Sentences with phrase «stakes case brought»

In 2006, Mr. Jacobs served as lead counsel in a high stakes case brought by a plaintiff who was rendered a quadraplegic.

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It is the population along the Continental Divide that is at stake in the legal case brought against logging proposals in the Stillwater State Forest, in northwestern Montana.

And the stakes posed by the narrative are high enough that one is riveted throughout to a story whose outcome is no surprise: Irving famously lost a libel case that he brought in 1996 against the American academic Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) and her UK publishers, Penguin Books.

As school board member George Giles was quoted, the initiative «brought in a lot of people who didn't have children, who in some cases felt like they didn't have a stake [in the local schools].»

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

Through the medium of photography, Marey found ways to bring to light something akin to what Marcel Duchamp referred to as «an invisible fourth dimension, something you can't see with your eyes».30 In the case of Martin's paintings, where modes of representation are at stake, that invisible thing is revealed as empty, a container for meaning where no meaning actually resides.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

Second is today's oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, which «concerns the torture of Ogoni leaders in Nigeria, but at stake is the future of the law under which this case was brought, the Alien Tort Statute.»

Legal Week: Wall Street giant breaks pay stand - off with salary hikes Simpson Thacher matches $ 20k pay hikes Starting salaries predicted to rise as US pay round looms Freshfields salary hike trumps A&O Partners slam A&O salary hikes amid fears of renewed pay war Freshfields to hike City pay rates Skadden sets new pay benchmark as regions brought in line with NY Weil Gotshal increases associate pay by 3 % CC raises junior lawyer pay White & Case ups UK NQ salary stakes

While we recognize that most high - stakes commercial cases should be and are resolved by settlement and pride ourselves on the creativity we bring to the settlement process, we firmly believe that the best settlements result not only from creative lawyering throughout pretrial, but also from a demonstrated trial capability and a readiness to take any case to trial.

In summary — jurors are only allowed to talk to one another when the deliberation process starts, and, no, they are not allowed to bring any «baggage» to the case at stake.

Although pro se defendant has latched on to the notion that to have standing in an Article III civil controversy, the party bring the action must have a concrete stake in the litigation and have suffered an injury - in - fact, he fails to appreciate the distinctions to be drawn between a criminal case and a civil controversy.

«So we are willing to consider case - to - case request from LIC to extend the timeline to bring its stake down to 15 per cent,» he said.