Sentences with phrase «reasonable awards based»

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If approved, courts would automatically award legal fees in cases in which pain tiffs have substantially prevailed in winning access to records and there was no reasonable basis for their denial.

The «second tier» mandates the award of attorney fees when a party denied access to records «has substantially prevailed» and the court finds that «the agency had no reasonable basis for denying access.»

Ms. Funk is DOT's Senior Accountable Official for the DATA Act who, on a quarterly basis, must provide reasonable assurance that the agency's internal controls support reliability and validity of the financial and award data submitted to the Treasury for publication on USASpending.gov.

Using hard data on 35 major housing markets, the magazine has awarded a letter grade based on how reasonable the house prices are, whether home prices are likely to rise and how prosperous the local economy is.

The trial judge, albeit observing the lack of time records but based upon 33 years of experience as a practitioner, finally awarded $ 180,880 to plaintiff after a reconsideration motion from the defense — this included a 1.25 multiplier to the lodestar found reasonable by the lower court.

The Court found no support in the legislative history of any intent to broaden judicial review of arbitral awards or to permit the Court to vacate an award on «any reasonable basis.»

The trial court awarded $ 66,627, finding the requested hourly rates were reasonable based on the judge's own perception that fifth year associates in L.A. firms bill between $ 390 - $ 600 per hour.

The plaintiff was awarded $ 50,000 in punitive damages in the 2016 decision Morison v Ergo - Industrial Seating Systems Inc. 2 The employer had alleged cause when there was no reasonable basis.

In Morison v. Ergo - Industrial Seating Systems Inc., 2016 ONSC 6725, for example, the Superior Court awarded the Plaintiff $ 50,000 in punitive damages after finding that the employer's allegation that it terminated the Plaintiff's employment for cause lacked a reasonable basis and was done for purely tactical purposes.

[216] Based on all of the circumstances of this case, including consideration of the cases cited to me my both counsel, in my view a fair and reasonable award for non-pecuniary loss is $ 140,000

Failure to comply with the notice requirements of this section without good cause may be a factor in the determination of whether the relocation is in good faith under subsection (d) of this section and is a basis for an award of reasonable expenses and reasonable attorney's fees to another parent that are attributable to such failure.

A jury will decide on a reasonable award of non-economic damages based on the evidence in your case and their common sense.

Without a rational basis for such allegations, they may be liable for substantial punitive damages awards in addition to common law reasonable notice.

Compensation payments from NVICP have averaged $ 782,136 per successful claim through 2011, with an additional $ 113 million dispersed to pay attorney fees and legal costs (the act awards attorney fees and costs for unsuccessful claims provided that the litigants bring their claims in good faith and upon a reasonable basis, as well as for successful claims).

The trial judge went on to award severance based on common law reasonable notice.

A court considering a fee petition that includes charges for work performed by a freelance attorney should award fees that are reasonable based on the freelance lawyer's qualifications and the nature of the work performed.

This is because spousal maintenance awards are based on the reasonable needs of the requesting spouse.

The law would also require judges to award attorneys» fees to parties who bring lawsuits «that have no reasonable basis in law and fact.»

In his ruling, Justice Brown concluded that «an award of costs in the amount of $ 3,000 would be a reasonable one in the circumstances», based on, among other reasons, the fact that the motion took half a day to argue, no pre-hearing examinations occurred; and the motion involved a «narrow factual and legal issue».