Sentences with phrase «of jury cases»

We have litigated a wide variety of jury cases, bench trials, Federal Circuit appeals and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office interferences and other proceedings across a wide range of technical areas, including:

Kevin has tried a large number of jury cases to verdict in state and federal courts in Connecticut, and boasts a significant win rate.

Not exact matches

The jury spent a total of just 14 hours in the penalty phase of the trial after finding Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 criminal counts, but an automatic appeal means his case will drag on.

In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

Between 2005 - 2009, prosecutors in Houston County, Alabama had excluded 80 % of blacks who qualified for jury service on death penalty cases.

Biotechnology entrepreneur William Ardrey faces a retrial on fraud charges after Western Australia's Court of Appeal found the jury had been misdirected in the original court case.

It appears none of Shkreli's hedge fund investors actually lost money in the end, but he was so widely reviled by the time of his trial that it was difficult to find an unbiased jury to hear the case.

Think of your marketing like a case being presented by a prosecutor to a jury.

Legal experts say a defense attorney's task to convince a jury that a client is legally insane is even more difficult in cases like that of Routh, who confessed to killing the men, apologized to the family and fled from police.

In the Hulk Hogan case, which was also based on an invasion of privacy claim, Harder sued Gawker Media for publishing a clip from a sex video that the former wrestler made with a friend's wife, and won a $ 140 million judgment from a Florida jury.

Neither the jury nor the public knew of Thiel's financial support of the case.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Here's something you may not know about court cases: There are often people in the public gallery who are paid to closely watch the members of the jury to see how they react to different witnesses.

There's a whole process that's set up to ensure that the jury that finally gets impaneled is an objective group of people with no connection with anything going on in the case that might persuade them to cast a decision that's inconsistent with the evidence that's presented at the trial.

It's tricky to select a jury that won't be biased when the court case involves one of the biggest bands in the world.

If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds willful infringement.

I wouldn't say that a finding by the jury of infringement in this case is going to open up the door to a lot more similar cases being filed against Led Zeppelin per se.

Johnstone said that while Chyna could take Kardashian all the way to a jury trial, most of these cases are settled before they get that far.

Coinbase has lost another appeal in a case brought by former customers of the defunct exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.

The judge in the case, William Alsup, and the jury that has yet to be selected have a difficult task ahead of them as they eventually work to determine whether Uber is guilty of misappropriating trade secrets.

A version of this article appears in print on August 25, 2012, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Jury Gives Apple Decisive Victory In A Patients Case.

Heather Dietrick, Gawker's president and general counsel, presented a more hopeful view of the case to Capital, and suggested that the Florida jury would be moved by their argument that Hogan had turned his own sex life into a public spectacle long before Gawker published this tape.

Denton faces a judge and jury who are skeptical of, if not outright hostile to, his blog empire and philosophy of reporting the «story behind the story,» and some inside Gawker say that they expect the company to lose the case.

Coinbase has lost another appeal in a lawsuit brought by former customers of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.

In the case of the SEC's investigation, the jury is still out.

For the last several years, Mr. Denton has been the target of a lawsuit brought by the wrestler Hulk Hogan in the now - infamous defamation case over Gawker's publication of a sex tape — an editorial choice that recently resulted in a $ 140 million jury award to Mr. Hogan.

Hulk Hogan, center, won a $ 140 million jury award in his defamation case against Gawker over the publication of a sex tape.

If Hogan wins his case against Gawker and the jury awards him even a part of the $ 100 million judgment, Gawker could face near financial ruin — or be forced to sell itself, which founder Nick Denton and the site's independent - minded editors have long said they would fight to avoid.

Skip If that's where you rest your case for believing in God then it should be easy for you to understand why plenty of us on the jury just aren't convinced.

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

There just plain wasn't enough evidence to support either side's version of events, in which case a jury must acquit.

They knew how to make their case to a jury — by creating a framework for the jury through which they will be compelled to agree with the perspective and argument of the lawyer / theologian.

In the case of these Catholic priests who did just that, they should be made to stand before a judge and jury for thier actions.

Poorly educated and penniless defendants often lack the means to procure competent legal counsel; witnesses can be suborned or can make honest mistakes about the facts of the case or the identities of persons; evidence can be fabricated or suppressed; and juries can be prejudiced or incompetent.

A jury at the Old Bailey in central London has retired to consider its verdicts in the case of a former abbot accused of sexually abusing boys at a Catholic school in west London.

I am sure that if anyone were charged with a crime, or is on trial, I am sure that if any of those lines were used in the presence of a police officer, judge, jury, etc., that person would be ticking off that person and hurting his own case.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

Superior Court Judge Gary Gavenus made the decision after a member of the jury handed out three documents to fellow jurors including North Carolina case law, according to the AP.

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

But you are correct that the actual case / crime only entails the actual struggle, and by that point it was just two dumb - dumbs in a fight, and the lack of evidence is what really made acquittal the only choice for the jury.

PHILADELPHIA (CNN)- Jury selection begins Tuesday in the Philadelphia Catholic Archdiocese trial, a case experts have called one of the most sweeping sex abuse scandals in America.

The jury must determine whether the facts of the case as established by testimony in court fit the legal definition of the offense with which the defendant is charged — a definition likely to be complicated at best, incomprehensible at worst.

(CNN)- A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

CNN: No verdict in Philadelphia priest sex abuse trial, source says A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

I litigated personal injuries cases for 25 years, and litigated hundreds of knee in jury cases.

The wheels of justice move slow when someone has to consider even the ADA have their own trial schedule and it may take up to four weeks to schedule a case before the Grand Jury.

Then the state attorney general's office argued that the grand jury had been four members short of the full panel, and a judge allowed the case to be resubmitted.

Melo should please come and we need another tall defender in case of jury.