Sentences with phrase «state appellate cases»

Our lawyers have played an integral role in many of the most significant cases across the globe over the past several years, including internal and governmental investigations; international arbitration proceedings; patent, copyright and trademark cases; regulatory, government and public policy disputes; securities class action lawsuits; and federal and state appellate cases.

Not exact matches

Nicastro then took his case to the state's intermediate appellate court.

The firm has a wide - ranging litigation practice at both the trial and appellate levels of the federal and New Jersey state court systems, having successfully litigated cases up through and including the United States Supreme Court.

Indeed, this case has previously been cited as good law by an intermediate appellate court that is part of the state court system of Florida.

In an unprecedented interpretation of the statute three years ago, a state appellate court in Albany found the «cloak of confidentiality accorded to officers» personnel records» extends even to former police officers — something the state Committee on Open Government had for decades advised was not the case.

The seven - member Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday in two cases where a midlevel appellate court unanimously concluded last year that state oil and gas law doesn't trump the authority of local governments to control land use.

In all the other Cases before mentioned [within the judicial power of the United States], the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.»

A state appellate court in July unanimously reversed a lower court ruling and dismissed the case.

I have no idea where the CJ would get the authority not just to reach down and expedite a pending appeal but to order that cases in varying states of disarray (and maybe some have not even been filed yet) resolved at the trial level and the first appellate level and brought up to the Court of Appeals, IF the top court even has jurisdiction over each distinct dispute, within a fixed time.

Judge Judith Kaye, a former chief judge of the state appellate court, investigated whether Paterson interfered in the domestic violence case involving David Johnson, a former top aide.

One case has already reached an appellate court and the whole issue could go to the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals.

Levy's current chief deputy county executive, Ed Dumas, wrote in a June 28 memo he e-mailed to a reporter that the appellate court case did not apply to Levy's situation because state law would trump county law in his case.

The institutionalization of student due process protections goes well beyond appellate case law, having been enshrined in extensive state statutes and administrative regulations.

To discern the larger contours of the legal climate facing schools, we analyzed all appellate - level federal and state court cases in which school efforts to discipline and control students have been challenged.

It is thus significant that the number of cases reaching state and federal appellate courts has surged back up to levels attained during the early 1970s when civil rights cases had a central place on the national political agenda (see Figure 1).

Since then, a high - profile court battle ensued, resulting in a Superior Court judge finding that the program violates the state's constitutional mandate to use public funds only for public schools — but thanks to a Court of Appeals ruling last month, the state must disburse school vouchers that have already been awarded while the case winds its way through the state appellate courts.

Randall G. Bennett is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Tennessee School Boards Association where he provides general legal opinions to local boards of education, superintendents and TSBA staff on school governanace issues, organizes and presents at seminars and training events, prepares and files amicus briefs in appellate cases affecting public schools, monitors current litigation and changes in state and federal law, and supervises the Association's Policy Department, A former school board member and police officer, Mr. Bennett obtained his law degree from Nashville School of Law.

The state's teachers union has appealed their case to the Florida Supreme Court after the union was denied standing on both the lower court and appellate court level.

98 commercial cases went before the court from September 2010 to January 2011, according to data collected from the New York state court's appellate division, first department.

The appellate court answered by stating that a party can disclose a new expert, but the trial court has discretion to bar or limit evidence in the refiled case.

Even though the site is focused on New York, its users can research cases from any federal court or state appellate court and statutes from every state.

Earlier this month, one state's appellate court issued a written opinion in a medical malpractice case that required the court to determine whether the single doctor named as a defendant should be able to introduce evidence that there had originally been several other doctors named as defendants, but they had all settled with the plaintiff before the case reached trial.

Earlier this month, a state appellate court issued a written opinion in a personal injury case that raises interesting and important issues for Florida slip - and - fall accident victims.

We regularly handle matters in federal and state appellate courts throughout the United States, and have represented clients in more than 30 patent and other cases in the Federal Circuit in the last two years.

Earlier this month, a state appellate court issued a written opinion in a personal injury case that illustrates the importance of following all procedural and court rules in South Florida medical malpractice cases.

Mr. Stellabotte is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience litigating patent, copyright, trade secret, antitrust, contract, tort, trademark, false advertising, and information technology related matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts, including case preparation and strategy, fact and expert discovery, depositions, motion practice, Markman hearings, preliminary injunction hearings, bench and jury trials, arbitrations, mediations, appeals, and settlement negotiations.

Long and Christensen found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.129 For federal appellate court briefs and state supreme court briefs, the only variable with a statistically significant correlation to reversal was jurisdiction, which is not surprising because state cases have higher reversal rates than federal cases.

First, readability scores for federal appellate court opinions and state supreme court opinions were similar.131 Second, readability scores from U.S. Supreme Court opinions were lower than opinions from the other courts.132 Third, briefs from U.S. Supreme Court cases had lower readability scores than briefs from the other courts.133 Finally, at the U.S. Supreme Court level, the opinion readability scores were significantly lower than the brief readability scores.134

He routinely tries workers» compensation cases before the Illinois Workers Compensation Commission, handles appeals to the circuit courts and appellate courts, and appears in both state and federal courts throughout Illinois in related civil litigation.

He has won many important appellate decisions for physicians and other healthcare providers and has argued several cases in the United States and California Supreme Courts.

Only three days after Judge Kaplan's spectacular ruling in the Chevron / Ecuador case, notes Paul Barrett at Business Week, «a state appellate court in California upheld a trial judge's finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a corrupt conspiracy by plaintiffs» lawyers.»

Sandy has experience and handles cases at both the trial and appellate level in state and federal court.

Better yet, describe the argument you want to support with case law, or ask if there's an appellate case that states the exact legal opinion you want.

My practice focuses on extraordinary writs, appellate remands, interlocutory appeals, and capital cases, although I supervise all our office's litigation and thus work on all sorts of cases and guide the legal writing and position - taking on behalf of the United States, oral argument training, and attorney development.

Currently, Google Scholar allows you to search and read published opinions of US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since...

Nothing in the Constitution requires that assessment of fault in a civil case tried in a state court be made by a jury, nor is there any prohibition against such a finding being made in the first instance by an appellate, rather than a trial, court.

A large number of federal appellate courts state on the face of their precedential opinions that the date on which the opinion issued is the date on which the case was decided.

Appellate Advocacy Fellow at The Public Justice Center, where he represented indigent clients, authored amicus briefs, and argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Maryland appellate courts on various anti-poverty and civil rights cases.

He has handled a wide range of matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts, including white collar criminal defense, business disputes, and commercial real estate cases.

We often represent clients as early as the audit stage, continue our work through administrative appeals levels, and we ultimately litigate cases in state trial and appellate courts where appropriate.

She has been trial counsel for multiple matters tried to a favorable jury verdict, as well as appellate counsel for cases in which she has both written the appellate briefs and argued the appeals in state and federal courts.

The appellate court has not yet stated whether or not it will hear the case or let Judge Arrieta's decision stand.

We have taken cases to federal and state appellate courts, the Kentucky Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Brian has successfully tried cases to verdict at the trial level and has drafted and argued numerous appeals in the state appellate courts.

Since that first case, we have represented blind managers, groups of managers, state licensing agencies, the National Association of Blind Merchants, and the National Federation of the Blind throughout the United States in arbitrations, trial courts, and appellate courts.

State Attorney General Luther Strange is pursuing the case through appellate courts where, most recently, the Alabama Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Judge Todd's decision.

Our appellate lawyers have handled cases before the Texas Supreme Court, Texas intermediate appellate courts, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and even the United States Supreme Court, among others.

He has handled a wide variety of multi-party cases involving multi-million dollar exposure at the trial and appellate levels and is one of the leading environmental litigators in the country, handling cases in both federal and state courts.

In addition to the Knowles case, he has successfully argued class action related appeals in three federal circuits and in state appellate courts, and he has successfully defeated class certification in many state and federal trial courts.

The decision halts a 27 - year old expansion of venue in patent cases which began in 1990 when an appellate court expanded venue from a corporation's state of incorporation to any district where personal jurisdiction could be established over the alleged infringer.