Sentences with phrase «justice cases around»

Not exact matches

In late March, Barclays agreed to pay just $ 2 billion in settling its case around mortgage - backed securities with the U.S. Justice Department.

Mueller is reportedly building an obstruction - of - justice case against Trump centered around his decision to fire FBI director James Comey in May.

Regardless of points of view, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is already «pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current battle over a terrorist's locked phone...»

The justices on the current Court will do the real work of jurisprudence if they draw on the briefs, take the time to set forth the evidence, and show why the state or the federal government has a compelling case for casting around infants in the womb the full protection of the law.

«These are the set of people that want justice, fairness and accountability in all aspects of human endeavours as they used to go around with clean heart of helping Police to unravel cases of criminality and always stand on the progress and growth of Nigeria Police Force.

The case, along with a police shooting in Missouri of teenager Michael Brown that led to no charges of a local police officer there, led to a series of protests in cities around the country and a debate over police tactics as well as calls to reform the criminal justice system.

There's a disturbing conversation to be had here about why the corrupt judge of the real case is replaced by a justice - loving curmudgeon — and, better, how it is that this film revolving around women's rights in the workplace is fought and won by men acting like boys, swooping in to rescue their damsels in distress and accusing one another of being girls while the actual girls sit around crying.

The case of Greece is only one example among many other countries around the world that have been lost in the abyss due to poverty and corrupted political systems.The key element to welfare is the promotion and the maintenance of the following core values: solidarity, freedom, human dignity, tolerance, social justice and the rule of law.

«What Justice Perell doesn't do is look at the test for a non-party getting around settlement privilege and there is a leading case on that from 1989 — Mueller Canada Inc. v. State Contractors Inc. — that sets out when a non-party or a party can use documents that were part of settlement privilege and that issue isn't really discussed in Justice Perell's decision.»

Alito's replacement of retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor made the most difference in turning the Court around from its 2000 decision in the Stenberg case.

The possibility of a 4 - 4 ruling in the Exxon Valdez punitive damages case as a result of Justice Alito's recusal (he holds stock in Exxon) has triggered a discussion around the blogosphere over whether there's a better way for the Court to handle recusals so as to avoid the possibility of a tie vote (in which case, the appellate court's ruling stands).

Since 2008, the program has provided these attorneys with an average annual budget of around $ 4 million to track as many as 135 cases at a time, according to the program's filings with the Department of Justice.

In the sole (known) case, Midland Heart v Richardson, Birmingham Civil Justice Centre (ChD), 12.11.2007 (see the write - up on Nearly Legal), Ms Richardson stood to lose her capital outlay of # 29,500 for around # 3,000 rent arrears (which had arisen because she had to flee the property as she was in fear of violence).

We go all over the country and consult in various types of organizations: non-profits, for - profits, higher ed, E-12, and certainly in this case, law firms and other legal venues around social justice and equity issues.

The High Court judge, Mr Justice Francis, said that Parliament can not have intended for legal aid not to be available in such cases: «However, it does seem to me that when Parliament changed the law in relation to legal aid and significantly restricted the availability of legal aid, yet continued to make legal aid available in care cases where the state is seeking orders against parents, it can not have intended that parents in the position that these parents have been in should have no access to legal advice or representation... I am aware that there are many parents around the country in similar positions where their cases have been less public and where they have had to struggle to represent themselves.

The debate around this ADR scheme was recently reignited after an Ontario Superior Court judge removed a mediator - arbitrator from a case for creating an impression that he «had already made up his mind on issues that were very contentious» prior to an arbitration hearing, said Superior Court Justice Douglas Gray in McClintock v. Karam.

Or the fact that while personal injury cases are tanking around the country, harassing debt collections are skyrocketing and in fact, dominate the civil justice system today.

As Justice Ball explained, the plaintiff's case largely revolved around his own «subjective complaints of stiffness, headache and other pain.»

Plea bargaining is a hugely important part of the criminal justice system as it is estimated that around ninety to ninety - five percent of federal and state criminal cases are resolved through these types of agreements.

Ultimately, I believe judges should emulate Justice Knazan the next time they are faced with a case that centres around Twitter (or Facebook, snapchat, kik, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, tumblr, instagram, Tinder, etc...) and put it to the participants in the matter to explain how the platform works, why the evidence should be accepted and what relevance any of it has to the legal issue before the court.

The legal AI and expert systems company's most recent outreach venture will see 20 UTS students develop AI applications to improve the delivery of social justice, which in this case centres around working with not - for - profits.

Arising from two contradictory High Court decisions on this issue, (Bank Of Ireland - v - Finnegan and Bank Of Ireland - v - Hanley), Ms Justice Baker stated 5 questions to the Court of Appeal which centred around the circumstances in which the Circuit Court has jurisdiction to hear cases relating to land (including possession cases).

The Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ) has established a new committee that will evaluate civil justice improvement efforts around the country and develop guidelines and best practices for civil litigation, as well as case - flow management.

«Supreme Court's punitive damage clarity: Lower courts may have tried a legal end run around the high court in a tobacco case, but the justices have indicated that may be coming to an end.»

Foley Hoag's environmental attorneys have litigated cases in federal and state courts around the country and even in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

The Conference of Chief Justices has established a new committee that will evaluate civil justice improvement efforts around the country and develop guidelines and best practices for civil litigation, as well as case - flow management.

Around this time last year, we blogged about the decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the «ONSC») in Jane Doe 464533 v ND («Jane Doe «-RRB-, a case that effectively created a new privacy tort — «public disclosure of embarrassing private facts» (you can read our post here).

Further north, around Darwin, the Larrakia people (the Larrakia case) 3 learned that the common law would not recognise their native title when Justice Mansfied handed down his decision.