"Legal maneuvers" refers to strategic actions or tactics taken within the legal system to gain an advantage or achieve a desired outcome in a case or legal matter. It involves using specific legal procedures, arguments, or tactics to navigate, challenge, or influence the course of legal proceedings.
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of legal maneuvering by debt collections companies has made it impossible to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy, making educational debt more dangerous than credit card debt, mortgage debt, and most other forms of borrowing.
As the Trump Administration continues to dig up
legal maneuvers in an attempt to keep failing coal and nuclear plants online, cities across the United States are increasingly committing to source 100 % of their electricity from renewables.
The turn of events created the spectacle of a sitting president
using legal maneuvers to avoid further scrutiny of salacious accusations of an affair and a payoff involving the porn star.
A hasty
legal maneuver by top Los Angeles school officials will not fend off a legal challenge of their decision to turn over low - performing Clay Middle School to a charter - school organization, The Times has learned.
This
latest legal maneuver marks another step in the increasingly fierce legal war being waged by Apple and Qualcomm over patent licensing.
Cary Park District Commissioner Mike Renner met Wednesday night in closed session with the Village Board and talked to trustees
about legal maneuvers the Park District is taking in its attempt to acquire the 260 - acre Hoffman farm, which could become the site of a gravel pit if it is developed within Lake in the Hills.
There is no strong Republican opposition to Miner at this point, although GOP
legal maneuvers with the ballot could allow Hogan to run as a Republican in November if he loses the primary.
For all
other legal maneuvers, expert mentors at SPS will be with you every single step of the way to make sure both surrogates and intended parents understand all the proceedings and options available.
A new round of
legal maneuvering between Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility could, as one potential outcome, have the parties meet before Judge Richard Posner again.
Rather than a drawn - out series of expensive, time -
consuming legal maneuvers, collaborative family law moves «in real time,» Matthewson says.
In the meantime, the child experiences unpredictable changes and interruptions in the relationships with both parents as different
legal maneuvers take place.
ca would with some one -
day legal maneuvering revert back to the new replacement organization, and MLS / realtor.
But the firm is pressing forward with
additional legal maneuvers, leading to objections this week from Grier and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Before the election, Cohen paid $ 130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels to keep her from speaking out about her alleged affair with Trump, and he helped orchestrate countless business deals and
legal maneuvers for Trump over the past several years.
No amount of
circuitous legal maneuvering can obscure the social reality of inner - city black crime, or of whites» and blacks» fear of that crime.
Bahrani's style is gripping as an emotional thriller, at times reminiscent of Asghar Farhadi, but the best scenes involve the
sneaky legal maneuverings and machinations of Rick's get - rich - quick scheme.
Before you get too excited, it's worth noting that this could just as likely this could be a
simple legal maneuver by Sony to protect their IP.
The Bush administration has strongly
opposed legal maneuvers aimed at limiting greenhouse gases with existing environmental laws.
Whatever legal maneuvers it tries, ultimately, the EPA must demonstrate that it is making a good - faith effort to carry out the legal obligation established by the Endangerment Finding.
Cuccinelli used a relatively
new legal maneuver available to the attorney general known as a civil investigative demand (CID).
If you don't have an aggressive, experienced trial lawyer on your side, you could be vulnerable to the
aggressive legal maneuvers of corporate lawyers like those exhibited by GM's legal team.
This ruling called into
question legal maneuvering used by government officials to visibly brand accused persons as criminals in public while reducing their charges to mere violations which could be denied jury -LSB-...]
Alas, through
various legal maneuvers and a re-apprehension in the foster home, her baby was never returned to her.
Only by going to court every day, can you stay up on all the latest information and take full advantage of every
possible legal maneuver.
On Saturday, any good will the company earned by talking about the problem first was quickly undone when reporters revealed Facebook's behind - the -
scenes legal maneuvering.
According to Ross, Espada railed against the AG's
latest legal maneuver, accusing Cuomo of attempting to commit a «political assassination» and throwing «political stink bombs.»
The Trump administration sought an appeal of the case, but last month, a three - judge panel with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied the White House's writ of mandamus petition, a rarely
used legal maneuver that would have dismissed the case.
Selden was able to hold the nascent automobile industry hostage for 16 years, stalling his patent application for an «improved road engine» with repeated amendments and
other legal maneuvering.
After months of
legal maneuvering between the parties regarding jurisdiction and other procedural matters, an arbitration hearing was finally held.
ALBANY — After a full election cycle and more than two years
of legal maneuvering, a panel of three federal judges dismissed challenges to the Republican - drawn map of State Senate districts, saying population deviation that tilted numbers upstate were permissible and any allegation of race - based gerrymandering was «purely speculative.»
Public records indicate that
legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.
Albany Ladder pursues debtors with a program of phone calls, notes, letters, negotiations, and, if necessary,
legal maneuvers.
As
the legal maneuvering in Zambada's case goes on, drugs supplied by the Sinaloa cartel continue to inundate the city.
The Justice Department was responding to Cohen's
legal maneuvering, saying that the agency has the right to go through what evidence it collected on Monday.
In the blur of news coming out of Washington,
the legal maneuvers involving a pornographic film actress who says she had an affair with President Trump and the president's lawyer who paid her hush money may seem like just another reality - show - ready spectacle at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Under the old rules, some cryptocoin investors applied
a legal maneuver often used with real estate investments to defer their capital gains.
But with the lawsuit — and a slew of recent media interviews — Daniels» team appears undeterred by Cohen's
legal maneuvers.
The legal maneuvers come amid a slowdown in smartphone sales, which are growing at about 1 percent after several years of double digit annual growth, according to industry research firm International Data Corp..
He is pursuing a libel suit against BuzzFeed, and the website is attempting
a legal maneuver that might allow Daniels's records of any relationship with Trump to be made public.