Sentences with phrase «influence of court opinions»

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The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

In the federal court order, Cote stated that the county's campaign to encourage support for affordable housing has been inadequate thus far — that Westchester County «sought to undercut public confidence in the consent decree... [in a] concerted effort to influence public opinion against the settlement and its stated goal of improving communities.»

It would be the most significant review by outsiders, and could therefore have a significant influence in the court of public opinion.

Historical and even scientific truth can be merely the consensus agreed upon by those who presently have the power and influence to determine public opinion, or it can be based on evidence that has been tested in the laboratory, in debate, or in a court of law.

The debate between the two policy analysts, which appears to have influenced both majority and minority opinions of the court, is presented in the upcoming issue of Education Next.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

Bank Saderat and Bank Mellat have not been appealed and the Court of Justice has not yet been asked directly to rule upon the intensity of the PMOI standard of review — thus, it remains to be seen how the Opinion in Kadi II will influence the Court of Justice's future view on this issue.

The Second Circuit's opinion is also heavily influenced by statutory interpretation provided by, and policy considerations raised by, the SEC in its amicus brief, which the court of appeals solicited.

Although an AG's opinion is not binding on the Court, it is widely acknowledged and documented that opinions do indeed influence the Court's decision in a majority of cases.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

In the General Court's opinion, the Commission and the Council had made their decision to refuse MET status without sufficient investigation into whether the fact that the State was a substantial shareholder in Xinanchem and had influenced the appointment and composition of the board of directors necessarily amounted to State control over decisions regarding production and pricing (para. 19).

At issue in the before the SCC in R. v. Bingley was whether the road - side opinion evidence of a DRE, essentially police officers trained to identify people under the influence of drugs, is admissible as evidence of guilt in a court case.

J. 391 (1993); Paul Hellyer, Assessing the Influence of Computer - Assisted Legal Research: A Study of California Supreme Court Opinions, 97 LAW LIBR.

Rita thus asked the court to censure the practice of seeking and providing opinion evidence on undue influence from capacity assessors.

65 Paul M. Collins, Jr., Pamela C. Corley, & Jesse Hamner, The Influence of Amicus Curiae Briefs on U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Content, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 917, 931 (2015).

Paul Hellyer, Assessing the Influence of Computer - Assisted Legal Research: A Study of California Supreme Court Opinions, 97 LAW LIBR.

Any attempt to influence the outcome of litigation by reference to political wishes or a politician's perception of popular opinion is a challenge not only to the courts but to the rule of law.

Usually where professional opinions are sought by the court, it will be greatly influenced by the conclusions of the professional.

Finally the Court was influenced by the decision of the International Court of Justice in its Advisory Opinion of Western Sahara (1975) ICJR that rejected terra nullius as the basis for Spanish sovereignty in Western Sahara.