Sentences with phrase «in favor of a motion»

He voted in favor of a motion to proceed to debate the healthcare bill, a move for which Democrats criticized him.

The charity Rethink Mental Illness is calling on Liberal Democrats to vote in favor of a motion opposing aspects of the Welfare Reform Bill at their party conference tomorrow (Saturday 17 September).

Faso did vote in favor of a motion to recommend that provisions related to stopping funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates for one year be taken out of the bill.

Your voting in favor of a motion to H.R. 5719 and voting in favor of House Amendment 294 (the Tancredo Amendment) which would deny tax incentive and federal funds, respectively, from being distributed to sanctuary cities; 3.

The motion was supported by an overwhelming majority, in which both party members and unions voted 70 % in favor of the motion.

Of course, if you really want to be a full - fledged 21st - century movie, it's best to focus less on actors in favor of motion - captured, fully digital (and endlessly manipulable) creations.

Speaking in favor of the motion were Gary Miron and Julian Vasquez Heilig.

Before the debate, the audience at the Kauffman Music Center in New York voted 50 percent in favor of the motion and 13 percent against, with 37 percent undecided.

Motion: Global Warming is Not a Crisis Intelligence ² US audience confirms 46.22 % to 42.22 % in favor of the motion.

Those in favor of the motion (some additions may come, organizers say) will be the «skeptical environmentalist» Bjorn Lomborg; Philip Stott, the British biogeographer who has become a prominent critic of global warming worriers; and Peter W. Huber, the Manhattan Institute scholar, lawyer and mechanical engineer who has written that energy waste is unavoidable and beneficial.

Not exact matches

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

Thus, the motion of the pendulum is taken as the standard, as a more suitable «approximation» to the uniform time flow of absolute time, and some physical explanation is then sought to account for the seasonal variation of the solar day relative to this standard.18 Were standards other than the pendulum chosen as operating «more uniformly,» then the pendulum would be abandoned in favor of a «more uniform approximation» to absolute time.

And when it comes to immunizing such «choices» from legal restriction or even private remonstration, the Court's liberals can be counted upon to flip on the switch of what Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in dissent, describes as «the ad hoc nullification machine that [is] set in motion to push aside whatever doctrines of constitutional law stand in the way of the highly favored practice of abortion.»

After discussion, the motion passed by a vote of 21 in favor, 4 against and two abstentions.

The Breitbart motion, filed on behalf of Todd Breitbart, Tobias Sheppard Bloch, Gregory Lobo - Jost, Raul Rothblatt, Mark Weisman, and David Wes Williams, invokes a federal rule that allows non-parties claiming an interest in a lawsuit (Favors v. Cuomo) to intervene.

State Supreme Court Justice John A. Michalek on Thursday ruled in favor of a New York State Education Department's (NYSED) motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the school.

The town board voted 5 - 2 in favor of D'Esposito's motion despite the loud objections from the audience.

Although NASA has neglected Venus in favor of regular Mars missions (see graphic, above), Venus Express, a European mission that ended in 2014, observed the motion and structure of Venus's atmosphere, which whips around the planet 60 times faster than it rotates.

You can sacrifice full range of motion towards the end if you get tired, in favor of flushing more blood to the biceps.

The spectrum of human movement is so vast that neglecting other motions in favor of our pet practices all the time is anathema to what we are capable of.

And while the film is at times scarily atmospheric — a hunt in the cramped sewers under Baltimore, a horse chase through a foggy wood — it too often abandons the stony, old - timey horror that should be its main motif, because despite all the nonsense it works, in favor of slow - motion bullets and a super villain-esque masked crusader who is capable of impossible feats of speed and marksmanship.

Rusty is a dull hero, an alleged bad boy who loves his mother, respects his mom's boyfriend, wants to save his best buddy in the whole world, and speaks with unnatural lyrics of love for a woman he just meets in a diner (Marley Shelton, who appears in one scene to walk through a door and to a stool repeatedly in slow motion before making googly eyes at Rusty, who returns the favor).

«I was perilously close to exposing a secret underground economy of promotion: favors and junkets and banquets and gifts that keeps the city in motion, and keeps underpaid writers at work,» Albo writes.

[3] The theatre with a capacity of 1150 and a flanking office building were designed by architect L. A. Smith in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture that was favored by architects of motion picture theaters during the 1920s.

FreeStyle Games has ditched the 3D genre - aping avatars in favor of full motion video.

Judgment is entered in favor of Defendants Microsoft Corporation, Electronic Arts Inc., Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., Majesco Entertainment Co., Ubisoft Inc., and Nintendo of America Inc.'s (collectively «Defendants») on Plaintiff Richard J. Baker's («Baker») claims for infringement pursuant to the Court's ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS» MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (D.I. 135) dated January 3, 2017 and filed on January 4, 2017.

However, this wasn't always the case, as news has emerged from the latest Iwata Asks column that the Zelda team once considered dropping motion - controls in favor of a button - centric adventure.

The Wii U cut back on Wii - style motion controls a lot, instead in favor of more controller - based action or (less often than we'd like) cool gyroscopic stuff that made use of the GamePad.

The Nintendo NX should keep some motion controls, keep the GamePad, but ditch the Wii Remote in favor of something like the Wii U Pro controller.

The judge stayed a motion filed by Monson and Hauge seeking resolution of the case in their favor and «promised» to decide before month's end whether to grant the DEA's motion to dismiss.

Plaintiffs and defendant all filed motions for summary judgment, and on Feb. 2, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan issued a memorandum ruling in favor of plaintiffs and an order permanently barring Public.Resource.Org from posting any of the plaintiffs» standards.

Another example is a motion for summary judgment, which asks the court to rule in the requester's favor because essential facts are no longer in dispute (perhaps because of what has been learned in discovery), making a jury's decision unnecessary on some — or all — points.

And, if it a litigation matter and if after a month of trial on that one matter and we KNOW, we are absolutely certain that the LAW and the facts that came out at trial warrant a finding by the Court in our favor, but the Judge rules in our favor and on our motion might even grant a new trial and so we start over again, how can one figure that in?

Summary Dismissal Victory Achieved by Phillip E. Seltzer and Shawn Grinnen In Defense of Lawyer on Claim of Legal Malpractice May 2017 — A first responsive motion for summary dismissal of a legal malpractice claim was recently granted in favor of a Defendant - Lawyer represented by Lipson, NeilsoIn Defense of Lawyer on Claim of Legal Malpractice May 2017 — A first responsive motion for summary dismissal of a legal malpractice claim was recently granted in favor of a Defendant - Lawyer represented by Lipson, Neilsoin favor of a Defendant - Lawyer represented by Lipson, Neilson.

Drafted successful motion for summary judgment in favor of an employer in a case involving allegations of respondeat superior and negligent entrustment.

Provided research, briefing and trial support, including drafting of jury instructions, trial brief, and motions in limine, in a case in Mayes County, Oklahoma, in which a defense verdict was obtained in favor of a loss prevention investigator who was an employee of a shoe retailer.

On cross motions for summary judgment, the district court ruled in favor of the plaintiff.

On the third day of the trial, the Court agreed with the merits of the motion, and dismissed the case against Mr. Mavrick's client and entered judgment in favor of Mr. Mavrick's client.

Chris was an integral part of team that prepared successful motions for summary judgment in favor of Cold Chain Technologies.

A first responsive motion for summary dismissal of a legal malpractice claim was recently granted in favor of a Defendant - Lawyer represented by Lipson Neilson attorneys Phillip E. Seltzer and Shawn Grinnen.

Ultimately, the Connecticut Appellate Court affirmed the trial court's granting of a motion to confirm the arbitration award in our clients» favor.

Acting on a motion for summary judgment filed by Hueston Hennigan, U.S. District Court Judge William H. Orrick held that although courts «sparingly grant summary judgment in trademark cases because they are so fact - intensive,» the evidence here tilted so heavily in favor of the defendants as to make summary judgment appropriate.

With respect to (3), the ONCA set aside the costs order from the trial and made an order for costs in favor of the appellant mother of $ 10,000 for the motion to change and $ 7500 for the appeal.

This legal process will not allow the discovery of net worth information if there is no court approval, which would require a formal process complete with an initial motion or petition, a notice sent to the targeted party, and a courtroom hearing that would allow either party to present arguments in their favor.

For these reasons the Court overturned the lower court's order that had granted summary judgment in favor of the husband and it granted the wife's cross motion for summary judgment ordering that the prenuptial agreement was unenforceable.

The hearing officer found in favor of the employer on a motion for judgment.

Successful representation of major international bank in an action arising from the acquisition of an iconic major motion picture studio, resulting in summary judgment in favor of the bank in excess of $ 1 billion

Court of Appeal granted petition for writ of mandate in favor of Robie & Matthai client, holding that the trial court erred in granting a «good faith» settlement motion under Code of Civil Procedure section 877.6.

For personal injury lawyers we require proof of 3 cases that have gone to trial in the last 5 years resulting in verdict for that lawyer and we also require 2 motions for summary judgment ruled in favor of that attorney.

In many medical malpractice cases, one of the parties may file a motion for summary judgment to quickly resolve the case in their favoIn many medical malpractice cases, one of the parties may file a motion for summary judgment to quickly resolve the case in their favoin their favor.