Sentences with phrase «of the case law for»

I have also written about how legislation on domestic relations that fails to restrict the range of likely outcomes encourages a single - serving approach to justice that, in serving the individual well, creates uncertainty and a muddled body of case law for everyone else.

This does not simply mean having access to large amounts of data in the form of case law for their own sake alone; the real value lies in effective interpretation and analysis of what lies buried deep in the content.

Legal tech attorney Sarah Garber writes that the first wave of legal technology was billing, timekeeping, and docketing software, and the second was the digitization of case law for research.

Not exact matches

Steven Labrash, who directs University of Hawaii's body donation program, said the Avery case illustrates the need for laws to protect donors.

There have been similar lawsuits in Canada, along with high - profile cases like HootSuite, a Vancouver tech firm, amending its call for unpaid help after accusations of violating B.C. labour laws.

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

As I argue in a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Law Journal, there are cases in which we should think not in terms of the rights the corporation should enjoy, but in terms of the appropriate limits to be placed on the corporation, understood as a tool for achieving human objectives.

His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

In the Arkansas case, the law firm is putting capital at risk to gain a settlement for the City of Pontiac Retirement System.

«You can sue, and there's case law for it — you can say, «These guys have done some serious damage to our brand,» but that litigation itself will cost a lot of money.

Unlike Hobby Lobby, where the High Court ruled narrowly to allow for - profit companies to exempt themselves from aspects of the health - care law for religious reasons, the latest cases deal with broader elements that underpin the ACA.

«It is not very easy for parties to recoup the cost of litigation in patent cases,» says Brad Caldwell, a principal at Caldwell, Cassady & Curry, a law firm in Dallas.

As a licensed attorney, Andrew Arruda has experienced first - hand the many hours of menial research that go into preparing a case, which can drain a law firm's resources and inflate fees for clients.

Each state has laws that waive the cost for special cases, like minors, senior citizens, victims of identity theft, and their spouses.

While women continue to be the primary caregivers of families — caring for children, the elderly and, in the case of illness, for in - laws and spouses — the number of men in caregiving roles is also on the rise.

«Today's settlements demonstrate that if you engage in conduct that violates the laws of the United States, as we alleged in this case, then even if you are doing so from across the ocean, you will have to answer for that conduct and turn over your ill - gotten gains.»

At issue in Salman's appeal is whether the government in insider trading cases must prove that an alleged source of corporate secrets like the brother - in - law received a tangible benefit like cash in exchange for any tips.

That figure includes 487 individual cases of alleged insider trading, 365 for stock manipulation, 343 for violations of laws and rules related to financial disclosure, 196 for contempt of the regulatory agency, and another 94 for fraud against customers.

It should be noted that while these local governments have enacted tough laws, «there have been very few cases of people jailed for drone use,» he said.

The law also requires a civilian review when commanders decline to prosecute, requires dishonourable discharge or dismissal for those convicted, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts - martial in rape and sexual assault cases and criminalizes retaliation against victims who report an assault.

In Pai's case, though, the source of indoctrination is not Marxism, but the University of Chicago, which is the standard bearer for law and economics.

The remaining money is also shared with international partners and, if local law enforcement helped in the case, they can apply for up to 80 % of the proceeds.

They «allege their businesses have been placed at risk due to the cybersecurity incident and generally assert various common law claims such as claims for negligence and breach of contract, as well as, in some cases, statutory claims.»

The maximum penalty for breaking the law is 4 % of total global annual revenues, which in Facebook and Google's cases would be about $ 1.6 billion (# 1.1 billion) and $ 4.4 billion (# 3.1 billion), respectively.

The move came on the heels of the NLRB's case against Browning - Ferris Industries, which resulted in loosened requirements for who can be considered a boss under labor law.

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.

Bowman says there's a developing body of case law around people who have claimed personal injury for insurance and then, when they're supposed to be bedridden, have posted photos of themselves doing something physical, like skiing.

There can be statutory or case law exceptions to this kind of assignment, so keep your employment lawyer on speed dial for questions.

It is for good reasons that we set up systems of laws or, in the corporate case, systems of policies, and empower and entrust qualified administrators to apply those laws and policies.

The case began several years ago when First Canadian, a title insurance company, sued the Law Society of New Brunswick for amending its professional standards to require a lawyer to be present when property owners swore affidavits for the sale or mortgage of a property.

Even in the case of professions like law or medicine, which require graduate degrees to practice, not all lawyers and doctors picked the stereotypical political science and biology majors for their undergraduate studies.

As Suzanne Walsh, a partner at the law firm Murtha Cullina, explained to Fortune, this is no longer the case because of a tweak to definition of property eligible for the exemption:

But while the European Commission says the reforms will make it easier for businesses, a conflict between the regulation and another EU directive on e-privacy could mean national telecommunications laws would override some elements of the regulation, meaning in some cases companies would still face complying with 27 different national laws.

«While not every case will be appropriate for admissions of wrongdoing, the SEC required JPMorgan to admit the facts in the SEC's order — and acknowledge that it broke the law — because JPMorgan's egregious breakdowns in controls and governance put its millions of shareholders at risk and resulted in inaccurate public filings.»

In that case, led by the civil division of the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of California, prosecutors found that JPMorgan flouted federal laws with its sale of subprime mortgage securities from 2005 to 2007.

(Chicago constructed this story from thousands of pages of federal court records, police reports, and court testimony from related cases, as well as from official government reports and dozens of interviews with federal and local law enforcement officials and attorneys for some of the defendants; through a spokesman, prosecutors in the Zambada case declined comment.)

No one has been arrested in the burglary, one of several cases in recent years in which Bay Area law enforcement officers lost guns to thieves and which have prompted legislators to push for tougher requirements for securing weapons.

In the 1800s, in Europe, the argument for the liberalization of bankruptcy law, and the introduction of limited liability, was bolstered by the increasing number of cases like John Bayer, who went bankrupt and then, later, started producing Bayer aspirin, which became a great success.

So far, he has been more keen to highlight the failure of the FBI to stop the Florida high school carnage and the need to fill loopholes in mental health care than to accept the case for changing firearms laws.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

Effective Supply Chain Accountability: Investor Guidance on Implementation of The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and Beyond identifies good corporate practices to ensure corporate compliance with the law, the business case for compliance, shareholder expectations, and the elements of a comprehensive human rights due diligence framework.

He has been involved in many of the cases that have defined the interaction between Canadian business and law for four decades, from gold mines to boardrooms, from oil fields to isotopes.

One day after he was arrested for violating his probation in a trespassing case, the younger brother of Parkland mass shooter Nikolas Cruz announced Wednesday that he would be suing law enforcement over how his case has been handled by authorities.

The legal basis for deriving implied powers from the penumbra of other express powers is best seen in Justice Douglas classic opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut.5 In the Griswold case, the United States Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraception.

The coalition against the pipeline is already challenging the first permit granted to ETP by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources with a case filed by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, with a court date set for Jan. 4, 2018.

Aaron Wright of Cardozo Law School, for example, has made a detailed case arguing that the SAFT is itself a security, from contract to token, an argument that looked prescient when earlier this year rumors began to swirl that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was going after lots of initial coin offering (ICO) projects.

Congress just passed legislation that rolls back portions of Section 230 for cases of sex trafficking, and that could potentially open the door for further meddling with the law.

Hagens Berman is one of the most successful auto litigation law firms in the U.S. and is presently leading nationwide cases against Volkswagen, GM, Mercedes and Fiat Chrysler for use of diesel emissions - cheating software.

In the Cohen case, it appears that he's currently under investigation for violations of federal law — specifically, bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations.

The Conservative government is looking at softening Canada's marijuana laws by allowing police to write tickets for small - scale possession cases instead of laying charges.