Sentences with phrase «merit less cases»

Not exact matches

In fact, while the billionaire doesn't mention it in his op - ed piece, he has also reportedly been involved in financing several other lawsuits against Gawker that haven't gone to trial, some of which have even less legal merit than the Gawker case.

There are other, less common causes, which merit listing here in case you've exhausted other explanations:

(1) The Vergara Decision: This case pits nine Oakland public school students against the State of California, arguing that (a) granting tenure after less than two years, (b) retaining teachers during layoffs based on seniority instead of merit, and (c) the near impossibility of dismissing incompetent teachers, is harming California's overall system of public education, and is disproportionately harming public education in low income communities.

There is merit to this argument, but only that the dog will be less likely to develop a disease from one side of the family - as is the case with us, humans, too.

Any case of real merit is buried among hundreds and thousands of less useful cases and marginal cases.

That's a point made by Doug Berman at the Sentencing Law Blog («Rather, I wish primarily to urge anyone and everyone defending President Bush's sentencing determination in the Libby case to explain why all these less prominent defendants — most of whom are now locked in a cell while Libby now makes plans for the paid lecture circuit — don't also merit some executive sympathy»); Ellen Pogdor at White Collar Crime Blog («But what is bothersome here is that one elite individual is receiving this benefit while others with comparable circumstances will not have this benefit — it all comes down to who has access to the President.

Justice Brown drives home the point that the system is less focused on adjudicating the merits of a case, and far more focused on the procedure itself (57 of 74 rules deal with interlocutory matters and only 17 with final determinations).

Writing for the two - judge majority of the three - judge panel, Sotomayor affirmed the certification, holding that the standard of expert testimony for certification of a class is less than on the merits of a case.

Case management, which is standard practice and conducted by the arbitral tribunal that will eventually hear the merits of the case, leads to much efficiency and less gamesmanship by lawyCase management, which is standard practice and conducted by the arbitral tribunal that will eventually hear the merits of the case, leads to much efficiency and less gamesmanship by lawycase, leads to much efficiency and less gamesmanship by lawyers.

But because under the reforms success fees will no longer be recoverable, but capped to 25 % of the claimant's damages, lawyers could become less able to offer a CFA in a case which is complicated, despite it having merit, as their pool of funds will be diminished.