Sentences with phrase «courthouse door»

The Appellate Division [has] essentially slammed the courthouse door in the face of a local contractor who challenged the state Department of Transportation on contract terms that required a project labor agreement.

So often these people come out permanently damaged because of that, so reopening the courthouse doors to these victims is a positive thing,» said Ryan.

«In short, this particular lawsuit seemed doomed, with the court's biggest task figuring out how to say so without shutting the courthouse door entirely to such claims,» said longtime Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston.

Attaching private rights of action to NCLB would not open the courthouse door for the first time, but would open it much wider.

But the fact is that for decades litigants have been marching through the courthouse door to influence what happens in schools.

Edley has complained, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (February 14, 2007), that parents and the public can not get in the courthouse door to argue that officials are failing to live up to the obligations of education statutes: «If the state fails to enforce environmental regulations against a polluter, members of the public can not only go to the ballot box, they can also go to court.

«If affirmed, the... holding would bar the courthouse doors to private parties seeking to overturn state action on preemption grounds.»

The Court's decision shut the courthouse door to a solid claim that Facebook obtained this settlement by committing securities fraud.

The courthouse door has been opened however, for people who fall victim to their private information being publicized without their consent.

Some of them lead to the courthouse door.

To prepare themselves, lawyers need to assemble their own e-trial «kit bags» before strolling through the courthouse doors.

Norm Pattis of Crime & Federalism takes this position that a family that «has neither the funds for a lawyer nor the charm to seduce a public interest group» should not be barred from the courthouse door by a rule prohibiting non-lawyer parents from representing their own children in these types of cases.

Finally, please be aware that your animal must be able to fit through the courthouse door, making some of the larger options impracticable.

These are simple facts of the American legal system: Jurors can not be required to check their consciences at the courthouse door, nor can they be punished for their verdicts.

We do a lot of work around access to justice through self - help in this country, but it doesn't mean much if it all dies at the courthouse door.

He believes our American system of law and government is the greatest in the world and feels privileged to hold open the courthouse door for all.

Not only will these litigants be blocked at the courthouse doors, but judges doing this dirty work are likely to be upheld on appeal.

My take is that blocking access to the courthouse door allows for judicial bias against pro se litigants to go unchecked.

It is intended to serve as a companion to her forthcoming book, Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and its Corporate Allies are Taking Away Your Right to Sue.

Looking out my office window toward the courthouse door, I am conflicted by the view of the gentleman entering.

We go to court with everything you've got, so when we stand at the courthouse doors lawyers are often willing to settle with us.»

In addition to quarterly Public Justice events, our staff attorneys regularly speak around the country to audiences of trial attorneys, law students, and allied public - interest groups about the vital role the civil justice system and our litigation plays in keeping America's courthouse doors open for all.

According to one New York appellate court, it has «routinely barred the courthouse door to women who have, in fact, been treated less well than men because of gender.»

The courthouse doors locked at 5 p.m. but the trial wasn't over until 5:15 p.m.

FIJA works to: • Inform potential jurors of their traditional, legal authority to refuse to enforce unjust laws • Inform potential jurors that they can not be required to check their consciences at the courthouse door • Inform potential jurors that they can not be punished for their verdicts • Inform everyone that juror veto — jury nullification — is a peaceful way to protect human rights against corrupt politicians and government tyranny

Up to the courthouse door, Honda can (and presumably will) spend whatever it wants to obtain advice and assistance from its attorneys in preparing to put on a defense.

A stated objective of Public Justice is to fight interests aimed at «closing the courthouse doors so victims can't hold the powerful accountable,» including fighting «class action bans and abuses.»

James raises what I think is the most powerful objection to loser pays: that it could bar the courthouse door against plaintiffs with strong claims but modest means.

Another example is that we have innovative ideas that have sprung from the courts that have stayed within the courthouse doors instead of thinking about how we can modify them and bring them into law practices, or maybe, the reverse.

He thinks he's being funny, but the ad looks like it was created by corporate America looking to persuade legislators to slam the courthouse doors on people.

The intimidating cost of patent litigation is often sufficient to defeat those small parties before they even enter the courthouse door.

«After the most remarkable divorce I ever sat through was done, everyone stepped out the courthouse doors into the sun for a few more arm - in - arm pictures in front of the statue of Lady Justice.