Sentences with phrase «evidence in federal lawsuits»

Also, as of 2006, any type of electronic records, including e-mail, can be used as evidence in federal lawsuits.

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A New York federal judge granted Jay Z $ 8,000 in attorneys» fees in a lawsuit filed by an artist who claims to have helped create the logo for Roc - A-Fella Records, after the plaintiff and his attorney were sanctioned in December for failing to produce discoverable evidence.

Evidence thus far — including a 2007 legislative report in California and concerns stemming from lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Louisiana — suggests this is happening, but ProPublica wanted to study the question more systematically by combining federal databases, and supplementing them with local data.

A Daubert hearing is an evaluation that is performed by a trial judge to determine whether certain evidence is admissible in a federal lawsuit.

To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in making decisions that were hard to justify on either procedural or substantive grounds.

Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, lost or destroyed records and documents that likely contained evidence relevant to injury lawsuits over the medical device company's vaginal mesh implants, a federal magistrate judge concluded in a pretrial order issued Feb. 4, 2014.

Kentucky federal court ruled that sellers in a class - action lawsuit had failed to produce evidence demonstrating a conspiracy existed to fix commission rates by brokerage firms.

Kentucky federal court ruled that sellers in a class - action lawsuit had failed to produce evidence demonstrating a conspiracy existed to fix...