Sentences with phrase «highest civil appellate»

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An appellate court upheld a high - level fellowship program started in 2014 by Cuomo that drew the ire of public workers unions, whose leaders said it circumvented the system of civil service promotions.

Copyright 1988 Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether an appellate court misinterpreted key civil - rights laws in a suit involving the racially motivated dismissal of a Dallas high - school football coach.

Years after Texas Supreme Court (civil) found privacy a fundamental right, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, our highest state criminal appellate court, found, with little support and no testimony, that we had «no tradition of personal privacy.»

Either or both parties can appeal a judge's decision to a higher court, but it is fairly uncommon for civil cases to be overturned by appellate courts.

Antigone has acted as lead trial counsel and appellate counsel in federal civil lawsuits across the United States and she has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies involved in high stakes intellectual property disputes and a variety of other business and legal issues.

The set of more than 50 barristers, who work as individual barristers taking personal responsibility for their cases, is led by Robin Allen QC and performs the whole range of civil court, tribunal and appellate work from the smallest claims to high profile cases in the Supreme Court and European Court of Justice.

Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel in 2011, Matt worked as a lawyer on appellate, civil and commercial litigation, and legal advisory matters with the South Australian Crown Solicitor and Solicitor General in the High Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, and local courts in South Australia.