Sentences with phrase «often taken to court»

I can see that the best potential for a really useful legal e-book resource is a collection of annotated legislation that is often taken to court.

Not exact matches

«Signing up for a credit card or opening a bank account can often mean signing away your right to take the company to court if things go wrong,» said CFPB Director Richard Cordray in a statement, adding «many banks and financial companies avoid accountability.»

Though there's no comprehensive data that show how often schools are taking graduates to court, defaults grew by 20 % from 2006 to 2011, up to $ 964 million.

According to the lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco Superior Court, Spanish - speaking employees would go to places where they know immigrants would be, like construction sites and a 7 - Eleven, and would take them to a branch, have them open up a new account and would often pay the person $ 10 for opening the account.

There have been many cases in the courts (e.g., improvements in telephones, tires, fluorescent lamps, flashlight bulbs) in which changes that would have greatly lengthened the life or quality of an article were withheld to promote replacement sales.11 Often patents have been taken out on superior inventions but not used, so that the improvements were completely suppressed and an outmoded product continued.

In most cases, a group of unhappy homeowners doesn't have the financial resources to take the matter to court, so they often must settle for making enough noise to gain some accommodations that will lessen the sting of having a water park, a teen center, a bike path or a major grocery store facing their back yards.

When that happens, there's often a court order requiring CPS to take custody of any unborn children.

Whether it was the «snooper's charter», the extension of «secret courts», the «go home» illegal immigrant vans, or the arrest of David Miranda, the perception has taken root in the party that Lib Dem ministers have too often caved in to Theresa May's authoritarian demands.

The half - assed foreclosure process that's currently taking place in the U.S. (often aided and abetted by the courts) has made in damn near impossible to purchase real property and be sure that you really DO have a legitimate deed — unless you're wealthy enough to endlessly litigate being ripped off.

With the plan in court, Borough President Katz said it is time to review additional options for the area that could include the construction of a hockey arena or soccer stadium, along with other facilities like a new school, an eco-recreation center, and more parking to accommodate the major events often take place simultaneously in the Flushing Meadows vicinity.

Rare as these deaths are, more often than not police brutality is blamed and officers are taken to court, but researchers now think that such events are the result of a rare disorder called «excited delirium».

The U.S. government's authority to regulate air pollution nationwide, often against the wishes of Republican - leaning states, could face new curbs when the Supreme Court takes on two high - stakes cases in coming months.

Previously, tenure charges went through the state administrative law courts and ultimately were decided by the state education commissioner, in a process that could take years to resolve, often at great expense.

The California Supreme Court will decide this summer whether to take up an appeal by nine students in the historic Vergara vs. California case challenging our unusually protective teacher tenure laws, as well as a seniority - based layoff system that often keeps ineffective teachers in district classrooms while letting more talented but less senior teachers go.

Digital publishers and movie studios often turn to anti-piracy organizations to serve cease and desist letters or even take people to court to collect royalties.

The threat of taking you to court and seizing your assets is the second lever that collection agencies often pull.

You might want to take comfort in this: if they do take you to court, often they have no case.

Though there's no comprehensive data that show how often schools are taking graduates to court, defaults grew by 20 % from 2006 to 2011, up to $ 964 million.

The Court is also bringing in Adult Protective Services to assess the situation, as it often does in alleged «animal hoarding» cases, and APS could request that AC&C take the cats even before they can be placed in no - kill shelters or adoptive homes.

As Oklahoma attorney general, Pruitt has taken the EPA to court so often that it has become a running joke — even to him.

The lawsuit, which is brought by a collective called Our Children's Trust and is often described as «kids versus climate change,» is built on an appeal to the equal - protection clause, namely, that in failing to take action on warming, the government is violating it by imposing massive costs on future generations; it is scheduled to be heard this winter in Oregon district court.

The group advised Acuña to take the case to a higher - level court in order to appeal the verdict; she did so by walking a ten - hour and often treacherous hike to make court appearances.

However, bad conduct by a former employee, whether by taking confidential information or poaching former customers of the former employer, often will overcome a court's reluctance to enforce a restrictive covenant against a low - level employee.

From small claims court to death penalty appeals, our lawyers have handled a wide variety of pro bono matters and are often called upon by local judges to take over pro bono matters on the eve of trial.

The proof of that future loss is sometimes a difficult task and usually involves medical assessment and / or actuarial assessment); d. past care cost (if you have spend money for your medical care that was made medically necessary owing to ICBC motor vehicle accident injury then you can expect to collect a sum of money equivalent to those reasonable treatment and medication costs please ensure that you keep the receipts and seek prior medical approval to eventually prove this loss); e. future care costs (if you will suffer repeated medical expenses in the future owing to your motor vehicle accident ICBC injury claim then you can collect a sum of money equivalent to that future loss); f. out of pocket expenses or «special damages» (if you suffer out of pocket expenses like for travel to / from medical appointments, cab fare, parking, etc, then this is also recoverable by you but again — keep track of these expenses in a log and keep a receipt book for later proof of this loss); g. legal costs (sum of the legal costs associated with advancing your injury claim are recoverable as the court system recognizes that often legal experts, lawyers and their agents are a necessary part of the process); h. other categories of damages: not discussed here are other categories of damages like «in trust claims» made largely for those who relatives who take care of you while you are recovering from your injuries or things like «loss of ability to enter an economically interdependent relationship» which might be awarded to a seriously disfigured potential spouse for his / her unlikely ability to become married in the future.

Take them to court and show them the courtroom, the parking facilities and the location of the restrooms (often overlooked, but useful pieces of information).

Firstly, legal writing involves often - complex subject matter, which takes many diverse and varied sources of information, i.e. statutes, ordinances, court rulings, and rules of procedure, and offers analysis and application of said statutes, ordinances, court rulings, and rules of procedure to a discrete legal or factual issue.

Our tax court system — and court system in general — are clogged with cases often taking years to settle.

No child should ever have to suffer through the slings and arrows of a court battle — particularly one in which they see mom or dad displaying such insolent hostility toward one another, often pitting their children against the other spouse or forcing them to take sides.

Unfortunately in ADP driving prohibition appeal cases often times there are shortcuts taken by the police (that in the normal course would be subject to careful scrutiny by the courts in a criminal case) but will be unfortunately not be able to be scrutinized in the ADP appeal.

Our strategies have to take a judge's bias into account, and that often makes us do things in court that a represented party wouldn't.

A recent story in the Vancouver Sun set out some of the problems: budget cuts in court services and the prosection service and significant delays in the appointment of BC Provincial Court judges lead to delays in the prosection of criminal matters, often leading to charges being dismissed because they take too long to get to tcourt services and the prosection service and significant delays in the appointment of BC Provincial Court judges lead to delays in the prosection of criminal matters, often leading to charges being dismissed because they take too long to get to tCourt judges lead to delays in the prosection of criminal matters, often leading to charges being dismissed because they take too long to get to trial.

Although the courts in the state in which the child is currently located have exclusive custody jurisdiction from their own perspective, if the child is taken to visit another country, the courts there will often have jurisdiction under the local law of that country to determine what is best for the child.

Yet with the high court taking fewer and fewer cases, it is often a loss leader — with some firms willing to do the work for little or no money to burnish their reputations.

His were often the first e-mails they received — a pitch to attend a Democratic fundraiser, a pat on the back for a well - written article, or his take on the latest from the U.S. Supreme Court.

This has taken place over a period where the relevant law has become Byzantine in complexity and where the Home Office's own advocates in the Tribunal system often struggle to keep up - to - date with the ever - changing Rules and the constant stream of authorities from the higher courts and the Upper Tribunal.

It is often argued by the Court that exceptions to the exclusive rights of copyright must be interpreted strictly, and more recently it completed this reasoning with the requirement that the interpretation of an exception must also take its purpose into consideration (see FAPL / Murphy, para. 163, Deckmyn, para. 23).

When society adopts new technology, social institutions, including the courts, often take time to catch up with it.

«Those who appear before the criminal courts are very often amongst the poorest in society, yet magistrates and judges will have no discretion as to whether to apply these charges or as to the amount — the court will not be able to take into account the defendant's circumstances.»

Assuming the Supreme Court does attempt, again, to clarify the jurisprudence, it will probably take a year or so before the Clements reasons will have been considered often enough by the provincial and territorial courts that clear trends will be apparent.

Often times, our Michigan court forms services can be taken care of without our clients ever having to step foot in our office, which allows for easy and quick process for everyone involved.

Because of this, we are very often able to settle out of court — the key is that we're ready and willing to investigate and take any action available to maximize your compensation.

I knew early on — after taking Moot Court, a courtroom simulation course often required at law school — that I was not going to be a traditional courtroom attorney, à la «My Cousin Vinny» or Atticus Finch.

Because in - house counsel often wears several hats, courts have struggled with the application of the privilege.17 The privilege would extend to any legal advice rendered, but it does not protect communications that are strictly business - related.18 Problems arise when the communication contains both legal and business advice, and the courts take different approaches in determining whether or not to apply the privilege.

The courts should also take into account that the Crown will often not be in a position to adduce evidence to refute those claims.

Given where things stood 20 years ago — when virtually all legal writers stuffed their cumbersome citations mid-text and often mid-sentence — I'm delighted by how many courts have taken to

These are often difficult legal situations to resolve, and may take many months and several appearances in court to finally come to a decision.

Its prevalence means it is considered by the CPS to be one of the least serious criminal offences for the purpose of instructing prosecuting barristers, attracting a miserly fee (# 480 for a 2 - day trial requiring on average 20 hours» work (2 days at court plus a conservative 4 hours» preparation), so around # 24 gross an hour, of which I would take home about # 12), and is therefore prosecuted often by the least experienced in our ranks.

To determine whether a corporate opportunity exists, the courts will often ask (1) whether the opportunity was within the company's line of business; (2) whether the company was financially able to take advantage of the opportunity at the time of appropriation; (3) whether the company had an interest or expectancy in the opportunity; and (4) whether taking a the opportunity would create a conflict of interest or breach of other fiduciary dutieTo determine whether a corporate opportunity exists, the courts will often ask (1) whether the opportunity was within the company's line of business; (2) whether the company was financially able to take advantage of the opportunity at the time of appropriation; (3) whether the company had an interest or expectancy in the opportunity; and (4) whether taking a the opportunity would create a conflict of interest or breach of other fiduciary dutieto take advantage of the opportunity at the time of appropriation; (3) whether the company had an interest or expectancy in the opportunity; and (4) whether taking a the opportunity would create a conflict of interest or breach of other fiduciary duties.

Because there is often a significant wait - time until the parties in a divorce case can take the stand and give oral evidence concerning their family matter, the court is often asked to provide interim relief orders.