Sentences with phrase «made it to court represent»

Based on my own experience the 49 cases that made it to court represent at least 500 cases that were commenced.

Not exact matches

Dauman and George Abrams, another trustee who was removed last week, filed a complaint in state court in Canton, Massachusetts, on Monday challenging changes made to the trust by a lawyer claiming to represent Redstone.

As Town of Greece v. Galloway made its way through the courts, the town, represented by the Arizona - based (and faith - based) nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom, argued that the founders prayed in public, and members of the U.S. Congress continue to do so today.

Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Centre, which is now representing Alfie's family, said: «We are going to appeal to the ECHR hoping we can stay the end of life order our courts have made.»

Another lawyer representing Daniel and Amy McArthur, who own Ashers, has argued that the state is penalising the Belfast baking firm, with the courts effectively forcing them to make a cake whose message they disagree with as a matter of religious conscience.

Small claims court cases are much cheaper than superior court cases for both the plaintiff (the person doing the suing) and the defendant (the person being sued) because the parties are not allowed to have any attorneys represent them and other rules that simplify the lawsuit process, making the whole thing much cheaper, faster, and easier.

Our job is to entertain you, make sure we put players on the court that represent you and make sure you have a great time.

Attorneys representing all current and former NCAA student - athletes announced date changes made by the court, affecting the concussions settlement that will provide a 50 - year medical - monitoring program for student - athletes to screen for post-concussion syndrome and early - onset neurodegenerative disease that may have resulted from concussions or the accumulation of subconcussive hits while playing NCAA sports.

Section 598.12, beyond authorizing the appointment of an attorney to represent the parties» minor children, provides, «Such attorney shall be empowered to make independent investigations and to cause witnesses to appear and testify before the court on matters pertinent to the interests of the children.»

The ACLU & Co. would still have stormed immediately into court... but they wouldn't have done so while representing highly sympathetic clients who were being detained at the airport amid swarms of protesters, news media, Democratic politicians making welcome - to - Nazi - Germany speeches, and so on.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has for the first time acknowledged the contours of his unusual effort in representing Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader jailed in Manhattan on charges of conspiring to violate the American sanctions on Iran: In a newly unsealed court affidavit, he makes it clear that he is trying to turn a criminal case into a matter of international diplomacy.

New York State Senator Thomas Libous, a 13 - term incumbent representing Binghamton, was arraigned in federal court last Tuesday for allegedly making false statements to the FBI.

State Sen. Libous Facing Charges of Lying to Prosecutors New York State Senator Thomas Libous, a 13 - term incumbent representing Binghamton, was arraigned in federal court last Tuesday for allegedly making false statements to the FBI.

Counsels representing the accused persons: Joseph Nwobike SAN for the first and forth accused persons, Lanre Olayinka for the second and ninth accused persons, Pascal Made for the third accused person, C.A Nmarkwe for the fifth accused, Kayode Omoya for the eighth accused, Ige Asemundara for the sixth accused and E.O Ogbebor for the seventh and tenth accused persons filed bail applications praying the court to admit their clients to bail.

The Act's relevance has also been called into question following a recent successful application for a court injunction by the Motion Picture Association, a group representing film studios, forcing BT to block access to a website called Newzbin2, which did not make use of the Act.

Clegg, who has lived at 26 Lauren Court in Woodstock for 25 years, said in his press release that his experience as a trial lawyer, defending people's rights and more than 40 years of «community service make him well - suited to represent the sprawling and diverse» district.

Despite getting flak from civil rights advocates over his decision to veto bills that would have legalized specific kinds of pocket knives and offering more state funds to compensate lawyers designated by the court to represent defendants who don't make enough money to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case, people roared in applause throughout Cuomo's speech.

When a domestic violence survivor seeks a divorce, she will most likely be faced with at least three obstacles: the sometimes - prohibitive costs of a private attorney; a legally complex Supreme Court that makes it nearly impossible to represent oneself; and the fact that the abused party must track down her spouse (barring a rare exception granted by a judge) to serve him divorce papers.»

Senator Isah Misau representing Bauchi Central Senatorial Zone, has said he was ready to appear in court to defend himself following the suit filed against him for allegedly making «injurious falsehood» against the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris and the Nigerian Police Force.

ALBANY, NY (12/28/2011)(readMedia)-- A coalition of CSEA, PEF, UUP, NYSCOPBA, NYSTPBA, NYSPIA, and AFSCME Council 82, unions representing virtually all of New York State employees have filed lawsuits in federal court challenging the Cuomo Administration's unilateral increase in the percentage of health insurance contributions required of state retirees.The legal challenge applies to changes made by the administration this fall and covers state employees who have retired and seen their share of health insurance premium increase beyond the level at which they retired.

«The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver's] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy «private jets»), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma research,» federal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.

At the regular June town meeting, Al Muench, who said he represented about 70 people who are interested in playing pickleball, made three requests of the Town Board: permission to set up two pickleball courts on the existing basketball court in the municipal complex, the temporary use of a tennis net, and permission to locate a storage box for nets and balls to be located in the corner of the tennis courts.

Rowan Freeland, an intellectual property partner at the law firm Simmons & Simmons, which mostly represents life science companies, says that the new court may also make European patents stronger by making them cheaper to enforce.

The NAEP scores they focus on do not correspond in most of the cases to the relevant years in which the court orders were actually implemented; they ignore the fact that, as in Kentucky, initial increases in funding are sometimes followed by substantial decreases in later years; and their use of NAEP scores makes no sense in a state like New Jersey, where the court orders covered only a subset of the state's students (i.e., students in 31 poor urban school districts) and not the full statewide populations represented by NAEP scores.

Alan Rupe, an attorney representing public school districts and students in Kansas, is questioned by the media after making oral arguments on school finance to the Kansas Supreme Court on May 10 in Topeka.

«It is important for the U.S. Supreme Court to take this case, as the Ninth Circuit opinion ignores 20 years of precedents on special education law and represents yet another example of a federal agency exceeding its authority over educational decision making,» NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel said.

Pointing out that «states with constitutional provisions similar to ours have uniformly rejected the notion that schools are not aided by tuition payments,» the court in this case rejected the argument that the voucher payments merely represent indirect aid to private schools because they go to students and their parents, who then make the payment to the schools.

«We contend that the primary judge made a series of fundamental errors in her disposition of the interlocutory application,» lawyers representing Samsung said to the appeals court judges.

«Not only is John an incredible athlete, but his desire to make a difference off the court exemplifies what Nulo represents — the passion to inspire others to live active, healthy lives and provide pets the same opportunity».

This makes it very difficult to miss clues, which should surely be a significant obstacle to representing your client in court and therefore provide some source of challenge within the game.

Trial lawyers representing the cities — as well as six other California localities and New York City — stand to make billions of dollars in contingency fees should the court side with their clients.

Currently, those citizens who represent the principal inspiration for the OC (LiPs and small businesses) do not necessarily possess the knowledge of court procedure, the awareness of ADR processes available to them, or the cognisance of substantive and procedural law required to make the system effective.

Noting that would add up to 67 percent of the estate's total value, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made no bones about its opinion on the fee request, saying that it represented «unnecessary lawyering.»

Of course, parties may be and often are represented by counsel in Provincial Court, but the unavailability of costs makes it more difficult to find representation.

We also represent employers before all levels of courts in wrongful dismissal actions, occupational health and safety matters, judicial reviews of decisions made by administrative tribunals and to obtain injunctive relief.

Newly made - up partner Guido Kleve, who has developed a specialisation with regard to port instructions, is representing NiedersachsenPorts in a dispute before the Lueneburg higher administrative court concerning the provision of port space to port users.

He represented the State of Maryland in hearings before District Court Commissioners on a wide variety of cases, and this experience made him skilled at evaluating a defendant's probable cause, likelihood to appear, and danger to the community.

Citing the Canadian Judicial Council's «Statement of Principles on Self - Represented Litigants and Accused Persons», the Court went on to make a ruling that included an explanation of law and in particular procedure and limitations.

Citing the Canadian Judicial Council's «Statement of Principles on Self - Represented Litigants and Accused Persons», the Court went on to make a ruling that included an explanation -LSB-...]

By order dated July 14, 2014, the motion judge, the Honourable Justice Martin S. James of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sitting at Ottawa, granted Mr. Arnone's motion for summary judgment and ordered Best Theratronics to pay (i) damages equal to the gross amount of the salary Arnone would have earned until he qualified for an unreduced pension, less payments made to him to satisfy the statutory obligations of the employer, (ii) $ 65,000 representing the present value of the loss of an unreduced pension, (iii) a retirement allowance equal to 30 weeks» pay, and (iv) costs totaling $ 52,280.09.

«If victims are mad at anybody, they should not be mad at the courts, they should be mad at governments, which have consistently made business decisions to underfund the system in the expectations that judges will let them off the hook,» said lawyer Frank Addario, who represented Ontario's Criminal Lawyers» Association as an intervener in the Jordan case.

If you're self - represented you should be able to pick up the playbook and read the first couple chapters and then jump to wherever you are in your process and have a road map of what to expect, what your options are, different plays you can make in court, what places you can settle, what you can expect in settling, resources for where to find information on what's likely to happen in your case, the best case scenarios and worst case scenarios that any experienced state bar court defense lawyer is going to be able to construct.

And even where non-English-speaking Hispanic plaintiffs are represented by an English - speaking lawyer, if that lawyer can't speak any Spanish, then he can't communicate directly with the client and share the kind of advice on those seeming trivialities — like how to answer a question or what tone of voice to use in the courtroom or what to do to keep from forgetting what to say — that put clients at ease and make them more effective witnesses in court.

A child wishes: (i) to make a separate court application; or (ii) is seeking to be independently represented in existing proceedings.

And nearly all the big names in Internet service providers, from Google to Yahoo! to Facebook and others, are currently seeking a declaratory judgment from the FISC - R (Zwillinger is again representing Yahoo! in this case) asking the court for the authority to publish the number of surveillance demands — just the number — the government has made.

That's the question, as reported by New Hampshire's Laconia Citizen, which says that the defense attorney representing a convicted rapist is trying to convince the court that his client's right to a fair trial was compromised by comments made by a jury member on a personal blog.

Rather than having to attend Court and do the best they could to make their case without guidance or assistance, they could retain a lawyer of their choosing to provide them with legal advice and represent them in Court.

The Probate and Family Court judge appointed defendant attorney to represent plaintiff in those proceedings, but also asked defendant to perform duties akin to those performed by a guardian ad litem, including the making of reports and recommendations to the Probate and Family Court judge regarding the best interests of the plaintiff child.

Part of the team advising (in relation to US litigation argued pursuant to English Law) and representing (High Court, Commercial Court) a major private equity firm (Terra Firma) regarding misrepresentations made by a US investment bank during the sale and financing of a high profile multi-billion pound takeover of a FTSE 100 company and the subsequent pre-pack administration of the acquired company.

(And not only did the husband not copy the wife on this very ill - advised letter — which was returned by the court — but he was also represented by a lawyer at the time, making his direct request to the judge doubly inappropriate).