Sentences with phrase «trial court motions»

Chad's success can be attributed to the fact that he has limited his practice to handling appeals and trial court motions likely to be at issue on appeal.

He has also dedicated himself to drafting trial court motions with an eye to winning at trial... and having those wins be upheld on appeal.

The firm's lawyers are team players, collaborating with trial counsel at any level from legal strategy to writing or editing trial court motions and appellate briefs.

Not exact matches

MSU probably files a motion for summary judgment, asking the Court to declare them the winner without trial.

Justice John Tsoho of Federal High Court, Abuja who adjourned hearing in the trial of Kanu with his co-defendants in a motion of notice filed on their behalf by Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, asked the Judge to disqualify himself from hearing the case over alllegations of «manifest bias.»

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed June 23 to hear motion seeking to protect Federal Government's witnesses during trial of former NSA Sambo Dasuki.

Justice Okon Abang who ordered the production of Dasuki in court however said that the ex-NSA may not be compelled to testify in the trial until his motion, praying for adjournment is fully determined by the court.

He also supported the call for Daura's arrest and called for indefinite adjournment of the trial pending when Dasuki's motion would be determined by the Court of Appeal.

This morning, his lawyer turned up in court with a motion for bail but the trial judge refused to grant the motion, and remanded Kojo Asante in custody until the next trial date, Monday, September 18.

City Court prosecutors must also direct follow - up investigation, conduct legal research, respond to motions, obtain statements from witnesses, locate and secure evidence, conduct pre-trial hearings, and take cases to trial if they can not be resolved by a plea bargain.

The discovery of William Baah's deep involvement with the NPP comes at a time when members of Delta Force, a goon squad of the ruling party, had overthrown court proceedings and freed members of their group facing trial with the state going through the motions to sweep the case under the carpet.

Silver's lawyers argued that the disbarment should be delayed until a federal judge decides on their motion for a new trial, but the appeals court denied the request.

But the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Johnson Ojogbane who objected to the motion, prayed the court to remand Agbele in prison throughout the period of the trial.

Outside of Manhattan's Federal District Court, site of the three - week trial, Silver's lawyers said they would file motions to challenge the jury's decision.

A Queens Supreme Court judge denied motions by state Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D - East Elmhurst) to throw out his indictment and suppress evidence in his pending case on assault charges last Thursday, setting a Sept. 14 start date for his trial.

The court granted the prosecutions» plea, and then adjourned to June 6, 2016, for hearing of the motion for bail and commencement of trial, while the accused person continued to enjoy the administrative bail granted her by the EFCC.

Justice Babatunde O. Quadri of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja has adjourned to July 7, 2017 for ruling on a motion by the embattled former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido praying the court to return his case file to former trial judge, Justice Adeniyi AdeCourt, Maitama, Abuja has adjourned to July 7, 2017 for ruling on a motion by the embattled former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido praying the court to return his case file to former trial judge, Justice Adeniyi Adecourt to return his case file to former trial judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola.

The trial judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan, has already denied one defense motion, filed last month, asking her to acquit Mr. Silver even before the jury received the case.

In a motion filed on Oct. 6 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the districts said that the landmark St. Louis plan, if allowed to continue, could compromise their right «to a fair and orderly trial.»

On March 4, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu rejected a motion to dismiss the Vergara v. California case and continue the state's education trial where nine students are challenging the laws over teacher job protection.

That's precisely what occurred last week, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the motion by Rebecca Friedrichs» attorneys to decide her case (Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association) on the basis of the pleadings, without a trial or additional oral arguments.

The second motion asks the court to modify the scheduling order that sets deadlines for steps leading to trial.

The state filed two motions with the trial court.

In 2011, the CCSA again filed a motion to enforce the trial court's order with regard to its facilities offers for the 2012 - 2013 school year.

A federal court today blocked Research In Motion from using the BBX name, until the completion of a trial for trademark infringement.

The judge set a motion hearing for the Hahn trial for June 24th at 9:00 a.m., and his arraignment in District Court is July 30th at 9:30 a.m.. Both events are at the Creek County Courthouse, 222 E. Dewey, Sapulpa.

It did not find that the appeal was moot because the trial court ruled on the motion to dismiss after the filing of the amended complaint.

The new trial court stated: «The only scenario likely to cause further delay of concern to Plaintiff is the possibility that the Court of Appeals will not rule on the jurisdictional issue or on the merits, but will dismiss the appeal as moot, concluding that the trial court should not have denied the motions to dismiss the first complaint after the Plaintiff had filed his amended complaint.&rcourt stated: «The only scenario likely to cause further delay of concern to Plaintiff is the possibility that the Court of Appeals will not rule on the jurisdictional issue or on the merits, but will dismiss the appeal as moot, concluding that the trial court should not have denied the motions to dismiss the first complaint after the Plaintiff had filed his amended complaint.&rCourt of Appeals will not rule on the jurisdictional issue or on the merits, but will dismiss the appeal as moot, concluding that the trial court should not have denied the motions to dismiss the first complaint after the Plaintiff had filed his amended complaint.&rcourt should not have denied the motions to dismiss the first complaint after the Plaintiff had filed his amended complaint.»

A lawsuit challenging subsidies for New York's nuclear plants will head to trial after the state's Supreme Court rejected motions to dismiss it.

With no billable hours to measure, no depositions to observe, no summary judgment motion results to track, and no trial results to either celebrate or anguish over (and I know, the better lawyer often loses in court), pretty much all the evaluations are «soft» ones.

Motion records and exhibits at trial are part of the court record.

Accordingly, we will issue a writ of mandate directing the trial court to grant the motion for a protective order.»

Courts can also move the trial to a new location; they can grant motions from the defense to delay the trial while things cool down; they can sequester the jurors (meaning that the jurors are kept in a central place and prevented from talking to anyone else or reading anything about the case); if none of these are done, a conviction can potentially be reversed on appeal.

Sienkowski's motion to vacate the judgment and for a new trial based on this information was denied, leading to an appeal to the Court of Appeals of Indiana.

Given this rule, if a lawyer in Missouri fails to conduct this search and later discovers information that may have impacted a juror's service, he is likely to find the court unsympathetic to a motion for new trial.

The trial court agreed, and it therefore denied the motion for attorney fees.

The trial court denied plaintiff's motion, finding among other things that the failure to file a written stipulation in a timely manner was «inexcusable neglect.»

This ruling required trial courts faced with a motion for temporary restraining order seeking to restrain a former employee from competing to focus on what interest an employer is seeking to protect and whether that interest is sufficiently clear at a preliminary stage such that a TRO is justified.

The trial judge, albeit observing the lack of time records but based upon 33 years of experience as a practitioner, finally awarded $ 180,880 to plaintiff after a reconsideration motion from the defense — this included a 1.25 multiplier to the lodestar found reasonable by the lower court.

Lightfoot appealed both the new trial order and the trial court's denial of its motions for judgment as a matter of law.

Post-trial motion work to ensure relevant issues and documents are included in the official record of the trial court, including motions for new trial and motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict

Mr. Stellabotte is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience litigating patent, copyright, trade secret, antitrust, contract, tort, trademark, false advertising, and information technology related matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts, including case preparation and strategy, fact and expert discovery, depositions, motion practice, Markman hearings, preliminary injunction hearings, bench and jury trials, arbitrations, mediations, appeals, and settlement negotiations.

Obtained a dismissal for a client when plaintiff introduced a new expert a few weeks before trial; promptly filed a motion to strike the expert, which the court granted.

The court of appeals noted the trial judge received the letters from the physicians attached to the husband's motion to continue the trial.

And even if the motion fails, it can educate the court on the defendant's position, putting the defendant in a better position for a motion to strike at trial.

The trial court granted the motion and the Pielhaus voluntarily dismissed their remaining claims.

In R. v. Vandermeulen (M), 2015 MBCA 84, the Manitoba Court of Appeal heard a motion for delay after the accused was convicted after a trial.

In this role Carrie also coordinates and drafts summary judgment motions and motions in limine in state and federal court in multiple jurisdictions, and develops and prepares the trial and deposition testimony of expert witnesses and corporate representatives.

When a Virginia prosecutor is unable to obtain a trial date continuance, s / he can move the court to enter the casenolle prosequi, which is a case dismissal without preventing the prosecutor from subsequently recharging the case: A «[n] olle prosequi shall be entered only in the discretion of the court, upon motion of the Commonwealth with good cause therefor shown.»

However, the court then granted the defendants» motion for a new trial holding that the jury award was excessive.