Sentences with phrase «from judicial rulings»

Democratic deficit resulting from judicial rulings impacting on public policy isn't the case.

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The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber's arcane rules by reading a three - decade - old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King's widow that dated to Sen. Jeff Sessions» failed judicial nomination three decades ago.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

This would mean, for instance, that participants in an economic transaction are bound to halt their activity whenever any one of them or any affected individual objects to it, or a criminal court judge is bound to halt the trial's proceedings if the accused dissents from a specific rule of the judicial system.

The Anglo - American idea... means that the party who does not abide by certain specific decrees emanating from a judicial body is a contumacious person and may, as a rule, be held in contempt of court, fined and jailed... Now, this very concept of contempt simply does not belong to the world of ideas of a Latin lawyer.

The Code of Conduct further provides in Rule 5 (B) that a judge may engage in «avocational activities», that is «activities to improve the law, the legal system, and the administration of justice if such avocational activities do not detract from the dignity of his office or interfere with the performance of his judicial duties».

Far from just being rule takers, the EEA system gives you full single market access (except for agriculture and fisheries) inside a system of independent institutional consultation and judicial mechanisms.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Suspended Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio is challenging the ruling by the Commission on Judicial Conduct to remove her from the bench.

One immediate takeaway from the federal Court's congressional redistricting plan and ruling is that incumbency protection (i.e., seniority and residence) should not be a factor when crafting a judicial plan.

State rules on judicial conduct explicitly bar judges or judicial candidates from endorsing any other candidates for public office.

Erie County Legislator Joseph Lorigo sent a letter on Jan. 16, 2013 to Chairwoman Betty Jean Grant requesting that the Legislature hold a special session to act on his resolution that requests Erie County Clerk Christopher L. Jacobs withhold the names of pistol permit holders in Erie County from public release until the New York State Judicial System thoroughly reviews and rules on freedom of information requests pertaining to gun permit holders.

Fisher, who got unanimous backing from her district's GOP convention, ran into a late season snafu in the past month when another State Supreme Court Justice ruled that votes taken in the Conservative Party's judicial nominating convention in September violated election law.

Carni said the rules of judicial conduct prevent him from discussing politics.

Pearce earned his B.S. in Management at the University of Phoenix in 1981 and earned four certificates from the following institutions: Arizona State University (Advanced Executive Development), the University of Colorado, Boudler (Motor Vehicle Legal and Law College), Arizona Judicial College (Court Rules & Procedures for New Judges) and Harvard University (Government).

On Wednesday, the seven - member state Commission on Judicial Compensation, a panel formed to rule on the issue of pay hikes, heard from several witnesses at a hearing in the Legislative Office Building.

A strict reading of the state's education code and judicial precedents on home schooling from the 1950s and»60s clearly supported the ruling.

In deciding how to rule, New Jersey's court was guided by earlier decisions on behalf of the Abbott districts, stating, «Like anyone else, the State is not free to walk away from judicial orders enforcing constitutional obligations.»

In 1984, for example, Gary L. Bauer, then the Reagan administration's deputy undersecretary of education, ignored contradictory research from the National Institute of Education and attributed disorder in the schools to 1970s - era judicial rulings on students» rights.

Judge Ralph Smith of the circuit court in Tallahassee ruled Jan. 31 that the constitutional separation of judicial and legislative powers prevented him from evaluating the legislature's spending priorities.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice released the following statement in response to a ruling this afternoon by Eighth Judicial District Court (Clark County, Nev.) Judge Eric Johnson in a case challenging Nevada's education savings account (ESA) program, which has attracted more than 6,000 applications since its inception despite legal challenges preventing the accounts from operating.

Only to the extent permitted by Rule 14d - 10 (b)(2), the Offer will exclude all holders of Shares in a U.S. state where Purchaser is prohibited from making the Offer by administrative or judicial action pursuant to a state statute after a good faith effort by Purchaser to comply with such statute.

The AVMA Judicial Council can take action up to, and including, dismissal from the AVMA in accordance with the AVMA's Rules of Disciplinary Procedures...

In 2010 in an appeal from a hearing officer's decision, the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami - Dade County, ruled that the subjective identification of a dog as a «pit bull» by an animal control officer violated the dog's owner's right to due process.

Whether new pipelines are needed or not, both Shattuck and UCS's Rogers expect the state's Supreme Judicial Court to rule against the DPU decision, barring utilities from using money from the rate base to invest in gas pipelines once again.

In a historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently blocked the EPA's carbon rule — which the administration calls the «Clean Power Plan» — from taking effect pending judicial review.

Judges must also do a better job explaining why the judicial code forbids them from discussing cases, she said, because their silence after controversial rulings is misread as arrogance or cowardice.

Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.

One of the more radical reforms was the creation of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee which transferred the power to amend civil procedure from Parliament to a committee of judicial and lay experts.

As the federal government moves to limit judicial discretion in the sentencing of violent crimes, a recent decision from the British Columbia Court of Appeal has reasserted the court's authority, ruling that jurors in murder trials need not be unanimous in their sentencing recommendation to the court.

# 1 - many of the arguments derived from the language in certain ethical rules could just as easily be leveled against judges who have clerks write their judicial opinions and senior partners who have junior associates write their briefs or law journal articles.

Moreover, it is apparent from the case - law -LSB-...] that the legislation indicated «that property not belonging to private persons shall be administered and alienated according to the specific rules applicable to them; that, in respect of property belonging to public entities, even those pursuing industrial and commercial activities, the principle of non-seizability of that property precludes recourse to private - law enforcement remedies; that only the creditor who has obtained an enforceable favourable judicial decision having acquired the force of res judicata and ordering a public entity to pay, even provisionally, an amount of money, may have enforced the specific rules [applicable].

This is certainly far from the last of the judicial development of this new settlement rule.

Rule 9.100 of the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure states that a party may file a petition for writ of prohibition in an appellate court to prevent a lower tribunal from the improper use of judicial power.

The ruling aims to strip immigrants of the opportunity to have a judicial determination on whether they qualify for release from custody.

Almost anyone who regularly toils in courthouses across Ontario — judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers — would say that despite previous rulings on delays from the Supreme Court and judicial warnings from lower courts, successive federal and provincial governments have failed to properly resource the justice system in a way that would ensure its fairness and efficiency.

More than 100 judicial rulings have relied on Wikipedia, beginning in 2004, including 13 from circuit courts of appeal, one step below the Supreme Court.

He therefore concludes that the OMT programme can be reviewed in this preliminary ruling, also because «the alternative — namely declaring an act such as the OMT programme not actionable — would entail the risk of excluding a significant number of decisions of the ECB from all judicial review merely on the ground that they have not been formally adopted and published in the Official Journal» (at 89).

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Provides information to practitioners, jurists, and the public about the law governing the awarding of attorney fees and costs with a focus on California state law and rulings coming from California federal judicial forums.

Rule 53 states that the «court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom.»

Current ethics rules prohibit lawyers from trying to influence the judicial process so lawyers should not be blogging about ongoing cases for that reason.

Incorporation of foreign and international rules and principles will require skills of synthesis and distinguishing that are distinct from traditional domestic legal reasoning, and they may require appreciation of important differences in foreign / international legal, political, or perhaps even cultural context.63 International legal rules often play a complex role in domestic law, presenting issues of interpretation and enforceability that do not easily fit within traditional domestic United States legislative, administrative, and judicial legal structures.64 Integration or application of rules from foreign nations may be even more complex, especially where those systems are substantially different from our own.65 Additionally, there may be discrepancies between the form and function of foreign or international law that affect their proper application.

Following the appeal court's ruling, complaints about Camp's behaviour from members of the public, law professors and law students rolled into the Canadian Judicial Council.

Even though the «Child's Best Interests Principle» is considered by every country while deciding child issues, due to the differences in domestic laws and judicial practice, the biggest difficulty is how to enforce the decisions ruled by courts from other legal jurisdictions by the actualities in China.

«For this reason, I'm not convinced that the UNCITRAL rules are the solution; the DRC must first establish a state of law and judicial system which exists independent from the government.»

Won publicized ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court establishing that a product manufacturer had forfeited its personal jurisdiction defense by defending on the merits.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave a boost to on - line legal education (and declined to bow down to the ABA) recently when it allowed a graduate of Concord Law School, an entirely on - line law school owned by Kaplan, Inc., to sit for the Massachusetts Bar Exam, despite a state rule that prohibits graduates from unaccredited -LSB-...]

Indeed, it is not because the data retained can be accessed and used by police and judicial authorities for criminal investigations that the data retention rules, which address private actors providing electronic communications services (service providers), would themselves be excluded from the scope of the Directive (§ § 87 - 97).

From such an assessment of the rules, the Court suddenly jumped to the conclusion that «in those circumstances, a decision by which the Parliament considers that a petition addressed to it does not meet the conditions laid down in Article 227 TFEU must be amenable to judicial review, since it is liable to affect the right of petition of the person concerned.

«A candidate taking a political position in the course of a campaign is different from the role of a judge making a ruling in the judicial process,» said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.»