Sentences with phrase «legal cases argue»

And two separate legal cases argue that both companies need to start paying drivers as employees with benefits.

(A charity, Plan B Earth, is currently pursuing a legal case arguing the government must tighten UK carbon targets in light of the Paris Agreement.

Not exact matches

«There are tax cases in which someone will argue they had to spend $ 1 million on legal fees because a nasty divorce threatened the business,» said Wood of Wood LLP.

Since the policy was written in 2009, legal advocates argue, several court cases have set new precedents that could make some CBP electronic searches illegal.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal brief in an appeals court case, arguing against workplace discrimination protection for employees who are gay.

At a hearing on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen asked if there was a «tension or inconsistency» for Uber to argue that every single one of its drivers is an independent contractor, yet to also argue that the legal issues in the case are so specific to each driver that it can't be decided as a class action.

Gun - rights organizations also weighed in, including the National Rifle Association, which argued that the case stood to «eviscerate» the gun companies» legal protections.

MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos argues that the weight of the evidence favors the view that the case must be dealt with in arbitration.

In their first legal move since Benchmark filed its lawsuit on Thursday, Kalanick's team is arguing that the court doesn't have jurisdiction over the case.

Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.

Britain will argue that the two Christian women at the center of the case had the option of quitting their jobs and working elsewhere, so they are not covered by European human rights law, according to legal papers obtained by CNN.

As it turns out, these poor fellows may not have been vagrants but merely exercising their constitutional rights: The Obama Administration recently filed a legal brief in a case out of Boise arguing that, in certain circumstances, outlawing sleeping in public violates the Eighth Amendment proscription against «cruel and unusual punishment.»

Davis argues that, since the Lincolnshire case, the wind industry is using more complicated corporate structures to reduce the likelihood of legal claims being brought against operators.

One prominent legal commentator has argued that the case against the church, to force it to perform same - sex religious marriage, is «reasonable»; another has claimed that the church's argument is hysterical.

As an attorney, Yates had an obligation to argue the government's case to the best of her abilities in the face of any legal challenge.

Ian Brownlie and Tom Franck made such arguments (though Anthea Roberts has written an essay disagreeing) It may be argued that providing advance legal authorization is more likely to encourage such action whereas what we want is to be very restrictive with regard to permissible uses of force but that in cases of genuine need the international community will excuse and not condemn action.

A legal eagle who's argued 20 cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Underwood appears to be that behind - the - scenes person in the office who actually runs the office while her boss takes a public victory lap.

An attorney for the Assembly argued Schulz lacks the legal standing to proceed with his case.

But Porter's motion aims to get the case dismissed altogether, arguing that it is flawed on constitutional and other legal grounds.

In court papers seeking to dismiss the case, lawyer Scott Porter argues that prosecutors have stretched the legal meaning of criminal impersonation too far by charging Conner with a crime.

The state Attorney General's Office argued the pay raise commission, which is made up of appointees of the governor, legislative leaders, and the state's chief judge, is legal and that the case should be dismissed.

But the Supreme Court, in making a determination on a similar application filed by Woyome for stay of proceedings pending the final outcome of the case before the African Court, argued that there was no real factual and legal basis for it to share its powers and jurisdiction with any other court, and so it can not be compelled to halt the ongoing proceedings.

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation argued in the legal case that its plan to build roads and harvest trees would have minimal impact on grizzlies because it called for logging of small areas at different times rather than a full - scale clearing operation.

It argued that after it had obtained a license to send the manuscript to Science in 2012, Erasmus MC no longer had a legal interest in pursuing the case.

Late in 2012, a district court rejected the suit on procedural grounds, arguing that the legal case had to involve the Kumeyaay and not just the university.

Eric E. Johnson may just save the planet when he argues that there might be a legal case for barring...

As with the case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Australian opponents of gene patenting argue that it discourages research by placing financial and legal hurdles in front of scientists who are seeking to work with patented biological material.

While arguing cases is undoubtedly best left to the professionals, it does seem just a little senseless that first - pass legal reviewers need to hold higher degrees.

Ultimately, the case goes all the way to the Supreme Court, where our small - time lawyer has to argue his case with some of the country's best legal minds.

The clarity of the legal issues allowed them to take the case directly to the Supreme Court, where they argued that the mandatory fees constituted a violation of their rights to free speech and association.

To argue the groundbreaking first case sponsored by Students Matter, we've assembled an all - star legal team led by renowned attorneys Theodore B. Olson, Theodore J. Boutrous and Marcellus A. McRae.

The decision did not come as a surprise to legal experts following the case, including a few attorneys who had argued other cases involving charter schools before the courts.

In case lawmakers balk, a ballot initiative is in the works, as is a legal move involving a prominent Boston firm that has filed a class - action suit to lift the charter cap, arguing that it unconstitutionally denies children access to an adequate education.

These compulsory agreements provide legal cover to companies in the same way that a date rapist can argue you «signed an agreement» by voluntarily going out with them, yet in neither case is the predatory party being up front.

Everyone should get paid for their work: whether it's arguing a legal case, stacking a library shelf, or giving an NGO political advice.

Even if you won, you would end up paying legal fees to have an attorney argue your case for you.

The lead attorney representing the plaintiffs argued that this rule does not apply in this case because «the exception to this policy is where the officer personally committed a tort: a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability.»

For every argued case during the 2002 term, the model predicted 75 per cent of the court's affirm / reverse results correctly, while the legal experts collectively got only 59.1 per cent right.

Basically, Prince, his new lawyers, and Larry Gagosian argue that Judge Batts wrongly applied the prevailing legal standards for fair use, especially the most recent, relevant case which had been before the same court, Blanch v. Koons.

The structure of these reports is completely argumentative, analogous to a legal brief that argues a case in Court.

Since the bill attempts to tear down a ruling based on the findings of our nation's top public health experts and scientists — a ruling that a Supreme Court decision turned into a legal obligation to uphold — we're witnessing a case wherein Congressional politicians are actually arguing that they know better than the conclusions of an entire body of science.

In these cases, environmental activists sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), arguing that the agency is taking too long to issue a particular regulation or that the agency isn't meeting a specific legal requirement.

In a court case you have two legal teams arguing the opposite sides of the case.

I also wrote recently about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced research site at which users post legal issues to be «argued» and other users post cases that are relevant to the issue.

«The Bar Council will continue to argue the Bar's case for proper funding of the criminal justice system in all respects (including the provision of legal aid), not least so as to ensure that we can develop and preserve the quality of advocacy in our justice system.»

However, other legal professionals, particularly those engaging in contentious work, will also need to be prepared to argue their case orally.

I am not aware of any case in which it was argued that the need to pay for one's own legal representation amounted to a taking for public use.

While most of the curriculum at Harvard during this time consisted of lecture and student recitation, skills development was also provided in the form of weekly moot courts, during which students argued questions of law before professors and submitted occasional written disputations on legal subjects.121 Although Stearns had previously used moot courts in his teaching at Harvard, Story and Ashmun refined them.122 Cases were handed out the week before argument, and two counsel were assigned to each side.123 The cases would then be argued the next Friday, with the other students taking notes of the argument; the professor in charge that week would issue a written opinioCases were handed out the week before argument, and two counsel were assigned to each side.123 The cases would then be argued the next Friday, with the other students taking notes of the argument; the professor in charge that week would issue a written opiniocases would then be argued the next Friday, with the other students taking notes of the argument; the professor in charge that week would issue a written opinion.124

18 Unlike the extracurricular interscholastic competitions that bear the same name today, the moot courts of this period were mandatory exercises in the law school curriculum, modeled after the «moots» of the Inns of Courts in England.19 The law school professors of the day gave the students a fictitious case and assisted the students in drafting the pleadings and other documents, preparing the arguments, and then arguing the case.20 In theory, if not always in practice, these were the forerunners of today's legal writing classes that emphasize persuasive writing.

Professor White suggests that it does matter how opinions are written because they have important consequences for the parties in a particular case and for the future.29 He further argues that a crucial part of legal activity is the criticism of opinions on rational, political, and moral grounds because that is how relevant arguments are made in support of changing or retaining current rules of law.30 For him, the bigger question «is whether law will move in the direction of trivializing human experience, and itself, or in the direction of dignifying itself and that experience.»