Sentences with phrase «in jury trials in»

Simpson has has also won defense verdicts in jury trials in the Virgin Islands.

Almost all of Scott's extensive trial experience has been in jury trials in state and federal court.

We also represent clients in federal court where we have successfully obtained defense verdicts in jury trials in premises liability cases despite the challenges of litigating in a pro-plaintiff jurisdiction.

Judge William G. Young At the recent annual meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, U.S. District Judge William G. Young, in accepting the Great Friend of Justice Award, delivered a thoughtful and impassioned speech decrying the decrease in jury trials in the federal courts.

In 2011, Mike represented an Alabama company forced out of business by the predatory annexation and zoning of property by a city in a jury trial in Huntsville, Alabama.

Represented an Alabama company against wrongful interference with its rock quarry business in a jury trial in Scottsboro, Alabama resulted in a multi-million dollar jury verdict for the client.

Obtained a favorable jury verdict for retailer in a jury trial in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, in case in which plaintiff alleged personal injury at the retail store due to the negligence of the retailer.

In July 2012, Mr. Mavrick successfully represented a corporation in a jury trial in federal court in Miami, Florida.

In a multi-party action against a commercial motor carrier, in March 2016, Keri Simms and Jeremy Richter secured defense verdicts against three of the four plaintiffs in a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Talladega County, in a matter styled Trimeka Smith, et al v. Faithway Feed Company, LLC, et al..

Successfully defended life insurance company in jury trial in federal court in Massachusetts concerning denial of life insurance benefits under cancelled insurance policy.

Represented a window and door company in a jury trial in which the plaintiff, a homeowner, claimed that the company had not «substantially completed» a renovation.

Achieved a unanimous defense verdict in a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio involving a claim to a multimillion - dollar sales commission in connection with the sale of nuclear equipment.

Defended a major oil company in a jury trial in Portland, Oregon involving claims of breach of contract and fraud and an eight - figure damage claim.

Not exact matches

The jury spent a total of just 14 hours in the penalty phase of the trial after finding Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 criminal counts, but an automatic appeal means his case will drag on.

While there were dissenters, the Supreme Court found that Skilling's negative publicity didn't prevent him from receiving a fair trial — especially because Houston was the fourth - most - populous city in the country, allowing for a large jury pool.

«The benefits to staying in Boston are the normal benefits of keeping a trial near the scene of the crime: it empowers the aggrieved public to express itself through the jury verdict,» Re explained.

«Virtually half» of jurors who participated in the Capital Jury Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, reported they knew the punishment they would give before the trial even began.

At trial in San Francisco federal court in 2012, the jury deadlocked on Google's fair use defense.

Stockley, who left the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in 2013 and was arrested lastyear, had waived his right to a jury trial, allowing the judge to decide.

It appears none of Shkreli's hedge fund investors actually lost money in the end, but he was so widely reviled by the time of his trial that it was difficult to find an unbiased jury to hear the case.

The judge presiding over the trial of Barminco co-founder Peter Bartlett and Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers today ordered the jury to keep deliberating in a bid to reach a verdict.

After being found guilty in a 2012 jury trial on theft and mail fraud charges, Lanham was sentenced to three years in prison.

The Associated Press previously reported that the judge had misunderstood the jury in the Edwards» trial.

In March, two judges ruled Liss - Riordan's Uber and Lyft cases will go to a trial by jury.

At trial, a federal jury in Manhattan in 2014 awarded the EMI companies nearly $ 48.1 million, a sum U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan later reduced, resulting in a $ 12.2 million judgment against Robertson.

The accord came ahead of a jury trial that was set to begin on Monday in state court in Woburn, Massachusetts.

The trial of Michael Slager, the officer who shot the unarmed Scott last year, ended in a hung jury yesterday.

In criminal trials, the burden of proof lies on the prosecution, meaning the jury will have to find Hernandez guilty «beyond a reasonable doubt.»

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

That's still a fairly huge sum, but it's significantly less than the $ 140 - million judgment that Hogan and his backer — Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel — won in a Florida jury trial after Gawker published a clip from a sex tape that Hogan said violated his privacy.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

On June 6, 2017, lawyers presented opening statements in the trial, with Carter having waived her right to a trial by jury.

There's a whole process that's set up to ensure that the jury that finally gets impaneled is an objective group of people with no connection with anything going on in the case that might persuade them to cast a decision that's inconsistent with the evidence that's presented at the trial.

In Cosby's first trial last year, another jury had failed to agree on an outcome, teeing up the retrial that played out in Pennsylvania this montIn Cosby's first trial last year, another jury had failed to agree on an outcome, teeing up the retrial that played out in Pennsylvania this montin Pennsylvania this month.

A San Francisco jury trial on the matter had been set to start in June, but that could be taken off the table if the judge presiding over the case approves the agreement.

O.J. Simpson looks at a new pair of Aris extra-large gloves which the prosecutors had him put on for the jury 21 June 1995 during his double murder trial in Los Angeles.

Coinbase has lost another appeal in a case brought by former customers of the defunct exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is pleased with the $ 100 million settlement with its drivers in California and Massachusetts to avoid a jury trial.

Bob is very highly regarded by those in the boardroom and those in the courtroom, having advised senior executives in challenging situations and successfully tried through verdict numerous jury and nonjury trials in the federal and state courts.

As one airline lawyer commented after the trial: «Having a jury determine that the provisions in that contract were illegal obviously raises very serious implications for Sabre if they want to continue to insist on them in contracts.»

You and Daily Harvest each expressly waive any right to trial by jury and the right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class - wide arbitration.

One day before the outcome, all parties in the five - week trial got a scare about a potentially tainted jury.

All of that is supposed to be off the table for the jury that convenes Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, for opening statements in a trial scheduled to last seven weeks.

Denton said that he estimates there's a roughly 1 - in - 10 chance that Gawker will face «disaster» — meaning that they lose the trial, the jury awards Hogan a large amount in damages, and Gawker is required to put up a bond for the full amount while it appeals the ruling.

Coinbase has lost another appeal in a lawsuit brought by former customers of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.

After a highly publicized five - week jury trial that was the most closely watched of a wave of corporate fraud trials, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators, and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five - month term in a federal correctional facility and a two - year period of supervised release (to include five months of electronic monitoring).

The Supreme Court recently decided in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group for the latter view and upheld the constitutionality of an administrative review process that opponents say violates the right to a trial by jury.

Problem was, they slotted us in to speak to the committee when the actual deadline for amendments to the Bill has passed — a bit like being called to testify at a trial after the jury has already started deliberating.

Judd, a leading member of the «Time's Up» movement against sexual harassment in the workplace, is seeking unspecified damages and a jury trial.