Sentences with phrase «part under a civil law»

Additionally, the European system of discovery is fundamentally very different as they operate for the most part under a civil law system while the US relies on common law.

Not exact matches

What's more, common law property rights here in the U.S. benefit mining companies in ways that simply can't be found in Latin America and other parts of the world that operate under civil law.

The honest and civil part of the citizens would prosecute these wretched bandits, but they would swear each other clear; and they really put all law at defiance and carried on such desperate violence and outrage that the honest part of the citizens seemed to be driven to the necessity of uniting and combining together, and taking the law into their own hands under the name of Regulators.

Now, 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act segregation and discrimination under the law have for the most part been eliminated in the United States.

As part of her practice in employment and labor, civil rights, and directors and officers (D&O) liability, Tina has successfully represented many clients in claims brought under federal, state, and local laws governing fair - employment practices, including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, negligent hiring, and defamation.

Jury nullification is also only effective, for the most part, in criminal cases, as a jury verdict in a civil case can be reversed if under the correct law no evidence in the record supports the verdict.