Sentences with phrase «of white defendants»

That makes instances where, for example, they're used to determine recidivism rates — and black defendants are «falsely labeled future criminals at almost twice the rate of white defendants» with a 40 % chance of being wrong — more than a little unsettling.

In other words, ProPublica discovered a double bias in COMPAS, one in favour of white defendants, and one against black defendants.

Not exact matches

«Furthermore, although the average sentence lengths (conditional on case, defendant and judge attributes) do not differ by defendant race in the absence of a football effect, it appears that an upset LSU football game loss increases the disposition length (sentence severity) of black defendants more severely in comparison to white defendants.

If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

The White House's Patent Assertion and Innovation report of June 2013 found that since 2005, the number of defendants sued by patent trolls had quadrupled.

At this meeting, Parker (a defendant) was dismissive of Hayes» complaints of disparate treatment of black and white guests of the arena.

Instead of convictions, cases with white defendants more often end in adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, where the case is adjourned for a period of time and later dismissed if the defendant isn't arrested again..

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that over the period of nearly two years, the two defendants named below are charged with stealing approximately $ 280,000.00 from the City of Yonkers for school bus se

Mixed race suspects were more likely to be sent to court than given a police disposal; Black and mixed race defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody prior to their hearing date; Black defendants had a higher chance of being acquitted than white ones, suggesting that different standards of evidence may be applied to cases involving different groups of defendants; Mixed race teenagers were more likely than others to be given a (more serious) community sentence than a (less onerous) first tier penalty or referral order.

«The defendant tried to bribe his way onto the ballot for New York City mayor,» said Douglas B. Bloom, an assistant United States attorney, as the bribery and wire fraud trial of Mr. Smith and two other defendants got underway before a 12 - person jury in a federal courthouse in White Plains.

Rajaratnam has been the biggest catch so far in a wide - ranging insider - trading investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that's resulted in more than two dozen prosecutions of white collar defendants.

As New York Times reporter Luanne White reports in this article, In New Orleans, Rust in the Wheels of Justice (11/21/06), in the aftermath of Katrina, «as many as 500 defendants, mostly in drug, theft and assault cases, have been freed because of problems with evidence, including difficulty in finding the witnesses who have moved away.»

The court concluded that access to 411, the White Pages and Yellow Pages did not provide the defendant with a reasonable opportunity to exercise his right to counsel, and asserted that «in the year 2013 police providing access to the internet is part of a detainee's reasonable opportunity to contact legal counsel.

The Provincial Court of Alberta focused on whether providing a defendant with access to «411» and the White and Yellow Pages — but no access to the Internet — was adequate.

There was little evidence of any significant damages awards until December 2016, when, according to White and Williams LLP, the Beijing IP Court ordered defendant Hengbao Co., Ltd. to pay $ 7.1 million in damages for infringing a single data encryption patent owned by Watchdata System Co. Ltd..

My only point in making my comment is that defendants in many areas of the country should not be automatically thrilled when judges get more discretion in these modern days where all sorts of criminals are demonized (from white collar guys to Scooter Libby to the worst, sex offenders) and «imprison, imprison, imprison» becomes the public cry.

That's from a memorandum (pdf) in Ashker v. Schwarzenegger, and it seems like the the defendants just might have a point here: The plaintiffs are apparently members of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist gang, and file quite a lot of lawsuits.

Interestingly, jurors from ethnic communities, including black and Asian jurors, were also shown to align more with the defendant when compared to those who identify as white British, suggesting a greater likelihood of a not guilty verdict.

That's a point made by Doug Berman at the Sentencing Law Blog («Rather, I wish primarily to urge anyone and everyone defending President Bush's sentencing determination in the Libby case to explain why all these less prominent defendants — most of whom are now locked in a cell while Libby now makes plans for the paid lecture circuit — don't also merit some executive sympathy»); Ellen Pogdor at White Collar Crime Blog («But what is bothersome here is that one elite individual is receiving this benefit while others with comparable circumstances will not have this benefit — it all comes down to who has access to the President.

The Best Lawyers in America by Woodward White, Inc. listed Banks as the «2016 Birmingham Lawyer of the Year for Product Liability Litigation Defendants»

In the Shadrach Rescue Cases, for example, government failed in five consecutive trials to convict any defendant — black or white — of aiding in the escape of Shadrach Minkins.

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The judge had plainly been entitled to say that, given the fact that the second defendant had been crossing a solid white line into the path of oncoming traffic, it had been incumbent on her to remove herself from that situation as soon as she could have.

However, it is clear that defendants of color are in a markedly worse position than their white peers.

Jeffrey J. White, a partner who represents manufacturers and distributors and is one of the authors of the firm's Manufacturing Law Blog, presented with two other attorneys the webinar session «All Natural Litigation: Strategies That Have Worked and Failed for Plaintiffs and Defendants.»

Our clients are both defendants and plaintiffs, and we represent them in civil and criminal litigation of all kinds — but particularly in high - stakes commercial disputes, and in allegations of white - collar crime.

In a narrow 4 — 3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals held that the motion court's conditioning the defendant's plea on the withdrawal of his constitutional speedy trial claim did not run afoul of the Court's long - standing precedents in People v. Blakley, 34 N.Y. 2d 311 (1974) and People v. White, 32 N.Y. 2d 393 (1973).

Relying on the fair use doctrine, we are posting substantive filings in White v. West here: 02/22/2012 - Class Action Complaint 04/06/2012 - Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Motion to Dismiss (filed by Reed Elsevier) 04/06/2012 - Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Motion to Dismiss (filed by West Publishing) 04/26/2012 - Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants» Motions to Dismiss (filed by White and Elan) 05/07/2012 - Reply Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Motion to Dismiss (filed by West Publishing) 05/07/2012 - Reply Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Motion to Dismiss (filed by Reed Elsevier) 05/17/2012 - Order Granting Motion to Dismiss (Signed by Judge Jed S. Rakoff on 5/16/2012) 05/22/2012 - Transcript of Proceedings held on 5/16/2012 05/30/2012 - Answer to Complaint (filed by West Publishing) 05/30/2012 - Answer to Complaint (filed by Reed Elsevier) 06/26/2012 - Amended Complaint (filed by White) 07/10/2012 - Answer to Amended Complaint (filed by West Publishing) 07/13/2012 - Answer to Amended Complaint (filed by Reed Elsevier) 10/05/2012 - Memorandum in Suppport of Plaintiff's Summary Judgment Motion (filed by White) 10/05/2012 - Memorandum in Suppport of Defendant's Summary Judgment Motion (filed by Reed Elsevier) 10/23/2012 - Memorandum in Opposition to Plaintiff's Summary Judgment Motion (filed by West Publishing) 10/23/2012 - Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants» Summary Judgment Motions (filed by White) 10/23/2012 - Memorandum in Opposition to Plaintiff's Summary Judgment Motion (filed by Reed Elsevier) 11/02/2012 - Reply Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Summary Judgment Motion (filed by West Publishing) 11/02/2012 - Reply Memorandum in Support of Plaintiff's Summary Judgment Motion (filed by White) 11/02/2012 - Reply Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (filed by Reed Elsevier) 11/30/2012 - Transcript of Proceedings Held on 11/20/2012 02/11/2013 - Order Granting Defendants» Motions for Summary Judgment (Signed by Judge Jed S. Rakoff on 2/8/2013)

She claimed that the driver of a white van that allegedly rear - ended the taxi was identified by her taxi driver (Mr. Khan) at the time of the accident, but that the defendant taxi driver subsequently lost the particulars some time before she actually commenced her action almost two years later.

While a white collar crime is nonviolent, defendants still face years in prison, a loss of their assets, and an end to their career; which means that finding the right attorney to take on their case is imperative.

In deciding that the plaintiff was both foreseeable and proximate to the defendants, Handrigan J. cited two other wills cases: Wilhelm v. Hickson and White v. Jones for the general principle that disappointed beneficiaries, even if unknown personally to a party who drafts a will, are sufficiently proximate to the will drafter to be able to succeed in negligence against the will drafter in certain circumstances (Wilhelm was a case about misidentification of the owner of property; White was about undue delay in execution).

White Coat Notes continues his series of what it's like to be a medical malpractice defendant.

Best Lawyers also recognized 17 of our attorneys individually, including Victoria Cook (Entertainment Law), Lisa Davis (Entertainment Law), Michael P. Frankfurt (Entertainment Law), Jeffrey A. Greenbaum (Advertising Law, Copyright Law), Richard B. Heller (Entertainment Law), Richard Hofstetter (Entertainment Law), Candice Kersh (Advertising), Rick Kurnit (Advertising Law, Copyright Law, Entertainment Law, Litigation - Intellectual Property Law, Media Law, and Trademark Law), Brian E. Maas (Criminal Defense - White Collar), Richard M. Maltz (Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law), Ronald C. Minkoff (Commercial Litigation, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law, Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants, Legal Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, and Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement), Brian G. Murphy (Advertising Law), Edward Rosenthal (Entertainment Law), Thomas D. Selz (Entertainment Law), Barbara E. Shiers (Trusts and Estates), and Linda J. Wank (Trusts & Estates).

Representing one of two defendants in the White River (Indiana) fish kill case involving federal, state and class action claims seeking civil damages and penalties exceeding $ 50 million and federal criminal prosecution under the Clean Water Act.

Then 18 - year - old, black defendant Timothy Tyrone Foster went on to be convicted of the murder of a white woman -LSB-...]

See the resources linked above, or a previous post of mine here about the Venture Tape Corp. v. McGills Glass Warehouse case last year, where trademarked metatags as white - on - white text were the subject of the complaint and the defendant was held liable.

Cane's account of contemporary culture also includes some intriguing evidence of the ancestors of the defendants trading fish with the early white settlers in the region.

In Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court held that the defendant's compilation of facts consisting of names and telephone numbers in its white pages lacked the requisite «modicum of creativity» and, as such, was not entitled to copyright protection.