Sentences with phrase «earlier appellate court decision»

However, legal experts point to an earlier appellate court decision in 2003 on the Suffolk Ethics Commission that found a county can impose more stringent ethics regulations than those required by state law.

Not exact matches

Cuomo's preferred slate to run the Women's Equality Party got a boost from an appellate court decision, but a ruling on a similar case is due early next week in Rochester.

While it did not deem scholarship tax credits generally unconstitutional, the decision, if not overturned on appeal, will prevent religious organizations from participating in similar initiatives nationwide — including a parallel program for corporate donations upheld by an Arizona appellate court just weeks earlier.

I expect we will see a burst of inconsistent lower court judgments early in the new year followed by some significant appellate decisions in the spring.

Earlier this month in New York, an appellate court handed down a decision broadening the liability of treating physicians when they administer medication to a plaintiff in the hospital.

Here, client at first suffered a default judgment of $ 86,676.88 in favor of former attorney, but client obtained relief from the default judgment from the appellate court in an earlier decision.

Following earlier decisions, the court effectively held that the PTAB's decision whether to institute review is immune from appellate review.

Earlier this month, a Florida appellate court handed down a decision in an interesting nursing home negligence case, requiring the court to determine the validity of an arbitration contract signed by a deceased resident's daughter.

The first appellate level decision to interpret the threshold for a plaintiff to meet to be granted leave in a secondary market class action since the Supreme Court decision in Green was issued by the Ontario Court of Appeal earlier this year.

The court's decision in Acuity does not, at first instance, appear to be consistent with earlier decisions of the appellate courts in Ontario or British Columbia.

Earlier last month, an appellate court in California issued a written opinion in a medical malpractice case upholding a lower court's decision to grant the plaintiff a new trial after newly discovered evidence showed that the defendant may be liable for her loved one's death.

The appellate court found that earlier court decisions on whether the Code's protections for employees applied to independent contractors were divided.

The appellate court recently issued a decision in a case we examined in an earlier Pulse.

Federal appellate court reverses its earlier decision and determines that arbitrator's failure to disclose his minimal contact with prevailing party's attorney did not require vacating an arbitration award.