Sentences with phrase «large civil judgment»

It is like a large civil judgment, or perhaps a remediation obligation, that can drive a company into bankruptcy.

More than three years later, in May 2017, a jury awarded Michael Reeves, Vern's primary owner, $ 1.26 million, the largest civil judgment in U.S. history for a pet's death at the hands of police.

Needless to say, it is preferable to pay a little more for adequate auto liability insurance than to have to pay out of pocket for large civil judgments in the wake of an at fault injury accident.

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The material in these two lessons reminds students of the importance of living in a democracy whose institutions safeguard civil and human rights and whose citizens are capable of making informed judgments, not only on behalf of themselves but on behalf of a larger community.

I suspect for a large majority of people with outstanding civil judgments there are many other negative tradelines in their reports.

Smaller performance bond approvals are based strictly on personal credit, and if you have items such as large collections, past dues, civil judgments, tax liens, bankruptcy or past due child support, you will not be able to get a performance bond in standard markets.

The agency concluded that «the small number of consumers who had civil judgments or tax liens and experienced a score change large enough to improve their credit profile suggests that any effects on overall model predictiveness (either positive or negative) are likely minimal.»

The prevalence of shorter, simpler emails is also consistent with my recent legal experience as a litigation associate in a large law firm before starting to teach legal writing full - time — an experience I have drawn on in trying to design realistic assignments.59 The emails I wrote often dealt with relatively straightforward substantive matters, procedural questions surrounding litigation, or some combination of the two, such as the steps for having an appellate court relinquish jurisdiction to correct a scrivener's error in a lower - court judgment or the timeline for responding to an in rem civil forfeiture action.

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Civil lawsuits can result in large judgments that can lead to financial ruin.