Sentences with phrase «imposed by a judge»
It was the largest penalty ever imposed by a judge in the province on workplace safety charges.
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Instead defendants would be released, either on their own promise to return to court, or with some other conditions imposed by the judge.
State laws allow bail bond companies to charge defendants a premium of up to 12 percent of the face value of the bond imposed by a judge, in exchange for a promise to pay the full amount to the court if the defendant doesn't show up for trial.
Liebowitz also argued that the sanction was «wholly punitive in nature,» violating Supreme Court precedent that requires sanctions imposed by a judge's inherent authority to be compensatory rather than punitive in nature.
We comment only on the statement in which the President termed the sentence imposed by the judge as «excessive.»
You have the right to plead guilty, though this means you must bear the sentence imposed by the judge without a fight.
I say eliminate the mandatory mediation stage, eliminate the pre-trial stage, greatly shorten discoveries, make better forced use of offers to settle, and make the lawyers analyse their way to early and reasonable settlements or face the consequences of adverse cost awards imposed by a judge annoyed that the file even got to trial.
When staying out of court, separating couples want and need to work together to prepare a separation agreement (as opposed to a court order imposed by a judge, if the couple were fighting in court).
A recent appeal court ruling has stated that whole life sentences can still be imposed by judges in England and Wales for the most serious cases of murder.
The trick is that the orders take effect unless someone appeals them, and since deals like this are usually a result of a plea bargain which waives rights to an appeal, and even if the result is simply imposed by the judge, one has to consider if taking the case up on appeal, having the sentence reversed, and then having it remanded to the same judge for resentencing would be worse from the perspective of the defendant, given the broad authority of a sentencing judge in a minor case like this one, than simply accepting the illegal sentence.
Because the resolution in divorces reached through mediation or collaboration would be your own and not imposed by a judge or reached under threat of imposition, you and your spouse would be more likely to honor it, thus reducing the risk of non-compliance and additional expense and acrimony post-divorce.
Your parenting plan will consist of an order (imposed by the judge if you can not decide with your co-parent, agreed - upon by both parents, or a combination of the two) determining when each of you will have the child (ren).
Mediation helps the parties make good decisions — better decisions than those imposed by a judge with little time to understand the specifics of the divorcing couple in front of them.
In Mediation the parties are assisted by a mediator to reach an agreement developed by the spouses themselves, not one imposed by a judge or the court system.
Not exact matches
The presidential order imposed a temporary ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, but a federal judge has barred enforcement of the order while the court considers a challenge brought by Washington state.
The Justice Department urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to lift a stay imposed by a Maryland federal judge March 16th blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order.
Trump last month issued an executive order, since suspended by a U.S. district judge, that temporarily barred travelers from seven mostly Muslim countries including Syria, as well as imposing an indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees.
Judge Andreas Korbmacher said on Thursday the country's highest federal administrative court would rule on Feb. 27 on an appeal brought by German states against bans imposed by local courts in Stuttgart and Duesseldorf over poor air quality.
The ban, imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, caught the attention of Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott, who supported an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley Independent School District on Thursday.
Second, good natural law does not dictate a moral code to be imposed upon individuals; instead, it protects the right of individuals to make moral decisions free from dictation by either legislators or judges.
The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.
Can we moderate Christians tell the world that most Americans don't believe that you should devote your energy to judging others, that you should try to focus to improving yourself; that most Americans want religion protected by keeping it separated from «State» rather than the extremist push to make biblical law the law of the land; that each individual's morality is between him / her and God, not a morality imposed by Christian extremists?
This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.
But variety of factors - Sudan's legal system, differences between its constitution and Sharia law imposed by the sentencing judge, her pregnancy - ensure there will be no execution any time soon.
We know we are judged not by the soft and easy standards we impose upon ourselves or the conventions of society impose on us, but by God's standards.
When such language becomes institutionalized, when it is spoken by judges, religious leaders or presidents, it receives the imprimatur of authorities who have the power and influence to impose their metaphors.
The noun «religion» was imposed on these by Westerners, and it leads to efforts to identify the essence of «religion» and then to treat this as a norm by which to judge the religious traditions.
But once the law - finding power passed to judges, who began to exercise it by rendering written opinions that remained available for all to read, precedent threatened to impose a straight - jacket on future legal development and to bar all future legal change.40
That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»
The trial judge also concluded that (para 285) «the threat of sale by independent retailers to the major supermarket chains constrained Metcash's wholesale pricing decisions» and that the competitive constraint imposed by Franklins was much less than that imposed by the major supermarket chains - these findings of the trial judge were set out by Yates J at para 297 as follows:
Any sentence imposed by the court should not be seen as an attempt by judges to muzzle journalists because freedom must go with exercising responsibility which was lacking in the case of Montie FM 3.
Judges found control orders placed on six Iraqis breached Article 5 of the Human Rights Act by imposing indefinite detention without trial.
On 25 April 2012, the Court of Appeal (Lord Judge CJ, Openshaw & Irwin JJ) increased the sentence imposed by the Crown Court at Inner London on Adam Ahmadzai from four years detention to seven years detention for offences of violent disorder, robbery, burglary and criminal damage committed during the riots on 8 August 2011, after a reference from Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC.
Anti-horse carriage activists won an appeal that eliminates a 9 - foot buffer zone imposed by a lower - court judge — and lets them get as close as they want to the hansom cabs.
Judge Kimba Wood also sentenced Adam Skelos to six and a half years in jail, and imposed a $ 334,120 forfeiture to be paid jointly by Dean and Adam.
Judge Wood also imposed a $ 500,000 fine — the amount sought by the government — on the former senator, as well as a $ 334,120 forfeiture to be paid jointly by him and his son.
But U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert ruled that, «in declaring a fiscal crisis and imposing the wage freeze, NIFA did not create a «new rule,» but merely exercised authority delegated to it by the [county] legislature in 2000.
The judge also imposed a $ 500,000 fine on Mr. Skelos, and imposed a $ 334,120 forfeiture to be paid jointly by him and his son, Adam, who was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
Stem cell research supporters in Congress are hoping to take quick action to reverse the research ban imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth on Monday.
«I wonder how the judges will continue to impose access to treatment after the strong position taken by the Ministry of Health,» De Luca says.
A Northern Kentucky circuit - court judge has voided a utility - tax increase imposed by the Campbell County school board, ruling that the state's 1990 education - reform law requires voter approval of such increases.
Finally, the Supreme Court, responding to one of many state appeals, decreed in 1995 by a 5 — 4 vote that Judge Clark could not impose a program of magnet schools to attract white students from the suburbs.
The deadline was imposed by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant, who ruled this year that state law requires L.A. Unified to use test scores in teacher performance reviews.
While Revelations 2 may be the sequel, it's the more interesting game technically and bearing in mind the higher technical bar here imposed by Xbox One and PS4 as the target platforms, the Switch version fares surprisingly well judged by the bar set by its predecessor.
You are advocating that opposing scientist's views be judged by the government and if they are found to be «misinformation», whatever that might be at any instant, various civil and criminal penalties should be imposed... have you lost your reason?
The presiding judge - William Sessions III, sitting in the U.S. District Court in Burlington - rejected the carmakers» argument that the proposed state rules conflicted with rules set forth by the federal government and that they imposed unnecessary and costly burdens on them:
The Teachers» Federation submits that the trial judge fundamentally misunderstood and incorrectly applied the applicable law to the facts of the case; applied an incorrect standard of review of a union's conduct, and imposed duties not required of it by law.
Khawaja, an Ottawa software developer, was appealing his conviction while the Crown cross-appealead, asking the court to impose a life sentence rather than the 10-1/2 years imposed by trial judge Justice Douglas J. A. Rutherford of the Superior Court of Justice on Oct. 24, 2006.
District judges, knowing that they have to impose reasonable sentences in all future cases, surely will be disinclined when sitting by designation to declare unreasonable any sentencing practice or result that seems anywhere close to any sentencing practice or result they have ever embraced in the past or might be inclined to embrace in the future.
'' [t] he judge will... be forced to decide in advance of trial — and without hearing the evidence — whether he will forgo entirely his judicial discretion to impose some sentence of imprisonment and abandon his responsibility to consider the full range of punishments established by the legislature.