Sentences with phrase «years of trying federal»

From more than 30 years of trying federal cases, I believe the majority of evidence favorable to defendants is found in such reports.

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In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

EPA first tried to ban the use of asbestos in 1989, but its decision was struck down two years later by a federal appeals court that ruled the agency had exceeded its authority.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.

The electric car maker is trying to automate all the other parts of driving, something that still requires years of research and changes in local and federal regulations.

But, with the benefit of hindsight, I think the likelihood of the court finding against the way the federal government was going about trying to create a national securities regime should have begun to seem likely very early this year, when British Columbia decided to adopt a nuanced opposition to the federal position.

If our friends at Deutsche Bank are right in forecasting the US unemployment rate to decline from the current 17 year low of 4.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent by - late 2019, the US Federal Reserve are going to have a delicate balancing act as they lift the cash rate in trying to keep inflationary expectations under control.

In issuing these standards for competitive foods, Massachusetts may be trying to get a jump on new federal rules for competitive foods which are supposed to be issued this December, a requirement of last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

Malcolm Smith, the Democratic former Senate majority leader who was convicted of trying to bribe his way onto the New York City Republican mayoral ballot, was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in federal prison.

ESD last year tried to direct $ 15 million from the «transformative investment fund,» a $ 400 million pot created in the 2015 - 16 budget by former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, who left office after he was convicted of several federal felonies for trading official actions for payments to his son.

We also recently learned the details of the Federal Reserve's $ 7.77 trillion bank bailout, which the banks that benefited and the Fed have spent years trying to keep secret.

At least every couple of years — in the middle of the winter — federal officials try to count how many people are homeless in the U.S.

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Malcolm Smith to seven years in prison, saying the former state Senate majority leader corrupted the political process by trying to buy his way onto the ballot in a crooked bid to become mayor of New York City.

A federal judge will decide later this week whether or not to bail the four men accused of trying to blow up two synagogues in Riverdale last year.

He was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $ 280,000 in restitution, but the penalty was stayed pending a much - anticipated US Supreme Court decision involving the «honest services» section of the federal mail - fraud law under which he was tried.

Fisher, 47, is a former assistant public defender and court attorney in Kingston City Court who has been in private practice for 17 years and has been pushing «over 20 years of experience trying cases at all levels of courts of New York, including Supreme, Family, County, federal and town and village courts.»

Attorney General Cuomo, the son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo and the former federal housing secretary who tried and failed in a run for governor in 2002, made his long - expected announcement that he's running for governor this year at an unexpected time — early this morning — via a prerecorded announcement posted at his campaign web site on the internet.

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

After nearly 20 years of trying to redevelop the former public school he bought from the city at an auction for $ 3.15 million in 1999, Singer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming local elected officials and neighborhood groups have conspired to block the project.

Boyland faces up to 19 years in prison after he was convicted in March 2014 of trying to solicit bribes from federal agents posing as real - estate developers.

There's a real sense of hope that Robinson will bring representation and change to the long - struggling neighborhood, even as he tries to shed the stigma of a drug - related past that included running a marijuana enterprise and spending more than six years in federal prison.

After 33 years in the federal government, toxicologist Linda Birnbaum has tried to put sound science at the center of debates over chemical regulation

Fine got federal approval this year to try such a drug screen on one patient whom he describes as «well - connected,» creating an organoid from her cells and adding bits of her tumor to it in hopes of throwing drug after drug at it until one vanquished the organoid's cancer.

Based loosely on a true story that was prominently featured in the PBS series «Frontline», Dwayne Johnson (Fast Five, Get Smart) stars as John Matthews, a construction business - owning father who desperately is trying to save his 18 - year - old son, Jason (Gavron, Breaking and Entering), from going to prison for a huge chunk of his life due to the rigidity of the Federal mandatory sentence drug charges in place.

CAST started seeking out federal grants to replace the lost funding, but it took seven years of trying to get their first one.

Next year, state lawmakers will expect the state board and department to plan implementation of the new state law, federal officials will expect Arizona to comply with ESSA, and the Arizona Department of Education should try to implement state law and comply with federal law.

Whatever the outcome of his proposal to protect LGBT students, it's clear that after spending 37 years making people laugh, Franken takes his new role seriously and is trying to craft «good enough» and «smart enough» federal policy on behalf of kids.

There, director of schools Jane Harbert says it took them six months to train all of their administrators — training paid for with federal funds that could run out next year — before they were ready to try out the observations in classrooms.

If you're trying to say that we could have challenged our sovereign states to improve achievement up to the level of Massachusetts within the next ten years, WITHOUT MORE FEDERAL INTRUSION, then I would say «EXACTLY — I DEFINITELY AGREE!»

Last year the federal government decided to try and level the playing - field by offering self - employed people the option of buying into the Employment Insurance program so they can qualify for mat leave benefits, along with a slew of others including parental, sickness and compassionate care benefits.

If you are trying to get an FHA loan and have student loans in default then you will fail what is called a CAIVIRS check which is a federal database of loans to the government as they guarantee the FHA loan so be aware of that and getting out of default could take almost a year.

And that's not to mention the stress, says Chodikoff, who spent 15 years working for the federal government, trying to shut down questionable tax shelters, before entering private practice: «One of the biggest things I see, having been on both sides of the fence, is what I call the worry factor.

She is a trial attorney with more than 20 years of experience trying cases and arguing appeals in the state and federal courts in Washington, Illinois, Missouri and Arizona.

After years of effort to try to slow demand for tar sands oil in the U.S., campaigners are finally seeing their arguments seriously taken up at the highest levels of the federal government.

Then, the research began to register that whole classes of animals across a wide geography were in trouble — so many that the politically impotent US Fish and Wildlife Service fell years behind in trying to process candidates for its national lists of the threatened or endangered that were supposed to be under some measure of federal protection.

As Justice Brandeis explained more than 70 years ago, «it is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.»»

Mr. Lyons has more than 30 years of jury trial experience and has litigated hundreds of cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States, including successfully trying more than 40 cases to verdict.

After years of trying to get his bosses to listen, Schmidt was ready to lose his job to make public his complaint that the federal government doesn't take adequate steps to vet whether proposed bills violate the Bill of Rights and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

During his 42 years of practice, he has tried and arbitrated approximately 200 matters, including jury and bench trials in state and federal courts and arbitrations in all major forums.

A majority of the American public might be surprised to learn that there is indisputable statistical evidence that the number of jury and non-jury trials in our country is, and has been, sharply declining, both in absolute and relative terms.1 For example, in 2010, only 2,154 jury trials were commenced in federal district courts, which means, on average, Article III judges tried fewer than four civil jury trials that year.

He has 20 years of experience and has effectively tried cases in state and federal courts.

He has tried over a dozen federal and state jury trials in the past 10 years involving claims of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation.

Michael has handled complex litigation matters for more than 20 years and has successfully prepared and tried cases to verdict in the state and federal courts of Los Angeles County, Ventura County, San Diego County, Placer County, the Central District of California and the Southern District of California.

In over 35 years of practice, Mr. McGinnis has tried 40 cases, 22 of which were trials in state or federal court.

A native Miamian now in his 22nd year of practice, Brian's clients are either lawyers trying to remain lawyers, law students trying to become lawyers, law firms seeking ethics opinions and compliance with various rules, regulations and statutes, or individuals and corporations facing state or federal criminal charges.

The most recent pronouncements from both the Federal Court (2015) and Federal Court of Appeal (2014) continue a trend [4] over the past few years of trying to uphold a patent and find that it has the required utility.

After more than a year of trying to get a federal job while working as a contractor, I was not even getting referrals.

After 15 years of trying to land a federal government position on my own or with the use of a private sector resume writer, it wasn't until I came across this highly recommended and talented consultant, Ms. Anita, that I landed a job with the Department of Defense.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY Highly qualified Trial Attorney vvith tvventy - seven years of extensive litigation experience throughout Pennsylvania in both state and federal courts o Tried to verdict in excess of 600 cases at the trial and arbitration levels.