Sentences with phrase «state jury trials»
He has tried over a dozen federal and state jury trials in the past 10 years involving claims of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation.
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As lead counsel in over 200 federal and state jury trials and numerous administrative proceedings, Peter Anderson helps public companies, their officers and directors, along with financial service companies, accounting and law firms and their principals, as they respond to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement actions, Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations and criminal prosecutions and complex civil litigation.
Represented various condemnors and condemnees in state jury trials and commissioners» hearings involving eminent domain / condemnation.
Represented an international paint manufacturer in a breach of commercial contract state jury trial.
Represented a client in a state jury trial of a seminal Texas trade secret case involving the client's former employees.
Represented a client in state jury trial for a major construction case alleging improper liens and bonds.
Represented an international chemical company in state jury trial of a wrongful termination case involving environmental dumping allegations.
Mr. Cobbs has tried products, insurance, and commercial cases in Florida state and federal courts, and has first chair state jury trial experience.
Not exact matches
The accord came ahead of a jury trial that was set to begin on Monday in state court in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Bob is very highly regarded by those in the boardroom and those in the courtroom, having advised senior executives in challenging situations and successfully tried through verdict numerous jury and nonjury trials in the federal and state courts.
The Supreme Court recently decided in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group for the latter view and upheld the constitutionality of an administrative review process that opponents say violates the right to a trial by jury.
«Yvonne Cryns told the parents that she had delivered hundreds of babies, including breech babies, and even showed them pictures of those deliveries,» Lake County Assistant State's Atty. Claudia Kasten told the jury as Cryns» trial on involuntary manslaughter charges began in a Waukegan courtroom.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State...
ALBANY — State government is bracing for a parade of corruption trials in 2018, with five cases involving powerful players going before juries at the same time that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and all 213 legislative seats are up for election.
Dean Skelos, son Adam arrive at court Republican State Sen. Dean Skelos, his son Adam, and their lawyers arrive at a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2015, the second day of jury selection in their corruption trial on charges of conspiracy, bribery and extortion.
«We wanted to give them a fair trial and we did,» the foreperson said, adding that the state gave the jury a «great timeline» and «did a very good job.»
One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.
Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.
Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.
The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos (pictured), begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.
Former state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada was beaming outside court yesterday as contentious jury deliberations in his Brooklyn federal corruption trial plodded along.
The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos, begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.
Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public - corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime colleague, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of trading his political influence for financial gain.
Lawyers overseeing the corruption trial of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver picked a jury that includes a retired flight attendant, a retired teacher and a nurse in Mt. Sinai's critical care department.
The jury in the political corruption case against Dean Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son, Adam, began its deliberations yesterday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
A state court has upheld a law that affirms the right to empanel an anonymous jury, which has been used in trials for Mafia figures, terrorism and gangs.
The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos, begins with jury selection tomorrow in Manhattan Federal Court.
The judge said the jury had exhausted every way to reach a verdict during their 50 hours of deliberations, stating that «It was fair trial,» according to CNN's Ted Metzger.
The state capitol is bracing for a parade of corruption trials this year that began Monday with jury selection in the case against former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan concluded, in light of the Supreme Court's narrower definition, that the jury instructions given by the judge in Mr. Silver's trial were erroneous and that a properly instructed jury might not have convicted him.
Former New York state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. will face a new criminal trial on four corruption charges that a jury deadlocked on yesterday during his initial fraud and embezzlement trial, The Post has learned.
On Friday, Azrack said while hearing arguments from the attorneys about the wording of instructions on the law that jurors will get, that she had read jury instructions from the corruption trials of Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker convicted for a second time on Friday, and Joseph Percoco, former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
Jury deliberations could begin Thursday in the federal trial of State Senator John Sampson, after lawyers presented their closing arguments Wednesday in his obstruction of justice case.
Scores of prospective jurors are to appear for questioning on Monday morning in the United States Courthouse in Lower Manhattan as the jury selection process advances in the corruption trial of Assemblyman Sheldon Silver.
A jury has been selected in the trial of Sheldon Silver, the once powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly who faces political corruption charges.
The jury in the political corruption case against Dean G. Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son began its deliberations on Thursday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.
Republican State Sen. Dean Skelos, his son Adam, and their lawyers arrive at a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2015, the second day of jury selection in their corruption trial on charges of conspiracy, bribery and extortion.
The state senator accused of slashing his girlfriend's face with a broken glass during an argument waived his right to a jury trial in Queens Supreme Court Monday.
Jury selection is expected to continue Tuesday in the corruption trial of Skelos, who is facing federal charges that he extorted bribes from companies with business before the state.
Lawyers overseeing the corruption trial of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver picked a jury on Monday.
As he unveiled the charges against one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's top lieutenants, Preet Bharara hoped aloud for a jury trial «so that all New Yorkers can see, in gory detail, what their state government has been up to.»
After receiving instructions from the judge, the jury of eight women and four men began deliberating the outcome of the corruption trial of State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam.
«The defendant tried to bribe his way onto the ballot for New York City mayor,» said Douglas B. Bloom, an assistant United States attorney, as the bribery and wire fraud trial of Mr. Smith and two other defendants got underway before a 12 - person jury in a federal courthouse in White Plains.
It may be advisable for the state to issue a statement from the surgeon general before the next corruption trial: «WARNING: Taking part on this jury may cause low self - esteem, chest pains, sprained ankles, feelings of passive - aggressiveness toward others, and hatred toward government, and may complicate your social life.»
Mr. Litwin was not charged with any crime, though he was named a co-conspirator in one case, and never appeared in a courtroom for either trial as the juries convicted Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat and former Assembly speaker, and State Senator Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican and Senate majority leader, of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges.
As a measure of how murky the financial dealings of former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno were, the jury on his corruption trial says they've reached a verdict on two of the counts so far, but are deadlocked on the other six.
On January 8, jury selection is scheduled to start in the trial of Cuomo's former close confidant and aide Joe Percoco, along with three construction and energy executives who had business before the state and are accused of arranging bribes for Percoco and his wife in exchange for Percoco's government influence.
Mike Jarboe, an editor at the Times Union, was summoned to jury duty in Albany County and listened as other prospective jurors were questioned by Acting State Supreme Court Justice Dan Lamont in a drug trial.
«It's not so much that the jury is out, but that the jury has been dismissed before the trial has begun,» says Mike Meredith, a neuroscientist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, who studies animal pheromones.