Sentences with phrase «even make it to court»

But defendants said that having the case even make it to court was evidence of a chilling tendency to question the dark side of Soviet history.

Many lawsuits filed against former employers have no real basis, and many never even make it to court because of lack of evidence.

Not exact matches

On the evening of Oct. 18, 2011, exactly 82 years after the Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed persons, a flock of corporate elite descended on Toronto's Fairmont Hotel to celebrate the progress women have made, and investigate the work still to be done.

Workplace whoopee has remained a hot topic since the 1998 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Burlington Industries Inc. v. Ellerth, which makes it easier for employees to file sexual - harassment lawsuits even if they can't show significant job - related consequences.

Still, all of this means the U.S. burger chain might not even really have to win in court against Down N» Out to succeed at its larger goal: demonstrating from a legal perspective that they're aggressive in protecting their name and other trademarks, which makes the marks themselves stronger.

Even if the court rules in Trump's favor, Daniels has managed to make much of her side of the story public within the suit itself.

Even if regulators do not act, when a presale results in nothing more than profits for its promoter, a disgruntled investor will inevitably make a private securities fraud claim to try and claw back some of their capital; assuming a court will determine a presale of digital tokens to be a private placement of securities, any such federal claim would fall under Rule 10b - 5.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

The Public Accounts / Budget include provisions with respect to certain liabilities, such as environmental liabilities, potential losses resulting from court cases, potential losses on loans and loan guarantees, etc. even though no cash payments have been made.

There are many pundits trying to place probabilities on the court's decision but I am not briefed enough in the BASIC LAW of Germany to even try to make that bold a prediction.

It would appear that courting FCA approval, and thus helping to open up access to British and EU banking services, is all part of the firm's plans to court even more European business and make the process of dealing in cryptocurrency much more consumer - friendly.

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

Just because pro-choice advocates make these arguments does not mean that courts (the same courts that are ready to overrule Roe) are likely to discover abortion rights under a statute that does not even mention abortion and that was enacted with the support of pro-life groups like the National Association of Evangelicals and the Mormon Church.

Though Jesus had not, it is true, announced himself to Israel as the Messiah, and had forbidden the demons to make him known — since they knew him» — and had even commanded his disciples to be silent about their recognition of his Messiahship, nevertheless, at the last, in the high priest's court, he had admitted unequivocally that he was the one who should sit at the right hand of the divine Power (God) and come with the clouds of heaven.

A major part of the problem is that though Immanuel Kant wrote about dignity in the 18th century and the word was in use even earlier, strong efforts to elucidate and work with it have not been made (as have been made for, say, the notion of human rights, the subject of innumerable books, essays and court cases).

Immediately after he entered the outer court of the Temple, he drove away the money changers and the merchants who sold birds for sacrifice, giving as an explanation a quotation from Isaiah 56:7: «Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer.»

a new law, it certainly doesn't mean that it would even begin to make it through the court system to SCOTUS.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

Our 1996 symposium on judicial usurpation and subsequent articles were criticized for being alarmist; but the Florida Supreme Court changed many minds, and I now note that even worthies such as George Will are using the feared R - word, referring to the «regime» of lawless law - making by judges.

Yet the attempts made to nullify the Supreme Court decision even at the cost of eliminating the public schools and passing acts of open defiance in state legislatures, to say nothing of rioting and violence and the nonviolent but intimidating acts of white citizens» councils, indicate how long a road there is yet to travel.

«Obamacare» allowed keeping your kids on your insurance (which you pay for) until they're 26 But today — We still can not purchase prescriptions on - line from Canada (where many of our drugs are made) to save $ The Supreme Court even admitted that a mandate would really be a tax..

But even if this administration has the chance to set the character of the Court with more appointments, we are still left with the cardinal question: What difference would that really make to the character of our jurisprudence?

In its own limited round it has its use, nay, may be made to fill a higher ministry, and stand as a proselyte under the shadow of the temple; but it must not dare profane the inner courts, in which the ladder of Angels is fixed forever, reaching even to the Throne of God, and «Jesus standing on the right hand of God.»

That democracy can be made to work, that by the scientific method we can gain mastery over the latent resources of the universe, that trial by jury is practicable, that torture is a foolish method of seeking evidence in the courts, that chattel slavery is a failure — such things we take for granted, not because we individually are wiser than our forebears, who disbelieved them all, but because we share in a social tradition which we did not even help to create, but which has shaped and conformed our thinking with irresistible power.

«Instead of trying to hold innocent people for even longer without charge, the government should give top priority to making intercept evidence admissible in court in terrorist cases.»

(The mayor systematically courted black church leaders to deprive his Thompson of their support, evening making a $ 1 million donation to the development corporation at Butts» church).

(from NY Times) the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court - issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.

These may serve to substantiate his complaints and claims, and decrease the perceived legitimacy of the election even if the observer's steps made through official channels (superior Committees, courts) failed to right the wrongs.

For example, even though the US was instrumental in establishing the International Criminal Court, in 2002 it withdrew from the UN agreement that created it and began a diplomatic effort to make the U.S. military immune from its writ.

However, Congress would have to demonstrate at least a rational basis (perhaps even more in the view of the Court at that time) to justify the law and that interpretation will need to be made by the Court at that time on its individual merits.

The U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia had pushed to move forward and retry the McDonnells even after the Supreme Court ruling that would have made their case substantially more difficult.

«I have done one term in office, and part of that term was taken by court litigation; And even then we have executed our mandate satisfactorily and am certain that, Ghanaians will give me the second term to make eight years (8) as required by the constitution.»

Menendez's attorney Abbe D. Lowell said in a statement that after Wednesday's court decision, «the decision of the DOJ to retry the case makes even less sense than it did last week and we hope it would be reconsidered.»

He said: «Even though I am not a military officer, but I know that there is what us called orderly room trial or court martial, which military men who erred in the performance of their duties are made to go through.

And even though he takes your life, liberty and property without due process of law, any court - ordered reparations will never make you whole - what court can replace the hours, days or years of your life lost to an officer who is just doing his job?

To make matters worse, not even a court order could sway the agency to desist from its abuse of the constitution by way of arbitrary detention of the ministeTo make matters worse, not even a court order could sway the agency to desist from its abuse of the constitution by way of arbitrary detention of the ministeto desist from its abuse of the constitution by way of arbitrary detention of the minister.

«Even when we allow the court or we get to the point where the Supreme Court will have to make a pronouncement one way or the other, quite literally, we will still need each ocourt or we get to the point where the Supreme Court will have to make a pronouncement one way or the other, quite literally, we will still need each oCourt will have to make a pronouncement one way or the other, quite literally, we will still need each other.

He said the judge might have treated the instructions to the jury differently, and prosecutors «would have been even more careful» about making sure their summation and rebuttal arguments «completely conformed» with the court's new interpretation of the federal theft of honest services law.

There's no point going over why that is a nonsense premise — there's been plenty written about it already — but suffice to say that there is no way of establishing a causal pharmacological chain in court which strips out the fact that all substances make you feel different when you consume them, and that even if one could, one would still be criminalising products like incense.

But reading his dissenting opinion during the ruling in which Justice Anin Yeboah described his lone stance as a «solitary path», the justice of the supreme court said «even though in the high court references were made to the constitution of the NDC, the constitution of the NDC can not be read in isolation from article 94 of the 1992 constitution which any candidate for parliamentary election must strictly satisfy».

In a taxpayer - funded effort to make accused criminals happier in court, low - level defendants in Manhattan are being paid with gift cards to rate the courtesy of judges and prosecutors — even the temperature of the courtroom.

Indeed, he appeared to relish the attention as he held court, taking questions for more than an hour, seemingly unable to stop himself from halting to repeat the same answers, even as he tried to break free from the gaggle so he could make his way around the park.

Should Oluwo deserve the prescriptions by Fani - Kayode such as ``... drag him out of the palace, strip him naked, shave off his hair and beard and send him out of Iwo, and indeed Yorubaland, for ten years of exile,» Fani - Kayode should have, long ago, been made a barbecue for the crimes of alleged looting for which he has been dragged from one court to another since he left office as Aviation Minister or even as Campaign Director in the Goodluck Jonathan presidential campaign committee.

It would be recalled that similar orders had been made by Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High as well as Justice Baba Yusuf of an Abuja High Court for the same purposes due to complaints of denial of access to lawyers by Dasuki even after all of them had granted him bail.

«Even though I am not a military officer, but I know that there is what us called orderly room trial or court martial, which military men who erred in the performance of their duties are made to go through.

«Even recently, the supreme court made another pronouncement on whether or not when a person is undergoing trial and the freezing order has exceeded one year, the court can continue to hold that account.

so here's the question for you as a candidate... point blank: if a landlord or developer would make a donation to your campaign, maybe even a sizable one, and also get others to do so... donations that could give you a distinct advantage over your competition... would you still go after him and insist that he improve his properties to the point of even taking him to court, etc.?

Next came the legal fireworks when prosecution counsel, Prince Ben Ikani shocked the capacity - filled court house as he made frantic efforts to stop the court from hearing the application for bail even before it could be moved and argued by the former minister's lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche (SAN).

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

«May we also point out that since his arrest and even up to about a week ago, our son has made several overtures to the arresting authority for him to refund the money since they now claim in court that it came from government coffers.