Sentences with phrase «high burden of proof»

The idea of punitive damages is often distorted in the media, but in reality it entails a very high burden of proof.

But he faces a high bar: Mann has played a key role in climate science for decades, and the law generally requires a much higher burden of proof from public figures, said CEI general counsel Sam Kazman.

I wish Nature Climate Change would have asked for a little higher burden of proof.

To remove the cloak of anonymity from someone exercising their Charter rights should require a very high burden of proof on the person trying to do the uncloaking.

This is a much higher burden of proof.

However, any parent hoping to win child custody should realize that there is a higher burden of proof for the parent seeking sole custody.

Southern District prosecutors declined nearly one year ago to bring criminal charges against de Blasio in their investigation into his fundraising, citing the high burden of proof.

If Cameron was right that the decision was a judgement call, last week's vote has shown that UK parliamentarians now require a higher burden of proof when making judgements on the use of force than they may have done in the past.

During his testimony, Mr Yates admitted that the law around phone hacking required a very high burden of proof and that this had impacted on the investigation.

In a statement, Bharara's office said there was «insufficient evidence to meet the high burden of proof required for a federal criminal civil rights prosecution.»

«We take into account, among other things, the high burden of proof, the clarity of existing law, any recent changes in the law and the particular difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit,» Kim said in the release.

«In considering whether to charge individuals with serious public corruption crimes, we take into account, among other things, the high burden of proof, the clarity of existing law, any recent changes in the law, and the particular difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit,» said Joon Kim, the acting U.S. attorney, in his statement announcing the decision.

But the mayor appears to have benefited from a high burden of proof for federal corruption cases — made higher by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision — and from the legal advice of his campaign attorney, who structured the Senate contributions to conform to the letter, if not the spirit, of state fundraising laws.

A criminal case requires a higher burden of proof, Oarth said.

But Kim said the office would not bring criminal charges, noting the «high burden of proof» required to prove such cases.

Increasingly, however, single - site schools appear to suffer a higher burden of proof to justify their existence, relative to CMOs, and there might be «preferences» baked into the charter - authorizing process that keep standalone charter schools from getting approved.

Increasingly, single - site charter schools appear to suffer a higher burden of proof to justify their existence, relative to CMOs.

But increasingly, single - site schools appear to suffer a higher burden of proof, as it were, to justify their existence relative to the CMOs that largely set the political and expansion strategies for the broader movement.

Due to the delicate, unique, and ubiquitous nature of slip and fall accidents, there is a high burden of proof placed on the plaintiff.

However, the Canadian legal scene is littered with examples of wrongful convictions in homicide cases despite the presence of meticulous investigation, a high burden of proof, and appellate safeguards.

This requirement makes it very difficult to form a class of plaintiffs and meet the high burden of proof that every individual suffered the exact same harm.

Ignoring concerns raised by injured workers and their advocates during the policy consultation, the new policy requires a higher burden of proof for workers with work - related chronic mental stress disability to have their claims approved than for workers with all other injuries.

The statistics for how rare convictions are in rape cases are well known, due to the high burden of proof in something that often differs from something completely legal only by the giving or denying...

Mere failure to prove a case against the high burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt should not be the trigger for a defence payday.

Departure must meet a high burden of proof and is automatically appealable by either prosecution or defence.

In reaching this conclusion Justice Pollak noted that the dispensaries carried a high burden of proof in light of the fact that at law there exists a presumption that a validly enacted law produces a public good.

The presumption of innocence (null hypothesis) combined with a high burden of proof (beyond a reasonable doubt) are designed to reduce these errors.

One reason for these different outcomes is the higher burden of proof for a criminal conviction («beyond a reasonable doubt,» alpha = 1 percent) than for a finding of civil liability («preponderance of evidence,» alpha = 50 percent).

However, any parent hoping to win child custody should realize that there is a higher burden of proof for the parent seeking sole custody.

This is the highest burden of proof in civil proceedings.