Sentences with phrase «number of the leading cases»

Members advise regularly on these issues and have appeared in a number of leading cases.

Represented clients in a number of leading cases before the European Court of Justice and House of Lords

In this role, Michael assisted Justice Rothstein with a number of leading cases in varied fields of law.

A significant portion of his practice relates to complex cases that involve the interface of intellectual property and antitrust, especially in relation to standard essential patents and he has been involved in a significant number of the leading cases in that area.

He has been counsel in a number of leading cases in the field of workplace drug and alcohol testing.

Not exact matches

As I've said, there have been a number of research papers of late, led in large part by the work of French scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.

The even number of justices, divided between four conservatives, three liberals, and the more centrist justice Anthony Kennedy, could lead to a split decision in the case, according to some legal experts.

In one case, ICE officers were said to be «following a lead» and that they «received information» on the specific room number of a suspect who hours earlier had shown the front - desk clerk a Mexican voter ID card.

Research has shown that sitting at a desk for long periods of time can lead to health problems, yet a surprising number of commercial workplaces still reserve their sit to stand desks for executives only, or offer them on a case basis to employees who request them.

It may be that the ecumenical attitude and mentality now officially adopted by the Church will lead to a decrease in the number of conversions, at least temporarily, or lead in some cases to indifference in regard to the denominational question.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

He joined with a number of other DC residents on the case but was the lead plaintiff in Jackson v District of Columbia Board of Elections.

However, like with diabetes and PCOS, assisted fertility and hormonal support to conceive babies is leading to an increase in the number of cases of babies born to mothers with hypoplasia.

No sooner did the UPMC study issue, however, then came a second study by the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest researchers [4]- this one of an older group of 9 - to 12 - year - old football players - which found that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not lead to higher force impacts during games, precisely as they had predicted would be the case if the amount of contact was reduced during practice, and pouring a significant amountg of cold water on the UPMC study.

However, from 1997 to 2007, the number of peanut allergy cases in the U.S. tripled, leading the medical community to reexamine its recommendations.

Business for Sterling mobilised vast numbers of businesspeople against the single currency, neutralising the Government's economic case for the euro, and Vote 2004, which gradually evolved into Open Europe, ultimately led the charge against the EU Constitution.

Earlier this week an independent review led by Lord Carlile accepted that the use of control orders was justified in a small number of cases.

Giving the lead judgement, master of the rolls Lord Dyson found the rules governing the appeals process under fast - track were «systemically unfair and unjust» because «the time limits are so tight as to make it impossible for there to be a fair hearing of appeals in a significant number of cases».

While Bratton wouldn't reveal the number of officers under scrutiny, attorneys familiar with the investigation, which late last year led to the arrest of former NYPD lieutenant Robert Sung and detective Yatu Yam, believe the case has indeed mushroomed.

We were thrilled to receive the support of Baroness Verma who said of the event: «What is a recognised fact is that the number of women led businesses is growing and that there is a strong business case for banks and other business support organisations to ensure they meet and respond to this increasing market's needs.

Taking as their theme «Leading the Way», a number of influential speakers will present case studies from across Great Britain and Ireland which will highlight innovation and leading edge developments across the broad spectrum of the highways and transportation Leading the Way», a number of influential speakers will present case studies from across Great Britain and Ireland which will highlight innovation and leading edge developments across the broad spectrum of the highways and transportation leading edge developments across the broad spectrum of the highways and transportation agenda.

«Kings County Supreme Court, led by Administrative Judge Lawrence Knipel, has reduced the number of our oldest pending cases by 25 percent, and increased the number of foreclosures resolved by 62 percent,» DiFiore said.

The guilty verdict is another conviction for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York who has led a number of high - profile corruption cases of state lawmakers and public officials.

This led to a number of High Court cases, notably against Surrey County Council in 2000, with parents claiming that their children had been discriminated against.

Although Erie County health officials do not have a precise number of children affected, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz proposed $ 3.75 million over five years for lead prevention, a portion of which will address the lack of case management for these children diagnosed with levels of 5 to 9 micrograms.

Neither state nor county officials can provide a precise number of children who are diagnosed with blood lead levels of 5 to 9 micrograms because the state's data collection system is not set up to track and and analyze the cases of children whose lead levels fall in the range.

It is unfortunate that in today's Nigeria, the authorities seem so prepared to waste so much public resources in conducting elections as was the case in the Kogi State supplementary election, which many consider unnecessary, but was conducted on the grounds of a so - called 91,000 voters, who were yet to vote, and who may not even have had the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, whereas the total number of people who had PVCs was just 25,000, and APC was already leading by well over 41,000 votes.

The average number of lead poisoning cases among New York state children in 2014, the most recent data, was about 1.6 percent in each county.

Regardless of whether the case comes to court a number of observers believe Sugarman's memo could lead to more scrutiny of the use of party accounts in general.

Although mutations in several proteins can lead to inherited forms of the disease, nobody knows what triggers the overwhelming number of sporadic cases.

«Given the mobilization of creationist interest groups around this issue and anti-evolution public opinion — particularly in states with a high number of conservative Protestants — you might think that this would lead to greater success in turning these bills into laws, but this has not been the case,» Johnson said.

In the case of genetics, improvements in technology have led to rapid increases in the number of labs addressing wildlife population questions.

The CDC report also notes that AIDS is now the leading cause of death in young men of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, and that the number of cases of AIDS in the US continues to rise steeply.

Considering the thousands of people diagnosed with these cancers annually, a 1 % increase in early - stage diagnosis could add up to a significant number of new cases and potentially lead to better outcomes.

«For that reason, dividing the number of deaths by the number of cases may be flawed,» says Ghani's colleague Tini Garske, the lead author of the study exposing gaps in the data.

Because it is so deadly and because the number of new cases is increasing, it is predicted to be the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the western world by 2020, trailing only lung cancer, he adds.

This can lead to a number of complications and in many cases be potentially fatal.

«We found that India had nearly 6 million annual clinically diagnosed dengue cases between 2006 and 2012 — almost 300 times greater than the number of cases that had been officially reported,» said Donald Shepard, PhD, lead author of the study and a health economics professor at Brandeis University.

Case numbers of guinea worm disease are at an all - time low, but violence in South Sudan could lead to a resurgence next year.

The BRS virus is equivalent to the human RS virus and causes most of the cases of serious pneumonia that lead to fatalities in calves and to epidemics which can spread to a large number of farms in the same area.

The fact that the Hayneses were able to tap leading medical experts who were willing to reduce their rates to devote scores of hours to their case is just the first of a number of fortuitous turns their story took.

Borja Ibáñez — joint lead investigator on the study with Valentín Fuster — explains that «the possibility to reduce so dramatically the number of cases of chronic heart failure (with all the associated treatments and hospital readmissions) with such a cheap procedure (the metoprolol treatment costs less than two euros per patient) could generate enormous savings for health services across Europe.»

Passing on half of the cost of the levy to consumers leading to an increase in the price of high and mid-sugar drinks of up to 20 % was estimated to reduce the number of adults and children with obesity by 81600, result in 10800 fewer cases of diabetes and 149,000 fewer decaying teeth per year.

Mylavarapu explains that a number of pulmonary upper airway disorders are associated with the vibration and / or deformation of the soft structures around the airway, leading to partial or complete collapse of the airway, as in the case of sleep apnea.

«While there have been several advances in treating cancer and improving the quality of life of patients, the number of new cases continues to surge,» said Jamie Bernard, lead author and an assistant professor in pharmacology and toxicology.

But new research led by University of Pennsylvania scientists suggests that mutations in an X chromosome gene called TEX11 are responsible for a significant number of cases of infertility — an estimated 1 percent of cases of non-obstructive azoospermia.

In a Policy View published in The Lancet Neurology journal, a group of leading experts on the epidemiology of dementia state that the number of people with dementia — both new cases and total numbers with the disease — in some Western European countries is stabilising despite population aging, in direct contrast to the «dementia epidemic» reported in some recent studies.

«In cases where you are trying to make therapeutic decisions, you want to have some numbers that you can fall back on,» says Vincent Liu, a graduate student in Cima's lab at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and lead author of the paper.

New psychoactive substances have been associated with fatalities and severe injuries in a number of cases in the U.S. and have led investigators to rethink traditional drug monitoring protocols.

Although further investigation is under way, no evidence currently suggests that these mutations are leading to an unusual increase in the number of H1N1 infections or a greater number of severe or fatal cases.