Sentences with phrase «judicial courts»

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts dismissed the claim, saying the law was intended to prevent a car manufacturer from opening a dealership that would compete unfairly with a franchise that sells the same cars.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Holds that Judges Must Issue Findings of Fact when Setting Unaffordable Bail for Indigent Defendants.

In recognition of his dedication, Mr. Moskowitz received the prestigious Adams Pro Bono Publico Award by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in June 2006.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice John M. Greaney will join the faculty of Suffolk University Law School in December and become director of its Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy, the school announced today.

At a webinar last week, «New Perspectives on RGGI and the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act,» Synapse's Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanton hosted Senior Associate Pat Knight and Mass Energy Consumer Alliance's Larry Chretien for a discussion of Synapse's RGGI modeling work and the recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision on the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act.

«We are pleased that the State Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the pro-consumer choice by real estate professionals to affiliate as either independent contractors or employees,» Massachusetts Association of REALTORS ® President Corinne Fitzgerald says.

In Massachusetts, for example, the Supreme Judicial Court held in In the Matter of a John Doe Grand Jury Investigation, 408 Mass. 480 (1990), that the privilege survived the death of the client.

In 1999, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld the exclusion of religious schools.

The state legislature intended for insurers to strictly comply with the terms of the statute, as was established in the 1991 Maine Supreme Judicial Court case of Me.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants will give the keynote address.

In 2006, Sandy was awarded the Adams Pro Bono Publico Award by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for his work in this program, which has been a model in both assisting low income litigants and in relieving the great burden pro se litigants have on the court and its clerk's office.

In May 2017, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued an advisory opinion finding that the law's provisions applying to general elections for state legislators and the governor violated the state constitution.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today announced approval of a new SJC Rule 1:19 governing Electronic Access to the Courts.

David A. Kluft, a partner in Foley Hoag's Litigation Department, has been appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court Committee for Professional Responsibility for Clerks of the Courts by Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court released an opinion earlier this month regarding a tragic accident that resulted in the death of an employee who was driving a rental truck on behalf of his employer.

In the recently decided Commonwealth v. McGonagle, the Supreme Judicial Court considered whether a Massachusetts statute that allows victims of crimes to recommend a sentence violates (1) the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article 26 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights (particularly in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Bosse v. Oklahoma, 137 S. Ct..

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in the case earlier this month.

A preliminary injunction in the case is set to be held by Nevada's Second District Judicial Court on 22 November.

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief in Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court arguing trial court erred on specific personal jurisdiction analysis

Noting that would add up to 67 percent of the estate's total value, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made no bones about its opinion on the fee request, saying that it represented «unnecessary lawyering.»

Lawyers for some 67,000 current and former Wal - Mart employees in Massachusetts won a major victory yesterday when the state Supreme Judicial Court reinstated their class action for unpaid wages.

On April 25, the state's Supreme Judicial Court approved a rule adding access to justice to the exam and indicating that applicants will be expected to be familiar with the topic.

Recently, in the case of Haddad v. Walmart Stores, Inc., the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court clarified the standard for the award of punitive damages.

The Supreme Judicial Court transferred the case on its own motion and affirmed the judgment.

In reversing the earlier determination to award insurer credit for its payment, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court found the lower court had never made a specific finding of fact as to the nature of those payments.

As a result of Foley Hoag's advocacy in that matter, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recognized for the first time a judicial deliberative privilege protecting a judge's deliberative thought processes and communications from discovery and examination.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave a boost to on - line legal education (and declined to bow down to the ABA) recently when it allowed a graduate of Concord Law School, an entirely on - line law school owned by Kaplan, Inc., to sit for the Massachusetts Bar Exam, despite a state rule that prohibits graduates from unaccredited -LSB-...]

Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court Roderick L. Ireland, Massachusetts Bar Association President Douglas K. Sheff, and Boston Bar Association President Paul Dacier attended and spoke at the event, asking participants to urge their legislators to support increased state funding for civil legal aid.

You can go to the Eighth Judicial Court website and search under «Family Records» by the decedent's name to see if anyone has filed an objection.

Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ralph Gants says it also helps clients get the representation they deserve.

In George v. George, 476 Mass. 65 (2016) the Supreme Judicial Court said temporary alimony does not affect the length of general term alimony obligations.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - In an order issued the day after Christmas, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturned the dismissal of a malicious prosecution claim brought by a neurologist against an insurance company.

«2 As the Supreme Judicial Court noted in Matsuyama, its decision reflected a change in the practice of medicine that had occurred since the traditional rule had been formulated.

Plans to introduce a new judicial court working dress in January, which will see judges in civil cases ditching their wigs, have been put on hold.

In a reply to their motion, WPI's counsel yesterday filed documents with the Second Judicial Court in Reno that accuse Mikovits of having «masterminded the theft of the Misappropriated Property.»

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently held in Dorrian v. LVNV Funding, LLC, [1] that «passive debt buyers» are not «debt collectors» required to be licensed under the Massachusetts Fair Debt Collection Practices Act [2](«MDCPA»).

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court yesterday left lawyers wondering when it sidestepped an answer to the question.

Judge Zakaria Abdel Aziz, former head of the Egyptian Judicial Courts of Appeal, said there has been talk among top Egyptian officials about implementing the ban after the deaths of the Egyptian security personnel, but there has been no court order.

One saw evidence of this, for example, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decreed that when religious counseling is informed even in part by secular psychology, it ceases to be religious and is entitled to no free - exercise protection.

I'm also pretty confident that political correctness wasn't super big in the Atlanta judicial courts in 2005, or «a few years ago.»