Sentences with phrase «more than the defendant»

Contribution liability — a defendant's legal obligation to pay more than that defendant's «share» of the plaintiff's judgment — is a loss to the paying tortfeasor.

«In just 15 percent of cases,» the NYT reports, «both sides were right to go to trial — meaning that the defendant paid less than the plaintiff had wanted but the plaintiff got more than the defendant had offered.»

However, there are no guarantees that you will get more than the defendant is offering.

@Rodrigo: plea bargains can contain more than the defendant pleading guilty.

[3] Defendants in political trials tend to participate in the proceedings more than defendants in non-political cases, as they may have greater ability to depart from courtroom norms to speak to political and moral issues.

Not exact matches

The suit names more than a dozen defendants, including Stone, Wikileaks and Trump's family members, and alleges an illegal conspiracy to help Trump win the 2016 election.

Since fiscal year 2009, the Justice Department has filed over 18,000 financial fraud cases against more than 25,000 defendants.

«Through the defendants» activities, the Mabna Institute stole more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from universities, and email accounts of employees at private sector companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations,» according to the indictment.

«The defendant did far more than exchange typed words on a lifeless cellphone screen with a faceless stranger.

Because defendants sold far more computing power than they owned and dedicated to virtual currency mining, they owed investors a daily return that was larger than any actual return they were making on their limited mining operations.»

«Defendants hold themselves out as nothing more than a neutral technological platform, designed simply to enable drivers and passengers to transact the business of transportation,» the Labor Commissioner's Office wrote about Uber.

Regulators, in other words, can impose much more pain on data breach defendants than consumers suing in private class actions.

The courtroom was cleared for arraignments in a criminal drug and weapons case that featured a different Martin Shkreli — a Bedford, N.Y. man more than 20 years older than the 34 - year - old Pharma Bro — as one of the defendants.

Startups and small businesses account for more than 55 percent of patent troll defendants, and TC Heartland ensures that they can litigate in jurisdictions where they already have representation.

Can you imagine being in a group that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 can not get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug - related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

A Christian MP has said the there is «serious problem in the criminal justice system» after a report found ethnic minority defendants are more likely to be jailed for some crimes than white people.

Although the parmesan cheese cases were recently dismissed, the defendant companies were involved in contentious litigation for more than a year before the trial - level court dismissed the action.

The lawsuit was brought by the Crystal Lake Park District and names more than 200 defendants.

«The defendant used two publicly funded Bronx organizations like his personal piggy bank, diverting more than a half million dollars earmarked for services for needy New Yorkers in little over eight years,» the AG said.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr., who styles himself a progressive reformer, is actually far more punitive toward poor and minority defendants than his counterparts in other boroughs.

«This bill would do little more than transfer to the taxpayers of this state an entirely new obligation to pay for any and all existing expenses related to general defense legal work, far beyond legal representation of indigent criminal defendants,» Cuomo wrote.

On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Joan M. Azrack spent more than two hours giving instructions to the jury, reading aloud from 54 pages explaining the law and how jurors should go about considering each charge the defendants face.

Still, Mr. Brafman added, «in today's climate, defendants facing political corruption charges must be concerned about potential juror bias that may be based more on perception than fact.»

According to the charges, the victim paid the defendant more than $ 18,000 in insurance premiums between January 1, 2007, and April, 2010.

Percoco, 49, of South Salem, is charged with taking more than $ 320,000 in payoffs from an energy executive and two Syracuse businessmen, also defendants, for using his clout as Cuomo's right hand man to advance a planned power plant and cut red tape on a state - funded Syracuse project.

«More than a month ago the government sent the defendant a. . .

«This defendant manipulated and abused taxpayer - subsidized benefits so she could get paid for more than three months of not working, and then compounded her culpability with a forged Family and Medical Leave Act application to protect her job,» said Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott in a news release.

Bharara wants Silver, 72, to forfeit the $ 5.2 million he pocketed in the scheme and cough up «a substantial fine of at least $ 1 million is appropriate in this case, particularly in light of the defendant's significant remaining resources and his more than $ 70,000 - per - year pension, paid for by New York State taxpayers.»

Mixed race suspects were more likely to be sent to court than given a police disposal; Black and mixed race defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody prior to their hearing date; Black defendants had a higher chance of being acquitted than white ones, suggesting that different standards of evidence may be applied to cases involving different groups of defendants; Mixed race teenagers were more likely than others to be given a (more serious) community sentence than a (less onerous) first tier penalty or referral order.

The court held that the Plaintiff has made more than sufficient references to the specific allegations, the dates and times were made plus the specific radio / media platforms on which the allegations were made by Defendants against the Plaintiff.

Since 2010, Cuomo's election campaign received $ 85,000 from the Syracuse defendants and more than $ 69,000 from Competitive Power Ventures, the

Since 2010, Cuomo's election campaign received $ 85,000 from the Syracuse defendants and more than $ 69,000 from Competitive Power Ventures, the Daily News has reported.

Caproni lost her temper more than once about the sloth - like pace of the presentations, especially by the four legal teams representing the four defendants.

A little more than three months ago the defendant in question was a Democrat, Shelly Silver, accused of taking bribes and kickbacks of $ 4 million, some of the money being listed as «referral fees» for steering asbestos cases and real - estate developers to Silver - connected law firms.

According to a summary of the indictment, provided to reporters, «the majority of sales took place in broad daylight in residential neighborhoods in Harlem and East Harlem... the defendants received more than $ 52,000 as a result of the firearms purchases during the investigation.»

«Soon after this defendant admitted to a 10 - year - scheme stealing more than $ 80,000 in welfare benefits and winning a diversion from a prison sentence, he had the gall to perpetrate the very same ruse using the same fake identity as before,» said state Inspector General Leahy Scott, whose office helped nab Dukeshire each time.

Ratner is accused of stealing more than $ 27,000 from an elderly man known to the defendant.

The Legal Aid Society, a nonprofit Hempstead - based agency that represents criminal defendants who can not afford attorneys, receives more than $ 6 million in funding annually from the county and state grants to cover salaries and operating expenses.

Because he has gripped the helm of the Assembly for more than 20 years, Speaker Sheldon Silver's new status as federal defendant jolts the Albany legislative process right at the start of a new term.

In return for the continuing illegal benefits, the defendants were involved in orchestrating a complex method to get Singh more than $ 20 million in indirect government loan guarantees from the Town of Oyster Bay, according to Eastern District federal prosecutors in court papers.

«Specifically, over a period of more than four years, the defendants attempted to cover up the assault of a handcuffed prisoner by Burke by obstructing the federal grand jury investigation and, when they learned that the scope of the investigation expanded into an investigation of the obstructive conduct, the defendants then attempted to obstruct the obstruction investigation,» Rohde wrote.

The «nature and circumstances of the crimes charged are shocking and appalling as the defendants... are alleged to have grossly and outrageously violated their positions of trust and operated in a manner more akin to criminal enterprise than a district attorney's office,» the letter said.

«Menendez is entitled to no more and no less deference than any other defendant.

The judge also gave a stern warning to the defendant not to participate in any rally or be found in a crowd of more than 10 persons in the course of the bail.

An expert on Freedom of Information Law is saying the City of Buffalo has more to gain in complying with a Freedom of Information Law request than a defendant has to lose in a federal civil rights case.

Rajaratnam has been the biggest catch so far in a wide - ranging insider - trading investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that's resulted in more than two dozen prosecutions of white collar defendants.

U.S. District Senior Judge Thomas J. McAvoy will rely on federal sentencing guidelines if he sentences Scarborough, and must publicly state his justifications if he sentences the lawmaker to less or more time than are called for in the guidelines, which take into account factors such as a defendant's criminal history and acceptance of responsibility for their crimes.

«In 2012 alone over 250 judicial opinions — more than double the number in 2007 — cited defendants arguing in some form or another that their «brains made them do it,»» according to an analysis by Nita Farahany, a law professor and director of Duke University's Initiative for Science and Society.

Kleinberg et al. exploited data on more than 758,000 defendants who were arrested in New York City between 2008 and 2013.

Between 2005 and 2012, more than 1585 U.S. published judicial opinions describe the use of neurobiological evidence by criminal defendants to shore up their defense, according to a study published last week in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences by legal scholar Nita Farahany of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues.