Sentences with phrase «defendants at»

Moreover, patent trolls have been able to sue multiple defendants at once, increasing the likelihood of a favorable cash - out.

His trial succeeded with the Court finding the Defendants at fault and awarding damages to the Plaintiff.

Matters arising out of Claimants personal injury (industrial deafness) arising out of the Claimants» employment with the Defendants at their premises at Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire specifically relating to the Claimant's deafness caused by excessive noise at the Defendants premises from 1963 to 2003.

She regularly appears for both Claimants and Defendants at hearings including infant settlement hearings, stage 3 hearings and at fast - track level, and has represented Defendants at appeal level.

Alleged personal injury arising out of abuse, maltreatment, assults and negligence to the Claimants, carried out by Defendants employees, servants or agents while the Claimants were in the care of the Defendants at the St William's School.

This means that we pursue a claim for your serious, life - threatening injuries against the defendants at no cost to you.

The most recent appeal was as a result of the second trial which found liability split between the municipal defendants at 60 %, David Bush and his propane company at 30 %, and Leslie Lloyd at 10 %.5

Andrew Cook, Legislative Director of the Wisconsin Civil Justice Council and a lobbyist and attorney with the Hamilton Consulting Group, was asked to present his paper Fairly Allotting Liability Among Defendants at the August 2 meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council in New Orleans.

Chris represented the Defendants at the trial before the Admiralty Court of the claims arising out of the loss of the cargo on board Sun Cross.

For example, one well publicized study showed that judges (highly trained professionals) are much more likely to grant parole to defendants at the beginning of the day, or after a snack, than those who appear before them when they are hungry.

Many criminal & DWI defendants at first may feel like they have been thrown to the lions.

In these capacities, we have successfully represented defendants at all stages of litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country and abroad.

Notably, the nightclub's owners, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, the two defendants at the center of the litigation, have reached a tentative settlement under which they will pay just over $ 800,000.

While volunteer efforts won't cure this problem long term, training and utilizing currently unemployed lawyers on a volunteer basis to handle misdemeanor cases or ease the burden on lawyers forced to represent defendants at cut rates, might provide a stopgap measure to the crisis in criminal representation.

[19] The first concern raised by the letter and the requisition is the request that Kevin Munt «represent» the defendants at the trial management conference.

Over and above the analysis of the above - mentioned errors, counsel representing Plaintiffs or Defendants at a jury trial for medical negligence, and at other civil trials, should be aware of the numerous procedural lessons to be gleaned from the Court of Appeal's decision:

As the Trial Management Conference neared ICBC made an application requesting that «(the personal) defendants are exempt from attending the trial management conference; secondly, that Mr. Kevin Munt, who appears to be an adjuster at the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, «represent» the defendants at the trial management conference, and that Kevin Munt be allowed to attend the trial management conference by telephone ``.

We act both claimants and defendants at all stages of the litigation and are experienced in pre-action advice, strategic advice, drafting, interim remedies, and mediation.

We offer specialist advice and representation on behalf of both claimants and defendants at all stages of the litigation including joint settlement meetings and mediation.

In the result, I award costs to the defendants at 125 % of their claimed costs ($ 5,051.12 X 1.25 = $ 6,313.90) plus disbursements of 2,060.02 for a total of $ 8,373.92.

«Since May 2010, Plaintiff Mathis has purchased several eBooks from Publisher Defendants at a price above $ 9.99 for use on his Sony (NYSE: SNE) Reader.»

That provision sets forth a procedure for the Department of Justice to evaluate the potential anticompetitive effects of joint activity among Publisher Defendants at a sufficiently early stage to prevent harm to competition.

This was meant to prevent situations like the one created by COMPAS, which made wrong predictions about black and white defendants at different rates.

Among the highlights was the passage of an amended resolution that would continue the Chautauqua County Pilot Program within Jamestown City Court to assist indigent defendants at arraignment.

His priorities include implementing procedures to deal with new requirements to provide counsel to all defendants at the initial arraignment; taking advantage of modern information technology in the court to process its caseload and exchange information with other parts of the state court system; and to improve the court's ability to address the problems of domestic violence and substance abuse.

Smith and five other defendants at many levels of government were snagged in the case.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announces corruption charges against two former aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and seven other defendants at a Manhattan news conference on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.

Rotimi told the Tribunal that discharging the defendant at a no case point level will defeat the fight against corruption and purpose of the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

«An order nullifying the conduct of the convention of the 1st defendant at the Eagle Square, Abuja, on December 9, 2017, as it relates to the office of the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the 1st defendant.»

Five of the six original defendants — the Big Five publishers — agreed to settle with the government, leaving Apple as the sole defendant at trial.

Lowering the stress when facing the defendant at sentencing.

Could [a typical law school] professor whose primary scholarly interest is criminal law and procedure effectively prosecute or represent a criminal defendant at a felony trial?

The South Florida Lawyers blog reports that the auction rate securities action filed against Wachovia in federal court in Florida is, well, going poorly for the defendant at the moment.

For example, the court noted that there was insufficient information presented to determine if the maintenance worker was acting as an employee of the defendant at the time he was removing the tree, and if the maintenance worker was determined to be an employee of the defendant, the defendant may be liable for the maintenance worker's actions.

After speaking to both parties, the investigating officer placed the defendant at fault for the collision.

Stu d. 255, 270 (2016)(describing statistically significant results of an experiment in which actual judges were asked to make a ruling about a hypothetical criminal conviction, taking into account both a single precedent and either positive or negative facts about the defendant, and upheld the conviction of the unsympathetic defendant at a rate more than twice as high as that of the sympathetic defendant (87 - 41 %)-RRB-.

The court will appoint an attorney for the defendant at no charge if he / she can not afford to hire one.

While the answering of the third question called for inquiry into the financial resources of the defendant at the date of the determination, the answering of the first two questions plainly called for a historical inquiry into past transactions.

Such an approach puts the defendant at the mercy of the individual handling the case, who may rely on their own benchmark for what constitutes abuse.

HELD The purpose of a criminal restraint order, as with a civil freezing order, is not to prevent third parties from enforcing civil rights against a defendant if those rights would be unaffected by any order which may be made against the defendant at the end of the proceedings.

The Judgment will then be returned to the Clerk, who will mail one copy each to the Plaintiff and the Defendant at the addresses given in the Request for Divorce.

In finding the Defendant at fault for all of these consequences and assessing non-pecuniary damages at $ 150,000 Mr. Justice Weatherill provided the following reasons:

In a car accident case — especially in cases where an insurance company is disputing liability (or fault)-- lay witnesses can testify about the speeds and directions of vehicles, temperature and weather conditions at the scene, traffic conditions at the scene, lane markings, visibility conditions, observations made at the scene, statements that were made by either the plaintiff or the defendant at the scene, and the presence (or absence) of traffic control devices at the scene, such as traffic lights or stop signs.

If you are unable to serve the defendant at least 10 clear days in advance, you must advise the court.

He was involved in a car accident when his car was hit head - on by defendant at a high speed in Topsfield, Massachusetts.

Whether in exercise of those obligations or otherwise the Defendant owed a duty to the Claimants to provide prompt and timely disclosure of the state of knowledge of the Defendant at all material times of the risk of infection from Contaminated Blood Products.

You could also introduce other circumstantial evidence like that other people only saw the defendant at another location.

Reduced police resources are also at the heart of their dismal track record in performing another crucial function — the disclosure of evidence to assist a defendant at trial.

Further, it is appropriate for a jury to consider the conduct of the defendant at the time of the publication of the libel.

Some cases in the U.S. have proceeded with a single defendant at the direction of the court.