Sentences with phrase «defendants in cases similar»

Not exact matches

Along similar lines, in this most recent Citi case, Rakoff has asked the SEC to explain why the court should «impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing.»

The firm has been an innovator in organizing and prosecuting individual class cases across many states involving the same defendants and similar factual and legal issues.

Further, he said he believes other defendants charged on the same day last year could be making similar requests to get their criminal cases tossed out or re-assigned to courts in upstate.

All of us involved in the case — recall that Jesse Rothstein and I served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the plaintiffs, and Thomas Kane of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and John Friedman of the infamous Chetty et al. studies (see here and here) served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the defendants — knew that all of the plaintiffs» claims would be tough to win given all of the constitutional legal standards would be difficult for plaintiffs to satisfy (e.g., that evaluating teachers using their value - added scores was not «unreasonable» was difficult to prove, as it was in the Tennessee case we also fought and was then dismissed on similar grounds (see here)-RRB-.

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.

replete with such language: it disdains the district court's «abrupt handling» of Appellant's first case; sarcastically refers to Appellant's previous counsel's «new - found appreciation for defendant's mental abilities;» criticizes the district court's «oblique language» on an issue unrelated to this appeal; states that the district court opinion in Jones «revealed a crabby and complaining reaction to Project Exile;» insinuates that the district court's concerns «require -LSB--RSB- a belief in the absurd that is similar in kind to embracing paranormal conspiracy theories;» and accuses Appellant of being a «charlatan» and «exploit [ing] his identity as an African - American.»

For example, in a motor vehicle accident case, a defendant driver owes all other drivers on the road to act as a reasonably prudent and careful driver would act under the same or similar circumstances.

This tells you whether cases referencing similar arguments as your brief generally rule for plaintiffs or defendants, whether the cases you've cited are vulnerable to attack, and the ratio in your brief of defendant - winning to plaintiff - winning cases.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

Punitive damages are awarded in especially serious cases where a defendant exhibited extreme negligence or recklessness and are meant to deter similar behavior in the future.

In civil medical negligence cases, the jury must determine whether the defendant acted as a reasonable person in the same or similar circumstances would acIn civil medical negligence cases, the jury must determine whether the defendant acted as a reasonable person in the same or similar circumstances would acin the same or similar circumstances would act.

In many cases, juries may also assess punitive damages as a means to punish the defendant health care providers to prevent similar future negligence.

However, Lord Mance (at paras 51 — 52) left the door wide open for a defendant to argue contributory negligence in a similar case in the future:

Punitive damages are awarded as a punishment to the defendant for malicious negligence in the case, and to deter similar behaviors in others.

He agreed with the reasoning of Justice Mesbur in a similar case (D.J.F. v. B.L., 2008 CanLII 39786 (ON SC)-RRB- where it was held the defendant's actions brought the claim squarely within the exclusion clause the insurance company relied on and likened it to the case at bar.

Since the ramifications may be extreme, such as the loss of your job and months or years behind bars, you should locate and be represented by an attorney who has experience and has successfully represented defendants in similar cases.

The charges that will be filed in a specific case will depend on the seriousness of the offense, the defendant's history of similar behavior, and the defendant's criminal record.

Apple points to a recent criminal case in which a circuit court (in that case, the United States of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit) «denied a similar request for remand despite an indicative ruling that the criminal defendant's motion to adjust his sentence raised a «substantial issue,» and that the district court would apply a new sentencing approach if the case was remanded».

In a personal injury case, you must prove the defendant failed to act the way a reasonably careful person or entity would have acted in similar situationIn a personal injury case, you must prove the defendant failed to act the way a reasonably careful person or entity would have acted in similar situationin similar situations.

The Court's decision marks the third consecutive time that Farmers and the other defendants have prevailed on a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim in the lead case, and suggests that the remaining cases in the MDL may suffer a similar fate.