Sentences with phrase «used by judges»

I've seen less words used by judges in murder cases decisions.

My suspicion is that these judgements are used by judges (and their clerks) more to showcase their intellectual prowess (or not, depending on what you think of the decision) than to provide clear legal guidance for legislators, lawyers and judges down the road.

Minding the Court: Enhancing the Decision Making Process Pamela Casey, Kevin Burke, and Steve Leben, International Journal for Court Administration (2013) This article addresses recent advances in decision - making research and how it can be used by judges and courts that are interested in implementing procedural fairness principles.

Lawyers will have a special affection for «fair,» however, and Canadian lawyers will, I'm sure, be intrigued by the need to translate it into French in the various contexts in which it is used by judges and legislators.

The list of issues should be used by judges to actively promote a consideration of whether particular issues were appropriate for summary judgment or strike out applications.

This is of course an average classification, so it is really rare that one dog of a certain breed will exactly match the officially set standards, but this description is used by the judges so that they can determine the winners of the dog shows, concerning dog's appearance.

In order to appreciate the dogs and the judging process, one must also develop an appreciation for how movement is analyzed from the three basic approaches used by the judges... coming, going and from the side.

This rubric will be used by our judges, as well as made available to the teachers and students to guide them as they create their videos.

Clearly he got what prisoners might call «a touch» because that sentence is very lenient and well below the usual guideline used by judges in cases involving illegal firearms.

The government says deferred prosecution agreements (DPA), which were called for in public consultations last fall, will be another tool used by judges to hold companies accountable.

If the contract clauses don't show Amazon's intentional strategy at sabotaging competitors and are only a well - thought safeguard, then the same train of thought used by the judge in the US case above can not be called on, mainly because Amazon has a much smaller piece of the eBook market share in Europe than it has in the US.

If the lawyer accompanies the client to the hearing, the lawyer - coach could further assist by (for example) explaining the meaning of legal expressions used by a judge or other court officer, provide on - the spot advice on how best to respond to the other side and / or to the judge / hearing officer, and to ensure the client understands the outcome of the hearing and any next steps.

The example of a stationary HGV used by the judge had not been critical to his decision and the first defendant's appeal on liability was dismissed.

Of judges and court officers who responded to CCPIO's 2014 survey, less than half of respondents thought Facebook use by judges does not compromise professional codes of ethics, 5 % fewer than in 2013.

Behind this question, we ask ourselves if we must approach IT law in the same manner we do traditional law or rather as a «law of the horse» as coined by Llewellyn and used by Judge Easterbrook in his debate with Lessig?

This police officer obtained confidential information not available to the public which was then used by the Judge to convict, sentence and imprison Mr. Best for contempt.»

With that latter conclusion as a caveat, it's interesting to note that, with respect to one locale in which the research was done, «while over half of the jurors at Winchester (68 %) perceived the judge's directions as easy to understand, only a minority fully understood the directions in terms used by the judge.»

However, for the remainder of the opinion, the Court did not discuss the factors used by the judge to admit the testimony, the qualifications of the expert, or the reliability of his methodology.

Assume that any document used by a judge in a court opinion is really important — we'll give it a weight of 3 out of 3.

«The court found Aboutaleb «illegally removed from the Court's file the Dissomaster used by Judge Juhas in support of his award of Child and Spousal Support.»

Not exact matches

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP)-- A New Zealand judge said Eminem's lyrics «You own it, you better never let it go» turned out to be prophetic after ruling a political party breached copyright by using a song similar to Eminem's «Lose Yourself» in its campaign ads.

Investigating judges suspect that managers of Bollore SA used advertising company Havas to facilitate the election of Alpha Conde in Guinea and Faure Gnassingbe in Togo nearly a decade ago by providing communications advice at a discount price, according to a person with knowledge of the case.

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency appeal to lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Trump's immigration order issued last week by a federal judge in Seattle, indicating in its opinion that Trump's past comments about a «Muslim ban» can be used as evidence for discrimination.

(Reuters)- A U.S. judge blocked Obama administration guidance that transgender public school students must be allowed to use bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by a group of 13 states led by Texas.

«That is the term that lawyers use to describe a situation in which an owner has poked so many holes in his or her legal safeguards — by failing to follow the rules that govern corporations — that a judge decides it's fair to poke some even bigger holes.»

As judged by a third party test, when possible, or using one's own evaluation technique when not possible.

The results of the poll were released late on Monday, in the middle of a legal battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department over a judge's order that Apple write new software to disable passcode protection on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters.

Microsoft in October said it no longer plans to use console shipments as its primary metric for success, instead opting to focus on engagement, which it judges by Xbox Live users.

The proposal to collect social media data is set out in a part of the draft regulation that describes expanding the content of so - called «Alien Files,» which serve as detailed profiles of individual immigrants, and are used by everyone from border agents to judges.

But the campaign also warned that if the lawsuit is allowed to proceed by a judge, the campaign will use the legal discovery process to «explore the DNC's now - secret records about the actual corruption they perpetrated to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.»

Now, the feds are asking a federal judge in California to force Apple to write special software that will override those encryption features in order to peer into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

The judge suggested that her decision to come down so harshly was in part due to Ulbricht's attempt to hire hit men and in part by the scale of the operation, which led drug dealers using Silk Road to customers across the world.

PAYDEX is primarily used by vendors and suppliers to judge your business when determining what terms to extend on trade credit (e.g., net 30, net 60, etc.) Typically, the better the score, the more generous the terms extended.

One business credit score that is typically used by lenders, vendors and suppliers to judge whether a business is qualified for different financing products is the PAYDEX score.

Judging by the companies that have used the act to hide things that might have raised uncomfortable questions, the critics have a point.

Judging by the common injections used by a few major gangs, cybercriminals may develop the malware in - house, but they outsource the webinjection portion to black - hat CaaS vendors who specialize in writing this type of fraud - facilitating code.

That future, of course, will be largely decided by the to - be-named judge in the case, who will decide whether Kalanick gets to keep the board seat that he could eventually try to use as a launchpad to his old job.

my greatest concern is this «new teaching» on cussing is that I don't see it throughout the life, ministry or teachings of Jesus or any of the disciples or really any man God uses in the word... What I do hear Him say is that we will be «judged by every careless word» and that's not legalism, that's red letter.

god (s): Hebrew word # 430 «elohiym (el - o - heem»); plural of OT: 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: [usages of the word in the] KJV — angels, exceeding, God (gods)- dess, - ly), (very) great, judges, mighty.

Even though the scripture uses some aspects of ancient mil life to help us understand spiritual truths, the mil life and church life are not a perfect analogy or paradigm by which to judge the other.

His death on the cross provided a general salvation, whereby all mankind is resurrected to be judged for our works, using the secret keys, hand grips and passwords learned only in the Mormon temple by worthy Mormons.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has posted a public letter to Apple customers announcing that the company would be opposing an order from a U.S. Federal judge to help the FBI access data from an iPhone used by a San Bernardino shooter.

When you make the greatest virtue of «standing up for your faith,» people judge their faithfulness by using conflict as a measuring stick.

Many who hated Scalia's rulings could not help but be entertained by his razor - sharp writing, which he used especially in his dissenting opinions to carve up the majority's reasoning (my favorite is Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where among other things he referred to the majority's «Nietzschean vision of us unelected, life - tenured judges — leading a Volk who will be «tested by following»» the Court's rulings obediently).

Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

«I hate using clichés, but I've definitely learned to not judge a book by its cover,» he said.

We shouldn't judge someone's faith by the words and names he or she uses.

Terrorists or dictatorships who persecute innocent people because they claim it's part of faith are not welcomed — their use of Islam as a scapegoat, does not make Islam what they portray it to be, in fact those false persecutors will be punished themselves by God, «God is the only judge.

But we must not equate our personal financial decisions with godliness and use them as the yardstick by which to judge — because while we may be able to see what others are spending, we almost always can't tell why.

That Gospel was by far was the most widely used early Christian book, to judge by the number of copies that have surfaced in the dry sands of Egypt, or by the number of quotations in early Christian writers, or by the number of textual corruptions introduced from Matthew into other Gospels by scribal copyists obviously more familiar with Matthew.