Sentences with phrase «multiple judgments»

This is true, but the advantages of multiple judgments in the form of alternative viewpoints on the law could still be retained even when insisting on a majority ratio for the decision.

In the case that you have multiple judgments against you, the oldest is considered senior and will be paid before the others.

However, we would stress that the issue is not multiple judgments per se, but the lack of a single identifiable ratio.

It is our contention that both objectives may be adversely affected in part by longer judgments, but more often — and more severely — by multiple judgments being issued with no clear ratio.

In addition, given that many products will include multiple ornamental features that could be covered by design patents, this raises the possibility that a company could get hit for multiple judgments for all its profits.

Practitioners would be able to extract arguments for subsequent cases, but would not have to charge clients fees for sifting through multiple judgments to determine what they think the law is while adding caveats that it might not be.

In those circumstances, rather than issue multiple judgments which concur in the result but not all of the reasoning, and thus leave the law in a state of flux, it is incumbent on the presiding judge to insist upon a majority decision.

Our efforts representing US nuclear sector clients in damage claims against the federal government related to spent nuclear fuel disposal have led to multiple judgments in excess of $ 100 million in contested trials.

For most Jews this year, the Day of Judgment (as it is called in the Jewish prayer book) will be a day of multiple judgments.

Far from clarifying the law, multiple judgments can result in further confusion if they do not contain a clear and agreed ratio.