Sentences with phrase «faced by civil court»

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Today, POLITICO cited a release from the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee Democrats that claimed Florida's Tax Credit Scholarship Program «has faced many problems, including constitutional challenges in the courts, vast opposition by parents and civil rights organizations, fraud and corruption» and was a «waste of taxpayer funds.»

The pilots aim to integrate and amplify existing efforts by legal aid organizations, courts and other service providers to help more people facing eviction, domestic violence and other civil law issues.

The applicants complained to the European Court of Human Rights, under Art 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention in conjunction with Art 14, that when one of them died, the survivor would face a significant liability to inheritance tax, which would not be faced by the survivor of a marriage or a civil partnership.

However, according to Mr. Moskowitz, they see firsthand the effects of the civil legal aid shortage and understand the disadvantages faced by pro se litigants who appear in court unrepresented.

He then referred to articles by Dr F.A. Mann (whose own expertise and reputation in the area were considerable) and Dr E.J. Cohn and pointed out that, from the 19th Century, civil law countries had accepted that a waiver of sovereign immunity by a contract was effective, that the speeches in Duff were obiter and did not constitute a majority and that both Duff and Kahan overlooked the fact that submission in the face of the court was not the only form of valid submission since the introduction of a new Rule in the RSC in 1920 that the English court had jurisdiction to entertain an action where there was a contractual submission.

Roberts is facing a civil lawsuit in the US District Court for Utah filed by Terry Mitchell, a Utah woman who has accused Roberts of raping her when he was a 27 - year - old federal prosecutor and she was a 16 - year - old witness in one of his cases.

The letter recently sent by Lord Justice Leveson, the senior presiding judge for England and Wales, to 2,000 judges and 28,000 magistrates warning of the cost consequences of a shortfall in income for the courts, highlights once again the funding fallacy that lies at the heart of the problems the civil courts face.

If a parent does not abide by the terms of the court order or written permission of the other parent, the traveling parent could face civil or criminal penalties.