Sentences with phrase «decision up to a judge»

Currently, the public officers law states that a court «may» award legal fees — leaving the decision up to a judge — rather than «shall,» a word change that would effectively penalize state agencies that willfully disregard disclosure law.

As well, as the process is outside the courtroom, the parties have the power to make the decisions about what will work for them instead of leaving the ultimate decision up to a judge.

For many couples, divorce mediation is a better route than leaving property and custody decisions up to the judge, but mediation is not the right for everyone.

We try to encourage couples to be in control of making decisions for their children rather than leaving the decisions up to a judge.

By deciding to hire two separate attorneys instead of choosing mediation, you are leaving the decisions up to a judge to decide.

Not exact matches

The Supreme Court's Bildisco decision required the airlines jump through some additional hoops before a judge can allow them to rip up a union contract, but the mere fact of its possibility weakens the bargaining power of unions by making companies less accountable to what they've promised workers.

If Judge Campbell forces the company to pay $ 50 million (or a similarly high amount) up front, then the company plans to take its case to the Second District Court of Appeals, which has already reversed some of Campbell's decisions.

Armed with this decision, judges throughout the country would be able to tie up, or overturn, any statute in a state that refused to recognize gay marriage.

Jeremy I believe you answered the question in another discussion why God seemed evil by punishing other nations i prefer the word you used which is judgement.God weighs up the hearts and then judges fairly thats not evil in fact he weighs up all the factors before he makes his decision and his decisions are perfect and wise.When he commanded Israel to wipe out other nations it was Gods judgement on these nations because of the evil they had committed in alot of ways its exaggerated because they did nt have Christ to shield them like we have if anything it shows how merciful God is towards us today.In those days gods judgement was quick and immediate.What happened to Israel when they broke the laws God gave them they immediately fell into judgement often resulting in many deaths to there own people until the sins of the people were dwelt with.So even for Gods people it was a conditional on there attitude and actions towards God.Again we see God is merciful to these previous nations that were destroyed as Christ after his crucifiction went and preached to them giving them the opportunity to repent so again we see God is still merciful.His word is true The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.

Most obvious is the discretion in sentencing where if a crime has a State penalty of 10 to 15 years and it's up to the judge or jury as to the actual sentence handed down then the intent of the crime is often debated and used in the decision.

It sealed a decision for him to become the chairman of Maggie Beer Products, the premium food business built up over decades by Maggie Beer, a regular judge on the Ten Network's Master Chef program, and her husband.

«I am not sure that I could choose to play for a nation other than the one I grew up in, but neither myself or anybody else has any right to judge his decision.

Getting Jorge Gurgel as a translator for a girl that grew up in the states is hilarious to me, but her winning that decision just shows how incredibly incompetent MMA judges are.

In the state of Nevada, it is up to the judge to determine whether a child who wishes to express a preference is of sufficient intelligence and emotional maturity to participate in such a decision.

We need to stop judging one another and beating ourselves up with guilt and incrimination for every parenting decision.

A mixture of health issues led to my decision to stop trying to breast feed, and I felt guilty and anxious and like people will always judge me for just not trying hard enough or giving up a little bit of my personal wellbeing for the baby.

This decision was reaffirmed in 2008 by Suffolk County Court in the case of Colaiacovo v. Dormer with Judge Gary J. Weber stating, «Simply put, the State of New York and its agencies are no longer in a position to require that a handgun be stored in an inoperable condition or otherwise locked up if it is otherwise legally present in the owner's dwelling.»

Judge E. Jeanette Ogden says it's too early to say if the program works, but it might make up for teens who make the wrong decisions in the wrong place.

Word of the judge's decision came a day before the Senate and Assembly are due back in Albany for a scheduled one - day special session to wrap up potentially several items left undone last week when the Legislature ended its 2017 regular session.

Judge Peter Lynch wrote in his 11 - page decision on Tuesday that evidence presented to a grand jury was «legally insufficient» to back up the three felony counts of offering a false instrument for filing on which Ortt was indicted.

Judging from the reaction in today's papers, Governor Paterson's decision yesterday to name Richard Ravitch his new lieutenant governor is stirring up conflicting emotions.

Compared with carefully devised counterfactual scenarios based on actual judges» decisions, the machine predictions based on defendants» histories could reduce crime by up to 25 % with no increase in jailing, or reduce jailing up to 42 % with no increase in crime.

All the adjudicator — the lawyer who judges the appeals — has to do is to call up the evidence on one of the network's personal computers and make a decision.

I think most parents are out there in all communities just trying to survive and do what they know to be the best for their child...... whether we agree or not......... it isn't for us to judge and stick our noses up and people who make different decisions.

The final decision is up to the judges, and you have a very good chance to win!

The case winds up in family court, mother and son fighting each other for custody, leaving the judge with the authority to decide the girl's fate, Courtroom drama follows, with Frank defended well by his lawyer, Fred Cullen (Glenn Plummer) and opposed by child welfare authority rep, and we do get to hear the decision of the court, allowing us to take sides as well.

In a recent school finance decision forced by plaintiff claims that public schools were inadequately and inequitably funded, a state of Washington judge, John Ehrlick, cut a Gordian knot that had for years tied up state legislatures from New York to Ohio and back to New Jersey.

If it were up to us here at Benson Chrysler Jeep Dodge, you would be judged later in life about your smarts, you know, after a major life decision or two.

If there's a disagreement then it's up to your lawyer to bring it to the judge, who is the only one who can make a final decision.

A trader, having the trading knowledge, plan to take the position at a certain place and firstly decide place of loss and if traded position goes in favour the decision of taking profit depends upon a special formation of candles.In this way loss will be minimum and profit maximum.ALL time graph should be on the screen with some tecnical studies i.e, bolingr, macd, rsi and 5 moving averages.15 minutes graph is the pivital graph and when a special formation of candles take place the positin is taken and profit / loss is taken again on the formation of candles.Before taking position the trader should decide, mkt is bullish or bearish, and it can be well judged from the three period graphs, daily, weekly & monthly.I have experienced more than 70 % trades successful with big profit if not huge profit and minimum loss in case of unsuccessful trade.Market data is a deceiving activity and up / down of price rests only with technical machanism.

Other decisions tend to be a bit harder to judge, though, so any time a meter starts to get even vaguely close to being drained or filled the tensions ramps up a little as you try to guess whether this new choice might just tip one of the over the edge.

End stage bosses, some power - ups and a rock - paper - scissors battle mechanic surely help spice up battles, but there simply isn't enough detail regarding the number of stages to judge its campaign length for making an informed decision.

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If they use the bureaucratic jargon, follow the bureaucratic steps described in the «Decision Framework Using a Tiered Approach», and talk to the Service, they will be judged with leniency if their windfarms end up having serious adverse effects on the environment.

In a landmark decision for the youth of Texas, Judge Gisela Triana, just issued her written decision that all natural resources, including the atmosphere, make up the state's public trust, and that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality does have the power and duty to protect those resources from greenhouse gas emissions.

The dissenting judge also criticized the majority decision for giving «Got to Give it Up» a broad scope of protection and failing to focus its analysis on the copyrighted sheet music, as opposed to the unprotected live performance of the song.

New decisions are fed back into the AI to allow the system to improve its predictions and keep up as judges and adjudicators resolve further uncertainties.

Transparency of decisions and processes leading up to decisions enables citizens to verify and assess decisions made by the government and to judge whether the process and outcome of such decisions can be perceived as just.

Referring to previous class action decisions in which judges had considered time spent and risks incurred before approving fees of up to 25 %, Justice Belobaba concludes that a one - third contingency fee is presumptively valid and should only be departed from in exceptional circumstances.

I've been reading a lot of judges» decisions recently, and I've noticed a type of comment that comes up frequently: comments that seem to only be provided in order to make it more difficult for an...

If court personal and beyond the judges themselves were to improve their command of their word processor up to the level required to produce accessible decisions, not only 600,000 Canadians, but all of us will benefit from better formatted judgments.

They can be helpful, but it's up to the judge or jury to make the ultimate decision about the credibility of the plaintiff,» Mahabir says.

«The 2nd Circuit now recognizes that district courts have discretion to deviate from the guidelines, way up or way down, so long as the district court judge justifies that decision,» he said...

And then perhaps in August, once the judges have had some time to refresh and get caught up on their backlog of incomplete decisions, they are more likely to want to take the time to give more detailed reasons.

Although the decision strikes down provisions in the Criminal Code that makes adult prostitution a criminal offence, it is ultimately up to the government of Canada to «fashion corrective action», as the judge stated in her ruling.

A Deputy Small Claims Court Judge who made the decision to allow a trial to continue on its second day notwithstanding that one of the parties failed to show up has been overturned by the Divisional Court.

Such matters, Mr. McCormac said, will end up setting guidelines for similar matters that judges use in their decisions on future cases and may be of interest to the general public.

I've been reading a lot of judges» decisions recently, and I've noticed a type of comment that comes up frequently: comments that seem to only be provided in order to make it more difficult for an appellate court to overturn their decision.

Couples who don't manage to resolve property issues outside of court will end up going to court to ask for a decision from an arbitrator or a judge.

Now, a judge has up to 60 days to issue a final decision.