Sentences with phrase «legal papers saying»

But seven months later, the DOJ filed legal papers saying the court should pay no attention to the letter, the units shouldn't count and the county should be held in contempt.

Depp's legal papers said he assumed his advisor «was behaving as a loyal fiduciary and prudent steward of his funds and finances.»

Not exact matches

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

The list was then provided to the Times by a person outside Trump's legal team, the paper said.

Simovitch said in the court papers that she was «no longer able to give effective legal counsel» and has «irreconcilable differences» with Nikolas.

«Under current federal law this is not permitted,» said David Tawil, co-founder and President Maglan Capital, who believes that if Congress were to pass this type of framework for debt restructuring, holders of Puerto Rico's paper who are forced to take haircuts «will have quite a strong legal argument».

He could have used the automark or even signed just a single sheet of paper, legal experts say.

In a phone interview, Kampfer said he will soon file court papers seeking to force the Supreme Court to re-consider, a legal long shot that has little chance of success.

Asked if throwing papers at de Blasio's car will fulfill the legal requirement, Luthmann said, «We're going to argue it does.»

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said she and her colleagues are exploring «legal options» to counter Gov. Andrew Cuomo «s decision last night to sign legislation banning implementation of the five - cent paper and plastic bag fee the city passed last year — and accused the governor of slandering the Council.

«We are not well - endowed,» she said, perhaps an indirect reference to those Goulds on the legal papers and to the wealthy weekenders who, after finding their cabins in the woods, don't want new neighbors.

Fossella's blood alcohol level was.17, court papers said, more than twice the legal limit of.08 in Virginia.

Meanwhile, New York's attorney general's office is also going after RD Legal Funding, a lawsuit - cash - advance firm accused of exploiting 9/11 first responders and brain - injured NFL players by ensnaring them in high - interest contracts with rates that court papers say reached up to 250 percent.

Mr Corbyn has said he will fight any exclusion from the ballot paper, but the anti-Corbyn camp are weighing up legal options if he is allowed to stand.

Persaud also declined to comment, but a lawyer for her campaign, Frank Carone, said he plans to file legal papers seeking to keep Pierre off the ballot.

«We've been preparing legal papers so that if the CRB issues subpoenas again, we'll be prepared to go back to PERB and back to court,» he said.

And this Nature paper is just the beginning of the research the report contemplated, says legal scholar and bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin Law School, who co-chaired the Academies» committee but says she is speaking for herself and not the panel.

James Battey, chair of the Stem Cell Task Force at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, says the paper is an interesting proof of principle but doesn't solve all outstanding ethical and legal questions.

«The ISA is the only body with the legal standing and responsibility to manage mining beyond national jurisdiction,» said Kristina Gjerde, an international high - seas lawyer and co-author on the Science paper.

The paper's author, Molly Gena, now a Milwaukee - based lawyer for Legal Action of Wisconsin, says her review of recent SBS decisions indicates the tide is beginning to turn.

«If we are to conserve remaining wild populations of elephants, we must close all markets because, under current levels of corruption, they can not be controlled in a way that does not provide opportunities for illegal ivory being laundered into legal markets,» said the paper's author, Elizabeth Bennett, WCS Vice President for Species Conservation.

But agreeing to terms without reading them beforehand can adversely affect a user's legal rights, says a new paper by a University of Illinois expert in technology and legal issues.

But it would be up to the authors of the papers, not the journal, to take any legal action against Eisen, copyright lawyers say.

«If all the authors of a paper are NASA employees, then he's probably right that the work would be public domain,» says David Schulz, a lawyer with Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP in Washington, D.C. (who also advises ScienceInsider on legal issues).

A joint statement from BMJ and Deer, who have not yet been formally served with legal papers, says that, «unsurprisingly the BMJ and Mr. Deer stand by the material published in the BMJ and their other statements and confirm that they have instructed lawyers to defend the claim vigorously.»

The journal has not retracted the paper, but has added a note saying some portions «have been removed due to a reported legal dispute.»

The U.S. Justice Department filed papers last month, saying the original agreement «raises significant legal concerns» and was likely to conclude that it breaks federal antitrust law.

2 April: SMH: Peter Hannam: «Conspiracist» climate change study withdrawn amid legal threats Climate change academics say the decision by a publisher to retract their paper examining the links between conspiracy theorists and denial of global warming because of legal threats could have a «chilling effect» on research... «Sadly, it has turned into a routine for outsiders with no scientific standing to approach, bully, or intimidate journals, editors, and academics,» said Professor Lewandowsky, now at the UK's University of Bristol.

Climate change academics say the decision by a publisher to retract their paper examining the links between conspiracy theorists and denial of global warming because of legal threats could have a «chilling effect» on research.»

In the consultation paper, the Prairie law societies say there are numerous benefits of compliance - based regulation, including an incentive to be innovative in the delivery of legal services.

The board said a six - month suspension was warranted because Bonazzoli never actually sold any term papers and that he had already received substantial adverse publicity on the Internet, in legal publications, and in the legal community.

Who's Who Legal says «Peers praise Tim Akkouh as being «tactically astute» and «great on paper and on his feet».

Spies, unlikely to be British or American or Russian, also camped out in an apartment near that of his assistant to record goings - on, says Stephens, who spoke about one of the world's most closely watched legal cases in a session called the «WikiLeaks Case: What You're Not Reading in the Paper» at the annual meeting of Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, the global alliance of independent full - services law firms, in Montreal on Friday.

As an exception to the universally accepted view that law society committees are «all form and no substance» in regard to the «unaffordable legal services problem» («the problem»), there is one Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) committee that has produced a Discussion Paper that has great substance, although some ingrates are so inconsiderate as to say that it's not «the right stuff»; see: Alternative Business Structures and the Legal Profession in Ontario: A Discussion Plegal services problem» («the problem»), there is one Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) committee that has produced a Discussion Paper that has great substance, although some ingrates are so inconsiderate as to say that it's not «the right stuff»; see: Alternative Business Structures and the Legal Profession in Ontario: A Discussion PLegal Profession in Ontario: A Discussion Paper.

«I like the research because you learn a lot about history and it's not that different from researching legal papers,» he says.

So says Michael Carroll in The Movement for Open Access Law, a paper in the Villanova Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Sepaper in the Villanova Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper SePaper Series.

The gesture was intended as a shot at a state senator whose friendship with Sprague fell apart in a dispute over legal fees, the paper says.

I will reserve a future post to explore some thoughts on what is said at the AALS program, but it is particularly fitting to have the Justice at this joint program since, in addition to her pivotal role in the modern history of women's rights, she was also a founder of the Section for Women in Legal Education and a trailblazer for women in our profession, as this paper by Herma Hill Kay, this year's recipient of the Women in Legal Education section's Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, sets out so well.

«Whether you are using racial preferences because your clients want you to or [because] you want to, you almost certainly are risking liability,» Levey said... «Not only may a law firm be liable for discrimination, but so may be the individual employees and partners at the law firm that participated in the discriminatory decisions,» writes Levey in his paper titled «The Legal Implications of Complying with Race - and Gender - based Client Preferences.»

In a March 31 issue paper, the commission says it is studying the role played by unregulated LSPs in the delivery of legal services.

Even if your legal department doesn't go completely paperless, you'll have much less paper after you implement Legal Files Software,» says legal department doesn't go completely paperless, you'll have much less paper after you implement Legal Files Software,» says Legal Files Software,» says Matt.

A traditional working culture may also be holding law firms back from embracing technological change: roughly 87 % of those surveyed said they still use pen and paper for completing legal work.

When criminal defense attorneys file papers against the state as a whole saying that the state made a mistake, it is the attorney general's office that has to act as legal counsel for the state and step in to defend them.

All of which is to say that the spate of recent talk about disruptive technology in the legal industry is almost certainly misplaced (which I think is the point of the Doley & Bulin paper).

Later, he says: «The exclusion of individuals from the scope of most areas of civil legal aid on the ground that they do not satisfy the residence requirements of the proposed order involves a wholly different sort of criterion from those embodied in LASPO [the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012] and articulated in the 2011 paper [a Ministry of Justice paper on LASPO].&rlegal aid on the ground that they do not satisfy the residence requirements of the proposed order involves a wholly different sort of criterion from those embodied in LASPO [the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012] and articulated in the 2011 paper [a Ministry of Justice paper on LASPO].&rLegal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012] and articulated in the 2011 paper [a Ministry of Justice paper on LASPO].»

«In many cases economic power has shifted to the consumer or client side, with buyers demanding more say on what lawyers do, how they do it, and how much and how they charge for it,» says «The Future of Legal Services in Canada: Trends and Issues» paper released by the Futures Initiative in June.

The intent of the Electronic Commerce Act is how to give legal effect to electronic communications (documents and signatures), especially in the light of legal rules that appear to assume the use of paper,» says Brendan Crawley, a spokesman for Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General.

Via a post on the Legal Writing Prof blog, I'm reading an interesting paper, «Say Goodbye to the Books: Information Literacy as the New Legal Research Paradigm,» by Professors Ellie Margolis and Kristen Murray of Temple University.

I will have more to say about the implications of this analysis for the legal academy in future posts, and also intend to speak further about how this paper and Simkovic's & McIntyre's recent article, which to be clear I consider an important, informative and valuable contribution to the literature, do and do not address one another.

Hody said a few legal websites in Texas also have simple papers or question and answer sections to help startups navigate the evolving regulatory landscape.