Sentences with phrase «sought ways to court»

Increasingly, both the Republican and Democratic parties have sought ways to court Hispanics.

Not exact matches

A federal judge on Monday cleared the way for a U.S. government lawsuit seeking nearly $ 100 million in damages from disgraced former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong to go to trial, according to court papers.

I believe it was Citizens United for the Separtion of Church and State that sought a court injunction against issuing explicitly Christian license plates there, but they managed to finagle a way around it.

10.1 Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to a Nestlé Waters North America Inc. website or to products or services you purchase through a Nestlé Waters North America Inc. website shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Stamford, Connecticut, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Nestlé Waters North America Inc.'s intellectual property rights, Nestlé Waters North America Inc. may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of Connecticut, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

He was seeking to «engineer» the perfect court, but along the way he also became an expert on the imperfections of the players.

The corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday was overturned by a federal appeals court, dealing yet another blow to the prosecutors who had sought to crack down on Albany's unseemly way of doing business.

We will seek to find a practical way to allow the use of intercept evidence in court.»

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has said that it has the right to seek justice in court over the way and manner the Nigerian Constitution and Electoral Act were subverted in the June 21, 2014 Governorship Election.

Cuomo proposed a series of reform proposals that would have been anathema for the unions, and a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's teacher tenure protections was working its way through the courts.

A medical practitioner says the best way to deal with medical negligence is to seek redress in the court of...

The federal government this week cleared way for the project to resume, leading the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to file a court challenge on Thursday seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the 1,170 - mile (1,885 - km) pipeline.

There are other ways to seek a time frame such as social services, shops, church, and in public places, but none like online courting services.

It does not alter our traditional way of courting and meeting a prospect for marriage but enhances it to a more developed and convenient way of seeking for that special someone.

Legal advice sought on this issue by BUSK has indicated that a court would take a dim view of anyone hiring transport in this way because it demonstrates a lax attitude to the safety of children.

A state appeals court in Sacramento, Calif., last month upheld a trial court ruling that a 0.25 - cent hike in the sales tax enacted in 1991 to support San Francisco's schools and community colleges is invalid, opening the way for city businesses to seek refunds.

Since then, Blase said his school has sought reauthorization from the local board and at the state level, and the state legislature has considered ways to work around the ruling, which the Supreme Court on Monday decided it would not revisit.

While many groups, from indie booksellers up to US Congressmen have voiced their opinions, these two organizations have actually sought permission to use a «friend of the court» brief as a way to have their stance on the entire proceedings — but specifically the settlement reached with three of the publishers — entered into record, also giving Judge Denise Cote a mechanism to take their points into consideration.

Had you actually bothered to read my posts and the two Court Cases cited you would understand that they represent an excellent example of the thoroughly nasty way in which Amazon seeks to grind down competitors, and screws their customers.

One of the ways CanLII, other legal publishers, and Canadian courts and tribunals have sought to promote the benefits of open access via the internet to the judgments of the courts while minimizing the risk of the negatives identified by Professor Eltis is through shielding the content from Google and other search engines.

The lawyer sought judicial review, and the matter of the reprimand wound its way up to the Supreme Court of Canada.

From the perspective of the exercise of the public role of the court in explaining the law and diffusing conflict among citizens, the ruling can be criticized in three significant ways: The public was left guessing the precise relief the plaintiffs were seeking and the applicable procedural law, so as to leave the legal analysis a mystery.

By way of an originating summons, the plaintiff sought leave of the High Court to appeal against the partial award on a question of law.

The takeaway for employees who believe that they have been wrongfully dismissed and wish to seek redress by way of a Small Claims Court action is that it is likely prudent to seek professional legal advice before launching one's case.

A Canadian court has cleared the way for Ottawa to seek penalties of up to $ 10,000 a day against U.S. Steel for allegedly breaking job - protection promises made when it bought Hamilton, Ont. - based Stelco.

The offeror needs the court's permission — sought by way of Pt 23 application — to withdraw or to vary the offer terms to the disadvantage of the offeree during the acceptance period.

The CJC says there is growing concern about the way such injunctions are being sought and / or used; the powers afforded to the courts (principally the county court, although the youth court can grant civil injunctions against juveniles); the limited powers available to the county court on breach; whether third parties should be involved in the process, and whether breaches of these orders are then a shortcut to mandatory possession orders.

Ms Jodhan sought a declaration under section 18.1 of the Federal Courts Act that the standards implemented by the federal government for providing visually impaired Canadians with access to government information and services on the Internet, and the way in which those standards are implemented, denied her equal access to government information and services, and thereby violated her rights under section 15 (1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms... [more]

It launched the task force following Ontario Superior Court Associate Chief Justice Frank Marrocco's challenge to the organization to study the issue and seek a better way forward.

While professional referrals can be helpful to finding top rate reporters, seeking a reporter through court reporter firms is usually the better option for two reasons: many reporting firms offer additional litigation services associated with court reporting, and contacting a reporting firm is the best way to choose from the largest number of qualified candidates.

Worst case scenario is they can seek an injunction on you to stop - if they head this way you can just... agree to stop before going to court.

States which ignore or seek to manipulate PIL in this way are likely (at the very least) to be shamed in the court of public opinion.

Arguably, the Federal Court of Appeal's decision to show limited deference to the Tribunal, and its unwillingness to decide issues related to the colony's liability, presents future obstacles in the way of First Nations seeking to resolve their site - specific claims.

If the parties are unwilling or unable to try and resolve the case by way of mediation or settlement, then the party requesting a modification must file a motion with the court requesting the change being sought.

Due to this, I unfortunately sometimes see a limited view and misunderstanding of the practical financial needs and ways to address the needs of distressed business and families seeking the protection of the bankruptcy court who come from communities of colour.

In those highly unusual circumstances, the proper route by which the local authority sought to ensure that the course it proposed was necessary and in the child's interests, was by putting the matter before the High Court by way of an application to invoke its inherent jurisdiction.

The application is started by the estate trustee by way of a notice of application to pass accounts (where the circumstances warrant it, a beneficiary may seek an order of the court compelling the estate trustee to bring an application to pass accounts rather than relying on the estate trustee to start the application of her own volition).

If Judge Robart had determined that multilateral patent pool negotiations are the only or always the best way to arrive at FRAND rates, an appeals court might have disagreed and might have found that if a company elects not to participate in a pool, it should still be free to seek higher royalties through bilateral negotiations.

«The reforms will put significant impediments in the way of claimants seeking justice for smaller personal injury claims and would appear to be caught by the Supreme Court's statement in last July's Unison case that, without unimpeded access to justice, the democratic process was in danger of becoming «a meaningless charade».

They can do this in one of 2 ways, either pursuant to the Insurance (Vehicle) Regulation which allows ICBC to set up an Independent Medical Exam for any «insured» seeking no - fault benefits, or under the Supreme Court Rules where the Defendant has the right to «balance the playing field» by obtaining an independent medical exam in many circumstances.

The ESA aims to protect employees that are unaware of their employment rights and the court seeks to interpret these clauses in ways that encourage employers to draft clauses that comply with minimal standards.

Better in this instance, we think, to allow change through the customary political processes, in which the people, gay and straight alike, become the heroes of their own stories by meeting each other not as adversaries in a court system but as fellow citizens seeking to resolve a new social issue in a fair - minded way.

But it appears that one brave Missouri lawyer sought recourse from James in a more lawyerly way, by taking him to court — and won.

According to briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court, dentists seek to define teeth whitening services as the practice of dentistry in the same way that lawyers seek to... Read More

(3) Where a person against whom an order under subsection (1) has been made seeks leave to institute or continue a proceeding, the person shall do so by way of an application in the Superior Court of Justice.

(3) before making an adoption order the court must be satisfied that there is no practical way of the authorities (including the Health Service) providing the requisite assistance and support and Judges must explore rigorously whether a Local Authority is seeking a Placement Order because resource issues make it unwilling to provide the necessary support.

If we can establish that the doctor or other medical professional acted negligently in some way, we will then file a claim or lawsuit in civil court in order to seek the financial compensation you deserve.

Furthermore, there is possibly a hint that she, as the Divisional Court below her did, may seek to approach the Article 50 case as very much a question of statutory interpretation — «rules of statutory interpretation which govern the way in which we read legislation and enable us to safeguard fundamental rights and the rule law.»

«Yet some lower courts have continually sought to invent new ways around this body of precedent intended to keep plaintiffs» lawyers from dragging corporate defendants across the country and forcing them to defend themselves in what ATRA calls «Judicial Hellholes.

Accordingly, a consultation in a timely way with Chaudhary Law Office must be made to avoid the loss of the right to seek redress at other places such as the Federal Court.

These judgments therefore underline the English judiciary's commitment to party autonomy, and highlight the obstacles in the way of those seeking to persuade a court that a commercial contract is void for uncertainty, particularly where it has been substantially performed, as in the ABP case.