Sentences with phrase «what federal trial»

Prominently featured in the LTN piece was Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf, who last February launched the blog Hercules and the Umpire and quickly found notoriety when he published a post in which he declared, «A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis.»

«A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis,» wrote Judge Kopf, who presides and blogs from Lincoln, Neb..

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Just what these big payoffs meant for soccer dons wasn't fully known until federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, began unveiling their evidence at the racketeering trial of three former South American soccer officials.

The trial will also test what remains of federal corruption law after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened it last year.

«Of course, much of what Cuomo has been talking about over the last several weeks has been overshadowed by the ongoing coverage of the Federal corruption trial in Manhattan, in which the Governor has been featured prominently.»

Now, the testimony of two witnesses at a federal trial unfolding in Newark has placed Cuomo in close proximity to what has principally been a New Jersey - based narrative of lies, retribution and planned cover ups as early as October of 2013 — just weeks after the sudden closure of several lanes on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge.

Jonathan Sinnreich — on the stand at the federal corruption trial of Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto — said that he had warned town officials repeatedly against what he believed to be a «grossly illegal and inappropriate» plan.

Yet Anthony J. Bonomo, a star federal witness in last fall's corruption trial of ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, has been in talks to sell the company that runs PRI to a firm in California for what could be a significant amount, according to multiple sources.

A former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, insisted before the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, his further testimony in his ongoing trial would be dependent on what former President Goodluck Jonathan would tell the court in respect of the case.

White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas ultimately opted against selecting a new jury and further delaying what is supposed to be a three - week trial.

Alaska (R): If anyone can tell us what is going to happen in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens, we can tell you whether the incumbent is going to be reelected.

Also on trial is Mangano's wife, Linda Mangano, 54, of Bethpage, who is accused of lying to federal authorities about what they allege was her $ 450,000 no - show job at Singh's restaurants.

While testifying at the unrelated corruption trial of former State Sen. Dean Skelos, Walker confirmed he is being investigated by federal prosecutors for what he called «campaign contributions, that contractors received work because of that.»

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Halloran (R - Queens), defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese tried to shoot down the government's claims that the pol in 2012 offered to dole out $ 80,000 in no - show city consulting work on a Queens YMCA to the wire - wearing undercover agent in exchange for funds to boost what would be a failed congressional run by Halloran.

But White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas said such evidence would confuse the jury because, if true, it's a «completely different scheme» than for what Smith will be on trial beginning Jan. 5 when he faces corruption charges for allegedly trying to buy his way onto the Republican line for mayor last year.

NEWARK, N.J. — During defense attorney Michael Critchley's cross-examination of David Wildstein at the Bridgegate trial in federal court this morning, the witness said that it was his «understanding» that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed to what would later become Port Authority deputy Bill Baroni's legislative testimony about the George Washington Bridge lane closures.

For Lacewell, who recently returned to state service and last week testified at the federal corruption trial of former longtime Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, her salary is up 8 % from what she made in a different role before she left the administration in June 2016.

It's unclear what the document was, but Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni closed her courtroom during a hearing last week so that lawyers could argue about whether unknown sensitive evidence could be admitted at trial.

In what has turned out to be a landmark decision, the Court ruled in Daubert that federal trial judges must act as gatekeepers in order to exclude unreliable evidence from the courtroom.

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It's that kind of fact — knowing that most of the things we're trying probably are not working — that gives you a sense of urgency around increasing the number of trials, rather than what the federal government strategy has been: to fund a few very expensive, very high - quality studies of a smaller number of interventions.

Last school year, the teacher took her students to visit Chicago's federal court building and Northside College Prep's debate team, and then held a mock trial so students could practice what they'd learned.

What are the implications of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 (g) for the use of TAR and certification obligations for trial attorneys?

Federal criminal lawyers are faced with defending their people in a court where the «Constitutional right» to a trial is but a shadow of what a meaningful right to jury trial once was.

Rather than letting the lawsuits before the judge become more examples of what federal district court Judge Otis D. Wright has called «essentially an extortion scheme,» Judge Baylson has decided to move forward with a «bellwether trial» to determine the validity of Malibu's claims.

So, what lesson is there to be learned from the foregoing about being a federal trial judge?

Here are some highlights on the predictions offered by the panelists: 1) class actions are not going away; 2) the continued growth of mass commerce will continue to spawn class action litigation; 3) Justice Scalia's death will have a significant impact on class action jurisprudence going forward and the judiciary is likely to get less friendly to defendants in the short - term; 4) technology will make a big difference for the better in managing class action litigation; 5) defendants will continue to come up with creative, far - reaching ways of limiting class actions; 6) plaintiffs» attorneys will continue to bring class actions when a) they think they can make money and / or b) they think they will advance the public good; 7) there will be some good class actions and some horrible ones; 8) look out for states to pass new consumer protection laws similar to the New Jersey New Jersey Truth - in - Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA); 9) the TCPA and all - natural litigation booms will continue in the near future; 10) The CFPB will broadly define consumer finance services; 11) more class actions will go to trial; 12) what happens with the enforceability of arbitration clauses will have a big impact on the viability of many categories of class actions in the future; 13) look for more class actions in the federal courts in New York state.

In Cybor, the Federal Circuit considered what the implication of that finding would be on how it, as an appellate court, would review a trial court's construction of the claims in a patent.

Sarah was at the federal court in San Francisco for Waymo v. Uber trial and has been reporting on it for The Verge, so she lends us her expertise to explain what was going on between the two companies.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

The home owners have sued in federal court because they argue they did do all that was required under the deal — and after that trial time period of three months was up, the bank didn't follow through on what it committed to do for them.

During their three - week trial in Boston federal court in 2016, an alternate account emerged of what Wynn executives may have known.