Sentences with phrase «successfully challenged in court»

The Superior Court initiated its own guidelines in response to the federal mandate, but its authority to do so was successfully challenged in court.
This is the second high - profile defeat for so - called «super-injunctions», which forbid disclosure of the fact an injunction has been made and therefore only become known if they are successfully challenged in court.
If they are a condition of the lease, it's possible that claim could be successfully challenged in court.
(It was later successfully challenged in court.)
I suspect that the law could have been successfully challenged in court since a quorum is required and it obviously was not.
Competition law is only enforceable by the bureau (as it is interpreted by the bureau) as long as it is not successfully challenged in the courts.

Not exact matches

Different administrators have come to different conclusions about how best to apply the law in view of the science, and many of their decisions have been challenged in court, sometimes successfully, for either going too far or not far enough.
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.
After a Newcastle midfielder named George Eastham successfully challenged the system in a British court in 1963, the balance of power shifted toward labor — but only slightly.
Regulations successfully defended in 2007 when challenged by the pharmaceutical industry at the Supreme Court regulate the promotion of foods for infants and young children up to three years of age as health officials attempt to prevent thousands of unnecessary deaths occurring every year.
This month, the Internet Advocacy Roundtable is piping in some of the key players in these efforts from the Human Rights Campaign, which has spearheaded much of the national effort, and from the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which successfully challenged California's Prop 8 in federal court.
Roberta Kaplan, who successfully argued Edie Windsor's challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act before the Supreme Court in 2013.
Even in a close race, if a candidate this week successfully challenges a state's election results (such as proof of vote fraud), would the U.S. Supreme Court intervene?
The Conservatives successfully challenged the result in court and the election was re-run, but the perception of being a sore loser saw a huge swing against Malone at the subsequent by - election, making Winchester one of the safest Liberal Democrat seat in the country.
That system, which gave increased weight to test scores, was challenged successfully in court by New York State United Teachers.
The party successfully challenged had Dr Nduom's disqualification in court praying that it restrains the EC from holding balloting for the presidential elections and annul the EC's decision to disqualify the flagbearer.
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The Institute for Justice has a long history of successfully defending school choice from legal attacks and has represented parents and children in defense of every one of Arizona's private school choice programs that have been challenged in court.
In 2010, after the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, WTP / ATP successfully challenged the constitutionality of the Montana Corrupt Practices Act of 1912, which prohibited independent political expenditures by corporations.»
Some motorists such as Dean Winton have successfully challenged «flashing your lights» tickets in court by arguing that this statute is clearly «aimed at stopping motorists from operating flashing lights to imply they're driving official or emergency vehicles» — not at people who flash their headlights to warn of a speed trap (or, I would imagine, to inform an oncoming driver that his high beams are on).
David Millet led the Butterworths challenge all the way to High Court and Cabinet Office as I recall, and in fact it led to Carol Tullo leading a Professional Publishers group which fought for open access successfully thereafter.
The former process to apply for this type of direction was successfully challenged by Ryanair in the Supreme Court in 2007, so the Industrial Relations legislation was updated in 2015, to include a statutory definition of collective bargaining.
John Cleary, himself, successfully argued three Supreme Court cases, including the hallmark decision in United States v. Brignoni - Ponce, 422 U.S. 873 (1975), which challenged law enforcement's use of racial profiling.
The manufacturer of a generic version successfully challenged the patent's validity after a Federal Court judge used the promise doctrine in finding the patent holder had over-promised in its application.
Nicholas Griffin QC, of 5 Paper Buildings, said: «It is not that surprising that it has been successfully challenged in the High Court under human rights and EU law on similar grounds as led the CJEU to strike down the Directive.
The People's Challenge to the Government regarding Brexit raised # 170,550 and Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) raised over # 10,000 to allow them to successfully intervene in the Supreme Court case of R v Jogee [2016] UKSC.
Galati, who's launching a court application, says Quebec judges must be from the Quebec bar, an issue he successfully argued in his challenge of Justice Marc Nadon's appointment to the Supreme Court of Cacourt application, says Quebec judges must be from the Quebec bar, an issue he successfully argued in his challenge of Justice Marc Nadon's appointment to the Supreme Court of CaCourt of Canada.
We also represent clients in federal court where we have successfully obtained defense verdicts in jury trials in premises liability cases despite the challenges of litigating in a pro-plaintiff jurisdiction.
Successfully defended a municipality in a bid challenge by a contractor and, in issue of first impression, obtained decision by the Connecticut Supreme Court limiting bid challenges against municipalities by unsuccessful bidders.
This comes after Rights of Women successfully challenged the lawfulness of the previous rules in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
2003: In New York County Lawyers» Association v. the State of New York, Davis Polk successfully challenges as unconstitutionally low the rates paid to court - appointed lawyers for the indigent.
Due to efficient and effective case management, attorneys from Sidley & Austin LLP and Spesia & Ayers successfully argued that the injunction was warranted because the pipeline company had received condemnation authority from the Illinois Commerce Commission and the trial court had already denied the landowners attempt to challenge that authority in a traverse and motion to dismiss.
Lawyers for the District of Columbia residents who successfully challenged the city's ban on handguns were in court today defending their request for nearly $ 3.13 million in legal fees and costs.
Successfully challenged the validity of a deathbed marriage in a contested Probate Court matter, resulting in the marriage being voided.
The RPC team pulled off a major coup in this case, not only successfully challenging the jurisdiction of the Competition and Markets Authority to review a merger, but defeating the CMA in a subsequent case in the Court of Appeal.
The mandatory minimum provisions and removal of credit for time has already been challenged successfully in court.
Notable cases in which Pierre was involved included an appeal against deprivation of citizenship on national security grounds following remittal to SIAC by the Supreme Court in the case of Pham («B2»); an appeal concerning registration under the statelessness provisions of the British Nationality Act 1981 in the case of MK (India); three out of hours applications for injunctions successfully preventing same - day removal and numerous challenges to Home Office policy and the Immigration Rules.
Persuaded trial court to dismiss appeal for lack of standing where appellant challenged the Connecticut Siting Council authorization to build and operate a telecommunications facility in northwest Connecticut; successfully defended that decision and numerous other issues raised on appeal at the Connecticut Appellate Court and the Connecticut Supreme Ccourt to dismiss appeal for lack of standing where appellant challenged the Connecticut Siting Council authorization to build and operate a telecommunications facility in northwest Connecticut; successfully defended that decision and numerous other issues raised on appeal at the Connecticut Appellate Court and the Connecticut Supreme CCourt and the Connecticut Supreme CourtCourt.
Represented an Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer in a wrongful death dispute, and obtained a dismissal of all claims by successfully challenging the court's jurisdiction
The team has also been involved in a number of important «open justice» challenges to facilitate press reporting of the courts, including leading a group of five media organisations in successfully challenging an arrangement where the former head of the Financial Services Authority would otherwise have given evidence in private in the Lloyds Bank shareholder litigation.
In many instances, Randy's cases have involved direct challenges to state motor vehicle franchise statutes, and he has successfully argued several cases before state supreme courts that have involved challenges to the constitutionality of those statutes.
He has acted in commercial arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID and FOSFA rules and has successfully appeared before the English Court in relation to challenges under s. 67 and s. 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996.
As EU law is according to Eco-Swiss a public policy ground which requires national courts to review arbitral awards for their compatibility with EU law, this means that any arbitral awards where the arbitration seat is in an EU Member State, or the recognition and enforcement of the award in an EU Member State is sought, can be successfully challenged in front of national EU courts.
R (Gaughran) v Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland [2015] UKSC 29, [2016] AC 345 (Supreme Court) Jonathan successfully represented the Home Office in this challenge, based on an alleged breach of Article 8 of the Convention, to the indefinite retention by police of the DNA profiles of persons who have been convicted of an offence.
R (Westscott Financial Services) v Financial Ombudsman Service [2014] EWHC 3972 (Admin)(High Court) Jonathan successfully represented the Financial Ombudsman on a challenge not to stay complaints pending the outcome of the major Keydata negligence claim in the Commercial Court.
Paul Wilmshurst successfully represented Cambridge County Council, against leading counsel, in this High Court challenge.
We successfully persuaded a unanimous Supreme Court to reverse the Sixth Circuit and hold that challenges to the WOTUS Rule are properly brought in the district courts.
R (Tower Hamlets London Borough Council) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2014] EWHC 4364 (Admin)(High Court) Jonathan successfully represented the Secretary of State on a challenge to the decision to conduct a best value inspection of Lutfur Rahman's controversial mayoral administration in Tower Hamlets.
She has achieved important court victories on GLBT issues, including bringing marriage equality to Pennsylvania through her work for plaintiffs in Whitewood v. Wolf, the federal lawsuit that successfully challenged the Pennsylvania Marriage Laws as amended in 1996 to ban same - sex marriage.
R (A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 597 (High Court and Court of Appeal) Jonathan successfully resisted a challenge to the scheme for the disclosure of information about convicted child sex offenders known as «Sarah's law» in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
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