Sentences with phrase «n't hold up in a court»

But when workers sue over labor issues — discrimination, for example, or wrongful termination — companies sometimes find that the contractor designation, which they thought would protect them from liability, doesn't hold up in court.

Despite the fact that, by virtue of being a woman she would have been considered an unreliable witness whose testimony wouldn't hold up in court, Mary Magdalene is charged with telling the world that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

Having sampled public opinion as well as having made a more precise legal interpretation, the lawyer concluded that the charge would not hold up in court; Religion evokes worship; secular humanism does not.

And for that, because the laws in all these areas are so different and because they change all the time, I really do think that if you want to have a contract then you need to go to a lawyer who is a family lawyer, who is also really familiar with lesbian and gay and bisexual and transgender law, who will understand what the issues are and what you might need to put into this agreement, and who can also tell you when you may or may not hold up in court and what the risks and the benefits are.

They don't hold up in court.)

Most lawyers I know think that food libel laws will not hold up in court.

As a matter of fact, training without evidence of comprehension might not hold up in court should an issue ever reach that point.

Even though Samsung tried to show that there was prior art to disprove Apple's patents, they didn't hold up in court.

Over 90 % of the private student loan lawsuits being issued wouldn't hold up in court if the students only showed up to their court date.

They don't hold up in court and they don't reflect in paperwork unless that paperwork is crafted around the agreement.

So, you can say what you want - but, when the lawsuit comes your way - it won't hold up in court.

So, no, while such embargoes wouldn't hold up in court most outlets would never break them anyway because it would be like shooting yourself in the foot.

If an artist has a legal copyright, how can that NOT hold up in court?

If they've done the latter then whatever they find on the servers, if they can't verify it with information from other sources it won't hold up in court.

That would be par for the course for Pruitt, who's been so eager to roll back environmental protections that his plans often don't hold up in court.

Authorities have been wary of prosecuting members of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints out of fear the 19th century anti-polygamy law ran afoul of more recent civil rights protections and would not hold up in court.

And the letter of instruction is not legally binding, so it may not hold up in court in the event of an estate dispute among heirs.

Your will is the ideal time to write all of this down, because just telling your kids, «Oh yeah, Kyle gets the TV,» doesn't hold up in court.

It's also important to remember that a prenup may not hold up in court.

However, these contracts do not hold up in court if the property is damaged in any event, except for negligence.

This may not hold up in court, but it is likely to influence the decision if both partners agree beforehand.

Not exact matches

It is not clear whether the evidence of coercion brands have managed to collect would hold up in court.

In every other court, doesn't genetic evidence hold up?

For instance, the clergyperson who is told at coffee hour by Mr. White that Mr. White held up a bank could not claim in court that such information was given in confidence.

The Modell law has not yet been tested in court, and presumably none of the parties in this lawsuit care to find out if it will hold up.

It's a safe bet the whole mess will end up in court — again — assuming someone doesn't get a court order to prevent one of the meetings (likely the one being held by the Ognibene crowd) from occurring in the first place.

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In August of 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would consider hearing the McDonnell case and whether or not Honest Services Fraud would hold up.

Pataki pretty much stuck to the GOP line, criticizing the president for entitling «enemy combatants» to Miranda warnings, enabling them to «lawyer up and not talk about what they know»; and going along with US AG Eric Holder's decision to (so far) hold the KSM trial in a civilian court in NYC.

While it didn't hold up in the supreme court, people have argued that the income tax is unconstitutional because it's not specifically mentioned (legally that's a questionable argument), but there is a feeling that the constitution defends the libertarian against an overreaching government (sorry - that's too general).

The court was to hear the case on Monday but had to adjourn because the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) officials who are holding him did not turn up in court with the suspect.

I think this should hold up in court, but I don't know whether it will get through the New York State Legislature.

We're not lawyers, we we don't know if this would hold up in a court of law but regardless of that fact is that the website does confess that they are responsible for the use of fake profiles!

Students are uniquely disadvantaged in schools, as their ability to voice their concerns and attitudes isn't guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and subsequent court cases aren't always held up in students» favor.

As schools and school districts can and have been successfully litigated for failure to conduct due diligence when selecting consultants, it is important to take the time to properly vet firms to see if they have the credentials and experience to not only hold up as experts in a court of law but more importantly to deliver high quality and effective services to help make schools safer and more productive learning environments.

Not that it matters, by definition forcing someone to sign something to have their property returned to them is coercion and would never hold up in a court of law.

(I should be clear that I'd never, ever suggest signing a contract on the grounds that you think a provision you don't like is unenforceable, even if the entire Supreme Court, Scalia and Thomas included, told you before hand that yeah, that would never hold up in cCourt, Scalia and Thomas included, told you before hand that yeah, that would never hold up in courtcourt.

The Family Court issues another order that says that Sally has to either refinance the house or sell it in 90 days, and if she doesn't (or can't, because she is unable to conjure up a buyer out of thin air) the court will hold her in contempt of court, and may jail her as a reCourt issues another order that says that Sally has to either refinance the house or sell it in 90 days, and if she doesn't (or can't, because she is unable to conjure up a buyer out of thin air) the court will hold her in contempt of court, and may jail her as a recourt will hold her in contempt of court, and may jail her as a recourt, and may jail her as a result.

Granted, most of the things you hold court for revolve around money, which ends up being repetative and in the end your choices don't really matter.

Wonder if such a patent could hold up in court, I don't see anything in here that isn't obvious about the concept, outside of the production method of the device that are likely covered by different patents.

At least that what Nintendo believes, and that's held up in court before (not to mention, Sony destroyed BleemCast on similar grounds, only on a hardware side).

In court papers, the gallery says its gold shipment shouldn't be held up, Reuters reported, because it was a straightforward «purchase of a tangible commodity» having nothing to do with the allegedly fraudulent investment scheme that Stanford is accused of orchestrating.

Now the test will be how long each project is held up in court by people who do not heed warnings of record floods and droughts in the future.

«Whether or not the attribution would hold up in court, Stanton Glantz expressed some enthusiasm about such a strategy, based on his experience with tobacco litigation.

The request is a Hail Mary pass to save the company from bankruptcy, and is not likely to hold up in court.

«They're producing a lot of short, poorly crafted rulemakings that are not likely to hold up in court.»

She claims the cocaine in her purse was put there by a friend who had borrowed the bag earlier, but the «I didn't know» defense typically doesn't hold up well in court.

Remember that the officer's decision to detain you will not always hold up in court.

You can get a «Legal DNA Paternity» test that will supposedly hold up in court, or you can go for the less expensive «Peace of Mind» home kit that is said to be the same test as the «legal» version but not usable in court.

Even in the case of the Succoth hut on the condominium's balcony, where the SCC said that religious belief had only to be sincere to qualify for Charter protection (Linus van Pelt in Peanuts expressed that decades ago: it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as you're sincere), the religious person got to set up his hut contrary to the condo's by - laws because the court held it was no big deal for the condo.