Sentences with phrase «in a court of law where»

There is a lot of drama that takes place in a court of law where tensions are high and the lives of accused people hang in the balance of justice.

Habeas corpus has a symbolically central place in the law because it was the primary means by which a private individual could contest government authority over a person in a court of law where the citizen was in theory at least on an equal footing with the state.

Not exact matches

And yet emails received in the rule - free court of public opinion may not be admissible in a court of law, where strict rules of admissibility apply.

However, he praised the U.K.'s legal system, saying «we have the good fortune to live in a country where everyone... even government is subject to the rule of law, so the government will comply with the judgment of the court and do all that is necessary to implement it.»

There are a number of examples in Canadian case law where issuers were attempting to sell «utilities» or something similar to modern day tokens and coins, where the court simply didn't buy the argument.

Long before she embarked upon the journey that is now the Corporation for Social Security Claiming Strategies, Cheryl was an avid researcher and writer as Managing Editor of the Law Review and clerk in the appellate screening division of the Rhode Island Supreme Court where she had several successes.....

Sircuts, he was gunned down in a jail facing charges in a country where one is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

And as Islamic law forbids a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim man (although it permits a Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman), her marriage was not a marriage at all in Sudan, where matters of personal and family law are controlled by religious courts.

Managing director of Midland Red bus operator, Steve Burd, as he leaves Coventry Magistrates» Court last week after a previous hearing, where Midland Red (South) Ltd, today pleaded guilty to two charges brought under Health and Safety law after an inquiry into the 2015 deaths of a passenger and a pedestrian in Coventry city centre.

They attended a school - board meeting in October 1993 where they distributed material citing federal laws and court rulings upholding the rights of pregnant students to participate in public school extracurricular activities.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

Great — so, either these four young men never were abused, but simply saw an opportunity to shake down an individual with a questionable reputation (the «where there's smoke» strategy), and Pastor Long either caved in to the pressure, or sought an expedient route (possibly used before) to make the problem go away; OR, these really are four young men who've been abused, but rather than make the pastor answer for what he did to them in a court of law, and spare other young men in the future the trauma they experienced, they allowed their silence to be bought.

In short, states where courts have ruled on same - sex marriage are «black hole» states where few or no specific religious protections are given, according to Robin Fretwell Wilson, a University of Illinois law professor who leads a group of legal scholars that advise lawmakers on religious exemptions.

And in an Indian situation where baptism is the legal mark of change of one religious community to another, each with its own civil codes recognized by the Courts, communalisation of church life is imposed by Law and perverts the meaning of baptism as sacrament of faith.

If you are the example of the future lawyers of this country, I am scared to see where we will end up during litigation in a court of law.

The current FCC majority may reject such petitions, but the petitioners have standing to challenge an FCC decision in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where adherence to the law may be expected.

Early in the twentieth century, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the states the «laboratories of democracy,» where novel ideas and laws could be tried without risk to the rest of the country.

Some fathers themselves may decide not to seek registration on the birth certificate, nor to go to court for PR, because they believe these steps could • harm themselves (e.g. fears of liability for child support; and that contact with «the law» could expose them to prosecution in other areas) • harm the mother (e.g. her access to benefits) • harm their children (e.g. where his relationship with the mother is conflictual and unstable, a father may fear that by seeking PR his contact with his children will be disrupted or stopped).

In one of the first cases to test this law, the 11th Circuit Court has ruled that breastfeeding mothers do not get to dictate where this pumping room is located.

My interest in this whole issue comes from the fact that if our law courts especially the highest court in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a coucourt in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a couCourt that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a country?

«The appropriate forum in which to respond to the Senator is a court of law, where the Attorney General will prove all facts according to the rules of evidence.

The court of appeals handles all appeals except those in the supreme court's exclusive jurisdiction: challenges to the validity of a United States statute or treaty, the validity of a state constitutional provision or statute, cases requiring construction of revenue laws, the title to state office and cases where the death penalty is imposed.

But he said the 2016 Supreme Court McDonnell decision narrowing federal corruption laws — and the «difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit» — made prosecuting inappropriate.

He is now gone from our lives, his Assembly seat as vacant as his eyes, completing his shuffle from Manhattan State Supreme Court, where he began as a law secretary in 1971, to the federal courthouse on Foley Square, where 12 of his peers finally got a chance to judge seven of his felonies.

«This is yet another area where the Court has misinterpreted the law, setting legal standards which fly in the face of the public» expectations.

«The Human Rights Act and the European convention on human rights have been instrumental in preventing local authorities from snooping on law - abiding families, in removing innocent people from the national DNA database, in preventing rapists from cross-examining their victims in court, in defending the rights of parents to have a say in the medical treatment of their children, in holding local authorities to account where they have failed to protect children from abuse, in protecting the anonymity of journalists» sources, and in upholding the rights of elderly married couples to be cared for together in care homes.»

Famodun further said the APC has concluded plans to sue Fani Kayode for libel and insisted that the Jonathan campaign spokesman needs to explain where and how he came about the video in a court of law.

Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.

The seven - member Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday in two cases where a midlevel appellate court unanimously concluded last year that state oil and gas law doesn't trump the authority of local governments to control landCourt of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday in two cases where a midlevel appellate court unanimously concluded last year that state oil and gas law doesn't trump the authority of local governments to control landcourt unanimously concluded last year that state oil and gas law doesn't trump the authority of local governments to control land use.

Putland could improve his argument, and thereby this answer could be improved, with reference to cases where the separation of powers was established in Australian law (Arbitration Court's case for example?)

«Unless we apply the break and uphold the rule of law and democratic conventions and practices in all ramifications, our greatest losses, moving forward, will not be economic recession, lack of critical infrastructure, among others, but an irredeemably deteriorated civilian rule where the decisions of the courts, letters and spirit of the law, resolutions of the legislature, electoral choices of Nigerians as expressed through the ballot no longer count.»

After the introduction of secret courts and Leveson laws I was wondering where the liberal (and indeed in the democrat,) had gone in the Liberal Democrats.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman took a large step toward making New York one of several states to allow late - term abortions in cases where the mother's health is in jeopardy or the fetus suffers a fatal complication, relying on Supreme Court rulings he said overrode existing law.

The resulting lawsuit made it to the Court of Appeals, where the final decision determined that while Espada's enrollment could not be challenged based on his legislative record, the party's county chair did indeed have the power, as described in state election law, to «determine that the voter is not in sympathy with the principles of such party.»

«Our client is not guilty and we now look forward to beginning to fight for his total vindication and we intend to do that fighting where it should be done, in the court of law,» Molo said.

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

He said, «I know you are also aware of the fracas in the House of Assembly where four Lawmakers chose to be in collision with the law refusing court orders and even boasting that they will never comply with the court order.

In emerging industries, where there is little legal precedent, courts would likely look to federal guidelines even if they lack the weight of law, said Brad Mondschein, an alternative energy and green development attorney at Hartford, Conn. - based Pullman & Comley LLC.

But such a subjective assessment would not hold water in a court of law, where it is essential to know how likely a skull belongs to a particular missing person.

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Nor does his camera fully take in the sweep of a life at court, where any royal whim was immediately law.

For instance, King's words from an Alabama jail cell in 1963 (where he was being punished for marching in defiance of a court order): «A just law is a man - made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God.

The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) has provided some recent case law on reasonable foreseeability in Hadlow v Peterborough City Council (2011), where it was found against the council.

Upon graduation from the Vermont Law School in 2010 where he was an Articles Editor to the Vermont Journal of Environmental of Law and a member of Moot Court, Mr. Schwartz clerked for the Honorable Alvaro Iglesias, J.S.C., in the Hudson Vicinage for the 2010 - 11 term.

A graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School, where he was Editor - in - Chief of the Law Review, Cerf also was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'ConnLaw School, where he was Editor - in - Chief of the Law Review, Cerf also was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'ConnLaw Review, Cerf also was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connlaw clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Students Matter fights for education equality in the court of law and in the court of public opinion, where students» rights and voices matter most.

32 The New Hampshire Supreme Court likewise rejected the standing of petitioners challenging the state's scholarship tax credit law, ruling that they could not demonstrate any harm.33 The following year, citing the decisions in Arizona and New Hampshire, the Alabama Supreme Court also held that a «tax credit to a parent or a corporation... can not be construed as an «appropriation»» but rather such funds retain their status as private funds until they enter the public treasury.34 That view seems to be the prevailing one in courts, so with the possible exception of Michigan, where the state constitution explicitly prohibits tax benefits for religious education, tax credits should survive scrutiny under such provisions.

In schools like McKinley Elementary in Compton — where an early attempt to invoke the law fizzled after a heated court battle between the district and parents — and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sideIn schools like McKinley Elementary in Compton — where an early attempt to invoke the law fizzled after a heated court battle between the district and parents — and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sidein Compton — where an early attempt to invoke the law fizzled after a heated court battle between the district and parents — and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sidein Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sides.

That was the outcome this week in Alabama, where the state's Supreme Court overturned a lower court's attempted termination of the Alabama Accountability Act, a law that included two school choice measures: a tax - credit scholarship program and an individual refundable tax crCourt overturned a lower court's attempted termination of the Alabama Accountability Act, a law that included two school choice measures: a tax - credit scholarship program and an individual refundable tax crcourt's attempted termination of the Alabama Accountability Act, a law that included two school choice measures: a tax - credit scholarship program and an individual refundable tax credit.

In Compton, the only other city where the Parent Trigger law has been tested (it's currently tied up in court due to similar backlash), an opposition built of teachers and PTA parents turned Parent Revolution's conversation about the need for instant and radical change at California's most neglected schools into a political attack on the tight - knit Compton communitIn Compton, the only other city where the Parent Trigger law has been tested (it's currently tied up in court due to similar backlash), an opposition built of teachers and PTA parents turned Parent Revolution's conversation about the need for instant and radical change at California's most neglected schools into a political attack on the tight - knit Compton communitin court due to similar backlash), an opposition built of teachers and PTA parents turned Parent Revolution's conversation about the need for instant and radical change at California's most neglected schools into a political attack on the tight - knit Compton community.