points.

Reference is made particularly to the judgment of the Constitutional Court no. 138/10 in the first two applicants» case, the findings of which were reiterated in a series of subsequent judgments in the following years (see some examples at paragraph 45 above).

Examples include, (1) the lower court made a serious error of law, (2) the evidence did not support the verdict, or (3) lower court abused its discretion in rendering a ruling.

However, the court confirmed Kumar in making clear that conduct falling short of actual collusion could have the same effect, and particularly where it could be shown that the consideration being given was significantly less than the value of the interests in property being received, the paradigm examples being where a result is arrived at which the court would never be expected to have made in usual circumstances, or which it would never have approved it had known the full facts.

There is, for example, no reason why when you go to court you should not have a companion who takes notes of what was said, and makes suggestions as to what you should say.

For example, the connections you make may be great sources of advice about local judges» preferences with respect to court materials, contact information for experts, or even just basic career advice.

The most obvious example of this is if order made is not one that a court could be expected, in normal circumstances, to have made.

For example, the ACLU of Massachusetts, the national ACLU, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation recently filed a lawsuit in federal court in Massachusetts on behalf of 11 travelers whose personal electronics were searched at the border without a warrant, seeking a ruling that such searches can not be made except pursuant to a warrant based upon probable cause.

Even in a court not specifically created as a Gladue court, a lawyer who is making representations in respect of a sentence or other disposition (for example, an extradition proceeding) that affects the liberty of an aboriginal person is encouraged to arrange for the preparation of a specialized «Gladue report.»

Sam Glover: Right, so here's the example that comes to my mind is most first - year lawyers who try to litigate in Minnesota make the same mistake because the civil rules say that a response to a Motion for Summary Judgment is due within a certain amount of time, and then there's this whole separate set of rules called the general rules of practice for District Court, and they have a different timeline.

In other words, the suggestion to adopt a broader approach (see Amendments 6 and 39), by reflecting the Engel criteria of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), from which the Court of Justice has also drawn inspiration, for example in Bonda, did not make it into Article 2 of the Directive.

In the past, the Italian Constitutional Court made clear that supra - national law should not prevail without any limitation, and that the application of international obligations could not have the effect to breach the fundamental principles of the constitutional order or the fundamental rights of the individuals (this is called the «counter-limit doctrine», developed for example in the «Granital case», Sentenza n. 170, 5 June 1984).

Examples of how the Washington courts have supported attorneys who are providing unbundled services, such as offering standard forms that enable attorneys to make limited appearances in court

If I offer a fixed - price «contested» divorce, for example, then the incentive for the client is to make full - use of that pricing model and to regularly and repeatedly want to: 1) talk about their case (i.e., their evil spouse's latest antics) on the phone or in - person; 2) file more motions to get their spouse to do something, to prevent their spouse from doing something, or to object to something the court ruled; 3) send more «demand letters» or make more phone calls to the opposing party or their attorney to tell them to return the car seat, or to complain that they dropped off the child 15 minutes late, etc; and 4) respond to ad hoc motions from the other side (motions for attorney's fees, motions to compel discovery, motions for summary disposition, motions to enforce, etc).

Masters and district judges need to make an example in a few high - profile cases, one of which might perhaps reach the Court of Appeal, which can modify practice across the board by repeating the kind of expectations it articulated in Cowl v Plymouth City Council; Dunnett v Railtrack; Halsey v Milton Keynes NHST; and Burchell v Bullard.

For example, in Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Decker, the court stated that a communication can be privileged if «the subject matter upon which the attorney's advice is sought by the corporation and dealt with in the communication is the performance by the employee of the duties of his employment» and «the employee makes the communication at the direction of his superiors in the corporation.»

«Apart from considerations of illegality, agreements to pay Form Fillers in circumstances of unequal bargaining power and where an improvident deal was made, such as the two examples in the record before this court, are unconscionable and therefore voidable at the instance of the instance of the claimants who entered them.»

For example, a key part of a lawyer's reputation is his ability to make a statement of fact or law, when not under oath to the court or to another lawyer in a case, which people will consider trustworthy without having to verify it formally.

For example, a broad comparison can be made between the relative positions of creditors under a CVA as opposed to a court - managed winding up.