Sentences with phrase «into alleged cases»

The National Association of Nigerian Students» has called for an independent investigation into alleged cases of funds diversion in the national assembly.

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In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

So, having alleged missing links of dinosaurs changing into birds when birds already exist doesn't help the case for evolution.

The ACCC alleges that labels on these par baked products stating «Baked Today, Sold Today» and in some cases «Freshly Baked In - Store», and nearby prominent signs stating «Freshly Baked» or «Baked Fresh», were likely to mislead consumers into thinking that the bread was prepared from scratch in Coles» in - house bakeries on the day it was offered for sale and that it was entirely baked on the day it was offered for sale.

«The case centered on alleged use of a Trojan horse spy program in late 2006 to poke into the lab's computers to extract information about Landis» file — months after he tested positive — to use in his defense.»

Singas» jurisdiction will supersede that of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who had opened an investigation into Schneiderman's alleged conduct despite the fact that the attorney general's office was examining his handling of a 2015 case involving the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Mrs Miller is alleged to have been uncooperative with an inquiry into her expenses, while her special adviser has been accused of invoking impending press regulation to suppress newspaper reports surrounding the case.

As the President noted at the just ended NPP Conference, he is willing and ready to look into any case of alleged corruption.

«In this case, Glenwood's campaign contributions are relevant to Glenwood's motive to enter into an alleged quid pro quo relationship with Silver, even if the contributions themselves were not part of the quid pro quo exchange,» Caproni's order read.

«In this case, Glenwood's campaign contributions are relevant to Glenwood's motive to enter into an alleged quid pro quo relationship with Silver, even if the contributions themselves were not part of the quid pro quo exchange,» Caproni wrote in her order, according to Politico.

A statement from WAEC signed by Mrs Agnes Teye Cudjoe, Deputy Director of Public Affairs said the results of 970 candidates alleged to have been involved in various examination malpractices have been withheld pending conclusion of investigations into the cases of malpractices.

The second part of the Leveson inquiry, looking into the relationship between journalists and the police, was supposed to take place at the conclusion of court cases involving alleged phone hacking and inappropriate payments to public officials.

However, in Caroline Spellman's case the alleged infringement pales into insignificance when compared with others, including other Conservatives!

«The committee, known as Corruption and Financial Crimes Cases Trials Monitoring Committee, has received 2,306 ongoing alleged corruption cases, which are now receiving attention from the four sub-committees it has been divided Cases Trials Monitoring Committee, has received 2,306 ongoing alleged corruption cases, which are now receiving attention from the four sub-committees it has been divided cases, which are now receiving attention from the four sub-committees it has been divided into.

The alleged arrangement, which has become the heart of the corruption case against Mr. Silver, came into focus at his trial on Wednesday, as Dr. Robert N. Taub of Columbia University testified in federal court in Manhattan as a government witness.

Former David Paterson aide David Johnson, whose domestic - violence case led to Paterson's decision to drop his reelection bid, has invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, the Times reports, explaining that Johnson has refused to answer questions asked as part of the slow - moving investigation into his alleged assault of Sherr - una Booker.

to split the wide - ranging corruption case into two trials — one that would center on alleged illegal payments to Joseph Percoco, a former top aide for Governor Andrew Cuomo, and another that would center on certain upstate development deals connected to the Buffalo Billion that were administered by a nonprofit affiliate of SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

If Agata were a witness in the federal case, he would have to recuse himself from any JCOPE probe into Percoco's alleged crimes.

Questions had been raised as to whether the Committee's sittings would be open to the public, as had been the case during the investigations into the alleged bribery of members of the Appointments Committee in 2017.

There's no hard data on how many, but a dive into sites where Fortnite players congregate suggests the number of alleged fraud cases in the world's most popular games is sizable.

The New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench recently admitted into a criminal case screenshots of a Facebook conversation that took place the day after an alleged sexual assault between the complainant and the accused.

It covers a wide range of considerations, including: the date the BIT enters into force; the timing of the alleged breach; whether there is an identifiable investor; whether there is an identifiable investment; fair and equitable treatment; expropriation; breach of the obligation to provide full protection and security, most - favoured nation provisions and their implications; «umbrella clauses» and their implications; whether there are explicitly incorporated procedural requirements to be followed; whether there is sufficient evidence to make out a prima facie case of breach of a BIT; the value of the claim; and «just and equitable» damages.

Also in the news recently has been the tragic story of a cluster of cancer cases in children at a school in Nevada, where a Kinder Morgan jet fuel pipeline is alleged to have been slowly leaking into the school yard.

When Plaintiff brought Architectural Firms into the case as Defendants, General Contractor aggressively attempted to shift blame to Architectural Firms based on alleged professional negligence, designating multiple experts on the subject.

That's what is alleged in the recent Portland case of Sayed v. Wal - Mart, in which a man says he was strapping his infant son into the front of a shopping cart when an employee of the store negligently rammed a line of shopping carts into his back.

In the second CASL case, PlentyofFish Media Inc. (PoF), the operator of the well - known online dating web site Plenty of Fish, voluntarily entered into an undertaking with the CRTC's chief compliance and enforcement officer in order to settle several alleged violations of CASL.

Mahmood Lone Qualified: 2004 Made partner: 2014 Key cases: Advising a leading global financial institution on high profile FX investigations pursued by multiple regulators, prosecutors and antitrust authorities across four continents; successfully represented a major financial institution on an FCA investigation into alleged market abuse in relation to trading on a securities market.

The hearings will look into nearly 200 allegedly unlawful killings and up to 800 cases of alleged torture and cruel inhuman treatment of Iraqi civilians.

That being said, a criminal case's practical impact can be significant regardless of its outcome and timing, and it will often influence the course of action taken, both by those who have committed and those who have been subject to alleged sexual assault, and by bystander parties who are often pulled into a lawsuit as parties to it.

In an illustration of the practice's track record in catastrophic loss cases, Paul Whitfield acted in a claim brought by a yard foreman alleging that a forklift truck was negligently driven into him, resulting in serious injury; in a second application, the firm succeeded in agreeing a «drop hands» discontinuance with the claimant.

«This case will bring into focus the role of the judge versus the law society in matters of alleged incivility,» said Anthony Moustacalis, president of the Criminal Lawyers» Association.

We will conduct a thorough and in - depth investigation into your alleged crime to gather evidence and information that is helpful to your case.

Many criminal cases then go into appeal status while various alleged mistakes by the Court are argued.

Ten years ago, the Authors Guild and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Google in alleged copyright infringement in a case involving Google's book scanning project, a searchable database that allows the user to search the content of all books that have been scanned into the database.

While every individual case is different, criminal lawyers should be able to extract from you the elements of your alleged criminal conduct that will factor into your exposure to having a criminal record and serving jail time.

Whether in the case of such ill - treatment any positive obligation is confined to a requirement to put in place the necessary structure to enable such investigation to be conducted but does not extend to the conduct of an individual investigation into a particular alleged crime.

In other cases, creditors or shareholders that allege unlawful diversion of corporate assets will seek private intervention that often brings into consideration criminal liability.

To be held without charge or trial for ten years, particularly when coupled with significant mistreatment (even if it did not amount to torture) is sufficient to take Mr Rahmatullah's case into the public policy exception, bearing in mind the severity and flagrancy of the alleged interference with his rights, and the length of time for which it allegedly lasted.»

HELD In determining dangerousness, a court was not restricted to considering only «admissible» evidence and could take into account, as it did in this case, an alleged history of violence not marked by previous convictions.

Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.

In addition, we conduct in all litigation matters an Early Case Assessment (ECA), which involves a deep dive into the facts, an analysis of the governance documents and the law that applies to the claims alleged in the cCase Assessment (ECA), which involves a deep dive into the facts, an analysis of the governance documents and the law that applies to the claims alleged in the casecase.

He will thoroughly investigate your alleged crime, determine where the prosecution's case is weak, and leverage the state into reducing or dismissing the charges against you.

If one had to categorise Axa's case, it would fall into the second of the categories they proposed in the sense that the duty the panel solicitors were alleged to have been under in tort was a duty to bring about a transaction with particular characteristics or features, ie to take reasonable care to vet claims so as to ensure that ATE policies were issued in respect of only those claims whose prospects were more than 51 %.

Specifically, Hot Coffee alleges that the American Tort Reform Association and the United States Chamber of Commerce misrepresented the Liebeck case and duped many state legislatures into passing caps on certain recoverable damages.

This appeal considered whether there is an obligation under the Human Rights Act 1998, s 6, read with ECHR, art 3, to investigate ill - treatment which has been perpetrated by a private individual without any complicity of a public authority, and / or whether in the case of such ill - treatment any positive obligation is confined to a requirement to put in place the necessary structure to enable such investigation to be conducted but does not extend to the conduct of an individual investigation into a particular alleged crime.

McDonald said of the GBI case: «As alleged, the defendants here preyed on customers interested in virtual currency, promising them the opportunity to invest in bitcoin when in reality they only bought into the defendants» Ponzi scheme.»

Montserrat Miller, a partner with the law firm Arnell Golden Gregory in Washington cautions against reading too much into the HireRight case, noting that details of the company's alleged wrongdoing never became public because the case was settled.

The case against Wu included defrauding Anbang Property & Casualty Insurance of an alleged 65.2 billion yuan ($ 10.4 billion), the amount claimed to be still missing from 160 billion yuan in unauthorized sales proceeds that he transferred into companies he secretly controlled.

In this case, Qiao is alleged to have embezzled $ 50 million from the China Grain Reserves Corp., known as Sinograin, and transferred millions of dollars from various Asian accounts into U.S. banks.

The last - minute legal filing by TREB — just two weeks before a competition tribunal hearing into what the commissioner has alleged are anti-competitive practices by the country's largest real estate board — is seen as a stalling tactic that has the potential to divert the long - standing case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.