Sentences with phrase «right to a jury trial on»

In her dissenting opinion, Circuit Judge Pauline Newman offers an interesting historical review of the right to a jury trial on these sorts of factual issues.

In a 7 - 2 opinion authored by Associate Justice Thomas, the Court rejected Oil States» contention that the IPR process violated the separation of powers of Article III and a patent owner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial on the question of patent validity.

By linking the waiver of a jury trial on sentencing facts to the guilty plea, this statute unnecessarily increases the likelihood that a defendant will waive his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial on facts essential to the death penalty eligibility determination in order to plead guilty on the merits, thereby compromising one of his Sixth Amendment rights.

Not exact matches

On June 6, 2017, lawyers presented opening statements in the trial, with Carter having waived her right to a trial by jury.

On the other hand, the Universal Declaration omits the Anglo - American right of trial by jury, and two peculiarly North American conceptions: the right to bear arms, and the prohibition of established religion.

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The suit was sent right back to where it started: with Judge Alsup in San Francisco, for a second jury trial, and on May 26th, 2016, a jury found fair use in favor of Google.

A recent decision of Mew J., provides an excellent, comprehensive, summary of the law on civil jury trials including the law pertaining to the fundamental right to a jury trial and a detailed discussion of the law pertaining to a judge's discretion to strike a jury notice.

Also, probably at least 10 % of acquittals are of people who were factually guilty, because juries get it right something on the order of 90 % of the time when cases go to trial.

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Laura has successfully argued a motion to dismiss a federal securities fraud class action, examined the expert witness and conducted the post-trial argument on evidentiary and valuation issues in an appraisal action in Delaware Chancery Court, and obtained a favorable federal jury verdict after a multi-day prisoner civil rights trial.

«Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my dues to the Kentucky Bar Association were being used, not only to heap insults on a significant segment of our membership — those of us who represent the injured — but also to take a pro-business position on tort reform to deprive the citizens in this Commonwealth of their constitutional right to a jury trial for their injury claims.»

«It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.»

That's the question, as reported by New Hampshire's Laconia Citizen, which says that the defense attorney representing a convicted rapist is trying to convince the court that his client's right to a fair trial was compromised by comments made by a jury member on a personal blog.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

«Second, there are the numerous statutory limits on jury trials, such as workers» compensation, no - fault auto claims, state tort claims acts and the like, which remove the right to jury trial altogether or limit the damages that can be awarded,» he says.

Have jury consultants become so essential that a defendant's right to a fair trial hinges on having one provided?

The Constitution guarantees a right to a trial by jury in open court, the right to cross-examine witnesses, the right to remain silent (on grounds of self - incrimination), the presumption of innocence, the right to be represented by a lawyer, and the right to be free of cruel or unusual punishment.

However, currently in medical malpractice terms, a person still has a right to a trial by jury and that person is not bound by forced arbitration.The problem most often encountered are older doctors that haven't kept up - to - date on the latest in medicine and make mistakes as a result.

On May 21st 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in R. v. Kokopenace, which concerned the right of an Aboriginal accused to trial by a representative jury.

Clifford Kokopenace, an Aboriginal man convicted of manslaughter, argued that he was denied the right to an independent and impartial trial by jury because of underrepresentation of Aboriginal people living on reserves in the jury rolls for the District of Kenora.

Ultimately, the appellate court would probably have to say, «This sentence would be substantively unreasonable * but for * the findings related to Ball's other conduct,» — which (based on Scalia's reasoning) would mean that the sentence couldn't be lawfully imposed without the presence of those facts, which in turn would mean that they were subject to the Sixth Amendment's jury - trial right.

The drastic underrepresentation of on - reserve Aboriginal people on the jury roll in Kokopenace meant that Mr. Kokopenace's right to a fair trial was not met; the petit jury would not be selected from a representative roll.

By requiring an explicit statement before an agent can relinquish her principal's rights to go to court and receive a jury trial, the court did exactly what this court has barred: adopt a legal rule hinging on the primary characteristic of an arbitration agreement.

In October 2014, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in State v. Paul that the 2012 law was not a «jury nullification law» and «construed RSA 519:23 - a as merely codifying existing law, rather than conferring on the jury a right to judge or nullify the law...» Trial judges were permitted to use a «Wentworth instruction» derived from State v. Wentworth, 118 N.H. 833 (1978)

Given the briefing on the Seventh Amendment and the fact that Justice Thomas wrote one of the landmark opinions in Seventh Amendment jurisprudence, some might have looked forward to a discussion of the right to a jury trial and the implications of Feltner v. Columbia Pictures, 523 U.S. 340 (1998).

As in Booker, the Court tried and failed to rein in the courts» infringements on the jury trial right.

Criminal Law § 459 («Criminal Trial — Right to Jury Trial — Waiver of Right — Effect of Waiver on Retrial»).

The statute setting a $ 400,000 limit on noneconomic damages awards in health care liability actions violated the right to a jury trial and equal protection provisions of the State Constitution.

In a decision written by Chief Justice Carol Hunstein, the high court has upheld a Fulton County judge's ruling and found that the caps placed on so - called «noneconomic damages» violate a citizen's constitutional right to a trial by jury.

The provision would extend the powers and rights of audience of DCWs by enabling them to conduct: - summary trials in magistrates» courts; - certain proceedings in magistrates» courts, including proceedings relating to offences triable only on indictment by a judge and jury at the crown court; - applications and other proceedings relating to «preventative civil orders» such as anti-social behaviour orders; and - certain proceedings (other than criminal proceedings) assigned to the director of public prosecutions by the attorney general under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 3 (2)(g).

The statute setting a $ 250,000 limit on punitive damages awards violated the right to jury trial under the State Constitution.

Many states now impose a surcharge on defendants who exercise their constitutional rights to counsel, confrontation, and trial by jury.

The appellate court found that fee entitlement was based on fees being damages, implicating jury trial rights and not simply adjudging fees as costs so as to invoke a law and motion procedure for determination of fees.

Sentencing fans have their SCOTUS cups running over this morning: in addition to the cert grants on a pair of cases dealing with the application of the statutory crack sentences in Dorsey and Hill (basics here), the Supreme Court also grant cert on a long - simmering Apprendi issue: namely whether standard of proof jury trial rights set forth in Apprendi and its progeny apply to the imposition of criminal fines.