Sentences with phrase «out of court cases»

Milstein said that the fact much of this money has flowed out of court cases over mortgage issues means it should go toward housing, rather than unrelated programs.

We talked with the B&N legal team last week about the recent DOJ case involving the big six publishers and Apple, I talk about one of the motions in court they are filing to stop the settlement from the three companies that bowed out of the court case a few months ago.

While the client may be able to spend more time on their case, an attorney brings a comfort level to any number of issues that will arise out of a court case, such as making certain pleadings are correct and appearing in court.

Not exact matches

The company resolves most disputes out of court, but still litigates occasionally, and has never lost a case.

The case was settled out of court in 2015.

The case was eventually thrown out of court, as there is no widely accepted standard definition of craft beer.

It turns out that Eich contributed $ 1,000 to California's controversial Proposition 8, an anti-same-sex marriage bill that passed with broad voter support in 2008, and which became the basis for one of the gay marriage cases argued before the Supreme Court in 2013.

Additionally, courts have dismissed cases arising out of the recall because the plaintiff could not establish that she purchased a defective package.

Patent trolls usually acquire rights to unused or soon - to - expire patents with no motive of using the patent, other than to frighten business owners into settling out of court, rather than fighting a hopeless patent case.

«In a best - case scenario, in terms of their chances of winning in court, they would not completely suspend the refugee - admissions program but require some kind of additional screening procedures for refugees and start rolling those out,» Yale - Loehr said.

Evidence of lack of business integrity (such as indictments, pleas of guilt in legal cases, convictions for violations of legal behavior, adverse civil judgements, or out - of - court settlements).

The president then alleged that Obama bypassed a court rejection in order to carry out the wiretapping, before suggesting that a «good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!»

Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self - driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high - profile court case that commenced last week.

But with the court case now settled, the Nortel case moves out of the legal limelight and into the realm of the accounting classroom and ethics case studies.

Right now, the SEC's definition relies on the «Howey test,» which came out of a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court case.

To find out, call the court that handled the case and request a copy of the petition or judgment.

As it turned out, 18 minutes of sworn testimony from Redstone, presented in court Friday, was all it took to resolve the case — but not in Herzer's favor.

If you ship products out of state, this provision requires purchasers to agree to allow any court case concerning your goods to be heard at a court in your own, presumably friendlier, locale.

Three of those cases have now been settled out of court, with two people returning to work for the ministry and a third receiving a settlement and having his name cleared.

Behind the scenes, though, an explosive court case was brewing: a proposed $ 1.95 - billion class action lawsuit, alleging that the company's historic shift to frozen products had taken a significant bite out of store owners» cash registers.

[108] The case was settled out of court.

The federal agency has 90 days to challenge the decision before the Federal Court of Appeal, a move that could drag the case out even further, and delay any refund.

Last June, Kalanick was ousted as Uber's chief executive and pushed out by the company's board amid a litany of regulatory problems, driver and consumer scandals, and court cases.

The Federal Court of Appeal recently affirmed this approach to environmental regulation in a case arising out of Alberta called Syncrude Canada Ltd. v Canada (Attorney General).

Plaintiffs in the court case that threw out the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule declared «complete victory» against the rule and said the way is now clear for the Securities and Exchange Commission to create a new standard that would apply across financial disciplines.

In nearly all his cases, the companies settled out of court, he said.

Amid the flurry of essays on religious liberty occasioned by the Supreme Court's hearing arguments in the Hobby Lobby case, these two sentences from Rick Warren's otherwise excellent op - ed in the Washington Post stood out to me:

I really hope they counter sue this a hole, after his bs case gets laughed out of court.

For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

If you were to utilize these tools in order to research the court cases that took prayer out of schools, you would find that the major court cases were brought forth by Catholics, Mormons and Jews.

It will be interesting to see how these court cases play out... but no matter what happens, we expect to see more vitriol from all sides of the debate...

The court expressed «no view on the merits of the cases» and pointed out that it did not decide whether «religious exercises has been substantially burdened, whether the government has a compelling interest, or whether the current regulations are the least restrictive means of serving that interest.»

A Secret Service discrimination case that has spanned more than 20 years was settled out of court for $ 24 million yesterday.

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

Once the family broke the gag order and got some national coverage there was huge outcry from first amendment lawyers about the illegality of that order, and also others speaking out about having been legally gagged in court cases with big power differential.

I think we need to stop these cases from being plea - bargained or settled out of court.

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.

We talk about why kids shouldn't be the center of your life, discuss the importance of a regular date night, hear a tense couple's court case, find out how to make a family mission statement and a lot more!

you the catholic church is wealthy enough to have OVER 3 BILLION dollars laying around to pay out for out of court settlements of abuse cases which it tries to hide....

Superior Court Judge Gary Gavenus made the decision after a member of the jury handed out three documents to fellow jurors including North Carolina case law, according to the AP.

In the opinion of many constitutional experts, a majority of five Justices of the Supreme Court used the case as a vehicle to reason the Free Exercise Clause out of the Constitution.

A new court ruling out of White County has approved a state - run program that offers a 30 - day reduced sentence to prison inmates if they agree to undergo a long - term (in some cases, permanent) form of contraception.

But Justice Kennedy could not be bothered with sorting out just which level of scrutiny should apply, or how the Court's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment precedents on equality bore on the case at hand.

It will take months or years of lower court decisions on various specific cases to sort this out.

I suspect given the right circuumstances and due regard, most situations would end in your case being thrown out of court.

The plurality opinion also includes a plaintive plea to the country to accept the Court's decision in Roe v. Wade and «rare, comparable cases» as intended to take a deeply divisive issue out of politics.

«We are aware that Woolworths in broad terms may be doing a similar sort of thing, and we think that will sort itself out depending on how this court case works out,» ACCC chairman Rod Sims told The Australian Financial Review.

Mr Cassidy: «As you would know, we have had a number of problems with section 46 arising out of a number of High Court cases where the law was not clarified until 2007.

After a failed NCAA attempt to get the case thrown out of California court and some fighting over the publicizing of case documents, it's going to trial on April 18.

One other feature of Canadian law that tends to discourage parties from suing physicians for malpractice is that the Supreme Court has set out guidelines that effectively cap awards for pain and suffering in all but exceptional cases.