Sentences with phrase «justices of the supreme court heard»

The eleven justices of the Supreme Court heard evidence over four days in December before handing down their judgment today, establishing, by a margin of eight to three, that the UK Parliament must have a vote on whether the government may begin the official Brexit process, triggering Article 50.

Not exact matches

The record labels asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of the circuit court ruling, but the justices declCourt to hear their appeal of the circuit court ruling, but the justices declcourt ruling, but the justices declined.

At a hearing on Thursday in state court in Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos will consider whether to permit the rare proceeding to go forward, potentially allowing the Club — whose tweedy Manhattan headquarters has, over the years, served the likes of Sir Ernest Shackleton, President Teddy Roosevelt, and Jacques Cousteau — to stop Diageo's (DEO) mighty Johnnie Walker brand from marketing its new Explorers» Club Colleccourt in Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos will consider whether to permit the rare proceeding to go forward, potentially allowing the Club — whose tweedy Manhattan headquarters has, over the years, served the likes of Sir Ernest Shackleton, President Teddy Roosevelt, and Jacques Cousteau — to stop Diageo's (DEO) mighty Johnnie Walker brand from marketing its new Explorers» Club CollecCourt Justice Charles Ramos will consider whether to permit the rare proceeding to go forward, potentially allowing the Club — whose tweedy Manhattan headquarters has, over the years, served the likes of Sir Ernest Shackleton, President Teddy Roosevelt, and Jacques Cousteau — to stop Diageo's (DEO) mighty Johnnie Walker brand from marketing its new Explorers» Club Collection.

In March, the US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Colorado's legalization of the drug, and, in May, the US Department of Justice dropped its four - year effort to shutter Harborside Health Center — the largest medical - marijuana dispensary in the country.

In the notice of his decision, New York Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez supported the arguments made by Schneiderman at the November 25 hearing and did not appear to be sympathetic to or convinced by those of DraftKings or FanDuel attorneys.

When she exited the Supreme Court in March 2013 after the justices heard arguments in her case, hundreds of supporters chanted «Edie!

President Barack Obama nominated Garland to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court last year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but McConnell declined even to hold a hearing.

FOR the last two weeks, a justice in New York State Supreme Court has heard testimony in one of the most pivotal cases of the financial crisis.

Let's hope that when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case on October 2, the Justices will side with regular working people like Hobson, not with the big bosses and corporations who want to use the fine print to rig the rules against the rest of us.

This week, the Supreme Court justices heard arguments challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996.

Mutterings can be heard (of varying levels of seriousness) that the United States should move to extended, fixed terms for Supreme Court justices, of 18 years, staggered so that each president would be entitled to appoint two per term.

At the second day of their contempt hearing at the Supreme Court in Accra, the presiding judge, Justice Sophia Akuffo was not impressed by their explanations and convicted them of criminal contempt.

A week earlier, on Dec. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court announced the justices will be hearing Windsor's challenge to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), as well as a challenge to California's Proposition 8 marriage amendment.

With strong criticism of the state parole board, Supreme Court Justice Richard Mott in Columbia County on April 12 ordered officials to grant former political consultant Hank Morris a new hearing, and to do so no later than April 22.

The closeness of the election prompted a protracted court battle heard by Justice Joseph R. Glownia of the State Supreme Ccourt battle heard by Justice Joseph R. Glownia of the State Supreme CourtCourt.

A Supreme Court justice stalled Phase II of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, ordering an updated environmental review that includes public hearings.

Sen. Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he had not ruled out holding hearings on President Obama's eventual nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The case, involving five men suspected of financing terrorism, will be heard by seven Supreme Court justices.

This week, Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea selected a five - member panel of judges to hear lawsuits over the Minnesota redistricting process.

The Supreme Court had on November 12, 2015 through a five - man panel, led by now retired Justice John Fabiyi, granted an order of stay of proceedings of Saraki's trial before the CCT, pending the hearing and determination of his appeal.

In explaining the judgment of the seven - member panel of Justices of the Supreme Court, the presiding Justice, Sophia Adinyira, said their decision was to enable the EC give hearing to all parties involved in the legal tussle over the qualification, due to the limited time left for the election to be held.

In a decision dated Feb. 5, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden ordered a new hearing on a 2013 jury verdict in her court that gave five mesothelioma victims represented by Weitz a total of $ 190 million — the highest award of its kind at the Court Justice Joan Madden ordered a new hearing on a 2013 jury verdict in her court that gave five mesothelioma victims represented by Weitz a total of $ 190 million — the highest award of its kind at the court that gave five mesothelioma victims represented by Weitz a total of $ 190 million — the highest award of its kind at the time.

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen, the commissioner who is overseeing the investigation, is in the unenviable position of hearing everyone out and making recommendations to ensure the future sustainability of the fishery by June 2012.

Because U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat on an appeals court which heard one of the lawsuits, she will likely recuse herself, leaving the real possibility that the case will receive a 4 - 4 deciCourt Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat on an appeals court which heard one of the lawsuits, she will likely recuse herself, leaving the real possibility that the case will receive a 4 - 4 decicourt which heard one of the lawsuits, she will likely recuse herself, leaving the real possibility that the case will receive a 4 - 4 decision.

What takes us and her there is the tale of how the world - beating New York Times got the scoop on Ellsberg's «Pentagon Papers,» how paranoid, profane and punitive President Richard Nixon (glimpsed in silhouette, heard on the infamous «tapes») and his Justice Department stopped it, and how the Washington Post stepped in, found its edge, voice and spine and took up cause, fighting (with the Times) all the way to the Supreme Court for «the public's right to know.»

February 24, 2017 — Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have or will soon hear cases involving the appropriate scope of services guaranteed by federal special - education law, government aid to religious institutions providing educational services, and restroom access for transgender students.

For the sake of this end - of - term (video conference) presentation, Justice McConnell presided over a mock US Supreme Court hearing with one student in my class serving in the role of petitioner and another student in my class serving in the role of respondent.

Several Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court asked last week whether federal - court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation Court asked last week whether federal - court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation case.

A Supreme Court case from this past spring that many of our members may have heard about in the national press, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, would likely have been decided against unions had Justice Antonin Scalia not died unexpectedly.

Cities, counties and towns throughout the US have defined «pit bull» as «a pit bull terrier, a Staffordshire bull terrier, an American Staffordshire terrier, an American pit bull terrier, any dog mixed with any of these three breeds, or a dog that has an appearance and physical characteristics that are substantially similar to (these) dogs...» Until YOU are appointed to the US Supreme Court and succeed in getting the other eight justices to hear a «pit bull» case and overturn this definition, it stands!

Thunder in our Voices Forty years ago, Justice Thomas Berger of the Supreme Court of British Columbia was asked to hold hearings into a proposed natural gas pipeline across the North Coast of the Yukon, along the Mackenzie Valley, to southern markets.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was on the 2nd Circuit panel that heard the case, is not taking part in the Supreme Court's consideration of the issue.

On the heels of that disappointing decision, I had the hop put back in my step by Tony Mauro's account at The BLT of yesterday's House appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Supreme Court budget, where Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer appeared to make the case for the cCourt budget, where Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer appeared to make the case for the courtcourt.

During the hearing, two judges apologized «if the building exceeded legislative intent» and Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady promised to issue an order that would require closer scrutiny of future capital projects for courts.

Five Supreme Court justices are analysing evidence at a hearing in London following rulings by judges in the High Court and Court of Appeal.

The state Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the superior court, holding that the plaintiff's expert's affidavit, combined with the documents that were available to the hearing justice, raised a material issue of fact as to whether Arden Engineering was responsible for Limoges's inCourt vacated the judgment of the superior court, holding that the plaintiff's expert's affidavit, combined with the documents that were available to the hearing justice, raised a material issue of fact as to whether Arden Engineering was responsible for Limoges's incourt, holding that the plaintiff's expert's affidavit, combined with the documents that were available to the hearing justice, raised a material issue of fact as to whether Arden Engineering was responsible for Limoges's injury.

After a protracted arbitration process and final hearing — which involved two separate state court appeals — the Arbitrator, a former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the health system respondents on liability, and awarded no damages to the physician - limited partner on any of his arbitration clcourt appeals — the Arbitrator, a former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the health system respondents on liability, and awarded no damages to the physician - limited partner on any of his arbitration clCourt, ruled in favor of the health system respondents on liability, and awarded no damages to the physician - limited partner on any of his arbitration claims.

The Ohio Supreme Court will travel to Putnam County on April 11 as part of its Off - Site Court Program, where justices hear arguments outside of Columbus to educate Ohio students and the public about the judicial branch of government.

In Re A (A Child)[2012] UKSC 60 (heard as Re J (A Child: Disclosure)(Rev 1)[2012] EWCA Civ 1204 in the Court of Appeal in September) the Supreme Court was called upon to balance the interests of justice against, or alongside, the welfare of a child.

Driving to a meeting yesterday, listening to BBC via my local NPR station, I almost went off the road as I heard Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia come on the air and express his doubts about whether anything in the Constitution would prohibit torture of a suspect who may pose a threat to public safety.

In a huge victory for access to justice advocates, the Supreme Court of Canada today struck down British Columbia's court hearing Court of Canada today struck down British Columbia's court hearing court hearing fees.

On Thursday, April 19, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin will hear oral arguments in one of the most important cases of the term, and one of the most important civil justice cases in the past decade.

Under Chief Justice McLachlin the Supreme Court of Canada has allowed an average of 176 interventions per calendar year and interveners have cumulatively made submissions in half of the cases heard by the Court.

Washington Supreme Court justices will be in northeastern Washington Tuesday to hear three cases in Nespelem, where the Confederated Tribes of the Colville are headquartered.

Richard Wolf of USA Today has a news update headlined «Justices won't hear Okla. appeal on medical abortions; Decision comes after state Supreme Court ruled that the law, passed in 2011 but later struck down in court, would have banned all medical abortions.&rCourt ruled that the law, passed in 2011 but later struck down in court, would have banned all medical abortions.&rcourt, would have banned all medical abortions.»

The phrase «principles of fundamental justice» had been borrowed directly from section 2 (e) of the Canadian Bill of Rights, Canada's proto - Charter enacted in 1960, and had been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that everyone was entitled to a fair hearing before an impartial tribunal.29 Put another way, fundamental justice incorporated a procedural guarantee synonymous with «natural justice,» meaning that the state may certainly deprive an individual of life, liberty or security of the person, but only if procedural safeguards have first been met.

In a press release from the Supreme Court of B.C., Chief Justice Robert Bauman said although the project is designed to improve matters, it can not «guarantee that every member on the assize list will be heard» and counsel «must be available to proceed on short notice during the assize week.»

This week, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear four appeals, including Rocco Galati's constitutional challenge of Federal Court of Appeal Justice Robert Mainville to the Quebec Court of Appeal, as well as a business appeal that will determine whether patent proceedings can be used to delay expiry.

«Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them,» John Roberts told the Judiciary Committee of the Senate after listening to senators make 21 speeches about this week's confirmation hearings on his appointment by President Bush to be the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Justice Antonin Scalia opened the Supreme Court's new term Tuesday by questioning whether a man deported to Mexico after a drug conviction would be «abstaining from tequila» for fear of violating his U.S. parole terms.The remark came as justices heard an immigration case involving a Texas man, Reymundo Toledo - Flores, who was deported in April after being convicted of illegally entering the United States.