Sentences with phrase «landmark decisions»

It argues law rather than science played a main role in arriving at two landmark decisions.

The Supreme Court of Canada has released two landmark decisions in recent days relating to territorial commercial interests on the borderless Internet.

A pair of landmark decisions in Britain's House of Lords in 1999 and 2006 gave them what they needed.

The attorneys who make up the group's roster are legends in the legal field, known for securing massive verdicts and landmark decisions in civil court history.

Numerous landmark decisions have been handed down by the Supreme Court and lower courts over the past few years.

These cases have produced landmark decisions that have defined the boundaries of intellectual property rights in the online era, including the Grokster decision in the Supreme Court, the Napster decisions in the Ninth Circuit, and the Aimster decision in the Seventh Circuit.

Members have long been known for appearing in landmark decisions in complex discrimination and equality cases, from Seymour - Smith through to more recent cases such as O'Brien v Ministry of Justice and Council of Immigration Judges (where Monckton members appeared on both sides).

They have been responsible for cutting edge, landmark decisions, which have been cited and for which the firm has been recognized.

Other landmark decisions involving Mr. Minami include: United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. California Blue Shield, the first class action employment lawsuit brought by Asian Pacific Americans on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans; Spokane JACL v. Washington State University, a class action on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans to establish an Asian American Studies program at Washington State University; and Nakanishi v. UCLA, a claim for unfair denial of tenure that resulted in the granting of tenure after several hearings and widespread publicity over discrimination in academia.

I was curious and searched for «leading cases» and found an entry for landmark decisions which I found very good.

David is generally instructed in high profile and heavyweight cases in the High Court, frequently involving conspiracy and economic torts, unlawful competition, team moves, the protection of confidential information, post-termination restraints, wrongful termination / expulsion, carried interest and bonus disputes (where he has acted in most of the landmark decisions such as Horkulak v Cantor Fitzgerald, Keen v Commerzbank and Anar v Dresdner Kleinwort), as well as claims arising in a regulatory context which raise important reputational issues, and whistleblowing and discrimination claims in the Employment Tribunal.

One only needs to consider the United States Supreme Court and the landmark decisions which come to mind and which are not in the area of commercial law but rather concern matters that affect all citizens.

Granted \ d, they've paid out a lot in settlements, but only to avoid landmark decisions against Communications Decency Act immunity

But Stokoe's team of skilled lawyers are able to deal with all aspects of the confiscation regime and have been involved in many of the landmark decisions in this area.

On behalf of physicians and hospitals, Fenton Law Group has won landmark decisions before the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Federal Court and the California Appellate Courts.

These landmark decisions for gay rights have sparked the question: Is nationwide marriage equality on the way?

With the help of case studies of landmark decisions, Conway then demonstrates impressively where the reasoning of the Court on the interpretation of EU law seemed to fail to articulate alternative choices and thereby created a sense of inevitability of the Court's solution (see e.g. chapter 7).

The LSUC will have landmark decisions to make, for if it has no power to change current societal problems, it is hard to think of someone else who does.

The worrisome message of this part of the book may therefore be summarized as follows: the national legal systems generally did not really react to the supposedly landmark decisions Viking and Laval.

The agency's finding, which was sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget without fanfare on Friday, also reversed one of the Bush administration's landmark decisions on climate change, and it indicated anew that President Obama's appointees will push to address the issue of warming despite the potential political costs.

The board has regained some of its governing authority, yet it remains powerless on such landmark decisions which involve the district's finances.

McDonald's, Hungry Jacks and Subway's landmark decisions reflect a growing trend.

On Wednesday, ex-President Vicente Fox said Mexico must consider legalizing opium poppies, while the Supreme Court made a second ruling in favor of recreational marijuana use after a landmark decision in 2015.

The district appealed, and in late May, the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court order in a landmark decision for LGBTQ rights.

The college sports governing body will ask an appeals court to overturn an earlier landmark decision that says student athletes can profit from the use of their likenesses.

Last month the Israeli Supreme Court, made a landmark decision to prohibit banks from restricting cryptocurrency activity.

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In December, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision in handing victory in the presidential election to George W. Bush over Al Gore.

This landmark decision resulted from a level of ecumenical engagement not seen in foreign policy since the Sudan peace agreement over a decade ago.

The landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education was rendered less than 30 years ago; discrimination has lasted for over 300.

Rising consumer concern for animals has been credited as the primary motivator behind Woolworth's landmark decision.

It was a landmark decision.

As such, this case is a landmark decision that will hopefully lead to more honest advertising from U.S. manufacturers.

The landmark decision on the petition by NASA leader Raila Odinga will not only change the country's political destiny, but will also be a precedence setter in determining election disputes filed over the August 8 General Election.

«The Oneidas pay and pay, and then call it a landmark decision.

In a statement, Shirley called the FEC's ruling a «landmark decision» for women throughout the nation.

The vote was welcomed by Richard Bentley, Marie Stopes UK managing director, who called it «landmark decision for women».

The union is hoping to reverse, Vergara v. State of California, a landmark decision that concluded California's teacher tenure and dismissal process violates students» rights by leaving low - income and minority students with the worst teachers.

Fugitives from British justice can not use Northern Cyprus to dodge punishment for their crimes, High Court judges have ruled in a landmark decision.

In what has turned out to be a landmark decision, the Court ruled in Daubert that federal trial judges must act as gatekeepers in order to exclude unreliable evidence from the courtroom.

Janis Searles Jones, vice president of the Ocean Conservancy, called it a «landmark decision» that indicates the tide is turning for Arctic policy.

The landmark decision overturns a 1994 rule that bars women from numerous combat positions in the armed services.

Before today's landmark decision, at least 36 states and the District of Columbia recognized gay marriage in some way, but the other states had passed state laws banning same - sex marriage.

NSW Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe says True Love's conduct was «despicable» and he hopes «other ruthless operators» in the dating game will take note of the landmark decision against them.

the landmark decision by exploring the experience of interracial couples today.

The supreme court eventually ruled in favour of the newspapers» right to publish, a landmark decision for the American media.

Streep, meanwhile, is nothing short of magnetic as Katherine Graham, conveying the internal struggle this woman surely felt when faced with a landmark decision.

The Loving Story (Unrated) Civil rights documentary recounting the events leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Loving vs. Virginia, the historic 1967 case declaring interracial marriage legal under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

The study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time sanctioned a return to segregated schooling by stating that districts may be released from a desegregation order if they had met certain conditions.

The study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time...