Sentences with phrase «on civil law suits»

I am deeply committed to the pursuit of Justice in the Northwest of British Columbia and travel from Prince George through to Queen Charlotte Island where I appear in the provincial and supreme courts on civil law suits, family law cases, and criminal defence cases.

Not exact matches

A bill that requires Tennessee's public schools to set aside one minute at the beginning of the school day for «meditation, or prayer, or personal beliefs» has been signed into law by Gov. Lamar Alexander, but the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) of Tennessee intends to file suit shortly on the grounds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Adrian Duplantier of New Orleans has postponed the American Civil Liberties Union's suit against Louisiana's «scientific - creationism» law until a separate suit on the issue before another federal district court has been decided.

While the goals of LA&W are similar to those of legal writing classes taught at many schools — to teach students to understand, analyze, and apply legal authority and to communicate the results of that analysis in writing — the course also contains some components that are influenced by its Legal Methods roots, as well as some that may or may not be taught in a first - semester civil procedure class: a focus on judicial methods, an introduction to legal institutions and processes, and instruction on the anatomy of a civil law suit, the timeline of a civil case, and the link between procedural and substantive law.30 The full set of course goals was outlined in the 2000 Report and has remained unchanged:

Laura focuses her practice on civil litigation and regulatory investigations under the federal securities laws as well as state law claims arising from corporate transactions, such as suits seeking to enjoin mergers and acquisitions and appraisals.

According to Grace, the existing case law on the issue shows «courts have taken a dim view of impeding in any way the progress of a civil suit, and will do so only in the rarest of circumstances.»

On April 11, 2011 he commenced a civil law suit against both Pitney Bowes and its third - party insurer, Manulife.

We need to concentrate our amelioration efforts on those relatively few, though extremely important, areas of the law (civil, family and criminal litigation), that have been made too often unaffordable, mostly by a poorly designed system — a system designed, short - sightedly, by the government to suits its desires, not the desires of the litigating public.

It is perhaps much better suited to societies such as England or the civil law countries on the Continent which inherited the system along with wigs and robes.

Or should the modern law ordain the civil standard for all solicitors» disciplinary proceedings — in which case the pressure on the Bar to follow suit would surely be intense?

In California, the state with the most restrictive law on this, it can't be deducted from wages, but the employer could file a civil suit to recover the money.