Sentences with phrase «flouted court»

by Alicia Freese Seven Days Former Vermont attorney general Bill Sorrell didn't show up Wednesday morning for a deposition related to a case brought by the industry - funded Energy & Environment Legal Institute, which claimed Sorrell flouted court procedure by skipping the proceeding.

For them to make teachers write the test is to flout the court order that gave an injunction during the administration of Adams Oshiomhole, stopping the state government from conducting competency tests for teachers.

It was implicit in the order that Sabourin was a «rogue bent on flouting the court's process» and Carey, particularly as an officer of the court, was bound to act accordingly.

A dramatic list of consequences will befall any breach of court orders that flout court - endorsed arrangements for the care of children of separated parents.

Not exact matches

The state's High Court had earlier mandated that fireworks must be stored more than 100 meters (yards) from temples - orders that were flouted at the Paravoor temple, said Loknath Behera, a top police official.

President Donald Trump has again asked a U.S. court to dismiss a suit accusing him of flouting constitutional

Lincoln really was guided by his view of what the Constitution required of him: to fight secession; flout the Supreme Court's fabrications in Dred Scott; and in these great causes deploy all his lawful powers as commander - in - chief — including that «seizure» of enemy «property» called the Emancipation Proclamation.

In court documents, Thomas Linden QC said the decisions were taken on the grounds Canon Pemberton had «publicly flouted the doctrines of the Church on marriage, whereas his duty as a priest was to exemplify them».

His claim has exposed the way in which the Health Act is routinely flouted at HMP Wymott, although what he described in his submissions to the court will be familiar to anyone who has first - hand experience of prison life, including members of staff and prisoners smoking on landings and workplaces.

Starmer said that criminal charges were suitable where there were examples of harassment; where court orders were flouted; or where «grossly offensive» or «threatening» comments were made - but that the free speech threshold must be set very high.

After listening to arguments by counsel, Justice Abang said «I can not come to conclusion that the DG DSS has flouted the order of the court.

A Non-governmental organisation - HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state for flouting a subsisting order of an Imo State High Court by forcefully demolishing the Ancient EkeUkwu Market in Owerri leading to many fatalities.

Obetta also accused the DSS to have flouted the order of the magistrate court, and «abused court process» by running to the high court to procure an order to keep his client in detention.

Some of the grounds the Federal Government is seeking the revocation of Kanu's bail are that; the offence for which he is standing trial is not ordinarily bailable; that among other conditions for the bail of the 1st defendant is that he should not be seen in a crowd exceeding 10 people; that he should not grant any interviews, hold or attend any rallies; that he should file in court medical updates of his health status every month; that rather than observing all of the conditions listed above, the 1st defendant in flagrant disobedience to the court order flouted all conditions of the bail.

In the wake of last night's do - nothing extraordinary session, a clearly frustrated Gov. David Paterson threatened this morning to take the Legislature to court if lawmakers continue to flout his efforts to bring them back to Albany to finish the budget.

As the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the Peoples Democratic Party insisted on going ahead with its National Convention on Wednesday, a Abuja High Court on Tuesday said anybody who flouts order of the court would be made to face the mCourt on Tuesday said anybody who flouts order of the court would be made to face the mcourt would be made to face the music.

Yes indeed nothing except noise, hounding, torturing, flouting of court orders and vilification of opposition leaders and members in and out of courts / incarcerations without proving anything; harassments, intimidation, indiscriminate arrests and detention of Judges in order to cow them to desecrate the Judiciary and deny the people justice; promote Gestapo State and by extension, kill democracy.»

«There shall not be flouting of court orders.

«In this Court's view, a stay [allowing funding to continue] would flout the will of Congress,» Lamberth wrote.

Those who flout the established taboos often face such harsh consequences as losing their jobs, their homes or custody of their children, so the Hasidic actors who appeared in the film courted peril and banishment simply by taking part.

In Renee v. Spellings, filed in a federal district court in San Francisco, Public Advocates argued that the department had flouted the law by permitting employment of teachers still in training.

«By exempting the Navy from basic safeguards under both federal and state law, the president is flouting the will of Congress, the decision of the California Coastal Commission and a ruling by the federal court.»

US Appeals Court overturns presidential veto on Yucca Mountain A federal Appeals Court has ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to resume its review of the Department of Energy's (DOE) application for a licence to construct and operate the used fuel repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, saying it was «flouting the law» in abandoning the review.

President Obama's constitutional law professor and mentor at Harvard, Laurence Tribe, calls Obama's attempt to flout the Constitution in order to get his way on the «Clean Power Plan» (CPP) a «trifecta» since it attempts to go around three major institutions of government: Congress, the courts, and the states.

These are that: (i) the jurisdiction is to be invoked and exercised exceptionally and with great caution; (ii) there must certainly be something more than mere infringement of the criminal law before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area; (iii) the essential foundation for the exercise of the court's discretion to grant an injunction is not that the off ender is deliberately and flagrantly flouting the law, but the need to draw the inference that the defendant's unlawful operations will continue unless and until effectively restrained by the law and that nothing short of an injunction will be eff ective to restrain them.

The IRS has flouted three court orders enforcing a 1974 FOIA request, a federal judge has ruled.

I can understand the court's indignation that its order to seal documents in the action was either flouted or circumvented, if there's a difference; but it's clearly a case of too little power applied to too great a mechanism.

The Court concedes, as indeed it must under our decisions, see Royall v. Virginia, 116 U. S. 572; Thomas v. Collins, 323 U. S. 516, that if denial of the right to speak had been contained in a statute, appellant would have been entitled to flout the law, to exercise his constitutional right to free speech, to make the address on July 2, 1950, and when arrested and tried for violating the statute, to defend on the ground that the law was unconstitutional.

Where they flout orders, it is possible to have them fined or even sent to prison for contempt of court.

Stratas cites the SCC's recent decision in Kanthasamy v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)(in which the court set aside the rejection of a humanitarian residency application) as a «baffling» case where the court flouted its own principle of «legislative supremacy» by ignoring Parliament's expressly stated intent that the Federal Court of Appeal should have the final say in the macourt set aside the rejection of a humanitarian residency application) as a «baffling» case where the court flouted its own principle of «legislative supremacy» by ignoring Parliament's expressly stated intent that the Federal Court of Appeal should have the final say in the macourt flouted its own principle of «legislative supremacy» by ignoring Parliament's expressly stated intent that the Federal Court of Appeal should have the final say in the maCourt of Appeal should have the final say in the matter.

The Court's opinion also ably demonstrates the inadequacy of any burden of proof for racially discriminatory use of peremptories that requires that «justice... sit supinely by» and be flouted in case after case before a remedy is available.

Such publications would be attempts, albeit unsuccessful, to flout the order made by the court and would be seen by the public as a violation of the order of the court.

First and foremost, without a statute or court decision giving this voluntary policy the force of law, there will be no consequences if law enforcement agents flout its terms and continue using Stingrays as they have — without warrants.