Sentences with phrase «order on a jury»

Not exact matches

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against the Rensselaer County district attorney on Wednesday, claiming Joel Abelove «flagrantly violated» an executive order last week when Abelove's office presented evidence in a fatal police shooting to a grand jury.

Valerie E. Caproni, the presiding judge in Federal District Court, kept lawyers and prospective jurors at the courthouse late on Monday in order to ensure that jury selection did not take too long.

In a decision dated Feb. 5, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden ordered a new hearing on a 2013 jury verdict in her court that gave five mesothelioma victims represented by Weitz a total of $ 190 million — the highest award of its kind at the time.

Ben Keenan In Ireland today, women can order a pint in a pub, sit on a jury, keep a government job if she gets married, buy contraceptives and demand equal pay — none of which was legally permitted by the...

-- there is some accumulating research that this order and strict protocols has an impact but its no silver bullet and the jury is still out on test outcomes.

What I like about Artwork Network is it is not an «art mall», the service and one on one attention given to the artist is outstanding (few art marketing companies, let alone art malls actually call each artist and lay out a plan of action in order to increase sales), and the jurying process ensures a good fit for it's global target market!

You are eligible to participate in complementary programming and Association volunteer opportunities TFAA Associates must remain current on annual dues in order to maintain juried status.

Also, probably at least 10 % of acquittals are of people who were factually guilty, because juries get it right something on the order of 90 % of the time when cases go to trial.

The article begins by discussing the clerk's role at the court, followed by thorough guidance on how to craft the several documents clerks are usually assigned: bench memos, jury instructions, orders, and opinions.

There are two categories of post-trial motions to decide on: motions seeking to overturn parts of the jury verdict (arguing that the judge should overrule the jury or order a new trial on a given set of issues), and motions relating to relief.

2) Question: I'm on jury duty now and I must say this is nothing like «Law & Order.»

Answer: Doing so will probably get you kicked off of the jury, plus at least a lecture from the judge about violating your oath as a juror, a $ 250.00 fine, and a court order to go home and write a five - page essay on the importance of the Sixth Amendment.

After all, it may actually be in your client's best interest to accept a loss on minor issues in order to maintain the judge or jury's goodwill for more important matters.

A jury convicted Bradshaw on two counts of first - degree murder, but the Court of Appeal held that it was an error to admit the videotape of the re-enactment into evidence, set aside the convictions and ordered a new trial.

Following our automobile accident example from before, let's say the jury found that driver of the company owned truck that hit the defendant was under specific orders from the owner of the company to «break the rules if you have to» in order to deliver the product on time.

NEW YORK (Reuters)-- Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy unit were ordered by a Texas federal jury on Thursday to pay about $ 500 million to five plaintiffs who said they were injured by Pinnacle metal - on - metal hip implants.

In order to answer this question, we rely on results from our past cases, as well as published settlement and jury verdict data.

Expert witnesses, such as doctors, who come to court to testify, do so in order to give evidence and opinion on complicated matters outside of the realm of the general knowledge of judges and juries.

I once had a dream — not the Martin Luther King type dream, but the nodding - off REM - triggered type — where the Founding Fathers had already secured a militia and so harpooned the current Second Amendment in favor of one that read, «In order to secure a fair system of justice, the rights of the citizens to serve on juries shall not be infringed upon,» and the upshot was that the NRA had been replaced by the NJA — the National Jury Association — with their membership demanding — demanding!

(April 5, 2012), the 2nd Circuit confirmed that the § 512 (c) safe harbour requires knowledge or awareness of specific infringing activity but vacated the order granting summary judgment because they were of the view that a reasonable jury could find that YouTube had actual knowledge or awareness of specific infringing activity on its website.

(Order, p. 2) As the court notes in its summary of the order, an acquittal can issue either when a jury returns a not - guilty verdict, or «when a trial court grants a defendant's new trial motion for evidentiary insufficiency... or dismisses a case... for evidentiary insufficiency» (Id., pp. 2 — 3) The essence of the court's decision is in two parts: (1) The new trial motion should not have been granted because there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Stern on counts of conspiracy; and (2) Because the trial court did not rule on the majority of the issues raised in Stern's motion for a new trial, those issues have yet to be decided, and should be addressed on remand by the court of appOrder, p. 2) As the court notes in its summary of the order, an acquittal can issue either when a jury returns a not - guilty verdict, or «when a trial court grants a defendant's new trial motion for evidentiary insufficiency... or dismisses a case... for evidentiary insufficiency» (Id., pp. 2 — 3) The essence of the court's decision is in two parts: (1) The new trial motion should not have been granted because there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Stern on counts of conspiracy; and (2) Because the trial court did not rule on the majority of the issues raised in Stern's motion for a new trial, those issues have yet to be decided, and should be addressed on remand by the court of apporder, an acquittal can issue either when a jury returns a not - guilty verdict, or «when a trial court grants a defendant's new trial motion for evidentiary insufficiency... or dismisses a case... for evidentiary insufficiency» (Id., pp. 2 — 3) The essence of the court's decision is in two parts: (1) The new trial motion should not have been granted because there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Stern on counts of conspiracy; and (2) Because the trial court did not rule on the majority of the issues raised in Stern's motion for a new trial, those issues have yet to be decided, and should be addressed on remand by the court of appeals.

On the issue of financial circumstances, I am advised that the jury award, as I have earlier said, will be effectively cancelled if the defendant obtains a costs order from the date of the offer to the conclusion of trial... It is reasonable for me to conclude that (the plaintiff) has significant disbursements from prosecuting her claim.

Based upon this, the high court ordered the trial court to reinstate the jury verdict on the LAD claim and the man's $ 500,000 award of damages under that claim.

(3) On motion, the court may order that issues of fact be tried or damages assessed, or both, without a jury.

A jury in Dallas, Texas ordered DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and its corporate parent company, Johnson & Johnson to pay $ 1.04 billion to six California plaintiffs who had brought a case against DePuy for the failed Pinnacle Ultamet «metal on metal» hip.

The Los Angeles jury ordered the company to pay the plaintiff, who is currently hospitalized after the verdict was reached on Monday in the lawsuit which claimed that using talc powder regularly for feminine hygiene purposes causes ovarian cancer.

Because of an error with the jury verdict form in which an instruction regarding comparative negligence was left out, the judge ordered a retrial on that issue alone.

In August, State District Judge Raymond Ortiz, who presided over both jury trials, formally ordered a third trial due to alleged misconduct on the part of the hospital's defense attorney.

Based on the findings of the investigation, the Commissioner is ordering Crown attorneys to cease collecting any personal information of potential jurors beyond that which is permitted under the Juries Act and the Criminal Code, relevant to criminal conviction eligibility.

Jury Statute Not Violated by Protester, Judge Rules A federal judge on Thursday ordered the dismissal of an indictment against the professor, Julian P. Heicklen, who had been charged with jury tampering for advocating the controversial position known as jury nullification while outside the courthoJury Statute Not Violated by Protester, Judge Rules A federal judge on Thursday ordered the dismissal of an indictment against the professor, Julian P. Heicklen, who had been charged with jury tampering for advocating the controversial position known as jury nullification while outside the courthojury tampering for advocating the controversial position known as jury nullification while outside the courthojury nullification while outside the courthouse.

Order Of Proceedings On Trial By Jury Rule 266.

On request of any party in a case tried before a jury, deposition testimony offered other than for impeachment purposes shall be presented in nonstenographic form, if available, unless the court for good cause orders otherwise.

On appeal, the First Circuit reversed the finding of false arrest because the jury instructions were incorrect and ordered a new trial.

The jury in Pereira awarded $ 2,500,000 in punitive damages on top of $ 500,000 in compensatory damages before a new trial was ordered due to improper jury instruction.

In those cases it is also necessary for the party that wants to overturn the verdict to «preserve» an objection to the jury instruction in question or the judge's reason, or the condition beyond the control of the parties or the court, in order to have a judge overturn the verdict or to prevail on appeal.

The provision would extend the powers and rights of audience of DCWs by enabling them to conduct: - summary trials in magistrates» courts; - certain proceedings in magistrates» courts, including proceedings relating to offences triable only on indictment by a judge and jury at the crown court; - applications and other proceedings relating to «preventative civil orders» such as anti-social behaviour orders; and - certain proceedings (other than criminal proceedings) assigned to the director of public prosecutions by the attorney general under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 3 (2)(g).

By linking the waiver of a jury trial on sentencing facts to the guilty plea, this statute unnecessarily increases the likelihood that a defendant will waive his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial on facts essential to the death penalty eligibility determination in order to plead guilty on the merits, thereby compromising one of his Sixth Amendment rights.

And it was required, in cases where the grand jury in attendance upon any of these courts should terminate its session without proceeding by indictment or otherwise against any prisoner named in the list, that the judge of the court should forthwith make an order that such prisoner, desiring a discharge, should be brought before him or the court to be discharged, on entering into recognizance, if required, to keep the peace and for good behavior, or to appear, as the court might direct, to be further dealt with according to law.

a) You or Your Traveling Companion being hijacked, quarantined, required to serve on a jury (notice of jury duty must be received after Your Effective Date), served with a court order to appear as a witness in a legal action in which You or Your Traveling Companion is not a party (except law enforcement officers);

When you're required to serve on a jury or required by court order to appear as a witness in a legal action at the same time you have a trip planned, you may be forced to cancel your trip.

A jury in 2012 ordered Apple to pay $ 355 million after ruling that the company violated several of VirnetX's secure VPN network patents, but the decision was overturned on appeal.

Last fall, for instance, the company sued Microsoft for patent infringement but a jury ordered Google to pay up for fighting dirty with standards - essential FRAND patents, which must be licensed on Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory terms.

The jury is still out on that debate but in this case, it's quite the opposite as they're reducing peak power draw in order to prolong a handset's life.

When an attorney prepares his or her closing remarks the goal is to get the jury to focus on certain facts and think in a certain way in order to establish the client's innocence and they do not follow the same pattern in each trial.

The signing of the Civil Partnership Commencement Orders by Dermot Ahern TD, Minister for Justice and Law Reform on Thursday 23rd December 2010 in the Clonliffe Room, Jury's Hotel, Croke Park Stadium, Jones Road, Dublin.

I conduct court - ordered child custody evaluations (3111/730) and consult on jury selection.

The Grievance Panel is similar to a grand jury in that they look at the case on face value in order to determine if it should move forward into a Professional Standards Hearing for an Ethical Grievance.