Sentences with phrase «merits of the federal case»
Missing from the press coverage I have read is any sense of the merits of the federal case enabled by the new law.
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They returned to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan this morning to continue discussing the merits of the case.
The denial of a review is especially concerning given the existing split among federal circuit courts of appeal, one reason NSBA and school district lawyers met late last year with the U.S. Solicitor General, urging the administration to encourage the Supreme Court to hear the case even if it disagreed on the merits.
If, instead of bringing counterclaims in the original lawsuit, the defendant brings a separate lawsuit against the plaintiff, the plaintiff could seek to either (1) consolidate the cases if they are filed in the same court system (i.e. a federal case and a federal case, or a New York State case and a New York State case), or (2) move to dismiss the new lawsuit because the claims were required to be brought in the original lawsuit as mandatory counterclaims, or (3) move to stay proceedings in the second lawsuit pending resolution of the first lawsuit, or (4) move to dismiss the claims in the second lawsuit on the merits if it is apparent from the face of the countersuit that it does not state a claim upon which relief can be granted or was filed in the wrong court.
In an earlier ruling on the merits of the case, the Federal Circuit upheld Judge Matsch's decision setting aside the jury's verdict in favor of Medtronic and granting judgment as a matter of law in favor of BrainLAB.
He has represented federal and private sector employees in investigations and cases in front of the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Office of Special Counsel.
The last figure looks, based on federal dockets, at these attorneys» total case wins as counsel of record for merits parties in the Supreme Court.
We represent federal government employees in MSPB (Merit Systems Protection Board) cases of disciplinary action or removal.
We get a lot of federal employee cases from the Merit Systems Protection Board.
In cases in which one of the parties is proceeding pro se (normally these are federal employee cases from the Merit Systems Protection Board), argument is not held unless the court decides it would be helpful.
Actually, there is fairly limited Michigan law applying the ministerial exemption to this sort of wrongful termination, so the defendants rely on a lot of federal cases involving the ministerial exemption from Title VII, which is the subject of large circuit split on the substantive merits / jurisdiction question.