Sentences with phrase «important appellate court decision»

A Case Comment describes and analyzes a recent important appellate court decision and concludes by offering opinions as to the decision's probable impact on future cases.

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He has won many important appellate decisions for physicians and other healthcare providers and has argued several cases in the United States and California Supreme Courts.

Attis represents important appellate Court guidance for the class action bar as, prior to Attis, certain decisions, most notably Poulin v. Ford Motor Co. of Canada, earmarked class counsel as a potential payment source for defendants in situations where the plaintiffs were unwilling or unable to cover costs ordered against them.

Members of the group monitor state and federal appellate courts in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States, to report breaking appellate decisions important to our clients.

The Supreme Court's decision is the latest in a series of important appellate judgments arising out of the long - running dispute concerning the enforcement of a Nigerian arbitral award between NNPC, the Nigerian state - owned oil company, and IPCO.

Hopefully such changes also would enhance the ability of appellate courts to make «a sensible decision» based on all of the «important facts» for such a decision.

[t] rial decisions, even in important constitutional cases, attract less attention than appellate ones, especially those of the Supreme Court.

Several of his Superior Court trials have generated very important appellate decisions including Commonwealth v. Vinnie, 429 Mass. 161 (1998), Commonwealth v. Greineder, 458 Mass. 207 (2010), Commonwealth v. Mendes, 406 Mass. 201 (1989)(Polygraph), Lipchiz vs. Ratheon Company, 434 Mass. 413 (2001)(employment discrimination), Commercial Union vs. Boston Symphony Orchestra, 406 Mass. 7 (1989)(insurer's duty to defend).

While some have characterized the majority decision in Carter as a narrow application of stare decisis to avoid dealing with the merits, a closer look reveals an important contemporary appellate endorsement of the underlying rationale for the prohibition on assisted suicide as articulated by the Supreme Court of Canada in Rodriguez.

It is important to note that this decision concerned only the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over habeas corpus matters, rather than its original jurisdiction over habeas corpus matters brought directly to it.