Sentences with phrase «offer of judgment»

Most of the attendees agreed that given the shift toward agreement in the federal Circuits that an unaccepted offer of judgment does not moot class claims, along with the fact that the Supreme Court has granted certiorari on that very issue in Campbell - Ewald Company v. Gomez, it would be premature to propose any significant revisions to the rules dealing with Rule 68 offers.

I had opposing counsel tell me that once after my client accepted a Rule 68 offer of judgment.

As Becky Kourlis notes, offer of judgment rules and the like should be on the table.

AB 69 Revises provisions governing the recycling of paper and paper products by courts; revises provisions governing the duties of court clerks and justices of the peace in relation to the fees charged by those officials; revises provisions governing the collection and reporting of certain statistical information; changes the term «county clerk» to «clerk of the court» in certain statutes; removes provisions requiring courts provide the Court Administrator certain orders relating to bail forfeitures; repeals provisions governing an offer of judgment; repeals the requirement that the Nevada Supreme Court decide an appeal from judgment imposing the death penalty within a certain period; repeals provisions governing the selection of panels of jurors by boards of county commissioners; revises various other provisions relating to court administration.

However, based on offer of judgment sanctions, the client is entitled to recover approximately $ 35,000 and Plaintiff will take nothing.

The case later resolved for less than the earlier offer of judgment.

Based on offer of judgment sanctions, the client was permitted to request an award of costs and attorney fees of $ 65,000.

A defendant - offeree who rejects an offer of judgment must now pay double the plaintiff's costs and disbursements if he or she ultimately loses the Rule 68 wager.

If a defense attorney makes an offer of judgment, and then the Plaintiff doesn't accept the offer, they need to get a jury verdict in an amount greater than the offer, or the costs are flipped.

The $ 150,000 award was $ 50,000 less than the offer of judgment made by Orkin two months before trial.

After a four week trial, the jury found for the defendant on all fraud claims and awarded $ 150,000 on the contract claim, an amount which was significantly less than the offer of judgment made by Lightfoot two months before trial.

Ellen Lyons focuses her practice on accountants» liability, banking / lending, consumer finance matters, representing online businesses, and consulting regarding offers of judgment.

Not exact matches

Hogan's is only one of an unknown number of cases Thiel has offered to underwrite, but it looks like it might be enough: Faced with a $ 140 million judgment, Gawker owner Nick Denton is reportedly considering a sale.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — who called his fellow board member Thiel's support of Trump «catastrophically bad judgment» in an email leaked to the Times — also offered to resign over his disagreement with Thiel, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday.

Our goal here is to offer a snapshot of the many impressive women we're watching in the upper reaches of the philanthrosphere, while recognizing that judgments on these matters are subjective.

Each of City Capital's Managing Directors has more than 20 years of investment banking experience, offering clients the judgment and transaction management expertise honed from successfully executing more than $ 60 billion of collective merger and capital market transactions.

Each of City Capital's Managing Directors has more than 20 years of investment banking experience, offering clients the judgment and transaction management expertise honed from successfully executing more than 500 investment banking transactions collectively.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

There were significant judgments and estimates inherent in these valuations, which included assumptions regarding our future operating performance, the time to completing an initial public offering or other liquidity event and the determinations of the appropriate valuation methods to be applied.

These credit - reporting agencies also offer a wider array of business credit services [3], like public records of critical business information such as liens and judgments, as well as corporate profiles for high - risk credit decisions.

He will no longer convict them of their sin, of the offer of salvation, or of impending judgment.

At this point, your ONLY hope in escaping judgment is an offering that the judge deems worthy of being able to pardon your sin.

Must we as Christians offer only an ideal or a word of judgment?

A crucial judgment that the church must make is whether to reject their offerings because of their ambiguous character and radical demands or to seize upon them as an occasion for repentance for that in our history which now appears evil to so many sensitive critics.

(II, 1.2, # 18) This judgment, offered in the context of his larger teaching about the irresistible authority of common opinion in democratic times, indicates that despite their adherence to the Bible and other standards of doctrinal authority, the Americans could abandon or adapt Christianity whenever the gradual working of democratic currents made such changes attractive to a majority.

I do not suggest that pastors of the church should not offer moral judgments on human activities.

One of the primary ways we can love people who've experienced trauma is by offering our safe presence; free from judgment, shame, pat answers and unsolicited advice.

Chadwick offers this fairly common consideration regarding the Pope's prudential judgment: «If a defending attorney were desirable in a historical subject, the main line of the plea would need to be something like this.

True, in Part II, Chapter IX, of Process and Reality, Whitehead himself offers a hearty discussion of propositions in terms of judgments.

God says in the Bible, Hebrews 10:27 «And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.»

Where the Council was not teaching on matters of faith and morals, such as where it was describing contemporary conditions or offering recommendations for renewal, its statements are to be received with respect and gratitude but are not necessarily flawless in either their factual accuracy or their prudential judgment.

Wilson's biography presents an overall interpretation of Lewis's life and offers critical judgments on Lewis's writings.

From Rachel: So the most common Bible passage cited by those who oppose the possibility of postmortem salvation is probably Hebrews 9:27 - 28: «And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.»

But it may also have been seriously meant, a revelation of his considered judgment; in which case he offers us a window into the blindness of our contemporary culture.

Yet there is no adequate substitute for the New Testament understanding of God as both Creator and Redeemer, ruling his world in both power and love, offering to mankind both judgment and mercy, and affording a ground of security and hope for both present and future, for this world and for an ongoing life after death.

Under the secret call of grace in which God offers himself, this freedom is always meant either for judgment or salvation, and only the Gospel says reliably where this leap of freedom leads: it encounters the God of forgiving grace, indeed it is made possible only by him.

This seems to bring the Word into our time and make the Bible come alive in our language, but the question is, has the word of promise and of judgment, of gracious offer and of crisis for the world, come through forcefully in this translation, or has the preacher simply been cleverly interesting?

Surely, though, our tradition offers a much better image than that of God sitting in judgment on our earthly lives and then imposing a final destination as a separate interventionist act.

We are each moment under the awful judgment of God and the forgiveness of God is being in each moment freely offered us.

It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion of judgment based on an exercise of free will, completely disregarding any notion of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations of a Nuremberg defense by placing their self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.

It appears then that Matthew's emphasis on the final judgment does not rise out of any preoccupation with the end of the world but rather from a recognition that the final judgment is forever pressing upon the present with both offer and demand.

But it may also have been seriously meant, a revelation of his considered judgment; in which case he offers us a window into the blindness....

While the chief playwright of the Western world is, according to this view, fully implicated in the crimes of his culture, The Merchant of Venice and Othello, plays that offer characters and incidents with a plausible relation to contemporary concerns, undermine any such judgment.

In private correspondence during the 1950s Dawson expressed serious doubts about this situation, offering the judgment that philosophy and theology were suitable subjects only for those who were already educated, and suggesting that the medieval universities had ultimately been killed by the dominance of scholasticism.

Eire is cautious in offering judgments about the distinctive outcome of the Protestant reformations.

Rejecting the negative judgments implicit in Delumeau's notion of «Christianization,» the English historian John Bossy, himself by upbringing and education a Catholic, offered a rather less benign overarching analysis of the Catholic and Protestant reformations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Browning's emphasis on ethics reflects his judgment that contemporary churches are disposed to avoid the ethical import of the Christian message, offering care without accountability.

Reinhold Niebuhr spoke of the relevant fruits of a person's life and offered them as an alternative to the narrow judgments of a materialist society.

It is you who have lost your way in a relationship that's offered more hurt than love, in a job that leaves you depleted and spent, or in the guilt of not being good enough, pretty enough or smart enough for someone whose judgment cuts deep.»

Otherwise, she offers a general outline of a recipe in order to «allow for the cook's personal taste and judgment.»