Sentences with phrase «superior court decisions»

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This approach is vastly superior to a Supreme Court ruling that took the decision about the physical presence rule away from Congress.

In a decision that stunned many observers, Judge Harry Hammer of the state superior court in Hartford sided squarely against the plaintiffs challenging the racial isolation of students in that city and its suburbs.

Two months after a superior - court judge struck down the state's school - funding formula, the Rhode Island Senate has voted to appeal the decision.

In its Oct. 2 decision, the supreme court said that Judge Paul Pederzani Jr. of the Kent County superior court, whose ruling had ended an earlier strike, lacked the authority to order the school committee to...

This opinion mirrors the crafty and limited decision the state superior court judge issued in the Vergara case.

Lawmakers put the $ 11 million back into the public school budget, meaning they will have to draw the funds from somewhere else in the $ 21 billion budget to pay for the voucher program, which was temporarily halted by a superior court judge in February, but that decision was reversed by the state Supreme Court a few weekscourt judge in February, but that decision was reversed by the state Supreme Court a few weeksCourt a few weeks ago.

Please note that the final decision as to whether a course satisfies the training requirements for humane officer appointment rests with the superior court charged with confirming the appointment.

Last week's decision by Judge Ernest A. Goldsmith of state superior court in San Francisco offers a second look at some of the arguments being made against A.B. 32, the state climate - change law passed in Sacramento in 2006.

The manual covers both federal and provincial decision - makers and proceedings in both federal and British Columbia superior courts.

We also publish a case digest service (all decisions of the BC superior courts) and an online precedent service.

The reason for this is fairly straightforward, too: a superior court ruling would overturn a decision by the judge, and so carries more weight.

The decision states that while court hearing fees are permissible in principle, those that present «undue hardship» to litigants, such that they are discouraged from accessing the court system, violate core jurisdictional principles within the Constitution: «The historic task of the superior courts is to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law.

Christie offered two rationales for the decision to pass over Justice Helen Hoens in favor of superior court judge Faustino Fernandez - Vina: his interest in...

As mentioned in Auto Equity Sales v. Superior Court before the California Supreme Court and as brought in the Wikipedia article on precedent: «under the doctrine of stare decisis, all tribunals exercising inferior jurisdiction are required to follow decisions of courts exercising superior jurisdiction.»

But because the decision will be a first for superior courts in Canada, and because such decisions are binding upon the lower courts, the ruling will have broad impact.

A Massachusetts superior court has recently ruled that an insurance company choosing to appeal a jury's decision to a higher court rather than extend a formal settlement offer after a verdict has been entered against them is NOT a commission of unfair settlement practices.

Upward Deviation in Child Support in Arizona to Match Children's Lifestyle The Arizona Court of Appeals in a memorandum decision in the case of Bowe vs. Vogel had to decide what a superior court must do in order to award a deviation above the amount set forth in the Arizona Child Support GuidelCourt of Appeals in a memorandum decision in the case of Bowe vs. Vogel had to decide what a superior court must do in order to award a deviation above the amount set forth in the Arizona Child Support Guidelcourt must do in order to award a deviation above the amount set forth in the Arizona Child Support Guidelines.

However, if there is no victim in a deferred prosecution case, the prosecutor who renders the deferred prosecution decision shall directly send the case files to the chief prosecutor of the superior court or the attorney general for reconsideration.

Nonetheless, I have been studying these leave to appeal decisions to better understand the basis upon which superior courts decide whether to hear an appeal from an administrative decision.

The court of appeals hears and decides cases in three judge panels, has jurisdiction in all matters properly appealed from the superior court and reviews all decisions properly appealed to it.

Loom currently provides coverage for civil decisions in Alberta, B.C., and Ontario's superior courts and appeals courts.

In our view, it is difficult to reconcile the Supreme Court of Canada's 1988 decision in BCGEU v. British Columbia (Attorney General), confirming that every Canadian citizen has the fundamental right to unimpeded access to the courts, with the notion of Canada's superior courts operating as a default user - pay system of justice, subject to an individual establishing an entitlement to an exemption from court Court of Canada's 1988 decision in BCGEU v. British Columbia (Attorney General), confirming that every Canadian citizen has the fundamental right to unimpeded access to the courts, with the notion of Canada's superior courts operating as a default user - pay system of justice, subject to an individual establishing an entitlement to an exemption from court court fees.

Here, however, the AGC was named as a respondent by ACJ Douglas, which meant that the AGC was placed in a fundamental conflict «between two public interest positions — on the one hand, defending the process and the Committee's decision... and, on the other, abandoning that responsibility in deference to the direct role of the AGC as Minister of Justice in the disciplinary process for superior court judges» (para. 7).

In particular, it is very doubtful that the right of access to superior courts constiutionalized in Trial Lawyers extends to provincial court and to administrative tribunals (which is to say, to the sort of decision - maker at issue in Unison!)

On issues such as the content of the record on judicial review applications, the extent to which administrative decision - makers can participate in judicial reviews of their decisions, superior court review of federal prison decisions and tribunals» capacity to reconsider their decisions, Canadian courts have recently come under pressure to update the procedural law to bring it into line with the substantive law.

And in last year's landmark decision R. v. Jordan, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that completion of criminal proceedings should take no more than 30 months in the superior courts, he added.

But I am very pleased with the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada released this morning in The Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, holding that British Columbia's court hearing fees are unconstitutional by effectively denying access to people to superior courts, contrary to section 96 of the Constitution Act, 186Court of Canada released this morning in The Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, holding that British Columbia's court hearing fees are unconstitutional by effectively denying access to people to superior courts, contrary to section 96 of the Constitution Act, 186court hearing fees are unconstitutional by effectively denying access to people to superior courts, contrary to section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867....

That Uniform Act provides for a right of appeal if leave is granted by the provincial superior court from a decision of an arbitral tribunal.

Court processes include the opportunity to appeal decisions and have them reviewed by a superior cCourt processes include the opportunity to appeal decisions and have them reviewed by a superior courtcourt.

The state superior court found that the Directors acted in good faith in reaching their decision.