Sentences with phrase «year on a technicality»

«When Democratic Election Commissioner Dennis Ward tried to sabotage downsizing last year on a technicality, this Republican Caucus went to court to get this issue on the ballot.

Not exact matches

In 2013, after 28 years in prison, Caro Quintero's conviction was overturned on a technicality.

Miller's conviction was overturned years later on a technicality and he became a potent Albany lobbyist, feasting on his ties to Silver's Assembly.

They pointed to the impending glut of corruption cases that former New York officials will appear in during the next six months — two of Cuomo's former top aides will be tried, former legislative leaders Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver will each reappear in a courthouse after their prior convictions were overturned on technicalities, and former state Sen. George Maziarz stands accused of hiding the destination of his campaign funds several years ago.

Also present at the party was Tessa Jowell who arrived with her alegedly estranged husband, David Mills, who was an adviser to that other media tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi, and only escaped a 4 1/2 year jail sentence for corruption on a technicality.

As someone steeped in the technicality of how our team at Revive & Restore will employ advancing biotechnologies to achieve our goal of ecological restoration it was a welcome and heartening reprieve to read an entertaining and creative take on how fictional twelve - year - old Chris remakes the passenger pigeon with some help from a remarkable secret family history while treading secretly himself to defy the limitations set upon him for his young age.

I'm still working out the technicalities on this one, but one year (I think 2011) I did «Do Something New Every Week,» and that was really a good one but it was more Big Picture things, like «do a 5k,» «get reiki.»

-- songs from Disney's forgettable Enchanted as nominees in this category, to add insult to injury, the most recognizable number from the best musical released in years, «Falling Slowly» from Once — was almost forced out of the running on a technicality (allegedly by crafty Disney folk).

In the first case, Compton Unified School District successfully defeated a parent petition on a technicality last year in court.

I haven't worked in almost a year and a half for medical reasons, and am waiting for a disability appeal hearing because I was denied on a technicality, so my boyfriend has been covering my student loan payment to protect my credit, and because I was raised that you pay what you owe.

When the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were promulgated in 1938, they reflected a policy of citizen access for civil disputes and sought to promote their resolution on the merits rather than on the basis of the technicalities that characterized earlier procedural systems.The federal courts applied that philosophy of procedure for many years.