Sentences with phrase «jury trial defense»

Successfully obtained jury trial defense verdict on behalf of national banking client accused of gender discrimination claim.

Not exact matches

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

Defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. puts on gloves on September 27, 1995 while he addresses the jury during closing arguments during the O.J. Simpson double murder trial.

Preliminary hearings ensued, and dismissals of charges, and trials and mistrials and retrials, and an acquittal, and two hung juries, and defections and elections of district attorneys, and the McMartin defense team carried on, until the list of defendants had dwindled to one, young Raymond Buckey, a surfer dude who had not seen the sun in years, whose charges were finally dismissed in 1990.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers proposed a cornucopia of possible solutions, ranging from finishing the trial with just 11 jurors to replacing a current juror with an alternate — a move that would require the newly constituted 12 - member jury to restart deliberations entirely.

One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.

If you're looking for a guide to the upcoming federal corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and businessmen Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, look no further than the jury questionnaire recently agreed to by prosecutors and the defense.

Lawyers for Sheldon Silver asked the judge to acquit him of all charges even before his case goes to the jury in his corruption trial, in a motion that is routinely filed by defense lawyers after the government rests its case.

The trial judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan, has already denied one defense motion, filed last month, asking her to acquit Mr. Silver even before the jury received the case.

Given the high risk of conviction should a jury hear Baudendistel's conclusions, his defense team used every possible means to prevent a trial.

You should then run the trial a couple of times, so that every student participates at least once as either judge, jury, prosecution, or defense.

Noa P. Singleton speaks not a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ends with a jury finding her guilty of first - degree murder.

Judge Fontaine ruled out use of the «necessity» defense prior to the trial, and she also would not allow me to inform the jury about factors affecting Foster's state of mind and his action.

At the defendant's jury trial, his defense attorney asked that the jury be instructed on the issues of cross-racial identification.

Finding that the defense would be unjustly prejudiced by allowing the case to proceed toward a jury trial without permitting the defendant's expert to examine the plaintiff as the plaintiff's own expert had, the appellate court granted the writ of mandamus, forcing the lower court to honor the defendant's request.

After a six - day jury trial, Whole Foods prevailed with a complete defense verdict in a sex, sexual orientation and racial harassment, failure to prevent harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress case.

Won defense verdict after jury trial on behalf of hospital client, dismissing all claims in a multi-count complaint alleging race discrimination

After a five - day trial, the jury returned a unanimous defense verdict.

In post-trial submissions, the trial judge rejected the defense as waived and entered judgment on the jury's verdict.

Obtained a complete defense verdict at conclusion of jury trial.

The group has extensive jury trial experience, having tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal court, including several cases recognized by the Daily Journal as top defense verdicts in California.

From a speeding violation that lands you in Municipal Court to a felony criminal trial in front of a judge and jury — Fienman Defense protects your rights by covering cases throughout the Pennsylvania criminal justice system.

Obtained defense verdict after a two week jury trial in federal court for a bail bondswoman charged with unlawful entry and civil rights violations.

Obtained a defense verdict in favor of the railroad company after an eight day jury trial.

A recent Court of Criminal Appeals decision held that a murder defendant suffered actual harm from the trial court's confusingly worded jury instructions on provocation and self - defense.

That's the question, as reported by New Hampshire's Laconia Citizen, which says that the defense attorney representing a convicted rapist is trying to convince the court that his client's right to a fair trial was compromised by comments made by a jury member on a personal blog.

Josh Robbins, the chair of the firm's White Collar Defense and Government Investigations Department, has represented the governments of the United States and other sovereign nations, Global 500 and Fortune 500 corporations, and individuals in jury trials, appeals before federal circuit courts and the United States Supreme Court, international arbitrations, and complex government investigations.

Obtained a defense verdict after a five - day jury trial in a legal malpractice action arising out of an underlying divorce case

His white collar criminal defense practice encompasses corporate and company internal investigations, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement inquiries, pre-indictment government investigations (including federal grand jury investigations, federal grand jury appearances, and federal grand jury subpoena responses), federal white collar jury trials, federal sentencing hearings, criminal appeals, and negotiation of immunity and plea agreements.

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.

Representative matters include civil jury trials and bench trials in both state and federal court; complex civil litigation involving the energy industry, including defense of class actions; condemnations and surface damage disputes; and appellate work.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

Received a defense verdict on jury trial in favor of an employer accused of employment discrimination by the EEOC.

Represented an exotic car manufacturer in obtaining a defense verdict of no liability and no defect in jury trial involving product liability, breach of warranty, consumer statute, and fraud claims.

Obtained defense verdict after jury trial in U.S. Dist.

Successful defense of over $ 40 million in claims for breach of an alleged partnership agreement, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty against a large Southern California homebuilder in a multi-state litigation, including a six week jury trial, two state court appeals, a Ninth Circuit appeal, an Idaho state court action and appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court.

Obtaining a defense judgment after two - day federal jury trial in malicious prosecution and conspiracy action

Obtained a defense verdict in a jury trial on behalf of a regional supermarket chain.

After a four day jury trial, DynaEnergetics obtained a complete defense verdict, including findings of noninfringement and three different bases of invalidity for each of the patent claims.

With more than 35 years of jury trial, product liability, and insurance litigation experience, David focuses his practice on the defense of domestic and international manufacturers of consumer and industrial products.

Obtained complete defense verdict in a jury trial defending a specialty sports car manufacturer against fraud, contract and consumer protection claims.

The successful defense, in a two - week jury trial, of the subsidiary of one of the country's largest property and casualty insurance companies against claims for approximately $ 2 million in damages arising for a failed real estate transaction;

He has successfully litigated over 55 jury trials and has become a well - respected criminal defense attorney in the process.

A lawyer in our personal injury section, Andrew practiced law in Houston for two years as a criminal defense attorney, trying more than 120 jury trials in the metropolitan area prior to joining Zinda Law Group.

Even as the Arkansas story broke, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that defense lawyers for former Pennsylvania Sen. Vincent J. Fumo moved to halt jury deliberations in his trial on federal corruption charges, contending that a juror posted messages to Twitter and Facebook, including one that said, «Stay tuned for a big announcement on Monday everyone!»

After a two - week trial and less than an hour of deliberations, the jury returned a complete defense verdict for our client, finding no conspiracy.

Litigation Department Co-Chair David Lender and Antitrust Litigation partner Eric Hochstadt have been named «Litigators of the Week» by both The AmLaw Litigation Daily and Global Competition Review for securing a complete defense jury verdict for C&S Wholesale Grocers following nine days of trial in an antitrust class action in Minnesota federal court.

After the jury returned a defense verdict for Resurgens and Dr. Daftaria, Elliott appealed to the court of appeals arguing that the trial judge's exclusion of Sullivan was an error.

At trial, we obtained a directed verdict on the design claim and a defense jury verdict on the warning claim, which were both successfully defended on appeal.

An experienced trial lawyer, he has pursued or defended numerous nine - and eight - figure cases, which includes obtaining a full defense jury verdict following a multi-month trial for an institutional client facing $ 100 million in contract and business tort claims.