Sentences with phrase «without factual basis»

The case also demonstrates that expert testimony, discussing probable or likely outcomes, without a factual basis of what «would have» occurred, is legally insufficient to show causation and will be considered conjecture.

In short, it is very difficult and expensive to have a SLAPP suit dismissed in Canada even if there is no credible proof that a lawsuit is an abuse of process, malicious and without factual basis.

I started with this statement because it is typical of so many made by those who are opposed to wind farm developments; emotional, aimed at having a big impact on the people who hear it, and quite without factual basis.

(1) A credit services organization, its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit services organization may not do any of the following: (a) conduct any business regulated by this chapter without first: (i) securing a certificate of registration from the division; and (ii) unless exempted under Section 13 -21-4, posting a bond, letter of credit, or certificate of deposit with the division in the amount of $ 100,000; (b) make a false statement, or fail to state a material fact, in connection with an application for registration with the division; (c) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer; (d) dispute or challenge, or assist a person in disputing or challenging an entry in a credit report prepared by a consumer reporting agency without a factual basis for believing and obtaining a written statement for each entry from the person stating that that person believes that the entry contains a material error or omission, outdated information, inaccurate information, or unverifiable information; (e) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (f) make, or counsel or advise any buyer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and that is known, or that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a buyer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; (g) make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; and (h) transact any business as a credit services organization, as defined in Section 13 -21-2, without first having registered with the division by paying an annual fee set pursuant to Section 63J -1-504 and filing proof that it has obtained a bond or letter of credit as required by Subsection (2).

«I wish I did, «cause he'd be gone but, and I think what he said was ridiculous and it's without factual basis and he should be ashamed of himself,.»

The claim that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign canceled a visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center because Obama could not bring the media along continued to drive media coverage, even after NBC News» Andrea Mitchell and others declared the allegation to be «false» or without factual basis.

Not exact matches

The boundness to the triune God is the only basis on which changes at the other two levels can take place; without being open towards changes, there can only be an uncommitted factual living next to each other, no real fellowship.

An effort is under way to transform Chinese education from a rigid, fact - based, lecture - and - drill model that includes super-high-stakes testing to a more student - centered model that features inquiry in a quest for deeper understanding, all without sacrificing factual content knowledge.

answering complex inferential questions; answering factual, main idea, derived meaning, and diagram - based questions from longer narrative passages; answering questions without immediate feedback and correcting answers after delayed feedback

answering complex inferential questions; answering factual, main idea, derived meaning, and diagram - based questions from longer informational passages; answering questions without immediate feedback and correcting answers after delayed feedback; explicit vocabulary learning

answering complex inferential questions; answering factual, main idea, derived meaning, and diagram - based questions from longer narrative passages; answering questions without immediate feedback and correcting answers after delayed feedback; explicit vocabulary learning

Requiring this case to be litigated on an individual basis would risk disparate results in nearly identical suits and exponentially increase the cost of litigation... Class action, by contrast, would achieve economies of time and effort, resolving common legal and factual issues «without sacrificing procedural fairness or bringing about other undesirable results.»

Exceptionally, however, courts have accepted that a plaintiff may be able to recover on the basis of «material contribution to risk of injury», without showing factual «but for» causation.

So -LSB-...] without seeing some of the factual basis makes it very difficult to present a constitutional argument about whether the safeguards are sufficient.»

United States First Circuit, 10/11/2010 US v. Brown Defendant's conviction for possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute is affirmed where: 1) although the district court's factual findings and the inferences made from those findings, which formed the basis of its conclusion that reasonable suspicion existed to stop a car, are not compelled by the record or by the facts, both are nonetheless reasonable and therefore pass constitutional muster; 2) the affirmance of the district court's finding that the officers had reasonable suspicion to stop the car forecloses the need to address defendant's challenge to the district court's alternate conclusion that the car was not seized when the officers first approached; and 3) there was no abuse of discretion in the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence without an evidentiary hearing.

While vigorously making these denials, the House of Lords availed itself of a jolly good rummage around the internal workings of the parent and subsidiary companies on the grounds that it was examining the factual basis for the tax payments without necessarily piercing the corporate veil.

Weil obtained the early resolution of all 13 cases by negotiating with plaintiffs a stipulated dismissal of all claims against SNI without prejudice, based in part upon factual representations by SNI regarding its knowledge of the fighter's injury.

Making an affirmative statement without knowing whether the statement is true or without any knowledge of a factual basis for the statement.