Sentences with phrase «to go to the jury»

Large law firms are also beginning to lose a generation of lawyers who actually practiced in a day when more cases went to jury trial.
But it could also go to a jury trial in the fall.
Remember, 95 % of personal injury cases do not go to a jury.
In recent times, this is one of a handful of antitrust class actions that has gone to a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs.
I've run into this in courthouse security, going to jury duty.
«There's more than sufficient evidence for this case to go to the jury on all counts,» the judge said of the indictment against the former elected officials.
They will carry on with this lawsuit wherever it goes, even if goes to a jury trial.
The jury will then be asked to go to jury room to discuss the evidence in secret.
The plaintiffs moved for summary judgment on their claim, but the court let the question go to the jury.
Settlement negotiations failed and the case went to the jury.
For example, an individual might want to settle if the cost of going forward is greater than the additional amount that they might recover by going to a jury trial.
«If the law has any meaning, these charges can not go to the jury,» he said.
But we also know that wrongful death claims often must go to a jury verdict.
I was going to jury duty and I was running late.
The retrial of former Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno on bribery - related charges is expected to go to the jury Thursday afternoon.
The guest discussed the closing arguments in the Oliver North Iran - Contra case, which goes to the jury today.
The case could go to the jury by Thursday.
But some of these older battles may need to be revisited as Silver's fate goes to the jury.
Last week the first of those cases went to the jury for deliberations and in the second case, a trial was averted when a former legislator pleaded guilty.
Silver's team is expected to make its closing arguments this afternoon, with the case going to the jury Tuesday.
The reporting in The Buffalo News is going to the jury pool,» Arcara said.
By the time the case went to the jury last week, Ms. Phillips, 53, a Verizon technician from Mount Vernon, N.Y., was the only one still voicing strong doubts.
The trial judge explicitly bifurcated this issue from the rest of the case, indicating that, after the case went to the jury as a straight negligence case she would decide Northeastern's charitable status separately.
Some cases get filed into Court and get settled and some cases actually go to a jury trial.
arising from allegations of elder abuse and neglect in Escondido go to jury trials, how do those juries decide liability?
The case law in Kentucky has numerous examples of medical malpractice cases that were allowed to go to the jury without a medical expert being required.
The case will not now go to a jury trial which was due in November after four years of litigation.
After headline - making allegations of employment discrimination went to a jury trial, we won a total defense verdict for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins over former partner Ellen Pao.
Here, despite the broad evidence admitted on marketing, which plaintiff contended showed intent to justify punitive damages, the trial court did not let punitives go to the jury.
The presiding judge intimates he doesn't expect the case to go to the jury until sometime in August.
Lawyers for Sheldon Silver asked the judge to acquit him of all charges even before his case goes to the jury in his corruption trial, in a motion that is routinely filed by defense lawyers after the government rests its case.
«There's more than sufficient evidence for this case to go to the jury on all counts,» U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack said.
If a case is settled out of court quickly, the amount will be relatively lower than if the case were to go to a jury verdict.
Skelos and his son Adam have been accused of conspiracy, extortion, wire fraud, and bribery, and their trial should go to a jury in the next few weeks.
In 2012, 133 malpractice cases went to a jury trial, and 79.7 percent of them resulted in defense verdicts.
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Scheduled topics include JetBlue lands in Albany; Boston Marathon bombing trial goes to Jury; Rand Paul to launch presidential campaign; Chris Gibson to possibly run for NY Governor; Iowa and 2016 candidates.
After hundreds of hours of testimony — sometimes explosive, sometimes plodding — about whether Joseph Percoco, a former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, sold his influence in state government, the case in Federal District Court in Manhattan has gone to the jury.
Earlier Monday after the jurors had been dismissed for the day, defense attorneys argued that the testimony and evidence introduced was not sufficient enough to go to the jury — a routine legal motion in criminal trials.
National Review's lawyer Michael A. Carvin argued that «no court in the history of Anglo - American jurisprudence has ever allowed scientific debates to go to a jury,» that Mann's libel claims have no merit, and if the case continues it could set a dangerous precedent for free speech.
But after Stewart's case went to the jury, the foreman reported to the judge that one of the jurors did not speak English well enough to understand the jury instructions.
United States Supreme Court to consider Trump's travel ban and the president's authority, Washington Post Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial goes to the jury, Reuters
On the final day before the case went to the jury, «Cosby laughed and smirked at the defense table, then in an extraordinary moment of courtroom drama engaged in an uncomfortable stare - down» with one of the prosecutors, according to the newspaper.
The claim that the 9th Circuit said could go to the jury was one for violation of the common law right to publicity.
Criminal Law: Unknown Third Party Evidence When should unknown third party suspect evidence to go to a jury.
We get to go to the jury and tell them «the judge has already found the defendant liable for what he did to our client and now you only have to consider HOW MUCH he owes our client, not WHETHER he owes our client.»
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