Sentences with phrase «defendant in case against»

Summary judgment granted for defendant in case against an oil tank testing and removal company alleging negligence in connection with the testing of the underground oil tank.

Sedensky is not a defendant in the case against the town of Redding, some of its police officers and «killer John Doe.»

FCA has reported that the defendants in its case against Capital Alternatives have been ordered to pay compensation and that it has obtained new undertakings from or injunctions against some of the defendants to protect against the risk of dissipating or diminishing assets.

Not exact matches

Levandowski, who is not a defendant in the civil case, has asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege against self - incrimination and has refused to testify.

On April 11, 2018, Patrick K. McDonnell — a defendant in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's case against CabbageTech, Corp (DBA Coin Drop Markets)-- submitted a letter to Judge Roanne L. Mann of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

In February, the agency dismissed charges against six defendants in the case, according to federal court recordIn February, the agency dismissed charges against six defendants in the case, according to federal court recordin the case, according to federal court records.

In March, the judge initially presiding over the case, Jack B. Weinstein, granted the CFTC's preliminary injunction against the defendants.

In December 2012, he added Gawker as a defendant in the state court case that he had already filed against Heather Clem and Bubba CleIn December 2012, he added Gawker as a defendant in the state court case that he had already filed against Heather Clem and Bubba Clein the state court case that he had already filed against Heather Clem and Bubba Clem.

We believe that market - rigging tactics of which banking institutions have been repeatedly accused — and, in many cases, are legal defendants in actions brought against them — have been disguised but are still widely practiced.

Embattled Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. may be running for reelection unopposed, but that doesn't mean he's off the hook for declining to prosecute cases against Harvey Weinstein and President Donald Trump's eldest children and accepting campaign cash from lawyers linked to those would - be defendants in the process.

«It is my decision that this court has jurisdiction on the charges filed against the first defendant in this case and the notice of preliminary objection is dismissed,» Justice Solebo ruled.

In motions filed Friday night, attorneys for most of the defendants said they want separate trials for their clients to avoid the chance of unrelated evidence against one or two defendants tainting the others» cases.

In describing prosecutors» case against their defendants — including Buffalo businessman Louis Ciminelli and former SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros — the team of lawyers wrote of the government's «untenable» legal theory, «meager allegations,» and «ill - conceived and improper interpretation of the law.»

The Attorney General's (AG) Department discontinued its case against Alfred Woyome, in the GHc51 million judgment debt saga because it was considering a possible settlement with the defendant, President John Mahama has said.

She cited the state's pending cases against former Erie County Democratic Chairman G. Steven Pigeon and defendants in the Buffalo Billion program as the kind of prosecutions she will also emphasize.

The Attorney General's office said it's actually quite common for state and federal prosecutors to bring charges against a defendant simultaneously and in this case, both have been investigating Pigeon for years.

«It was in preparation for Joe's case; in preparation for the case they were indicting against the nine defendants,» Cuomo said.

Oliverio said the judge has not yet ruled on the request by several defendants, including Ciminelli, to move the case against three former LPCiminellli executives, along with Kaloyeros and two Syracuse developers, to a courtroom in Buffalo.

Indications are changes in the federal case against eight defendants are indeed coming.

ALBANY — Federal prosecutors in the corruption case against state Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, on Thursday filed a 164 - page letter detailing the application for a wiretap against the two defendants.

Todd Howe, center, exits court on Monday after his first day of testimony as a government witness in the corruption case against Joseph Percoco and three other defendants.

In a 48 - page order, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni issued a series of legal rejections against defense lawyers in the Buffalo Billion case, including bids to dismiss the indictments against the defendants and to change the case's venue to Western New YorIn a 48 - page order, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni issued a series of legal rejections against defense lawyers in the Buffalo Billion case, including bids to dismiss the indictments against the defendants and to change the case's venue to Western New Yorin the Buffalo Billion case, including bids to dismiss the indictments against the defendants and to change the case's venue to Western New York.

The prosecutor in Padua, where the case against a different group of defendants resides, has asked to dismiss all charges as well.

The judge also dismissed charges against the other 14 defendants in the Verona part of the case.

In a statement, the Justice Department's antitrust office said it will continue to press its case against defendants Apple Inc and Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC.

While there is precedent for filing the suit against all of the defendants together, other similar cases have resulted in a judge ordering that there be separate trials for each defendant, making the plaintiff much less likely to sue each offender.

In the beginning of the movie, it appears to be an air tight case against the defendant.

Oil companies and their representative trade associations are defendants in our constitutional climate case against the federal government pending in the District of Oregon.

I'm pretty sure the parties just agreed that the petit assault case against the defendant would be dismissed if the victim could slap him once in the face.

In a recent case, King County recovered $ 14.6 million against a surety defendant following a contractor's breach, when the surety refused to fulfil its obligations under a surety bond to step in and cure the contractor's breacIn a recent case, King County recovered $ 14.6 million against a surety defendant following a contractor's breach, when the surety refused to fulfil its obligations under a surety bond to step in and cure the contractor's breacin and cure the contractor's breach.

In that case the exclusive English High Court jurisdiction and English governing law clauses were contained in a share sale agreement which was the subject of High Court proceedings against the German defendanIn that case the exclusive English High Court jurisdiction and English governing law clauses were contained in a share sale agreement which was the subject of High Court proceedings against the German defendanin a share sale agreement which was the subject of High Court proceedings against the German defendant.

My summary of the case is: A trial judge — he wasn't named in the Court of Appeal but his name can easily be discovered — had dismissed plaintiff's claim against the defendant bank and a solicitor for breach of fiduciary duty and negligence.

A defendant in an existing case may file a third - party claim against someone other than the plaintiff because the outcome of the case between the plaintiff and the defendant will affect the rights or responsibilities of that third party.

«This is going to cause great uncertainty going forward in complex litigation against multiple defendants in federal courts and in state cases with plaintiffs in one state and a defendant in another state.»

We also act in cases where innocent third parties are affected by orders made in criminal cases against defendants.

We advise business clients and insurers on pollution and other environmental claims, and have extensive experience litigating claims under federal and state statutes in clean - up cases, either defending against liability and allocation among defendants, or seeking reimbursement for recovery costs from responsible parties.

If the facts of the case simply do not support the legal charges against the defendant, an experienced lawyer can bring this to the prosecutor's attention in an effective way, and make the appropriate application for dismissal of the charges.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Busseri v. Doe, 2014 ONSC 819, dealt with the defendant's motion to set aside default judgment against him in an internet defamation case.

He represents both claimants and defendants and has great experience in all types of clinical negligence actions including cases against hospitals, general practitioners and associated healthcare professionals.

The case involved issues as to the interpretation of DIFC regulatory law and claims against the defendant bank in both contract and tort.

While the rationale has been described in some quarters as «equitable subrogation,» analogous to an excess insurer's claim against a primary insurer for improvident failure to settle, that principle historically emerged from cases involving underinsured defendants and not the other way around.

Thomas remains the only defendant sued by the Recording Industry Association of America to take her case to trial, resulting in a jury verdict against her of $ 222,000.

And this was «precisely the case made» against the defendants in question.

Yet a defendant threatened with punishment for injuring a nonparty victim has no opportunity to defend against the charge, by showing, for example in a case such as this, that the other victim was not entitled to damages because he or she knew that smoking was dangerous or did not rely upon the defendant's statements to the contrary.

Tim Lawson - Cruttenden examines the evolution of claims against unnamed defendants in non-land law cases

The Medical Case, held in 1946 - 1947, involved 23 defendants accused of organizing and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other medical procedures.

In order for a jury to award punitive damages against a defendant, the plaintiff must properly allege such damages throughout the case.

HELD The judge could remind the jury that the defendant had no previous convictions and say that, in the ordinary case, where there was no evidence of bad character, a defendant of no previous convictions would have been entitled to a direction that the jury should consider that that counted in his favour on the questions of both propensity and credibility; as it was, it was for the jury to consider which counted with them more — the absence of previous convictions or the evidence of bad character; and if the former, then they should take that into account in favour of the defendant, and if the latter, then they would be entitled to take that into account against him (Lord Justice Rix at para 43).

In September 2011, Ontario Court Justice John Ritchie was barred from a drinking - and - driving case after a Superior Court justice found he appeared biased against the defendant.

He has frequently been the lone dissenter, particularly in criminal cases where he writes in favor of the defendant, even when the arguments arrayed against his position are so formidable that his colleagues have joined the majority and moved on.