Sentences with phrase «in a civil claim for»

By contrast, the «burden of proof» in a civil claim for money or other damages is lower.

The biggest question facing Sullivan in a civil claim for Guy's personal injury is whether the shooting was accidental or intentional.

The High Court has today made the first court ruling on the use of the Justice and Security Act 2013 in a civil claim for damages.

As a lawyer who regularly represents victims of sexual abuse, I was interviewed by Law Times about the quantum of damages awarded to successful plaintiffs in civil claims for sexual assault and sexual abuse.

Not exact matches

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Mr. Siegal's other client successes include securing a 2016 trial victory in federal court defending Marvel Entertainment against a claim that it stole a patent - holder's design for a Spiderman role play web - shooting toy, and numerous federal and state appellate arguments in criminal and civil matters.

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

In December 2014, Judy's reached a $ 2 million civil settlement with the Justice Department for claims of improper dispensing.

Advisers who presently are fiduciaries may be especially likely to fully satisfy the PTEs» Impartial Conduct Standards before January 1, 2018, in the ERISA - plan context, because advisers who make recommendations to plans and plan participants regarding plan assets, including recommendations on rollovers or distributions of plan assets, are already subject to standards of prudence and loyalty under ERISA and a violation of the Impartial Conduct Standards would be subject to claims for civil liability under ERISA.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analysts said in a June 29 report, «This is a major regulatory issue for the Libor banks that will likely generate significant civil claims over the next four to five years.

Milan, in March 2012, settled its civil claims on interest rate swaps against Deutsche Bank, UBS, and JPMorgan Chase for 455 million Euros.

The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»

In February 2014, JPMC agreed to pay $ 614,000,000 to settle charges asserted by the United States Attorney's Officer for the Southern District of New York, the Federal Housing Administration, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the United States Department of Veteran Affairs resolving False Claims Act, FIRREA and other civil and administrative liability for FHA and VA insurance claims that have been paid to JP Morgan Chase since 2002 through the date of settlClaims Act, FIRREA and other civil and administrative liability for FHA and VA insurance claims that have been paid to JP Morgan Chase since 2002 through the date of settlclaims that have been paid to JP Morgan Chase since 2002 through the date of settlement.

In his Natural History of Religion (1757), the Scottish philosopher David Hume — in agreement with other skeptical and agnostic English and French thinkers — said that Christianity's claim to absolute truth was to be blamed for the devastating civil wars that had taken place in Britain and FrancIn his Natural History of Religion (1757), the Scottish philosopher David Hume — in agreement with other skeptical and agnostic English and French thinkers — said that Christianity's claim to absolute truth was to be blamed for the devastating civil wars that had taken place in Britain and Francin agreement with other skeptical and agnostic English and French thinkers — said that Christianity's claim to absolute truth was to be blamed for the devastating civil wars that had taken place in Britain and Francin Britain and France.

A former Archbishop of Canterbury has called for urgent action to end the civil war in South Sudan which has already claimed more than 300 lives this month.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

Most scholars praise Jackson for «widening» the reach of his opinion by converting the religious freedom claim into a free speech claim, and the decision is routinely treated as one of the strongest vindications of civil liberties in twentieth - century American law.

Though the foreign policy recommendations of his Farewell Address were taken, after the Civil War, to promote isolationism, he was in fact, claim the authors, arguing the advantages of neutrality for independent action.

On the other hand, Italian liberalism and socialism, especially since World War II, have tended to give up their totalistic claims and opt for a civility and a tolerance of difference that Hammond sees as essential in a modern civil religion.

Similarly, any great civil society, and especially one claiming a basis in Christian love, can measure its greatness only by its willingness and ability to care for its least productive members.

Los Angeles (CNN)- A former veteran systems administrator for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory claimed during opening arguments in a civil lawsuit Tuesday that he was wrongfully terminated for expressing his views on intelligent design.

Finally, after her country endured a decade of civil war that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, and with the help of Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, Johnson - Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

«A restaurant or similar retail food establishment shall not be liable in any civil action in Federal or State court (other than an action brought by the United States or a State) for any claims arising out of an alleged violation of this clause or any State law permitted under section 403A (a)(4).»

[5] Indeed, in his most recent piece, Roberts claims that «UK civil servants are now said to be presenting ministers with a more binary choice: accept political compromises similar to aspects of the European Economic Area (EEA), or settle for a much more limited trade deal such as the recent EU - Canada free trade agreement (CETA).»

Trump has vehemently denied the rape claims, which are being filed in a New York civil court for a third time.

From the Putney Debates in the English Civil War, to the 1689 Claim of Right Act passed by the Scottish Parliament, right up to the British Human Rights Act of 1998, a concerted concern for rights and popular sovereignty has provided a shared political framework for legislation that unites all elements of the United Kingdom.

In addition to plans for taking the damage claims to civil court?

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude, who is responsible for the Civil Service, said: «Our official estimates are that fewer than half a million took part in this strike action — well short of the inflated claims of union leaders.

A federal judge has dismissed a Cleveland developer's civil lawsuit claiming the City of Buffalo and Mayor Byron W. Brown engaged in a «pay to play» for a city housing project.

A multistate civil lawsuit filed in May against a group of family members who claimed to raise money for cancer victims has been settled, resulting in the closing of two charities that allegedly bilked donors for some $ 75 million, AG Eric Schneiderman said.

Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran rejected the GOP claim that the parks / e-waste recycling bill includes new taxes, noting the proposed increases in civil and criminal fines for environmental conservation law violations are for crimes that already exist (estimated revenue generation: $ 1 million), and the same goes for the restructuring of fees for hazardous waste generation (estimated revenue generation: $ 2 million).

The panel, appointed in early July by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in response to this year's torrent of public corruption scandals, last month sent letters to both chambers requesting that members deriving more than $ 20,000 in outside income disclose their sources, and that lawmakers who are attorneys disclose their civil or criminal clients — an element of transparency that the Legislature has resisted for years, claiming it violates attorney - client privilege.

Lev Dassin, the acting United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and Tony West, the assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Westchester County has agreed to fund the building of 750 units of affordable housing in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the United States under the False Claims Act as well as the Housing and Community Development Act.

«In the 1970s, when a civil servant say retired at sixty, they could expect to claim a pension for around twenty years.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, (NSCDC) in Anambra State has arrested one Patrick Thomas for claiming to be an officer of NSCDC.

Civil war has nearly broken out among neuropsychologists over this issue, so let me tread lightly here — I will simply say that I have seen no scientific evidence for how such recovered memories might work, no supposed cases of it documented to be legitimate in a way that should satisfy a rigorous scientist, and plenty of scientific explanations for why various claims have not been legitimate.

Although under some laws HBO may have a right to an award of attorneys» fees and expenses if it prevails in an arbitration, HBO agrees that it will seek such an award only in the event that the substance of your claim or the relief sought has been deemed by the arbitrator to be frivolous or brought for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 (b)-RRB-.

In Civil War, Vision claims to not know much about the Mind Stone, but the fact that it basically powers him and Thanos needs it for his gauntlet... you can guess what's going to happen next.

On the same day that the Obama administration announced its intentions to beef up the enforcement of civil rights in the nation's schools, the head of the office for civil rights during the Bush years said its track record isn't lackluster as claimed.

«Instead of stimulating worthy discussions about over-testing, cultural bias in tests, and the misuse of test data,» responded the anti-reform Network for Public Education in the Washington Post, «these activists would rather claim a false mantle of civil rights activism.»

So when Harlem Success Academy, a charter group in New York, proposed to take over P.S. 194's building after the school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local school boards.

Actually, that's what many people on the left do claim, and that was the basis for the Obama Administration's 2014 Dear Colleague Letter on the topic, which gave the Office for Civil Rights (and Justice Department) the authority to investigate school districts based on racial disparities in discipline rates alone.

Topics to be discussed include: Court Procedure: An understanding of the civil litigation process in New Jersey as it pertains to negligence claims; Damages: Understanding the standards for, and the differences between Compensatory and Punitive Damages; Facility Maintenance: Identifying potential safety hazards related to facilities and grounds, and taking reasonable steps to address common problems; Indemnification: Identifying when the school district is responsible for the actions of its employees, and when it may disclaim coverage; Insurance Coverage Issues: Understanding what is, and is not covered under a school district's insurance policy, and understanding whether your district will be allowed to choose its attorney or be required to utilize the attorney assigned by the Insurance Company; Negligent Supervision: Examples of school district negligence liability lie within the school, on the athletic field, in the locker room, and on school trips; Sovereign Immunity: Understanding the effect of the New Jersey Torts Claims Act on negligence claims against school distclaims; Damages: Understanding the standards for, and the differences between Compensatory and Punitive Damages; Facility Maintenance: Identifying potential safety hazards related to facilities and grounds, and taking reasonable steps to address common problems; Indemnification: Identifying when the school district is responsible for the actions of its employees, and when it may disclaim coverage; Insurance Coverage Issues: Understanding what is, and is not covered under a school district's insurance policy, and understanding whether your district will be allowed to choose its attorney or be required to utilize the attorney assigned by the Insurance Company; Negligent Supervision: Examples of school district negligence liability lie within the school, on the athletic field, in the locker room, and on school trips; Sovereign Immunity: Understanding the effect of the New Jersey Torts Claims Act on negligence claims against school distClaims Act on negligence claims against school distclaims against school districts.

In papers filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the teachers claimed that the layoff clause in their contract violated their equal - protection and due - process rights under the 14th Amendment and their right to protection from racial discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sections 1981 and 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 187In papers filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the teachers claimed that the layoff clause in their contract violated their equal - protection and due - process rights under the 14th Amendment and their right to protection from racial discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sections 1981 and 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 187in their contract violated their equal - protection and due - process rights under the 14th Amendment and their right to protection from racial discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sections 1981 and 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

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Two Orange County charter schools said they will make changes to their websites, and other campuses are reviewing their policies in light of a recently released report from the American Civil Liberties Union that claims hundreds of California charter schools create unfair hurdles for underprivileged students.

Aurelio and Bradley call out the dangerous assumptions inherent in the claim that «college is not for everybody» — including the road to infringing on students» civil rights.

In 2012, the district signed a voluntary agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights following an investigation by the federal agency to address claims that the school system disciplined black students more harshly than white ones.

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Feel free to make a recommendation for someone you have liked working with in the past, feel free to plug your own company (provided you can confidently back it up, because we might just follow up your claims), or to share your experiences, good or bad (but please keep it civil).