Sentences with phrase «previous legal decisions»

Please click on the links below to see media coverage and previous legal decisions on this issue.

Not exact matches

This is similar to the way Supreme Court decisions are often written, appealing to previous decisions as a legal basis for current rulings.

In the five years since the decision in Pennsylvania several states have seen their own legal clashes over the issue, with each new battle spawning fresh sets of anti-evolution buzzwords as part of efforts to sidestep previous court rulings.

While the case has received national attention and previous rulings have set legal precedent, this particular Supreme Court decision will not affect other suits working their way through the court system, said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond.

The Supreme Court's decision comes after six long years of legal battles and reaffirms a previous ruling from an appeals court in favor of Ms. Acuña.

«Given that the previous Federal Court decision raised complex legal issues it was prudent for Canada to obtain a decision from a higher court.»

You didn't specify which country, but in the U.S. the legal system is full of precedents: previous case decisions from which a lawyer can argue your case or against your case.

Since legal review is the most expensive phase of e-discovery, and privilege coding is the most expensive phase of legal review, it isn't a surprise that 57 % of participants are re-using coding decisions made on documents for previous matters.

Some of these rules are found in the statutes and regulations themselves and some are found in the common law, which is comprised of legal guidelines based on previous court decisions.

Analysing the previous decisions of judges allows for legal professionals to make decisions that are more data driven.

My most recent article was from October, 2017 when it seemed like much of the legal instability plaguing employment lawyers over the previous year had been resolved due to the court's decision in North, which followed many practitioners» 2017 «case of the year,» Wood.

On the legal custody issue, the Court of Appeals agreed with my client that the family court erred in finding he did not have final decision - making authority under the previous order, finding that the old order «implicitly granted him final decision - making authority by virtue of granting him primary legal custody.»

This was a reversal of a previous appellate court decision, which held 2 to 1 that universities and colleges had no general legal obligation to protect adult students from the criminal actions of other students.

ICBC also pointed to the fact that 80 per cent of customers reporting an injury claim had no previous recent claims, indicating their decision to obtain a lawyer had more to do with outside factors such as advice from friends and family or marketing by legal firms.

«The previous decision is supported by the evidence that was before the panel, and the panel addressed the legal issues raised by the respondent,» stated HSARB in its ruling.

This page contains CCLA's key legal materials, previous work, key decisions, and press for our constitutional challenge of the solitary confinement regime in federal penitentiaries.

... the previous decision is supported by the evidence that was before the panel and the panel addressed the legal issues raised by the Respondent.

Such a provision is not intelligible, to use the terminology of previous decisions of this Court, and therefore it fails to give sufficient indications that could fuel a legal debate.