Sentences with phrase «than going to court on»

They are significantly cheaper than going to court on an interlocutory application and often clear the way for complete settlement.

Not exact matches

On April 12, 2018, in a telephone conference to discuss the letter he submitted the day before, defendant Patrick McDonnell requested that the court extend the deadline for answering the CFTC's complaint so that he may confer with the Federal Pro Bono Clinic, rather than simply letting the case go into default.

With both Paul George and Carmelo on the court, he's going to need to share the ball way more than he did last year.

After a dominating performance in Week 1, Team Knox came back down to earth in Week 2 as they struggled to get it going on both ends of the court, netting 21 fewer points than their total from Week 1, while also giving up a league high 95 points in Week 2.

(Except five miles probably isn't enough...) But even if you're going to play volleyball, that's an explosion sport (jumping and hitting), and a five - mile jog doesn't help you get ready to be explosive on the court any more than sleeping in until noon.

Mr. SCHUMER: Madam President, of the last 26 nominations of Justices confirmed to the Supreme Court, going back to 1954, how many were confirmed without a rollcall vote or received more than 60 votes in support of their nomination either on cloture or on confirmation?

Both sides appear to be committed to resolving their differences rather than going ahead with a constitutional clash in the courts over the Scottish government's power to hold a referendum on its own terms.

And going back to pre-Sandy days, the Democrats were none too thrilled that Cuomo declined to intercede when the Senate and Assembly failed to agree on a redistricting plan for the congressional lines, kicking the matter to the courts and resulting in a far less gerrymandered outcome than a politically - controlled process would likely have produced.

«It is with great compunction that this Court renders this decision as this Court recognizes the benefit that such a law would provide,» Judge Wright wrote in his decision, going on to question «the wisdom in the Mayor's zeal for the possibility of welcoming to New York City a business that would pay its building service employees less than the prevailing wage.»

On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Joan M. Azrack spent more than two hours giving instructions to the jury, reading aloud from 54 pages explaining the law and how jurors should go about considering each charge the defendants face.

Lowell, who represented Williams's former company in the McDonnell case, said prosecutors would now have to decide in the cases of Menendez and others «whether the allegations go to what the Supreme Court said was the public official's authority to act, and to be doing more than what is the typical, expected constituent service that our system depends on.»

On Wednesday, Grant went back to court seeking a ballot by ballot count from the election, claiming the voting machines didn't count some ballots for her and the legal fight at the Board of Elections is costing her votes with Kennedy less than 300 votes ahead.

«They should go into court and say it rather than self - helping themselves to this money based on a claim that is 12 years old.»

«You learn more from losing an election than you do from winning it and from losing that election this brilliant litigator Wendy Long, who served as a clerk on the United States Supreme Court for Justice [Clarence] Thomas, by golly she learned a lot and she is ready to go again and give Chuck Schumer a run for his money,» said GOP Chairman Ed Cox.

He explained that Skye Bank, rather than comply with the court's order unfreezing the accounts, was banking on the fact that the EFCC had gone on appeal to challenge the unfreezing of the account and had also filed a stay of execution.

Oyegun had while reacting to the ruling of the Court of Appeal judgment on Rivers State governorship petition boasted that, «I am more confident of winning Akwa - Ibom than any other state in the South - South... we are going to win; that is almost a certainty,» this comment, the PDP said is «not only careless but also smacks of impunity and arrogance that have characterized the current government.»

Rather than running like crazy, yet going nowhere on the treadmill, take your cardio workouts to the court or field.

Katja's rage (she dresses in black, but more like a punk ninja than a widow) is such that she's not likely to get everything she wants from the legal system — she describes much of what goes on in court as «chitchat» (the movie mixes English with subtitled German).

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Mychal Bell, 17, the first of the classmates to go on trial, was quickly convicted in a kangaroo court by an all - white jury presided over by a white judge in less than three hours.

Jeff Nichols ««Loving,» on the other hand, is a movie that looks like Oscar bait on paper (a drama about an interracial couple in the South in the 1960s who went to court for the right to live together) but plays far more subtly than that.

But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the title character, Richmond High School (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adult life.

Best case scenario I'm of course hoping the debt will magically ride away on a unicorn, but in reality I know that somehow someday I'm going to be more than likely sued and stuck facing this giant somehow in court.

In a recent study by economics professors at Emory University, men who spent $ 2,000 to $ 4,000 on an engagement ring were 1.3 times more likely to go divorce court than those who plucked down $ 500 to $ 2,000 on the ring.

Despite all that, Charlie's owner, David Gizzarelli, rallied more than 113,000 signatures on electronic petitions circulated on Charlie's behalf, and initiated a lawsuit that went from San Francisco Superior Court, to the California Court of Appeal, to the U.S. District Court, and back to Superior Court before Katz and San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera brokered a deal to send Charlie to a sanctuary.

With more ancient Maya ruins than anywhere else, Belize is the perfect place for the entire family to learn about history while going hands on exploring soaring temples, magnificent pyramids, and ball courts that once entertained thousands of spectators.

That was the reason to add on or to make more than one image was like going to court, as I've said before; that was like evidence.

One wonders if the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Simon Hughes, has currently much more than optimism to trade on when he declared on coming into office in December 2013 that: «mediation works and we are committed to making sure that more people make use of it, rather than go through the confrontational and stressful experience of going to court».

Actually, if we're going to be technical: it's entirely worthless as precedent since there's no person lower on the Ontario judicial pecking order (unless things have changed in Ontario since the end of 2012) than a deputy judge of the small claims court.

That leaves only court records to go on and, other than the detailed allegations set out in the complaint (which includes copies of the allegedly forged and manufactured documents described in the complaint), the record is somewhat sparse.

The BC Court of Appeal went on to hold that applications for out of Province examinations with «other qualified persons» (ie - experts other than medical practitioners), can be ordered in rare circumstances.

Accused went to cottage of JC with whom she previously cohabited — Accused found JC with victim, another lady, in sauna — Angry words were exchanged between accused and JC — Victim testified that accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, and accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed — Appeal against conviction dismissed — Although trial judge did not address analytical steps in order, he properly analyzed evidence and concluded that injuries sustained by victim were not accidental and could not have occurred in any other fashion than as stated by victim — Having provided reasons for accepting victim's evidence, trial judge was entitled to reject accused's evidence — Trial judge's reasoning, though skeletal, permitted accused and appellate court to determine how and why finding resulted.

Though less desirable than any of the above, a stay of adjudication will prevent the Court Administrator from certifying the traffic violation to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, which means it won't go on the Minnesota Drivers License Record.

If a debt is greater than the limit but the creditor will accept an amount equal to or less than the limit as full payment, the creditor can still go to Small Claims Court (for more information on Small Claims Court, see the PLEA publication Small Claims Court).

The Court of Appeal decided that, as a general rule, unless there is a statutory requirement to the contrary, where a person wishes to serve notice relating to a particular property on its owner, their obligation to make reasonable enquiries went no further than to search the proprietorship register to ascertain the owner's address.

Of course, breaches of the Charter do not justify others, but this goes to show that the UN has graver problems than abstract, retroactive violations of Article 103 based on the «constitutional» reasoning of a supranational court.

That decision forced the courts to go through Shared Services Canada for all IT purchases, such as servers, routers and software, rather than letting them make the procurements on their own.

So rather than just take on your case, we provide real advice about whether it is worth you going through the court system or settlement process in order to seek compensation in your Kansas City personal injury case.

So, Oregon could possibly go further than Utah to let the LT provide a supporting role in court, but would not allow for actual representation at depositions, in court or on appeal.

The Court then went on to state that more public interests than the impossibility of satisfying drinking water, electricity production or irrigation of the receiving river basin could be capable of justifying the project under directive 2000/60 provided that the conditions of article 4 (7) were satisfied:

Finding that, the Court went on to conclude that the provincial deemed trust under the PBA applies in CCAA proceedings, subject to the doctrine of federal paramountcy, because of the Amended Initial Order, and noting that that means that when there is a CCAA liquidation proceeding, the PPSA may determine the priorities rather than the federal scheme under the BIA (Indalex, para 52), since analogous priorities are not set out in the CCAA.

The question of how far the court should try to go to ensure jurors will focus only on the evidence rather than matters outside the courtroom takes on new dimensions in the age of the internet.

The Court found that the Production Orders were overly broad and went well beyond what was reasonable to gather evidence concerning the jewelry story robberies such as requiring production of information on subscribers remotely located from the robbery sites, production of bank and credit card information and production of personal information on over 40,000 subscribers when the police really only sought information on the few individuals who may have been proximate to more than one of the robbery sites.

Where once the Court... concluded that it was far better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be convicted, today the Court reasons from a position of fear: Let's not get hung up on technicalities in the war on crime and terror, seems to the new ethos.»

Furthermore, those who are more comfortable behind a keyboard than a conference table would probably prefer ODR to going to court, so why forbid them that possibility simply because, for some, «these processes could create new barriers not only because they will require access to a computer and the internet, but because they will require the individual to work through the process on her / his own»?

I suppose if the «appeal» went only to whether there would be summary judgment rather than a trial based on the law as found by the court, then the whole SCC said «no summary judgment».

[54] Of course, unlike state supreme courts, if any of these bodies did attempt to assert their authority in this manner, it would not go unchallenged: the bar, and notably the ABA, has on a number of occasions formally challenged the right of any governmental body, other than state supreme courts, to attempt to regulate lawyers in any manner.

[20] The court went on to define recklessness as an act performed while knowing or having reason to know of facts which would lead a reasonable person to realize that his or her conduct creates an unreasonable risk of physical harm to another and that such risk is substantially greater than that which is necessary to make his conduct negligent.

If you and your spouse can come to an agreement regarding parenting time on your own, through your attorneys, or with the help of a mediator, you will likely be more satisfied with the outcome than if you have to go to court and let a judge decide.

He writes: «I respectfully disagree that Supreme Court justices don't improve with age; on the contrary, many of them gain a broader perspective than they had when they went on the bench, and this enables them to pierce through the technicalities of which Judge Posner complains, so they can see the woods instead of the trees.