Sentences with phrase «trial by other law»

Attorneys at Hilliard Muñoz Gonzales L.L.P. have been brought in on the eve of trial by other law firms and have done so without hesitation.

Not exact matches

The State Coordinator, NYSC Ekiti State, Mrs. Nwano Eze Ukgha who put the number of youths registered in the new batch at 2,066 warned the corps members against indulging in cult activities, consumption of illicit drugs, and other forms of unwholesome acts on the camp as erring members would be handed over to the camp court for trial according to the by - laws.

The others are the case involving alleged election law violations by former Newfane Republican Sen. George Maziarz in March; the re-trials in April and May of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos; the Buffalo Billion corruption case trial set for June; and, on Long Island, the corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano in March.

«The question in these difficult cases is not whether a local prosecutor, including one with understandably close ties to his or her fellow local law enforcement officers, is capable of setting aside any personal biases in deciding whether to, or how vigorously, to pursue the case,» Schneiderman wrote, adding, «the question is whether there is public confidence that justice has been served, especially in cases where homicide or other serious charges against the accused officer are not pursued or are dismissed prior to a trial by jury.»

That includes attending all meetings requested by law enforcement, providing any documents sought and testifying «before the grand jury and at any trial and other court proceedings with respect to matters about which this office may request.»

Olanbiwonnu said he and six other persons who stood trial for complicity in the murder of Aderiye had been vindicated by God and the court of law.

Students Matter's policy recommendations were developed using the overwhelming evidence presented at trial, through conversations with policy experts, superintendents, teachers and parents on the ground, as well as by surveying the successful teacher employment laws already implemented in other states.

The General Attorney occupation covers professional legal positions involved in preparing cases for trial and / or the trial of cases before a court or an administrative body or persons having quasi-judicial power; rendering legal advice and services with respect to questions, regulations, practices, or other matters falling within the purview of a Federal Government agency (this may include conducting investigations to obtain evidentiary data); preparing interpretative and administrative orders, rules, or regulations to give effect to the provisions of governing statutes or other requirements of law; drafting, negotiating, or examining contracts or other legal documents required by the agency's activities; drafting, preparing formal comments, or otherwise making substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation; editing and preparing for publication statutes enacted by Congress, opinions or discussions of a court, commission, or board; drafting and reviewing decisions for consideration and adoption by agency officials.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, by your access to the Sites, you agree that: (i) any claim, dispute or cause of action regarding the Sites or these Terms shall be brought individually (NOT AS PART OF A CLASS ACTION) in the federal or state courts of the State of New York, and, such claim / dispute / cause of action will be resolved by a judge and THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL IS HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVED; (ii) you consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts as the exclusive tribunal for adjudication of any such claim / dispute / cause of action, expressly waiving any right of forum non convenience, change of venue or like right; (iii) your recovery will be limited to actual out - of - pocket costs involved in specifically accessing the Sites (if any) and you expressly waive your right to all other forms of recovery, including by way of example only, punitive, consequential, indirect, incidental, special and exemplary damages as well as attorneys» fees for bringing such claim / dispute / cause of action; and (iv) the court shall apply the law of the State of New York in adjudicating any such claim / dispute / cause of action, except for the choice of law / conflict of law rules of the State of New York (or of any other jurisdiction which would result in the application of the law of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York).

There are a host of broad exemptions that will continue to allow breeding for (1) use of dogs as service, guide or therapy animals, by search and rescue, law enforcement and other government agencies; (2) use of dogs for herding or as livestock guardian dogs or hunting dogs; (3) dogs or cats registered with the American Kennel Club, the Cat Fancier Association or other recognized registry or trained and kept for the purpose of show, field trials or agility trials; and (4) dogs or cats whose owner has obtained an unaltered animal permit.

Like most of the Ohio cruelty laws, Goddard's law does not protect farm animals, horses and other equines, animals used for research, animals used by breeders other than dogs or cats, or even any dogs used for hunting or in field trials.

Engage in numerous additional initiatives to create public education and awareness to challenge current attitudes and behaviours; update health and physical education curriculum for students; develop tools and best practices to support compassionate response from law enforcement authorities; strengthen supports provided by hospitals; create a pilot program to provide free independent legal advice to sexual assault survivors whose cases are proceeding toward a criminal trial, and many other broad - based initiatives.

The court was unconvinced by the trial court's recitation of case law in support of its finding for the manufacturer because it was countered by the brothers» presentation of case law from other jurisdictions supporting the opposite conclusion.

Our commitment to gaining & maintaining extreme knowledge: a. Of Texas substantive product liability law; b. Of Texas & federal expert exclusionary law; c. Of how to destroy adverse experts during deposition & trial cross examination, and through the use of testing, demonstrations, statistical, and other technical evidence presented by a team of highest quality experts; d. Of the overlapping technical issues arising in product liability cases relating to the specific types of technologically advanced products that we defend, which overlapping of issues facilitates our development and maintenance of our extreme knowledge.

(3) When the request relates to a person who has not yet been convicted, it must also be accompanied by a warrant of arrest issued by a judge or other judicial officer of the requesting State and by such evidence as, according to the laws of the requested State, would justify his arrest and committal for trial if the offense had been committed there, including evidence proving the person requested is the person to whom the warrant of arrest refers.

Other runners up that have at least 25 % of their AIA - Trial representations staffed by female attorneys include: Kasha Law; Covington & Burling; Mayer Brown; Drinker Biddle & Reath; Ascenda Law Group; Keker & Van Nest; Ropes & Gray; WilmerHale; and Venable.

But, in English law, the roles of attorneys in the U.S. are filled by more than one kind of legal professional and there is a distinction between barristers, who are legal professionals who mostly handle trial practice, and solicitors, who are legal professionals who do other kinds of legal work.

As you know, there's a trial now going on, on the other side of the big mountains far to the west of us, where a judge is deciding the constitutionality of Canada's anti-polygamy laws and has heard evidence that from members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints» belief that polygamy is required by their religions tenets.

What sets Alan apart from other Florida slip and fall lawyers are his expert trial skills, his knowledge of the law, and his understanding and analysis of floor surfaces and how they are impacted by liquid substances.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

In light of this brief summary, and paraphrasing Justice Fish's point from Krieger, one could perhaps say that jurors have the responsibility as a matter of right to assess evidence and apply the law as set out by the trial judge, but also enjoy the power to refuse to apply the law «when their consciences permit of no other course».

The clear problem with the requirement of imprisonment, as is found by the Court (paras 59 and 60), is that the narrative of past and future persecution in many countries such as Zimbabwe and Uzbekistan, [13] is that in these and many other countries the law enforcement authorities use the criminal law to extort, blackmail, detain and torture, without recourse of due process of law which would require a trial, conviction and sentencing, in accordance with the national law of the country of origin.

There are are risks to the integrity of the process where, for example, the governing decision is a Supreme Court of Canada decision which purports to apply to the common law of all of the provinces — maybe even the civil law by analogy — where the decision has been considered by the appellate courts (and the trial courts) of other provinces, and one would never now that from a particular provinces's jurisprudence.

In addition, Jim is recognized as an authority and frequently is consulted by other law firms and clients alike on complicated civil procedure, attorneys» fees and trial practice issues.

We have been consistently recognized as some of the best attorneys in our field and have received the highest ratings for professional ethics and legal ability by the Martindale - Hubbell Law Directory, Super Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers, Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and other organizations.

Groia was found by the Law Society to have displayed, in the early part of the trial of his client, Bre - X Minerals executive John Felderhof, a «consistent pattern of rude, improper or disruptive conduct» toward the Ontario Securities Commission prosecution, which had accused Felderhof of insider trading and other securities charges.

Everyone arrested or detained in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 (c) of this article shall be brought promptly before a judge or other officer authorized by law to exercise judicial power and shall be entitled to trial within a reasonable time or to release pending trial.

For this, and many other reasons, we have been named one of the top law firms in the United States by the American Trial Lawyers Association.

Established in 1981, our accomplished lawyers are highly sought by plaintiffs, defendants and by other law firms for our demonstrated success in litigation, trial advocacy and appellate relief.

Whether you are a Montana resident or a visitor to the «Treasure State,» if you were injured in a car accident or other accident caused by another person or company, contact the Ramler Law Office, P.C. Though we have a track record of successful settlements, we are prepared to go to trial in every case.

Ravel Law and Bloomberg can provide data on how often your trial judge's opinions are cited by other courts — an indicator of how well respected the judge is by his or her peers — as well as how often the judge is appealed, and how many of those appeals have been partially or completely successful.

As long as the articles embraced them in the designation «persons subject to military law,» and provided that they might be tried by court - martial, I was afraid that, having made a special provision for their trial by court - martial [Arts. 12, 13, and 14], it might be held that the provision operated to exclude trials by military commission and other war courts; so this new article was introduced...»

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

While there is no clear rule of law that a qualified identification standing alone will never amount to sufficient evidence of identification to support a committal to stand trial, in my view, when I consider the relevant case law, the qualified identification given by Mr. Crane, without some other evidence, is not sufficient evidence to amount to some evidence of identification that a properly instructed jury, acting reasonably, could convict on.

Mr. Suthard is a sought after speaker on the issues of Personal Injury Law and Trial Evidence and has served as Co-Chair of numerous seminars He has been invited to speak to other lawyers and present seminars by the New Jersey Association for Justice, the American Association for Justice, and the National Business Institute.

R v Lyons and others [2001] EWCA Crim 2860, consequences under English law of a finding of an unfair trial by the Eur Ct HR.

Supporters of the bill also argued that the current law denied parties a right to trial by jury available in other states.

Furthermore, in a trial of this nature, involving thousands of documents and complicated issues of proof, the concept of a «fair trial,» demanded by the rule of law, obligates counsel for both sides to co-operate in ways that may not be necessary in other cases, which are not as complex or of such long duration.

After doing a trial run some months ago, I will be producing a Law Review Weekly highlighting interesting legal news from the press and the profession, links to important judgments handed down in the previous week, commentary and analysis from the law blogs, a link to my recent Lawcasts (and podcasts done by other lawyers, where available) and a section on the human condition to look at the more surreal and bizarre happenings in lLaw Review Weekly highlighting interesting legal news from the press and the profession, links to important judgments handed down in the previous week, commentary and analysis from the law blogs, a link to my recent Lawcasts (and podcasts done by other lawyers, where available) and a section on the human condition to look at the more surreal and bizarre happenings in llaw blogs, a link to my recent Lawcasts (and podcasts done by other lawyers, where available) and a section on the human condition to look at the more surreal and bizarre happenings in lawlaw.

On the other hand, where the path taken by the trial judge through confused or conflicting evidence is not at all apparent, or there are difficult issues of law that need to be confronted but which the trial judge has circumnavigated without explanation, or where (as here) there are conflicting theories for why the trial judge might have decided as he or she did, at least some of which would clearly constitute reversible error, the appeal court may in some circumstances consider itself unable to give effect to the statutory right of appeal.

As one of the oldest, largest, and distinguished law firms in Indiana, our seasoned trial lawyers have been trusted time and time again by other law firms in the area and out of state to take on cases!

These discovery and subpoena tools are all basically derivative of the common law trial subpoena power, and certain other powers that were vested in courts of equity, which is constitutionally recognized in federal criminal trials in the 6th Amendment which includes a right «to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor» and applies in civil trials by tradition, court rule and statute.

Despite recognizing that some other courts have reached a different conclusion, the Ohio Supreme Court held that jury's weighing of aggravating circumstances against mitigating factors is not a fact - finding process, so it is not governed by Hurst, but even if it were, there was no violation because Ohio law requires the jury to unanimously agree that aggravating circumstances outweigh mitigating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt before the trial judge can consider imposing a death sentence.

Chosen by Fortune 500 and midsize companies, financial institutions and other law firms for the successful resolution of their complex legal issues, we specialize in appellate matters, business formation and transactions, class action litigation, commercial, construction, consumer credit and employment litigation, contested bankruptcies and foreclosures, insurance recovery and advisory services, intellectual property litigation, regulatory compliance, and trials and evidentiary hearings.

The district judges shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective districts, and shall hold office for the term of 6 years (excepting those elected at said first election) from and including the first Monday of January, next succeeding their election and qualification; provided, that the First Judicial District shall be entitled to, and shall have three district judges, who shall possess co-extensive and concurrent jurisdiction, and who shall be elected at the same times, in the same manner, and shall hold office for the like terms as herein prescribed, in relation to the judges in other judicial districts, any one of said judges may preside on the empanneling [empaneling] of grand juries and the presentment and trial on indictments, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law.

The main way in which child custody cases differ from all other areas of the law is that the court is, rather than attempting to establish the facts of past events, as in a criminal trial, attempting to establish the likelihood of future actions by one or more of the parties to the case.

However, unlike other criminal trials, the employee seeking to rely on the whistleblower protection would have the burden of showing, on a balance of probabilities, that the Executive Branch gathered the leaked information without a warrant where a warrant was required by law, or that the FISA court's interpretation of the law is grossly inconsistent with the plain reading of the law.

The claim that the existence of a but - for cause requires that there be a «substantial connection» between negligence and injury has been asserted by the courts (trial or appellate) of some of the other Canadian common law jurisdictions: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia), although (seemingly) without equating «substantial connection» to «material contribution» or «materially contributes».

The politics of s. 92 aside, it seems to me that it won't be a good thing for the respect accorded by the public to the common law realms in the country if there's a provincial / territorial difference on something as basic as when the but - for test applies, so that Ms. Clements, on the the trial judge's findings of fact, would succeed everywhere in common law Canada other than in BC, so long as the judges are not prepared to adopt the BC law.

That is, the trial bar is uninterested in letting the camel get his nose under the tent, so to speak, by heading down a slippery slope where introduction of fee - shifting in patent cases leads to fee - shifting in other areas of the law.