Sentences with phrase «first legal opinion»

It is believed to be the first legal opinion to assert that the quality of an education is as important as mere access to schools or sufficient funding.

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Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

Back in January, Siragusa sought outside legal opinion from two firms, first Kavinoky Cook and later Hodgson Russ, as to whether Legislator Joseph Lorigo had vacated his seat upon accepting an opportunity to serve as West Seneca Town Prosecutor on the side.

ALBANY — State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is giving Suffolk the go - ahead to become the first county in the state to allow online voter registration, in a legal opinion that could have widespread impact on counties and voters across New York.

AG Eric Schneiderman is giving Suffolk the go - ahead to become the first county in the state to allow online voter registration, in a legal opinion that could have widespread impact on counties and voters across New York.

But lawmakers failed to pass the bill extending carbon targets through 2030, S.B. 32, on their first attempt last year, and Republican state senators commissioned a legal opinion finding that they may need legislative authority beyond Brown's order (ClimateWire, April 25).

Indiana's entry into the charter movement was nearly arrested in early 2002 when Suellen Reid, the Republican state superintendent of public instruction, balked at giving Indiana's new charters any money during their first semester, basing her opinion on legal advice from members of her staff.

I am starting of as author and beginning to write my first book.I heard someone say if writing an actual story whether it be myself and other people I really know in the book.To have everyone sign a legal document type thing by lawyer giving permission to use peoples real names.so as to avoid any lawsuit that may occur with the book.and is it best to use a pen name for myself and made up name for actual people being included in the book.what would your opinion be on legel grounds safer to use made up names.thank you

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If lawyers are protected under the First Amendment concerning the legal advice given in which they are paid, what happens to others who give opinions or advice on legal matters when they are not paid?

It is therefore my own considered opinion — based upon the above evidence — that neither Anthony Watts (with his personal predilection for censorship) nor the Heartland Institute (with its corporate predilection for legal imposition of censorship) has grasped the significance of the principle «Be First with the Truth» as a tough - yet - essential foundation for all forms of rational skepticism — a skeptical principle that must be embraced without reserve, if it is to be embraced at all.

The first line of another internal CEQ document transmitting comments on the draft EPA legal opinion reads: Vulnerability: science.

There remains, however, a clear institutional divide between EU and EEA law: the CJEU held, in its first Opinion on the establishment of the EEA Agreement, that a separation must be maintained between the two regimes so as to safeguard the autonomy of the EU legal order.

The majority opinion, written by Justice Encarnación Roca, is not remarkably lengthy for an SCC decision; its «Legal Reasoning» section has 4 parts, the first one being introductory.

A first - year law student who has never had the opportunity to disagree with a professor or to independently form opinions about cultures based on their art, literature, or music will almost certainly struggle to synthesize seemingly inconsistent judicial opinions into a cogent legal principle.

Today the BC Law Society's Ethics Committee provided an opinion that this practice is acceptable with certain conditions, however, if a lawfirm funds expenses beyond disbursements (ie clients medical costs, client out of pocket expenses etc) they must do so on an interest free basis unless they send the clients for independent legal advice first.

In addition to training externs and clerks, an upper - level class in judicial opinion writing provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills in writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writing.

(For the record, the first thought that comes to my mind upon hearing of the plight of the unpaid judges who must sift through legal opinions and papers looking for something good is, as Bono put it in his kind - of - puzzling portion of the song «Do They Know It's Christmas?»

By comparison, Dicker says an articling student in his or her first month would still need to be taught how to interview a client and how to write a proper legal opinion.

Another question in my Legal Internet Trivia Challenge was, «Which court was the first to make its opinions available in electronic format?»

However, by 1991, the Government Printing Office was distributing the opinions through an Internet bulletin board system (BBS), and in 1993, the Legal Information Institute took advantage of the nascent World Wide Web to create the first hypertext front - end to the decisions.

If you are an Ontario employer and are considering taking action against what you believe to be a construction employee, it may be prudent to seek out a legal opinion on the issue first.

Next, Amanda Smith argues for the addition of an opinion - writing exercise as a complement to the traditional office memorandum in first - semester legal writing courses.

As a learning and redemption experience, Andy is put in charge of the team producing the first checklist, which will be for legal opinions in SEC - registered and Rule 144A bond offerings.

At any point, a client is free to seek out another lawyer to get a second opinion on the first lawyer's legal strategy, to instruct the lawyer to offer firm quotes, or to stop work on a matter that is getting out of hand.

It was one year ago that I first wrote here about Casetext, the free legal research site that uses «crowdsourcing» to annotate court opinions.

«When I first embarked on it, I thought the really clever thing was that we could give the right legal opinion to say this meets requirements in seven jurisdictions, and that we could manage this number of contracts.

Justice Alito issued his first opinion this week, Holmes v. South Carolina, and legal bloggers are anxiously reading between the lines for what the opinion may reveal of Alito's future course.

Preparing for Practice from Behind the Bench: Opinion Writing as the «Heart and Soul» of the First Semester of Legal Writing

When I was LAO LAW's first Director of Research (1979 - 1988), my staff was producing close to 5,000 legal opinions per year for lawyers in private practice.

When I was its first Director of Research (1979 - 1988) we provided close to 5,000 complete, fact - specific legal opinions per year.

This article first appeared in the April 2018 edition of the Millwoods Mosaic — the Multicultural Voice of Southeast Edmonton and is intended to provide general information only and should not to be relied on as legal advice or opinion.

This article first appeared in the January 2016 edition of the Millwoods Mosaic — The Multicultural Voice of Edmonton Southeast and is intended to provide general information only and should not to be relied on as legal advice or opinion.

He dislikes limits on his discretion and likes factual research outside the record, so he criticizes legal academics for their tendency to propose the first, and slams an article questioning his use, in a couple of opinions, of photographs of his law clerks dressed up in protective gear.

Since the first judicial opinion endorsing the use of Technology Assisted Review (or TAR) was written by Judge Andrew J. Peck in 2012, an entire legal industry has grown up on the premise of streamlining the document review process in discovery — that is, taking a repetitive task traditionally performed entirely by attorneys and introducing the concept of computer assistance to increase efficiency and improve consistency.

The document overviews key legal cases and opinions for the first quarter of 2014, including relevant cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal, U.S. District Courts, U.S. Patent...

To be practice - ready, law students need to be able to find and evaluate a broad range of legal sources.72 A short Standalone E-memo assignment provides an ideal opportunity to move beyond the traditional sources of law in first - year legal writing courses — judicial opinions and statutes — and branch out into different sources of enacted law.

First, it Summary E-memo assignments rely on the same underlying research sources as the larger assignment — which, in the first - year curriculum, means predominantly judicial opinions.39 Second, because the Summary E-memo involves the same legal issues as the larger assignment, the type of legal reasoning involved mirrors the type of legal reasoning required for the larger writing proFirst, it Summary E-memo assignments rely on the same underlying research sources as the larger assignment — which, in the first - year curriculum, means predominantly judicial opinions.39 Second, because the Summary E-memo involves the same legal issues as the larger assignment, the type of legal reasoning involved mirrors the type of legal reasoning required for the larger writing profirst - year curriculum, means predominantly judicial opinions.39 Second, because the Summary E-memo involves the same legal issues as the larger assignment, the type of legal reasoning involved mirrors the type of legal reasoning required for the larger writing project.

First, where clients want a legal opinion for a document they have built with our Document Builder, we can refer the document to a lawyer for an Independent Lawyer Review.

This Comment joins other work in arguing that the legitimacy of stare decisis depends upon widespread publication.4 The doctrine of stare decisis itself emerged only with the consistent and reliable publication of court opinions, 5 and legal processes that do not result in the issuance of publicly available opinions, such as settlements and arbitrations, generally lack stare decisis norms altogether.6 Although previous scholarship has discussed the proper role of stare decisis in the context of «unpublished» opinions, 7 which make up around eighty percent of all United States courts of appeals opinions8 (and are usually publicly available despite their name), 9 this Comment provides the first examination of the tenability of stare decisis as applied to truly secret opinions like those of the FISC.

First, the assumption by commenters that an advisory opinion would establish what law applied in a given situation and thereby simplify the task of ascertaining what legal requirements apply to a covered entity or entities is incorrect.

The second paragraph asks you to state a legal opinion about the first paragraph.

Once a client has an opinion that a legal scheme is unlawful it can use the lawyer's duties of confidentiality, and the fact that lawyers are only prohibited from knowingly assisting an unlawful scheme, to switch counsel, confident that the first counsel won't disclose what happened since that lawyer was not duped, and making sure not to disclose information to the new counsel that might preclude his assistance.

Since the first judicial opinion endorsing the use of Technology Assisted Review (or TAR) was written by Judge Andrew J. Peck in 2012, an entire legal industry has grown up on the premise of streamlining the document review process in...

Any jurisdiction which, like Kansas, still directs the public and legal profession to print for the final text of an opinion without making available a complete digital replica is guilty of the first.

While the fatwa is not legally binding, it does count as a high - level legal opinion, and perhaps marks him as one of the first highest - ranking religious leaders in the Muslim world to forbid cryptocurrency trading under religious law.

SmartOne is also partnered with LegalOne, Switzerland's first digital law firm, providing robust legal opinion for the implementation and analysis of TGE's, thereby enabling crypto enterprises to launch with solid legal foundations.

Buyer Agents will for the first time be able to explain Dual Agency and Single Agency along with a recommendation for any Buyer to contact a lawyer and get a legal opinion on whether Dual Agency is in the Buyer's Best interests.

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