Sentences with phrase «of civil trials»

Yet the number of civil trials seems to be on the decline, and has been for probably a decade or more.

He has tried most types of civil trials as both a plaintiff's attorney and defense attorney: including lawsuits involving contracts, personal injury, commercial, equitable, fraud, civil rights and all major torts.

Marc Galanter and Angela Frozena, Pound Civil Justice Institute, 2011 Forum for State Appellate Judges, «The Continuing Decline of Civil Trials in American Courts,» at 3.

The total number of civil trials declined by over 50 % from 1992 to 2005 in the nationâ $ ™ s 75 most populous counties.

During her public service years, she participated in the drafting of Rules on Supervision of Civil Trials by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Barbier is set to assign damages after a third phase of the civil trial over the accident, scheduled for January 2015.

Stem Legal wishes to congratulate our client Randy McClanahan of McClanahan Myers Espey LLP, who was elected President of the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists (TACTAS).

Workers Compensation cases are tried before an Administrative Law judge and do not have the formality of a civil trial.

Prior to joining Strong Law Offices, Jason served as an associate attorney with the Chicago offices of the civil trial practice firms Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, and Pipal & Berg, LLP.

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After the conclusion of a civil trial in Hong Kong, an unsuccessful party to an action will usually be ordered by the court to pay the majority of the legal costs incurred by the successful party.

Jack has 38 years of civil trial experience, with particular emphasis on complex commercial litigation, business disputes, valuation issues, contract disputes, business torts, legal malpractice and estate disputes.

In addition to Family Law, Merrilee continues to engage in the practice of Civil Trial Law, General Law, and Personal Injury Law.

Apparently fed up with judges who sit on decisions for ever and ever, the government in Guyana is bringing in legislation, the Judicial Decisions Bill, that will place a 120 day absolute limit on how long after the conclusion of a civil trial a judge may take to release the decision.

Mr. Hilton is proud to have served as the President of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, a statewide bar organization of over 800 members devoted to the improvement of civil trial practice.

The NBTA and ABPLA are the only organizations that certify attorneys in the fields of civil trial practice or in professional liability practice at the national level.

Most recently, Curt has been named to the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America ® in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White - Collar and Personal Injury Litigation; Corporate Counsel's «Top Lawyers» for 2011; Florida Trend's Legal Elite for 2011 in the area of Civil Trial Litigation; Florida Super Lawyers for 2011 in the area of Business Litigation; and has been dubbed «an amazing future litigation star» by Chambers USA Guide (2011).

Section 653 does not spell out any procedure for resolving a dispute as to quantum; its process is, ex facie, summary but I do not think that it precludes an inquiry by the trial judge to establish the amount of compensation, so long as this can be done expeditiously and without turning the sentencing proceedings into the equivalent of a civil trial or into a reference in a civil proceeding.

Although the arbitration hearing process is based on the judicial model of a civil trial, there are important differences between a trial and an arbitration hearing.

Not exact matches

While at Temple, she was a member of the Temple National Trial team and an editor for the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review.

With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.

-LRB-...) A person close to SAC said the fund had chosen settlement over two to three years of civil litigation that would follow the trial of Mr Martoma, threatening prolonged uncertainty for investors and staff of the hedge fund.

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

- The rav «ages of the Inquisition and «witch trials» finally were stopped by secular, civil law.

A more developed treatment of these contrasts will he found in Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenants American Civil Religion in Time of Trial (New York: Seabury Press.

Many sincerely spiritual persons today are pressing for the church's recognition of their life style, whether that be commune living (singles, marrieds or celibates), single living, gay alliances, celibacy, or trial marriages that might be civil before they are religious.

The trial of Jesus is in two parts: the ecclesiastical trial before Caiaphas and the civil trial before Pilate.

Recent sex discrimination cases resulting in large settlements, in some cases awards of multi-million dollars, to be split with aggressive trial attorneys, are the latest examples of misusing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The civil war ended in victory for Parliament and the trial and execution of Charles.

The civil and ecclesiastical authorities were continually on the watch for them; church trials and civil burnings occurred regularly for a century and more, in many areas of the two countries.

The Walk to Freedom of 1963 was the nation's largest civil rights demonstration in history at that time — a trial run for the March on Washington — and it stopped at Cobo.

ELK POINT, SD — It would probably not be accurate to say Professor Mindy Brashears speaks with a Texas twang or that ABC's attorney Dane Butswinkas has a Richmond dialect, but the difficulty the two have understanding each other slowed proceedings on the fourth day of the $ 1.9 billion civil defamation trial against the network.

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He held that the legal system had provided remedy for a suspect in the civil suit for relief from malicious process «if after the investigation with or without arrest and detention» or «after the trial the evidence does not establish the guilt of the suspect.»

Just a few of these include: restrictions trial by jury, DNA databases, ID cards, a Civil Contingency Act that gives the government the power to rule by decree, control orders, the Religious Hatred Bill and a definition of glorifying terrorism that was drafted so widely that the Irish Taiseoch was reckoned to be at serous risk of annual prosecution commemorating the Easter Rising.

Sussman is a 1978 Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and has been one of the Hudson Valley's most prominent civil rights and trial lawyers since the 1980's when, as lead counsel for the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP, he helped end racial segregation in the City of Yonkers public schools.

«We await reports of EFCC investigations and we hope that the anti-corruption agency will be civil enough to allow an open and transparent trial in competent court of law and not media trial just to get at Governor Fayose because of his uncompromising stance against the misrule of the APC / Buhari led federal government.

Flamboyant lawyer Richard Luthmann, who once famously sought to resolve a civil lawsuit through «trial by combat,» was arrested by the FBI on a slew of charges, including kidnapping, kidnapping conspiracy, money laundering, brandishing a firearm to commit a crime, aggravated identity theft and extortion conspiracy.

The act would let people issued civil summonses for the offenses avoid Criminal Court and have their cases heard by the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, which could issue fines or require community service.

«Seizure by confiscation as a result of criminal or civil trial has been less common» - tell that to all the drug trafficing suspects whose vehicles - plausibly means of production - were nationalized by US law enforcement:).

Seizure by confiscation as a result of criminal or civil trial has been less common, but it is presaged in Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle.

«We would like to thank Team Schneiderman for producing an ad with a courtroom setting, which only serves to highlight that D.A. Donovan has spent the better part of the last 15 years prosecuting cases in actual courtrooms while State Senator Schneiderman was busy voting to raise taxes, proposing legislation to line trial lawyers» pockets, voting against civil confinement for sex offenders and cutting deals to keep Pedro Espada and Hiram Monserrate in the majority fold in Albany,» Shapiro said.

As a compromise, Labour peers want Brown to set up a working group to examine the best way to fight terrorism and safeguard civil liberties without resorting to an extension of the present 28 - day detention without trial.

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At the test site, the construction of the buildings, the shake trials and the collection of data have been overseen by Kara Peterman of Fairfax, Va., a Johns Hopkins civil engineering doctoral student being supervised by Schafer.

As judgment was being passed in Rome today, a parallel manslaughter trial against Guido Bertolaso, head of the civil protection department in 2009, was postponed until 4 March.

The former head of Italy's civil protection department, Guido Bertolaso, is to be investigated for manslaughter alongside seven scientists and technicians who are currently on trial for allegedly having carried out a superficial seismic risk analysis and giving a false sense of security to people in the central Italian town of L'Aquila only days before a deadly earthquake struck and killed 308 people.

In addition to Boschi, those facing trial are: Franco Barberi, committee vice president; Bernardo De Bernardinis, at the time vice president of Italy's Civil Protection Department and now president of the country's Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Giulio Selvaggi, director of the National Earthquake Centre; Gian Michele Calvi, director of the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering; Claudio Eva, an earth scientist at the University of Genoa; and Mauro Dolce, director of the office of seismic risk at the Civil Protection Department.

Following the L'Aquila trial, the Italian Civil Protection [Department] has reorganized the Italy's National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks [Commissione Grandi Rischi], fostering profound changes in its structure, responsibilities, and procedures.