Sentences with phrase «dismissal of the civil suit»

Not exact matches

Copyright 1988 Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether an appellate court misinterpreted key civil - rights laws in a suit involving the racially motivated dismissal of a Dallas high - school football coach.

For example, in Kajoshaj v. New York City Department of Education (2013), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a civil rights suit of a Muslim student of Albanian descent who was retained for a second year in the fifth grade based on deficient performance on the statewide language arts test.

For example, in Colorado civil cases, some of the more common grounds for an award of attorneys» fees to a defending party are: (a) a two - sided contractual fee shifting term, (b) dismissal of the case before filing an answer for failure to state a claim when tort claims were asserted, (c) a determination that the suit was groundless, frivolous or vexatious, (d) violation of certain rules relating to disclosure of information to the other party, (e) a statutory fee shifting provision in the case of a claim based upon a statutorily created right which is present in some statutes but not others.

The B.C. Supreme Court ruled January 14 that stifling Alan Dutton's right to protest was not the primary purpose of a multi-million-dollar civil suit and, therefore, his application for a summary dismissal of the case was denied.

Despite the fact that section 97 of the Employment Standards Act (ESA) specifies that an employee who files a complaint with the MOL for unpaid termination and severance pay under the ESA can not commence a civil proceeding for wrongful dismissal if the complaint and the proceeding would relate to the same matter, 236 of the class members who had filed a complaint under the ESA had joined the class action suit.