Sentences with phrase «unanimous ruling»

Even so, some of those involved in the long debate over the issue questioned whether the plan would satisfy the equity requirements imposed in a pair of unanimous rulings by the state supreme court.

While no lawyer was ever affected by the stringent reporting rules in the federal government's money - laundering legislation that some said would turn them into «agents of the state,» last month's unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada has literally set lawyers apart from other professionals on this front.

But the court's unanimous ruling on June 14 will likely do little harm in the long run to the Washington Education Association or other public - employee unions, legal experts said.

In recent years, the top court has issued a series of unanimous rulings overturning the Federal Circuit, and is poised to smack it down again in the field of software patents.

Recent headlines have pronounced, «Supreme Court deals blow to Wall Street whistleblowers with unanimous ruling» and «The Supreme Court limits whistleblower protections under Dodd - Frank.»

«The American people have an interest in free flow of travel, in avoiding separation of families, and in freedom from discrimination,» the judges — Michelle Friedland, William Canby Jr, and Richard Clifton — said in a 29 - page unanimous ruling.

The five - man panel of the ape x court led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onoghen, also, in a separate unanimous ruling, struck out all pending appeals relating to the candidacy of the PDP for the Saturday's governorship election in Ondo State.

IBA Executive Director Mark Ellis said: «The Ninth Circuit's unanimous ruling states that the government failed to show an «urgent need» for the Executive Order to be reinstated immediately.

I am proud to see that only considerations of law, and not politics, affected the unanimous ruling.»

In a unanimous ruling on Jan. 29, the court upheld the $ 5,000 monthly support payments of Phoenix Suns forward Dennis Scott (who earns $ 3 million a year), less than half the $ 10,011 sought by the child's mother.

In a unanimous ruling on November 24, 2017, the 11 - member panel ordered Ghana to suspend the seizure of any property belonging to the businessman, «take all appropriate measures to maintain the status quo and avoid the property being sold» until the case was determined.

The three - member panel, presided over by Justice Victor Ofoe, by the unanimous ruling, had upheld the decision of an Accra High Court presided over by John Ajet Nassam last year, which acquitted and discharged Woyome of the charges of defrauding the state by false pretences and wilfully causing financial loss to the state.

The Tribunal in a unanimous ruling declared that Magnus Abe was rightly elected by the electorates in Rivers South - East in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act.

The state Court of Appeals in a unanimous ruling on Monday determined the New York Department of State has the right to review the renewal of Indian Point's license — a victory for critics of the Entergy - owned nuclear plant in Westchester County.

The three - member panel, in its unanimous ruling, upheld a Feb. 3 decision by a U.S. District Court judge, James Robart, in Seattle that halted the ban nationwide.

A five - man bench of the apex court made the order in a unanimous ruling in which it dismissed Metuh's application for an order of stay of proceedings of his trial before the Federal High Court.

In a unanimous ruling, the 11 - member panel of the African Court, ordered Ghana to suspend the seizure of any property belonging to the businessman and «take all appropriate measures to maintain the status quo and avoid the property being sold» until the case was determined.

In a unanimous ruling centered on the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, the justices said that informal actions, like setting up a meeting or talking to someone influential, are not the «official acts» required to prove a bribery conspiracy.

In a unanimous ruling, the panel considering Mr. Silver's case concluded that given the McDonnell decision, the jury instructions at the former speaker's trial were erroneous, and that a properly instructed jury might not have convicted him.

This follows a unanimous ruling by the 11 - member panel ordering Ghana to suspend the seizure of any property belonging to the businessman.

The unanimous ruling by four justices says the appeal failed to show the dog's presence was impermissible under state law or impaired his right to a fair trial.

In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court decided that simply isolating a natural DNA sequence is not a patentable invention.

In a unanimous ruling, the New York State Court of Appeals held last month that the Monroe - Woodbury school district was not required under state law to provide a separate facility for handicapped children from the Orthodox Jewish village of Kiryas Joel.

The unanimous ruling, which is expected to affect more than a half - million students in the nation's largest school system, is the most recent development in a trend that is rapidly spreading across the country.

Swann was the product of a complicated effort to extract a unanimous ruling from a deeply divided court.

Handed down this month, the unanimous ruling by the state's highest court said Kanawha County Circuit Judge John Hey had overstepped his jurisdiction when he issued the injunction against striking teachers statewide.

She pointed out that the California Teachers Association has racked up three wins since spring, with the appellate court's unanimous ruling to overturn Vergara, the Supreme Court's decision this week to decline to review the case and the thwarting of her own bill that would have made changes to teacher tenure and dismissal procedures.

In a unanimous ruling, the court said black, Hispanic and poor students were especially harmed by the lack of funding, pointing to lagging test scores and graduation rates.

In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling.

In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that a program Maryland initiated in 2012 to subsidize power plant construction impermissibly invaded the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) authority over interstate power markets.

The firm was noted as having «stood out from the crowd by scoring two major patent wins at the US Supreme Court,» which included successfully defending Roche Molecular Systems Inc. in a closely watched case involving patent rights to HIV test kits, and achieving a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court in favor of i4i Limited Partnership in a patent suit brought by Microsoft.

He was lead counsel in the federal and appellate courts and on the briefs in the United State Supreme Court on behalf of the County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Flood Control District in Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 133 S. Ct. 710 (2013), a unanimous ruling in favor of his client.

The unanimous ruling replaced the previous test for setting employment status, which largely considered the control a company had over a worker, like where and when work was done.

Successfully appealed NLRB hearing officer's decision in an election dispute over a determinative challenged ballot, winning a unanimous ruling from Chairman Liebman and Members Becker and Pearce, and clarifying law on voter eligibility of regular part - time employees (355 NLRB No. 181)

Section 719 (3.1) thus violates s. 7 of the Charter,» said the unanimous ruling, also penned by McLachlin.

Joining us to flesh out the significance of this unanimous ruling are Marc Edelman, a sports lawyer and professor of sports and antitrust law -LSB-...]

The Court's unanimous ruling in Sprint v. Mendelsohn held that «federal rules... do not make [me too] evidence per se admissible or per se inadmissible.»

Hill, which I think of as the execution method case, produced an unanimous ruling in favor of a death row defendant's right to challenge a lethal injection protocol through a 1983 civil rights claim.

A «culture shift is required in order to create an environment promoting timely and affordable access to the civil justice system,» trumpets the unanimous ruling in Hryniak v. Mauldin, released Jan. 23, along with a companion decision Bruno Appliance and Furniture Inc. v. Hryniak.

Joining us to flesh out the significance of this unanimous ruling are Marc Edelman, a sports lawyer and professor of sports and antitrust law at Barry University's Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law, and Michael McCann, associate law professor at Vermont Law School and legal analyst for Sports Illustrated.

The five had appealed a unanimous ruling by the Court in April that their potential imprisonment in a US «supermax» prison would amount to «inhuman and degrading treatment» under Art 3 of the European Convention, in Babar Ahmad & Ors v UK (App Nos 24027 / 07, 11949 / 08, 36742 / 08, 66911 / 09 and 67354 / 09).

In a unanimous ruling, the Ontario Court of Appeal has cleared up a cloud of confusion that has plagued the personal injury bar for several years over which expert witnesses must comply with rule 53.03 of the Rules of Civil Procedure.

On April 6, 2016, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its unanimous ruling reported as R v Harflett, 2016 ONCA 248.

In spite of differing outcomes, the unanimous ruling, written by Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, provides a clear and ringing endorsement for summary judgment — going as far as promoting a «shift in culture» away from expensive and time - consuming trials and towards swifter and more accessible justice.

The majority at the Federal Court of Appeal disagreed with that assessment, but the Supreme Court today — in a unanimous ruling written by Justice Marshall Rothstein — restores the tribunal's original decision.

Additionally, practice Co-Director Cate Stetson represented the Republic of Venezuela before the Supreme Court in a unanimous ruling that resulted in a new pleading standard under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act.