Sentences with phrase «interesting legal cases»

I think that would be a very interesting legal case that neither law enforcement nor open source programmers would want to see argued in court.

Not exact matches

The case is important not only because Hogan wants $ 100 million, which could ruin Gawker, but also because it highlights how Gawker is alone among new media companies in waging the sort of public interest legal fights that were once second nature for traditional media.

At stake is whether Brown will maintain «standing» in the case — whether she can show «that some personal legal interest has been invaded by the defendant.»

As my PaidContent colleague Jeff John Roberts reported last month, Harris» attempt to have this court order struck down failed for a somewhat unusual reason: namely, the judge hearing the case decided that Harris did not have any legal interest in the tweets he sent, because such rights only apply to things a user actually owns — and users do not own their tweets for the purposes of the U.S. Constitution.

If there are conversations in which the lawyer is not providing advice on legal matters but that still involve topics of interest to investigators, that material can, in some cases, also be turned over to investigators.

In pursuit of social and legal justice, The Children's Rights Council serves to protect the best interest of children in custody cases.

The case, which was brought by the Public Interest Law Unit (PILU) and North East London Migrant Action (NELMA), is one of several legal battles against Theresa May's «hostile environment».

At the moment if an individual can not afford to pay all the potential legal fees but their case is in the public interest, they can be granted a «costs cap» to limit their financial liability.

In some cases, agencies have made rulings that even contradict the written law, creating interesting legal questions and damaging to some degree the public trust.

Thus the difficult point was to weigh the interests of copyright owners, who occasionally spend hundreds of millions (as in the case of Hollywood movies) to create their works, and who have a right for setting the price of the products of these investments as well as a legal right that that right is enforced by the state.

An interesting legal question would be what happens when two circuit courts contradict each other (in which case SCOTUS is where that'd be supposed to be resolved).

The government reform group noted that Lanza since his first run for state Senate in 2006 has accepted at least $ 113,000 in LLC money coming from real estate, lobbying and other interests — including $ 34,000 from Glenwood Management, which were players in the recent legal cases against now former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

In the Arizona case, which dates to 2011, the E&E Legal Institute requested the public disclosure of all email files to or from Hughes and Overpeck, a call that the university answered by releasing some documents and withholding 1,700 others that the university deemed «in the best interest of the state» to shield from public disclosure.

Although academics don't warrant a «class privilege,» she said, academic - participant confidentiality can be awarded on a case - by - case basis, provided it meets the criteria of an existing four - step legal principle, known as the Wigmore test, which balances public interest in maintaining confidentiality against the court's interest in getting at the truth.

More than a dozen documents reveal for the first time that despite political pushback against U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, key interests in the state are searching for ways to comply in case legal challenges fail.

It argued that after it had obtained a license to send the manuscript to Science in 2012, Erasmus MC no longer had a legal interest in pursuing the case.

Today's decision in the Washington Alliance case demonstrates that this is not true,» says a statement by Dale Wilcox, executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), a nonprofit «public interest legal education and advocacy organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and interests of United States citizens in immigration - related matters,» according to its website.

Judging on The Legal Eagle's behaviour alone, it was the classic case of a man who's just not that interested, but why was Dapper Gent feeding you all that other information about his friend?

Also featured are case studies on the ethical, social and legal issues around the brain, and interviews with a young woman being treated for obsessive - compulsive disorder, a paediatric brain surgeon and a cultural historian interested in the brain.

Having been involved in the legal defense team that provided social science evidence in Gratz and Grutterat University of Michigan, I read the court transcripts for the Fisher case with great interest.

We read with great interest your legal beat article on the California home - schooling case («Home Schoolers Strike Back,» Fall 2008).

By granting review of its third case in two years involving the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled a renewed interest in resolving legal conflicts arising under the federal law that governs services provided to nearly 6.7 million schoolchildren in special education.

The judge finds the proposed intervenors added no new legal arguments to the case, and their interests were adequately represented by the Attorney General, who is defending SB 302.

While this case affirmed that school districts have compelling interests both in achieving diversity and in avoiding racial isolation, it added a new level of legal uncertainty for school districts trying to achieve these goals.

Interesting take on the legal side of the John Wayne Gacy murder case.

If First Sale rights, or a similar legal doctrine, is recognised in case law or statute as covering ebook sales, there could be interesting consequences, particularly if DRM is also challenged on similar grounds.

In Kobo Continues To Press Case To Preserve Agency in Canada at Publishers Lunch, Michael Cader catches us up on some interesting statements being made in legal proceedings there.

After talking to the broker they learned the penalty for terminating a 10 year mortgage after 5 years is only 3 months interest or $ 1200 in their case (and legal fee of about $ 600).

It is a general principle of these kinds of cases that the parties need to have intended for the person lacking legal title to acquire a beneficial interest, and proof to the contrary should make such a claim likely to fail.

«Bankruptcy estate» is a really broad concept that means all legal and equitable interests you possess on the date you file your case.

«We believe that... Connecticut was already capable of fairly adjudicating animal cruelty and other animal issues without, in a larger sense, potentially jeopardizing the current legal status of animals and without, on the smaller level, involving outside organizations and interests to influence the adjudication of individual cases,» Goffe said.

This dynamic duo, who founded the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media, even add some legal interest, especially a case in Illinois.

Hopefully this one won't attract the banhammer from the Blizzard legal team, although given that it's being made as a mod of another Blizzard game anyhow, that might be an interesting case to see happen.

The heavy hand of the fossil fuel industry works mostly in legal ways such as the «I'm an Energy Voter» campaign in the U.S. Failure of executive and legislative branches to deal with climate change makes it essential for courts, less subject to pressure and bribery from special financial interests, to step in and protect young people, as they did minorities in the case of civil rights.

Lots of amicus briefs are written by advocacy groups who have no involvement in the case at hand, no involvement with the parties, and no property at stake... but only a great interest in the legal questions being decided.

The ruling by appeals court judges — in a case that drew heavy state and industry legal opposition — reinterprets the mission of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to require more than balancing industry interests with protection of people and the environment.

Then Adler pivots to an interesting moral / legal case for climate action based on property rights.

It won't be an easy case to make, legal experts say, but it's drawing the interest of private attorneys who see enough potential to take it on.

I believe that the leaking of this draft is entirely legal, that the taxpayer funded report report is properly in the public domain under the Freedom of Information Act, and that making it available to the public is in any case protected by established legal and ethical standards, but web hosting companies are not in the business of making such determinations so interested readers are encouraged to please download copies of the report for further dissemination in case this content is removed as a possible terms - of - service violation.

Instead, focusing on the equal footing criterion, the Court opted for a rather unpredictable ad - hoc approach, which might be considered beneficial for academics and people interested in EU law in general, since it generates more case - law, but which is surely not beneficial to legal certainty.

After all, where to draw the line — many of my personal friends are interested in my legal cases — so shouldn't I have the right to post about them (provided that I don't otherwise violate client confidentiality)?

While this is, from a legal point of view, a highly interesting case with regard to the relationship between EU law and international law, it amounts, more practically speaking, to good news for all those in search of shelter from violence - ridden regions on a continent marked by an increasing reluctance to welcome foreigners (note most recently the successful Swiss referendum on limiting mass immigration).

And even more interesting, Steph Tai at Concurring Opinions ponders how the Carhart Court's willingness to defer to Congressional findings to resolve scientific uncertainty might apply in other cases such as those involving global warming, where scientific and legal findings are intermingled.

Some great pit stops include Enrico Schaefer's post discussing how the billable hour puts a lawyer's interests at odds with those of his client, a post at Techdirt on a recent decision forcing Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to pay legal fees for litigants it wrongly sued and Nicole Black's post mortem on the Duke lacrosse rape case, along with a video that sums up the case.

Sometimes the «legal update» could be relevant, if only the attorney would go the extra step of placing it in the context of the client's needs or their reader's interests, as the case may be.

In his opinion in Case C - 194 / 16 Advocate General (AG) Bobek suggests limiting the jurisdictional competence for infringements of personality rights of legal and natural persons on the Internet to two venues: the place of the domicile of the publisher and the centre of interest of the company whose personality rights have been infringed.

I am not a specialist, but wouldn't the Premier's own Bill 83 — An Act to encourage participation on matters of public interest and to dissuade persons from bringing legal proceedings that interfere with such participation — make it difficult to obtain a remedy in a case like this one?

In other cases an undertaking in damages can be required specifically to protect the position of Interested Parties because the court can order a damages inquiry even if the loss is not strictly caused by a legal wrong.

It is a place to publish legal analysis and commentary and have what you publish both be shared directly with others who are interested in the topic and be connected to the actual legal materials you discuss, so that when others read that case, they will also see your commentary connected to that case.

The Legal Intelligencer had an interesting article yesterday about Hershey Co.'s recent trademark infringement case against Williams - Sonoma Inc..