Sentences with phrase «rather than in court»

Collaborative divorce is a process in which a divorcing couple and their lawyers work to resolve all of the couple's divorce issues in a conference room, rather than in a court room.

You and TopResume each agree that any and all disputes or claims that have arisen or may arise between you and TopResume shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small claims court, if your claims qualify.

Samsung wants to compete «fairly in the marketplace, rather than in the court,» according to its official statement, but the move is...

The third party may also have the right to insist on being sued by any parties to the contract in arbitration rather than in court.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission would prefer to see the dispute settled between the parties rather than in court in the hopes that children on reserve will have access to the services they deserve in a timely manner.

If it is not possible to resolve the disputes ourselves, then we each agree to resolve those disputes or claims between you and Bootstrap Legal of any nature whatsoever, including but not limited to those relating to use of the Site or the quality or appropriateness of services offered by the Bootstrap Legal, shall be resolved by binding arbitration before Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services («JAMS»), rather than in a court of general jurisdiction.

In their defense against the cities suing over sea level rise damages, the oil industry lawyers essentially argued that the blame lies not on the producers, but rather the consumers of fossil fuels, and that any economic issues should be addressed through policy rather than in the court system.

I would hope eventually this issue will be settled definitively at a scientific level, rather than in a court.

Any dispute or claim relating in any way to this Agreement or AAPA will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small claims court if your claims qualify.

I am informed by the editors that the major developments and challenges have taken place in the Houses of Parliament rather than in the courts.

Not exact matches

In at least five cases since 2015, Huajian sued workers in Chinese court rather than pay compensation mandated by a government arbitration paneIn at least five cases since 2015, Huajian sued workers in Chinese court rather than pay compensation mandated by a government arbitration panein Chinese court rather than pay compensation mandated by a government arbitration panel.

In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled (in Christensen v. Harris County that local government can compel employees to take accumulated comp time rather than take it at any time of their choosinIn 2000 the Supreme Court ruled (in Christensen v. Harris County that local government can compel employees to take accumulated comp time rather than take it at any time of their choosinin Christensen v. Harris County that local government can compel employees to take accumulated comp time rather than take it at any time of their choosing.

A judicial review («JR») is a type of court proceeding in which a judge reviews the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body; they are a challenge to the way in which a decision has been made, rather than the conclusion reached.

According to a report in Friday's New York Times, some of Apple's top encryption engineers have threatened to resist — or even to quit — rather than comply with a court order to disable the iPhone security system they created.

Then, she was protesting common industry rules that force consumers to settle disputes with financial companies in arbitration rather than court.

The defence minister, Tobias Ellwood, also argued that the men should be tried in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, rather than being sent to the US detention camp in Cuba.

Others in the business think the secret to greater acceptance lies in building a distribution network and courting liberal - minded builders rather than targeting home buyers.

Kagame made three assertive choices: first, to stay together, bringing millions of Hutu refugees home and allowing low - level genocide suspects to be tried in specially formed community courts rather than criminal ones.

Rather than disclosing the full extent of problems like fraudulent home appraisals and overextended borrowers, the bank adjusted the critical reviews, according to documents filed early Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan.

Given the tiny amount of revenue that would represent, Valeant apparently deemed it cheaper to give Addyi away for next to nothing rather than spend money on marketing and on the costs of battling the Sprout shareholders in court.

On April 12, 2018, in a telephone conference to discuss the letter he submitted the day before, defendant Patrick McDonnell requested that the court extend the deadline for answering the CFTC's complaint so that he may confer with the Federal Pro Bono Clinic, rather than simply letting the case go into default.

In practice, much of the decision - making appears to lie with NSA analysts, rather than the Fisa court or senior officials.

Mr. Stris contends that his client was misled and that the contract was executed under fraudulent circumstances, giving her the right to sue in court rather than proceed in arbitration.

However, proving that price manipulation occurred can be challenging in the commodities markets, said Professor Verstein, so the CFTC sometimes settles cases rather than letting them play out in the courts.

«Given the important public policy issues at stake, we have also asked the court to hold its hearing in open rather than behind closed doors.

The court found that a stock trading plan established by the company's chairman, pursuant to which a broker, rather than the chairman himself, would liquidate a portion of the chairman's stock in the company, did not preclude potential liability for insider trading.

A clause in the nondisclosure agreement requires that disputes be mediated in private arbitration, where proceedings are confidential, rather than in open court.

In November 2017, he achieved precedent - setting victories for investors, when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that direct evidence of price impact is not always necessary to demonstrate market efficiency to invoke the presumption of reliance, and that defendants seeking to rebut the presumption of reliance must do so by a preponderance of the evidence rather than merely meeting a burden of production.

However, having such a provision and enforcing it are different matters altogether, and fallen executives often negotiate their departure in private rather than exposing the issue to the public scrutiny of a court fight.

Thank goodness that the supreme court has not been influenced to the same extent or we would be living in a country that would make you toe a religious line rather than a secular one, scary.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

The organisation said the agreement appears to have been reached on the basis that the evidence collected would be used to try those responsible in the Iraqi national courts, rather than the International Criminal Court.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law,» the spokesperson said.

And every time the court gets involved in things like this, it seems to make the problem worse rather than better.»

In Christian Echoes National Ministry, Inc. v. U.S., the Tenth Circuit Court addressed what the Walz decision had sidestepped, and held that «tax exemption is a privilege, a matter of grace rather than a right.»

In England where they have created their own Sharia courts to resolve conflicts, divorces, etc rather than the court that the rest of the citizens use.

When asked to comment about the accusations, when it first happened, didn't Long state that he was going to fight his accusers in court, rather than through the media?

Great — so, either these four young men never were abused, but simply saw an opportunity to shake down an individual with a questionable reputation (the «where there's smoke» strategy), and Pastor Long either caved in to the pressure, or sought an expedient route (possibly used before) to make the problem go away; OR, these really are four young men who've been abused, but rather than make the pastor answer for what he did to them in a court of law, and spare other young men in the future the trauma they experienced, they allowed their silence to be bought.

So I shall use the word «appraisal» in the remainder of this chapter, rather than the word «judgement»; the latter fails seriously, for us today at any rate, because it is so tied up with notions of law - courts, assizes, and the other paraphernalia of «justice» in the legal sense.

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law.

Now, I daresay that to us — living in the aftermath of an expansion of judicial power that may, perhaps, more properly be conceived as having been expressed and ratified, rather than created, by the Supreme Court in Cooper v. Aaron — this language is quite shocking.

Ironically, the court adopted a secular stereotype of religion, in which religion is associated exclusively with leaps of faith rather than with Anselm's «faith seeking understanding.»

If you're interested in digging deeper, you might like knowing that Wake Forest University has published a short, objective Q&A primer on the current law (rather than history) of separation of church and state — as applied by the courts rather than as caricatured in the blogosphere.

«Rather than continuing to allow criminal and offshore entities to reap the benefits of illegal gaming, there is now an opportunity for the Supreme Court to allow the democratic process in New Jersey to appropriately regulate sports gaming.»

With the 25 year old in his final year at Toulouse, the ball is very much in his court and realistically you'd expect Toulouse would want to get some sort of fee for their player, rather than lose him on a free transfer next year.

Longley grew up in Fremantle, and on the night of Dec. 7 he seemed for all the world as if he were back there again rather than where he actually was, on his adopted home court in Albuquerque, playing against New Mexico's archrival, New Mexico State, and enduring scandalously rude taunts from several of what Long Luc calls «sepos.»

Florida is really struggling in the half court tonight, against a bigger, stronger Tennessee team that is daring it to drive into the teeth of its defense rather than shoot over it.

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

In many situations, court decisions are made on the basis of what is» «fair and equitable» to each parent rather than what is best for the child.