Sentences with phrase «of egregious misconduct»

In the face of egregious misconduct, the judicial council can make a recommendation to the government that the judge be removed from office.

Accordingly, the People of the State of California declare that to secure the constitutional guarantee of students and staff to be safe and secure in their persons at public primary, elementary, junior high and senior high school campuses, school districts must have the appropriate statutory authority to expeditiously remove and permanently dismiss perpetrators of egregious misconduct without facing lengthy and costly litigation or creating incentives to transfer the school employee to another assignment, school or school district.

Not exact matches

«Even where New York Courts have suspended attorneys for substantial periods of time, those cases involve more egregious and ongoing acts of misconduct, as opposed to Mr. Grimm's isolated and singular conviction,» his attorney Annette Hasapidis said in the Manhattan federal court filing from earlier this month.

«The continued reports of Vito Lopez's egregious misconduct make clear that he is unsuitable for public office.

Her false, fake and failed record is one of criminal misconduct — the latest (but not the most egregious), involving First Amendment issues of her truth telling opponents.

The findings bring to a close one of the most egregious U.S. scientific misconduct cases in recent years.

Conduct suggesting that the Crown was condoning egregious police misconduct in violation of its duty of even - handedness would, in my view, cause a reasonable observer informed of the circumstances to question whether T could receive a fair trial.

But Keaton says that crime lab scandals fall into two categories: those involving fraud or other egregious misconduct, which are few and far between but suggest a complete breakdown in the integrity of a lab; and those based on human error, which are far more common but much easier to identify and correct.

Punitive damages are designed primarily as a way to further punish wrongdoers (defendants) for egregious acts of negligence or misconduct.

These cases involve egregious acts of negligence and misconduct; therefore, our attorneys can also push for maximum compensation by obtaining punitive damage awards.

We have represented clients who have suffered as a result of a variety of egregious acts of police misconduct and negligence, including:

If punitive damages are applicable in a wrongful death case, I will work tirelessly to present clear and convincing evidence of a wrongdoer's intentional misconduct and / or egregious negligence to further maximize compensation.

In more than 100 cases since 1980, Massachusetts courts of appeal have thrown out criminal convictions based on prosecutorial improprieties, and in 20 of those cases they have used the words «egregious» or «misconduct» or both to describe impropriety.

The Anglo - Canadian legal system has long recognized the possibility of awards of costs in civil cases being made against counsel personally, though only for egregious misconduct of the case.