Sentences with phrase «known state statute»

Check out this sweet table HERE if you want to know your States statutes of limitations for a particular debt.

My point is, know your state statute.

Not exact matches

The next day that firm filed two lawsuits against Diageo, one in federal court, raising a suite of traditional trademark and unfair business practices claims, but the other in New York State Supreme Court, seeking a permanent injunction under a seldom - used statute available only to charitable organizations, known as Section 135 of the New York General Business Law.

But Scalia surely knew that Janet Reno, the Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, had taken quite the opposite view — that nothing in the reigning statutes barred the State of Oregon from permitting drugs to be used by doctors for the purpose of procuring death for their patients.

In New York, the first of these options would be the preferred one in light of the little known fact that New York law on the necessity of marriage licenses is surprisingly incoherent: one statute states that «it shall be necessary for all persons intended to be married in New York state to obtain a marriage license» while another reads «nothing in this article contained shall be construed to render void by reason of a failure to procure a marriage license any marriage solemnized between [eligible] persons.»

«The strict secrecy of grand jury proceedings — originating in medieval England and mandated in New York by statute — can be detrimental to access to justice and public debate over issues of compelling public interest,» Lippman said in his annual address, known as the State of the Judiciary.

Assemblyman Daniel J. O'Donnell, a Manhattan Democrat and former criminal defense attorney, said he never knew about the statute, which is known as «50 - A,» until he attended a state committee meeting a few years ago where Robert J. Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, called for its repeal.

In a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire seen by openDemocracy, Scottish National Party MP Martin Doherty - Hughes says that the public should know who funded the DUP's Brexit campaign — and points out that the Secretary of State has the power to publish all political donations since 1 January 2014 under legislation that is already on the statute books, but which has never been enacted.

I know it's a statute in the State of New York.

A new study co-authored by an MIT professor finds that little - known state laws called «constituency statutes» have significant effects on the quantity and quality of innovative business actions.

Rather than oblivion, Pontiac v. Spellings, as this case is known, could be heading eventually for the Supreme Court, which has the last word on states» obligations under grant - in - aid statutes.

The state superintendent, Tony Evers, announced on October 12 that Milwaukee test scores have improved to such a degree that they no longer qualify for takeover under state statute.

The development of the IEP is required in the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA 2004), its regulations (known as 34 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Parts 300 and 301), and in Minnesota state special education rules and statutes.

This policy, also known as LIFO, is no longer written in the state statute as the default policy for districts and union leaders who can't reach an agreement on how to handle layoffs.

First, there are laws in many states requiring contracts to be in writing unless, by their terms, they can be fulfilled within a year (these are known as Statutes of Frauds and they do in many cases apply to publishing contracts).

If you want to know for sure whether a particular debt has passed the statute of limitations, best to phone your state's Attorney General's office and ask, or meet with a consumer law attorney.

After seven years in most states, the statute of limitations will be reached, and the debt will no longer be legally collectible — and will fall off a person's credit report.

Furthermore, every type of debt has a statute of limitations for collection (which varies by state and type of debt) where, when reached, you are no longer legally obligated to pay.

It would appear to the outside eye that it no longer exists since it's off your credit report and you don't have to pay it, but technically speaking — the debt won't disappear until the statute of limitations is reached in your state.

What you need to know: The statutes of limitations for forced collection varies from state to state.

Do you know the statute of limitations in your state?

You may know that the statute of limitations varies by states.

If a creditor contacts you to collect an old debt, it's important to look through your contract and know which state's statute of limitations rules apply to the debt in question.

However, even though a debt may no longer legally appear on your credit report because it's too old, you could still be sued if the statute of limitations for your debt in your state is not up.

In this case, the court ruled in the owner's favor, stating that the anticruelty statute was too vague to allow the public to know specifically what level of veterinary care was required for their animals.

«While the state statute does not specifically permit ownership of more than one dog «commonly known as a pit bull», it does not prohibit it either.»

It's important to know that the Florida Supreme Court has ruled that some of the provisions of this statute are unconstitutional because the statute allows the state to interfere with parents» right of privacy (i.e., to raise their children without government intervention).

Each state is responsible for establishing its own statute of limitations, or the amount of time that a plaintiff has to bring forth a lawsuit before damages can no longer be pursued.

If you were injured in an auto accident in the state of Texas, the law establishes a time frame in which you must file suite (also known as a statute of limitations).

No longer a regime defined by a single federal statute administered by a single federal agency, American labor law is increasingly constituted by private processes, by state and local regulation, and by multiple federal statutes enforced by multiple actors.»

1898)(«no one can obtain the exclusive right to publish the laws of a state»)(Harlan, J., sitting by designation); Nash v. Lathrop, 142 Mass. 29, 6 N.E. 559 (Mass. 1886)(«Every citizen is presumed to know the law thus declared, and it needs no argument to show that justice requires that all should have free access to the opinions, and that it is against sound public policy to prevent this, or to suppress and keep from the earliest knowledge of the public the statutes or the decisions and opinions of the justices.»).

Case law interpreting each section the United States Code (or comparable state statutory codifications of statute law) are accompanied by what are known as «annotations» which briefing state the holdings of all legal cases interpreting a particular statutory section and usually briefly stating its holding.

For free access to vast amounts of federal and state case law, statutes and regulations, you need look no further than Cornell's Legal Information Institute and Justia.

This is a writ of error to the County Court of Oneida County, in the State of New York (to which court the record had been remitted), to review the judgment of the Court of Appeal of that State affirming the judgment of the Supreme Court, which itself affirmed the judgment of the County Court, convicting the defendant of a misdemeanor on an indictment under a statute of that State, known, by its short title, as the labor

For minors and anyone else, the discovery of when a person knows or should have known that their harm was caused by negligence is the beginning of the statute of limitation state.

In some states there is a law know as Caylee's Law, for example Connecticut General Statutes 53 - 21a (d) which requires reporting a child's disappearance:

I do know, however, that in the case of the European Court of Human Rights and the highest courts of the E.U. that one of the usual remedies will be an order directed at a member state to amend its statutes to remove the offending law, with sanctions imposed if the member state fails to do so.

Although the statute of limitations regarding medical malpractice does state that no medical malpractice suit can be brought after five years has passed from the initial act or error made by the doctor in question, Kentucky courts have made it clear that this «five - year rule» is unconstitutional and should no longer be considered as part of the law.

A conviction under the state's version of the federal RICO statute, known as the New York Enterprise Corruption Law, can result in a sentence of up to 25 years in state prison, not to mention significant fines and asset forfeiture to make restitution.

Another statute stated that if a plaintiff did not know about a claim due to an adverse party's fraud, the time period for the claim began to run when the party discovered or should have discovered the fraud through ordinary diligence.

In the state of Texas, the statute of limitations for filing such a case is no later than two years after the injury took place.

These time limits are known as statutes of limitations, and in the state of California, the statutes for filing a personal injury lawsuit are found in California Code of Civil Procedures, Section 335.1.

This limitation is controlled by a state law is known as the statute of limitations.

Oregon is one of 35 states where the legislature has successfully enacted a statute capping the amount of noneconomic damages, commonly known as «emotional distress,» that juries can award.

Be sure to know what your state's statute of limitation laws are, as some states like Louisiana, California, and Tennessee have a one year limitation law for filing a personal injury claim.

Rejecting a similar argument that a statutory anomaly (between property and non-property taxes) made «not a whit of sense,» we explained in one recent case that «Congress wrote the statute it wrote» — meaning, a statute going so far and no further... The same could be said of [the PPACA conditioning tax credits on states establishing Exchanges].

It is important to know what Arizona statute says about how a court is to make a determination about child custody, as well as the types of child custody that the state recognizes.

The Equal Access to Justice Act, which provides for fees when a litigant prevails in an action brought by the United States and Section 1988, which provides for fees for prevailing parties in civil rights actions are two of the best known federal fee - shifting statutes.

This is known as the statute of limitation and will depend on the nature of a person's case as well as the state where they reside.

Dog owners are liable for any injuries their pets cause in the following instances: if the owner knew the dog had a tendency to cause that kind of injury; if a state statute makes the owner liable, whether or not the owner knew the dog had a tendency to cause that kind of injury; or if the injury was caused by unreasonable carelessness on the part of the owner.