Sentences with phrase «favor of defendant who»

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Village of West Carthage Justice Delmar House is facing two felony charges for allegedly reducing a fine for a defendant who appeared before him in exchange for sexual favors.

The jury had decided the case in favor of plaintiff, who alleged negligence, negligence per se and intentional infliction of emotional distress, concluding also that defendant nursing home had acted with reckless disregard for the rights of others, resulting in a $ 10,000 punitive damage award tacked onto the $ 1.2 million in compensatory damages.

On December 11, 2006, I'm scheduled to argue on behalf of defendants - appellants in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit a deliberate indifference to serious medical needs - prison conditions case from Bucks County, Pennsylvania that resulted in a $ 1.2 million jury award in favor of two pretrial detainees who contracted MRSA during their confinements.

Earlier this month, an appellate court in Idaho issued a written opinion affirming a jury's verdict in favor of a man who lost his wife to a serious infection after undergoing a procedure at the defendant's cosmetic clinic.

A court of appeals in California recently released an opinion in a personal injury lawsuit that reversed a jury verdict in favor of a plaintiff who sustained injuries when he was struck by a vehicle being driven by an employee of the defendant as he returned from work.

The use of group affiliations, such as age, race, or occupation, as a «proxy» for potential juror partiality, based on the assumption or belief that members of one group are more likely to favor defendants who belong to the same group, has long been accepted as a legitimate basis for the State's exercise of peremptory challenges.