Sentences with phrase «favor of plaintiff as»

The lower court vacated the previous verdict and ordered either a new trial or a judgment in favor of plaintiff as a matter of law.

Not exact matches

When the International Trade Court ruled in favor of plaintiffs Suniva and SolarWorld in their case against cheap Chinese solar module and cell imports, reactions were polarized: the U.S. solar industry was outraged — as it had been for most of the duration of the court investigation — and investors, apparently, were extremely upbeat for the future of this same outraged industry, sending solar stocks sky - high.

A jury having been waived, the lower court, Eastern District of Louisiana, found that the word «Tabasco,» as applied to pepper sauce, was generic and indicated quality, ingredients and place of origin of the pepper from which it was made and rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff for damages.

Adequacy cases decided in favor of plaintiffs in numerous states, such as Campbell County v. Wyoming, have emphasized that the state has a unique obligation to fund schools at high levels, even if other parts of the budget must suffer.

In June, a judge ruling in favor of the plaintiffs said that student performance must be used as part of a teacher's evaluation.

Plaintiff hereby consents to a judgment against him and in favor of the United States Department of Education in the amount of $ 4,800.00 as of December 3, 2012, This consent judgment is subject the terms set forth below.

If, as the defendant, you lose the case then a judgment will be rendered in favor of the plaintiff.

If the jurors rated similarly situated attorneys equally, as one might expect, the lines on the graphs would appear as a perfect «X.» One would expect the defense attorneys to be rated significantly higher than the plaintiff attorneys when the juries return a verdict in favor of the defendant on all counts and the plaintiff attorneys to be rated significantly higher than the defense attorneys when the juries return a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on all counts.

As a result, the court vacated the plaintiff's $ 2.5 million verdict and entered judgment in favor of our client.

$ 210,000 verdict — Intentional Tort — jury award by twelve person jury in favor of plaintiff who sustained a spiral or rotational fracture of her finger which prevented her from continuing in her chosen line of work as a dental hygienist.

As America's most - cited judge, Judge Richard Posner, put it last year, «Judges have difficulty understanding modern technology and jurors have even greater difficulty, yet patent plaintiffs tend to request trial by jury because they believe that jurors tend to favor patentees, believing that they must be worthy inventors defending the fruits of their invention against copycats -LSB-...]».

The Rhode Island Supreme Court recently reversed a lower court's decision to grant the plaintiffs a new trial in a negligence and premises liability lawsuit, and instead instructed the court to enter judgment in favor of the defendant as a matter of law.

As a result, the court reversed the granting of summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff, explaining that the plaintiff would need to file a personal injury lawsuit to establish the insurance company's liability for her future medical expenses.

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 was favored by businesses likely to be defendants in future class action lawsuits (such as manufacturers), because state civil procedure law in some U.S. states such as California, is more favorable to class action plaintiffs than federal civil procedure laws related to class actions.

The final portion of this opinion that a three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today contains an interesting discussion of the potential for overlap between a jury's award of damages for emotional distress and what a jury might have awarded had it been advised (as it should have been but was not at the original trial) that an award of punitive damages in favor of the plaintiff was appropriate.

The Master ruled in favor of the Plaintiff, determining that the Plaintiff had complied with Section 24 (5) of the Insurance (Vehicle) Act and, as such, there was no genuine issue to be decided at trial in this regard.

Therefore, the court found, when the evidence was viewed in favor of the plaintiff, there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the defendant driver failed to exercise ordinary care (the standard for Georgia ordinary negligence cases) in parking his truck in front of his home and was therefore potentially negligent.

Served as lead counsel for plaintiff in medical industry in patent infringement lawsuit; judgment in favor of firm client

Importantly, the court's decision did not go as far as to enter final judgment in favor of the plaintiff.

As a result of the court's decision, the jury's verdict in favor of the plaintiff was affirmed.

It is suggested, however, that this plea is not before us, and that, as the judgment in the court below on this plea was in favor of the plaintiff, he does not seek to reverse it, or bring it before the court for revision by his writ of error, and also that the defendant waived this defence by pleading over, and thereby admitted the jurisdiction of the court.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, No. 15 - 1406 (SCOTUS April 18, 2017), clarified the standard to be used by district judges in imposing «inherent power of the court to control judicial process» sanctions as far as setting an appropriate amount of sanctions, reversing a $ 2.7 million sanctions award in favor of plaintiff and against defendant Goodyear after a case was settled.

In the first comprehensive appellate decision interpreting Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1042.3 - 1042.6, Pennsylvania's tort reform measure intended to increase the threshold of merit for professional liability actions, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed the ruling of the trial court and remanded for the entry of judgment as a matter of law in favor of John's client, a physician, based upon the plaintiff's failure to file a certificate of merit in support of his medical malpractice claim.

A party has been properly added as a plaintiff in general district court in this suit, and judgment there was entered in favor of both plaintiffs, despite only one name being listed on the original petition, a Charlottesville Circuit Court...

Another favored jurisdiction, perceived as «plaintiff - friendly,» is the District of Delaware.

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.

While the Court began its opinion by ruling in favor of Leonard on the plaintiff's manufacturing defect claim citing a lack of evidence that the valve was not installed as an anti-scald device, Leonard's fortunes quickly deteriorated.

As plaintiffs have shown that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment claim, are likely to suffer irreparable harm absent an injunction, and that the balance of equities and public interest favor an injunction, the court will grant plaintiffs» request to enjoin Proposition 65's warning requirement for glyphosate.

A Dutch court classifies Bitcoin as a «transferable value», after it ruled in favor of a plaintiff who was owed 0.591 Bitcoins (BTC).

Salvador v. Uncle Sam Auctions & Realty, Inc. (30 A.D. 3d 861)- judgments awarding brokerage commission and counsel's fees affirmed; Supreme Court resolved key factual disputes in favor of broker based upon credible testimony; an award of counsel's fees was authorized by the contract; commission awarded in the amount of $ 87,500.00 and attorney's fees award in the amount of $ 44,500.00; Appellate Division declined to reduce the amount of counsel's fees awarded as excess legal work resulted in large part from unavailing and often unnecessary paths pursued and tactics employed by plaintiff; request for appellate counsel fees should be directed to court of original instance