Civil litigants spend an average of 497 rupees ($7) per day on court hearings, the Daksh survey of more than 9,000 litigants showed.
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The silver lining for transgender litigants is that Duncan neither claims he is resolving a pressing legal dispute over trans rights nor claims that other judges cannot treat trans litigants with courtesy.
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Government probes often set off further attacks, from private litigants.
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Conservative litigants also rely on hypocritical arguments in Bostock v.
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It includes settling cases by making payments to potential litigants.
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A good judge does not judge the litigants, but the case.
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The litigants are asking for $75,000 per allegation, plus legal costs.
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Only the government, not private litigants, can file disparate impact claims.
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Stephens told Reuters that he was simply honoring the litigants' wishes.
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Ask the litigants in a growing lawsuit avalanche against Silicon Valley companies.
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The withdrawal of support may tip these cases against the LGBTQ litigants.
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Although one of the litigants sought to block the settlement, he lost.
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Hindu and Muslim litigants had been fighting for its ownership for decades.
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Litigants have also accused the company of intimidating witnesses and threatening victims.
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" Much of Duncan's opinion rests on a claim that "no authority supports the proposition that we may require litigants, judges, court personnel, or anyone else to refer to gender-dysphoric litigants with pronouns matching their subjective gender identity.
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That is bad not just for litigants but for Britain's labour market generally.
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In 2628, litigants asked SCOTUS to review the appeals of about 28500,6900 cases.
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Platform operators have faced a barrage of class-action suits from private litigants.
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To have standing, litigants must generally demonstrate that they, themselves, have been injured.
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America's respect for litigants and process is what makes our legal systems special.
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Litigants include conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch and Vice News journalist Jason Leopold.
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Some also let litigants file their cases in any division of the district.
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The list of Purdue's creditors consists overwhelmingly of the state and federal litigants.
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He pledges, going forward, that litigants and colleagues will be treated with respect.
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The Supreme Court has asked litigants to submit their first briefs later this month.
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Those briefs will give the litigants a chance to fully flesh out their arguments.
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Like all litigants, cities must show that they have standing to invoke court jurisdiction.
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"Providing litigants with a timely justice process is a collaborative effort," Mr. Chalfen said.
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The litigants pressing for payment, the judges determined, had no right to the technology.
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Generally speaking, litigants can only sue on their own behalf, and not for others.
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The lawsuit, filed by Lisa Bloom, only lists the litigants as Jane Doe vs.
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Let's indulge Mr. Trump for a moment and consider what the court system would look like if litigants were permitted to wish away judges who had been born into immigrant families or families that practiced what the litigants regarded as the wrong faith.
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Venue is somewhat less important; it is primarily a matter of convenience to the litigants.
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Courts love arbitration; it frees up their own clogged dockets, by barring would-be litigants.
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So long as litigants submit all the paperwork, courts must agree to hear their cases.
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Last year, litigants appealed 2900,220006 district court decisions to the 2202 federal courts of appeal.
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But reaching terms with the litigants paved the way for the sale of Tuesday's bond.
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California Teachers' Association was virtually identical to Janus, except for the litigants' state and profession.
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Those footnotes, he said, have become obsolete as courts have grown accustomed to transgender litigants.
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He has administered tongue-lashings to many prosecutors (yes, including me), defense attorneys and litigants.
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Slow confirmations have adverse impacts, depriving courts of necessary resources and many litigants of justice.
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I did not want to do that and leave thousands of litigants in the lurch.
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But the litigants there say they are willing to see this through to the end.
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"The vast majority of amicus curiae briefs are filed by allies of litigants and duplicate the arguments made in the litigants' briefs, in effect merely extending the length of the litigant's brief," Judge Richard A. Posner of the federal appeals court in Chicago has written.
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At some point, it's a business decision for the litigants as well as for the company.
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Another question is whether litigants should disclose their use of third-party funding before proceedings begin.
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Another critical consideration is that, unlike most private litigants, federal officials can be legally present everywhere.
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"These challenges have come at a cost to the litigants, and to our democracy," she said.
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Litigants suing for Clinton's emails have been eager to make the messages they receive public, however.
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They embolden litigants and seem to figure in the court's decisions to agree to hear cases.
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Litigants stand behind two wooden tables, a jug of water and a few glasses before them.
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Litigants, of course, often rely on arguments that they rejected at an earlier point in time.
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Most litigants are poor men belonging to so-called lower castes, with only basic education, it said.
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The larger the stakes in the divorce action, the more inclined litigants are to fight over them.
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Self-serving conflicts of interest and secondhand rumors about the litigants tend to erode sound decision making.
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As U.S. courts established ethics rules for litigants in the nineteenth century, champerty was seen as obsolete.
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He's being sued on property rights by litigants that include a historic chapel and a butterfly sanctuary.
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The litigants filed their lawsuit Tuesday in the federal District Court for the District of Northern California.
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Beyond the litigants, the media and communications sector anxiously await the judge's ruling, and with good reason.
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Unlike other litigants, states enjoy the unique power to sue as "parens patriae" on behalf of residents.
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How is it fair in a court of justice for judges to defer to one of the litigants?
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Because companies are quick to settle, patent lawsuits have become a lucrative way for litigants to make money.
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That means Supreme Court justices should not own stock in companies that come before their court as litigants.
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He said potential litigants may feel emboldened to file a lawsuit after seeing the results of the investigation.
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"It shows basic respect for litigants appearing in front of you and the appearance of impartiality," Block said.
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First, litigants, courts and the public need to be vigilant in ensuring compliance with the rule of law.
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The ruling may also open the way for private litigants to seek compensation for damages in national courts.
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The ruling may also open the way for private litigants to seek compensation for damages at national courts.
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This revealed that judges allowed litigants to seal material in at least 65 percent of product-liability actions.
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And Republican litigants will have no trouble shopping for district judges who will come down on their side.
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From 1996 through 2016, 952,291 litigants — 37 percent of all aliens free pending trial — never showed for court.
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For example, in 2003 Congress started requiring litigants to notify federal antitrust authorities of their pharmaceutical patent settlements.
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This has particularly harsh results when one of the litigants can afford a lawyer and the other cannot.
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Over the past several years, the devices have come under increasing scrutiny by regulators as well as private litigants.
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"The biggest problem you have with high-money divorces is the litigants have the money to spend," he said.
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The litigants in Preap include Mony Preap and Eduardo Vega Padilla, two men who came to America as infants.
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"He's the kind of judge that applies the law fairly and evenhandedly to all litigants before him," Jaffer said.
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Other litigants include the University of Notre Dame, Catholic Charities and a host of religious hospitals, seminaries and colleges.
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In another case, he voted to deny female litigants class action status to sue their employer for sex discrimination.
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But the Trump administration and the litigants continued to fight over whether one of the injunctions remained in effect.
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The litigants are expected to challenge those moves, arguing the burning of the companies' products are causing local damage.
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If Trump's administration attempts to approve provisions like that, litigants will take to court to make the same arguments.
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He had become concerned with the plight of litigants who represented themselves in civil cases, often filing handwritten appeals.
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It's also likely that Republican litigants will have a much easier time finding judges willing to block Democratic policies.
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That is, the DOJ regulations explicitly explain that potential litigants cannot use the regulations as grounds for a lawsuit.
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Gillers said it was unlikely that Kavanaugh, if he were confirmed, would receive many motions from litigants for recusal.
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"I would be tipping my hand and suggesting to litigants that I have already made up my mind," he said.
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Russian litigants accounted for a tenth of cases heard in the London Commercial Courts between March 2017 and April 2018.
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Eduardo Vega Padilla, one of the litigants in Nielsen v Preap, came to America in the 1960s as an infant.
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Neither we nor the justices have any idea how deeply the litigants, or people in general, feel about these matters.
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Disastrous government cuts to public funding have increased the number of litigants and people left floundering without a professional voice.
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The group looked only at whether divorces were granted and how fast — a test of whether litigants were legally prepared.
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The result is "constitutional stagnation" for American law as well as a Catch-20073 for would-be litigants, he concluded.
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"Other possible litigants with standing might include a landowner who faces eminent domain as a result of this," Chesney wrote.
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Were cases filed in those districts randomly assigned, litigants would have no assurance of being heard by a particular judge.
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"That's always an option to litigants," said Ted Olson, the former U.S. Solicitor General who has joined Brady's legal team.
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Early litigants lost because the standard the courts used prior to 2004 was so demanding it could never be met.
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Under Zinke's plan, EAJA would be amended to allow the government to recover costs and fees from public-interest litigants.
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That tells us that in the justices' eyes, those litigants not only might succeed, but that they likely will succeed.
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When the original rules took effect in 1938, they required litigants to file key forms of pretrial discovery in court.
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By the institute's count, 30 big rules have been challenged, and the courts have found for the litigants 28 times.
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The D.C. court did not set a schedule for hearing the case Wednesday, instead asking the litigants to propose one.
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Mr. Whitley also unveiled a new review process that litigants said they hoped would not unduly burden foreign-born citizens.
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Dale Baich, a lawyer for the litigants in the case, said the settlement agreement must be approved by a federal judge.
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Litigants can ask the Court of Appeal for permission to proceed with an appeal if the trial judge has refused permission.
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The group told lawmakers that VanDyke would not say whether he would be fair to LGBT litigants who appeared before him.
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The measure will also allow litigants to follow some parts of the proceedings from home without having to travel long distances.
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There is no excuse for this delay, which does a disservice to the litigants who are impacted by these unconscionable postponements.
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Cases at the D.C. Circuit are usually heard by a three-judge panel, and litigants can appeal to the entire court.
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Levitt said while it is rare for the court to ask litigants to reargue cases, the possibility cannot be ruled out.
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He noted in his opinion that states are not ordinary litigants but have enhanced standing in cases involving the federal government.
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Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, said Justice Thomas's statements are often addressed to potential litigants.
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For more than a decade, Mr. Trump has unleashed Mr. Cohen on his foes — investigative journalists, business rivals and potential litigants.
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It could accept it, and grant the litigants' request for "expedited review," setting up a ruling on the case this session.
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So federal litigants who filed a lawsuit in Fort Worth had a very high chance of drawing O'Connor as their judge.
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In his previous job as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the lead litigants suing to stop the ozone rule.
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But litigants who lose at the panel level can choose to appeal to the entire body to have the case reheard.
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Mr. Sabry is generally dismissive of rival litigants, whom he considers inferior patriots, but they give as good as they get.
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This takes away a tool that could have been easily abused by litigants to obtain easy removal of entirely truthful consumer opinions.
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Most cases heard in the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts after they opened to foreign litigants in 2011 have had UAE links.
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The lawsuit alleges that criminal defendants, witnesses and civil litigants have all been affected by the agency's policy, thereby impeding court business.
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The litigants must go through arbitration to pursue their claims against the company rather than have the claims heard in open court.
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As the case dragged on, Frank reduced his claim to $10 million and the litigants ultimately agreed to settle for $4.85 million.
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"EPA's audacious assertion of authority in this Rule is more far-reaching than any previous effort by the agency," the litigants wrote.
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Litigants can always ask for a re-hearing of a circuit court case by an en banc panel of all the court's
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And among those, only three had protective orders containing language specifically allowing information exchanged by the litigants to be shared with regulators.
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They say the complaints are overwhelmingly frivolous, the product of litigants unhappy with a case decision rather than an individual judge's behavior.
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A federal judge is now working to fashion a settlement among more than 1,500 litigants seeking redress from the harms of opioids.
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But, but, but: The ruling could affect litigants who bring cases with securities fraud claims in other jurisdictions, one expert tells Axios.
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But this wouldn't be remotely the end of the road for the duo, whose litigants' embrace is likely to continue for years.
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Trump is facing down a swarm of investigations from multiple congressional committees, a special counsel, state and federal prosecutors, and private litigants.
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What the public will not understand — and should not tolerate — is a different set of rules altogether for red and blue litigants.
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There, things proceeded like a Hasidic People's Court, with the judges — three rabbis — dressed in traditional all-black garb, facing the litigants.
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Merck, the drug's manufacturer, created a nearly $5 billion fund, which gave an average award of $147,000 to more than 30,000 litigants.
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"We do not tolerate this sort of bait-and-switch tactic from litigants, and we should not engage in it ourselves," Alito wrote.
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"I see today's decision as a punt and as a complication for future litigants, but very far from a devastating defeat," Stephanopoulos added.
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Litigants in both cases have been gathering documents and interviews to support their respective legal positions, and no trial dates have been set.
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It's not only the court's left wing that remained quiet on January 25th when litigants served up a case on a silver platter.
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Because the Speedy Trial Act accords criminal suits precedence, litigants involved with civil matters experience problems setting trial dates and finishing their litigation.
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Because the Speedy Trial Act accords criminal prosecutions precedence, litigants participating in civil cases experience difficulty securing trial dates and concluding their lawsuits.
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The litigants, who are suing to force the government to take stronger action on climate change, say fossil fuel development threatens their futures.
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On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is set to hear a challenge brought by those litigants.
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Because the Speedy Trial Act grants criminal matters precedence, litigants involved with civil suits encounter problems securing trial dates and completing their litigation.
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" He noted that Democrats praised Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama nominee, for putting her honest reading of the law ahead of "sympathetic litigants.
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More broadly, the biggest differences between the corporate and individual civil rights movement is the relentlessness and rate of success of corporate litigants.
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By itself, that is a harmless convenience, allowing litigants to avoid traveling hundreds of miles to courthouses in remote parts of sprawling districts.
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Massey Coal, the court held that a judge politically beholden to one of the litigants must recuse himself, and in Williams-Yulee v.
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It also asked litigants to file motions on whether to remand the case back to the agency rather than hold it in abeyance.
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The litigants have until July 5 to file appeals of the denials, and until July 12 to ask the court to consolidate them.
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Instead it has become a tool wielded by serial litigants to stop a plethora of projects from critical infrastructure, to renewable energy projects.
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"I think it's a message to litigants to be sure the arguments they put in front of the court are reasonable," said Myers.
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As debate swirls in op-ed pages, litigants opposed to Mr Whitaker's promotion to the top law-enforcement position are turning to the courts.
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This is standard procedure for any organization that may be in a position to provide helpful or otherwise relevant information to litigants or investigators.
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Because criminal prosecutions take precedence under the Speedy Trial Act, litigants engaged in civil litigation encounter problems securing trial dates and concluding their disputes.
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While that particular ruling didn't have much bearing on Yelp's business, the company was among the litigants that pressured the government body to act.
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For Clinton, the ideal justice is one who decides cases based on the litigants' identity or status, not what constitutional or statutory text requires.
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In 85033, lawmakers came to the litigants' aid by passing legislation specifying which assets could be handed over to victims of Iran-backed terror.
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The Smith Barney litigants devoted eight of their complaint's 41 pages to criticisms of the practice of forcing employees to arbitrate civil rights claims.
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Litigants don't venture down to rural Texas just for the barbecue, but because plaintiffs see the court likely to give them a favorable outcome.
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" "This is standard procedure for any organization that may be in a position to provide helpful or otherwise relevant information to litigants or investigators.
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Conservatives were not happy when litigants could not get the necessary four justices to hear a case on blocking Medicaid money for abortion clinics.
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Because criminal prosecutions receive precedence under the Speedy Trial Act, litigants participating in civil suits confront problems securing trial dates and concluding their litigation.
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His mother is the president and chief executive of Legal Information for Families Today, a nonprofit organization serving litigants in family court in Brooklyn.
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Prior versions of the bill would have allowed litigants to share evidence related to public health and safety with regulators, regardless of protective orders.
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Because criminal prosecutions receive precedence under the Speedy Trial Act, litigants participating in civil suits experience difficulty securing trial dates and concluding their litigation.
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Still, none of those laws are a perfect fit, specialists say, raising technical disputes that will give litigants plenty to argue about in court.
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The judge, a former federal prosecutor confirmed to the bench in 1998, has given the litigants broad discretion to determine what records remain secret.
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The number of litigants is also currently unknown—interested parties have another 50 days or so to file if they wish to join the suit.
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After I found out what the litigants truly wanted and I did some pushing and shoving and jawboning, more often than not, agreements were reached.
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The IFF is an intervener — a third party that can join a case without the permission of the original litigants — in Rubin and Krishnamurthy's petition.
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In 2015, India set aside nearly 100 billion rupees ($1.45 billion) to set up additional courts and make existing ones more user-friendly for litigants.
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Texas and its fellow litigants argue that Mr Obama abrogated this role and made up his own immigration rules, violating the constitutional separation of powers.
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One result has been a big rise in the numbers choosing to represent themselves, clogging up courts that are ill-designed for litigants in person.
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The case is massive, with more than 85033 litigants involved on the various sides and more than 4,000 pages of briefs filed before the argument.
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It would put United States assets at risk of seizure by private litigants overseas and "create complications" in diplomatic relations with other countries, he added.
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It is possible the court might be more forgiving and allow the agency to take a broader approach to the law than private litigants can.
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Jerry S. Cohen, 70, a Washington author and lawyer whose clients included class-action litigants after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and Union Carbide Corp.
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The four liberal justices dissented, including Sotomayor, who wrote that the court has appeared to favor the Trump administration over other litigants seeking emergency actions.
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Anti-SLAPP legislation already has demonstrated that Americans shouldn't have to engage in extended, pricy legal defenses against litigants who want shut down honest criticism.
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Formal recognition of the rights of future generations would expand the scope of climate litigation and allow present-day litigants to sue on their behalf.
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Without Kavanaugh's vote, it's difficult to see how litigants hoping to kill the CFPB in its entirety will find a majority on this Supreme Court.
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Two new Supreme Court decisions illustrate the point: Even conservative litigants should argue their cases so as to genuflect before the legal elite's "progressive" faith.
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DePaolo's conduct "raises the specter that this nation's courtrooms are partisan, and that judges consider political platforms when advising litigants," Metry said in his ruling.
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But it is also more attuned, I would suggest, to factual differences between cases and the impact of decisions on litigants and the wider society.
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The litigants claim that while Kirkpatrick wrote that she lived in a Tucson home in her election petitions, she actually lives in a condo in Phoenix.
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Lawrence J.C. VanDyke grew emotional, with his face turning red as he defended himself against the letter's conclusions that he could not treat LGBTQ litigants fairly.
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Oral arguments will now take place the week of March 85033, when litigants will have an hour to present their cases to the three-judge panel.
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Unlike regulators and litigants, we have seen a dramatic shift by federal law enforcement in its efforts to stop re-victimizing the victim of a cybercrime.
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Ninety seven tech companies signed a 54-page amicus brief—a document, submitted to a court, by non-litigants who have an interest in a case.
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For private litigants, a shortage of judges means longer waits for trials and orders, and increased financial and emotional cost on clients resulting from the delays.
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Companies no longer have to pay ransom so the threat of lawsuits over dubious royalty payments — filed by aggressive litigants known as trolls — will go away.
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A decision for those litigants would mean changes not just to the individual market but to Medicare, Medicaid and a broad array of other health programs.
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Among the litigants are victims and families of the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon and the 1996 attacks on Saudi Arabia's Khobar Towers.
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The issues as to which the court is tied remain unresolved by the Supreme Court for everyone else — lower courts, lawyers and litigants alike — going forward.
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But unlike some of the litigants who come before the high court, the majority has simply not faced economic hardship or discrimination in their adult lives.
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The overwhelming number come from disgruntled litigants, and it appears that courthouse employees or others with arguably valid complaints against judges do not use the system.
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One of the Supreme Court cases threatened to wipe out the mandate and the subsidies, and I asked him what would happen if the litigants succeeded.
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"Respondent's actions raises the specter that this nation's courtrooms are partisan, and that judges consider political platforms when advising litigants," the administrative law judge's decision says.
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That claim may be harder to establish, Mr Vladeck says, where the litigants are a trio of individual senators rather than a committee or the full Senate.
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This depends on the rules of the court in which they convene and, potentially, on whether or not the litigants' complaints about the order are dramatically divergent.
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Yet Ms Adams and Mr Prassl argue that the steepness of the fees makes them a "disproportionate restriction on litigants' right of access to the employment tribunals".
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Eduardo Vega Padilla, one of the litigants in Nielsen v Preap, came to America in the 1960s as an infant and soon became a lawful permanent resident.
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Eisen believes there will be plenty of "incentivized litigants" as well as "a ton of very alarmed lawyers" willing to raise their hands for cases like this.
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Submissions received online will not be made available to litigants in civil lawsuits, the Commission said, in a bid to reassure companies concerned about private damages actions.
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The court's job is not to propose complicated compromises for individual litigants; it is to provide the final word in interpreting the Constitution and the nation's laws.
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The overwhelming majority come from disgruntled litigants, and it is plain that courthouse employees or others with arguably valid grievances against judges do not use the system.
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Before appealing to the Supreme Court, litigants would have to appeal to the full "en banc" panel of the circuit court, a step that is now precluded.
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Alone in his dissent, conservative Justice Clarence Thomas said that allowing litigants to send notices of lawsuits to embassies would comply with both U.S. and international law.
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"There's just not that much precedent, certainly not for the sort of scale that we're talking about here," he said, referring to the potential number of litigants.
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One of those litigants was a young Ida B. Wells, who was forcibly ejected from a Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad ladies' car in fall of 1883.
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The executive branch fares better than most litigants in persuading the Supreme Court to reconsider unfavourable rulings, but the president typically waits his turn like everybody else.
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Caputo said he met with the main litigants such as Elliott Management Corp's NML Capital Ltd as well as smaller ones known as the "me-too" bondholders.
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Democrats in Congress could also potentially join with Republicans to pass legislation limiting nationwide injunctions or preventing litigants from effectively choosing which judge will hear their case.
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Litigants routinely cite protective orders themselves as an argument for filing evidence in court under seal, thus ensuring that secrecy endures for the life of a case.
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In New York, state lawmakers are trying to crack down on finance firms that offer cash advances to litigants, introducing legislation that would cap the interest rates.
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To combat these speech-squelching litigants, some states have enacted anti-SLAPP legislation to protect public discourse and those who share their truthful experiences and opinions online.
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They have challenged the right of New York and other states and municipalities to bring the lawsuit, despite court precedent calling for "special solicitude" for state litigants.
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A gay South Korean couple had their marriage application rejected in 2016, though lawyers are working to add even more litigants in the future to strengthen their case.
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Litigants in financial disputes, generally with over £50m ($65m) at issue, can apply to have their cases heard on the list, by judges with expertise in financial law.
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"We know that this is a service that is primarily for the convenience of litigants," Gupta said during the argument session, which lasted more than half an hour.
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J&J is battling some 9,000 cases claiming its talc products cause ovarian cancer, but the talc litigants have recently focused on claims based on alleged asbestos contamination.
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He joined the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union, and represented many litigants pro bono in cases involving challenges to censorship and to the death penalty.
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Judge Daniels also ruled that the litigants' complaints did not come within a court's jurisdiction under the domestic and foreign emoluments clauses and involved political, not legal, questions.
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They obliged the allies to bring their legal issues to Athenian courts, where litigants had to win the favor of Athenian citizens who sat in judgment of them.
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A Federal District Court judge in Texas agreed with the litigants that the individual mandate was unconstitutional and that the entire law should be overturned along with it.
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" Similarly, Duncan argues that "if a court were to compel the use of particular pronouns at the invitation of litigants, it could raise delicate questions about judicial impartiality.
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He preferred bright-line rules to legal balancing tests, and he was sharply critical of Supreme Court opinions that did not provide lower courts and litigants with clear guidance.
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In media interviews, he's said that trials are the fairest method of settling an IP dispute, and a system that prioritizes trials attracts litigants who want a fair shake.
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Litigants around the country said they will carefully examine any new policy to see if it raises similar constitutional issues and will continue to pursue legal action if necessary.
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But new efforts could be difficult to apply and may cause confusion, Tobias said, warning that it could backfire on future Republican litigants seeking to challenge a Democratic president.
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Bayer's shares abruptly fell by 11% to their lowest level in five years, wiping $11bn off the firm's value as investors totted up the potential bill from other litigants.
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The Department of Education, which oversees college and university policy through its federal funding, would be able to collect data on their internal workings that outside litigants cannot obtain.
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Technology companies and privacy advocates fear an endless stream of similar requests - not just from the U.S. government, but also from foreign governments and even litigants in civil cases.
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Among the litigants were relatives of people killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut and the 1996 attacks on the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.
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Similarly, to increase the probability of a lawsuit's success, would-be litigants should file their cases in districts with judges who are notoriously favorable to that type of case.
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At issue is whether Mr. Thiel's role in the case will motivate other wealthy and powerful people to settle scores by giving money to litigants whose causes they support.
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Tim Preso, an attorney with Earthjustice representing some of the litigants, said the court's ruling showed that the government had illegally removed grizzly bears from the protected species list.
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"They suggest that he has demonstrated a potential bias involving enough potential litigants before the court that he would not be able to perform his full responsibilities," Stevens said.
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" And Brian Segee, senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the litigants in the suit, said the organization would appeal the decision, calling the waivers "unconstitutional.
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Judge Curiel, for one, has continued to do his job, carefully applying the law to the cases that come before him, no matter how obnoxious the litigants might be.
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This was legal, but the litigants argued it was negligent behavior — and pointed to an actual shooting on the Brooklyn Bridge as evidence that it could get people killed.
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But, as Dennis points out in dissent, Jett did not seek a broad order requiring "litigants, judges, court personnel, or anyone else" to refer to her as a woman.
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The Argentine president said he had not met with Paul Singer who heads Elliott Management Corp, which is one of the of main litigants, during his visit to Davos.
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The judge, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, also said giving special treatment to a settlement reached so late in the litigation could encourage litigants to keep fighting.
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She said that procedural concerns can stop judges from intervening prematurely but noted that procedural safeguards can also ensure that worthy litigants are not kept out of the courthouse.
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The US government -- in particular the State Department -- has a long history of resisting the ability of civil litigants to seize money from sovereign governments, even those like Iran.
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That same FOIA Project report found that Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent for the Times, was among the most active FOIA litigants as a joint filer with the Times.
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Steve Vladeck, CNN contributor and professor at the University of Texas School of Law, says the unanswered questions provide less clarity to the litigants, the lower courts and the public.
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If the department has made mistakes with the litigants and misclassified their employers, it can fix them quickly and settle the suit without freaking out untold numbers of other borrowers.
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He, like Trump, has publicly doubted the science behind climate change and, in his position as attorney general of Oklahoma, is among the country's most aggressive litigants against EPA rules.
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To his law clerks, Meyer said, Gorsuch always preached the idea that the actual litigants should be able to pick up the opinion and understand why they won or lost.
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Mr Sebok argues that funders should be more transparent on prices charged to litigants, particularly in consumer cases, where claimants tend to be more vulnerable than on the commercial side.
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Long before she was nominated to the bench, then-Professor Barrett wrote that litigants and the public are entitled to "impartial justice" — irrespective of a judge's moral or religious views.
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The basic legal requirement that companies must have "reasonable" security is enforced by State Attorneys General and the Federal Trade Commission, as well as other federal regulators and private litigants.
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Seen by many companies as a boon for class action litigants, the TCPA imposed costly restrictions on the ability of businesses to communicate with their customers with auto dialer technology.
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The firm, based in Brooklyn, is one of the nation's largest provider of such financing, which enable litigants to borrow against the anticipated settlement or jury verdict in a lawsuit.
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Moreover, while Duncan's opinion on this issue has little legal significance, it sends a pretty clear message about whether transgender litigants can get a fair hearing in the Fifth Circuit.
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While important to the litigants, these garden-variety cases involve the straightforward application of settled law, and they would come out the same way regardless of the judge's political views.
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If the department has made mistakes with the litigants and misclassified their employers, it can fix them quickly and settle the suit without freaking out untold numbers of other borrowers.
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He asserted, as have previous Supreme Court nominees, that it would be unfair to future litigants for him to announce his views on issues that could come before the court.
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As the industry booms, state and federal authorities are beginning to look into a specialized corner that provides high-interest cash advances to litigants waiting for settlements or jury awards.
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The better option, he felt, would be for Purdue to seek bankruptcy protection and negotiate with Hunter and other litigants under the supervision of a judge in Chapter 11 proceedings.
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The current court led by Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, has decided in favor of business litigants over 60 percent of the time, according to the research.
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Four American state attorneys-general outlined a $210bn proposal to settle thousands of claims against five companies involved in the opioid crisis and urged their fellow litigants to accept the deal.
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In his post announcing the settlements, Denton argued that Gawker Media anticipated prevailing against the Harder-backed litigants—echoing his initial response to the enormous Hogan verdict handed down in March.
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Swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy disagreed but still voted with the conservative wing, and called upon future litigants to demonstrate to his satisfaction that partisan gerrymandering robbed them of fair representation.
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Litigants in both cases argue that partisan gerrymandering violates the First Amendment, either by retaliating against voters for their political preferences or by diluting their ability to influence the electoral process.
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The litigants, led by West Virginia and a coalition of electric utility, lobbed their opening volley in federal court Friday night with their initial brief on the merits of their case.
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While stressing he was not advocating drug use, de la Madrid said the court ruling, which is for now limited to the litigants in question, showed it was time to act.
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Congress, judges and the American public were told about unscrupulous litigants that were abusing what was characterized as a flawed patent system that did not issue perfect patents all the time.
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The case is unique because the court decided in May, without any litigants asking, that it would have all of the judges hear the case, something that hasn't happened since 2000.
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A judge who forecasts how he or she would rule in specific matters would also deprive future litigants of their right to have cases heard before a fair and impartial court.
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"As long as court procedures allow politically motivated litigants to pick their judges, the judiciary risks enabling, rather than combating, the growing view that judges are mere political actors," he wrote.
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It's the only way to ensure that defendants are judged by a representative cross section of their community, not the filtered few that litigants want to see in the jury box.
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"The first thing I'm doing [by answering] is, I'm signaling to future litigants that I can't be a fair judge in their case because those issues keep coming up," Gorsuch said.
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The procedure became tradition when litigants might have traveled on horseback: long before the advent of DNA testing, fingerprint technology, or the large body of research on the limitations of memory.
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Colonial records show that in some cases, such as land disputes, indigenous litigants would bring khipus to court and use them to explain or justify claims of land ownership, Mr. Chu said.
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Today the founder of Gawker Media, Nick Denton, announced that his bankrupt company would settle claims with three litigants: the wrestler Hulk Hogan, the scientist Shiva Ayyadurai, and the journalist Ashley Terrill.
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The Paula Jones case stands for the proposition that the federal courts will not allow the president's official duties to shield him against private litigants who legitimately seek to advance a claim.
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Under this formulation, known as the "Sherbert test", the court went on to vindicate Amish and Jehovah's Witness litigants, decisions that liberals praised as much-needed judicial protection of vulnerable religious minorities.
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For example, law enforcement evidence gathered through surveillance and from confidential informants, as well as analysis by FBI or NSA cybercrimes investigators, will not be accessible to private litigants in a lawsuit.
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First of all, reporters who cover the court spend the entire term preparing for its end by reading briefs, attending arguments, consulting law professors, going to conferences and interviewing lawyers and litigants.
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"Whether or not this case decides the fundamental issue here, which is whether states can restrict abortion to this extent, Justice Ginsburg has laid the ground work for future litigants," Smith said.
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The litigants defend themselves, and the show pays any judgment Sheindlin renders, as well as travel and lodging, on the condition that they won't appeal the Judge's decision in a real court.
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But divorce cases, even in the context of domestic violence, always occur in Supreme Court, not in Family Court, and litigants do not have a right to counsel for the full case.
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Gardephe said Cosby's subpoena request "bordered on frivolous" and was "wildly inconsistent" with New York's press shield law, which sets a high standard for when litigants can seek information from media organizations.
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This is highly unusual in the world of federal litigation, "exceeding the negative outcomes faced by other litigants in both scope and degree," she wrote in a 2011 Minnesota Law Review article.
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Judge Scheindlin said Pacer fees were particularly harmful to litigants who represent themselves, to academic researchers who want to explore systemic issues like sentencing disparities and to journalists at smaller news outlets.
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In this model, each decision for the Court consists of two parts: a judgment to dispose of the dispute between the litigants before the Court, and an opinion to guide future decision-making.
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During the confirmation of Kennedy's successor, Brett Kavanaugh, Stevens expressed dismay about the volatile hearings and said there was "merit" to criticism that Trump's nominee had "demonstrated potential bias" toward some potential litigants.
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The first time the ACA went before the justices, in 2012, litigants took aim at the law's "individual mandate", a requirement that most Americans buy a health insurance policy or pay a penalty.
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" Later in the hearing, he said, "Even when you might have sympathy for the litigants in front of you, as a judge, your fidelity is first and foremost to the rule of law.
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Kavanaugh's judicial record in the past, and his hearing in the future, can help clarify whether he believes that his decisions should be driven by the law or by litigants, interests, and agendas.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is automatically entitled to recover attorney's fees from litigants who sue the agency over rejected patent applications.
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This is highly unusual in the world of federal litigation, "exceeding the negative outcomes faced by other litigants in both scope and degree," she wrote in a 2011 Minnesota Law Review Journal article.
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Murray Energy is one of the lead litigants trying to overturn the Clean Power Plan, Obama's landmark climate change regulation that is expected to result in a significant reduction of coal-fired electricity.
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All three of the judges who heard this case — Duncan, Smith, and dissenting Judge James Dennis — agree on one thing: Judges have discretion to decide how they want to refer to transgender litigants.
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For the past five months, a group of litigants has been trying to hold Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, to account for some of his actions.
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States like New York are seeking to find the sources of the Sackler fortune, hoping to reclaim portions of it, particularly in the event that a Purdue bankruptcy could constrain payouts to litigants.
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A federal judge wants the litigants in two high-profile climate change lawsuits against the five largest oil companies to make the case for whether he should consider the benefits of fossil fuels.
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Judge Gorsuch insisted that it would be "unfair" to litigants before the Supreme Court to "tip his hand" on how he regarded prior cases — any prior case, no matter how ancient or uncontested.
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They say litigants banding together in a class-action lawsuit have a better chance of getting companies to answer publicly for illegal activities and that fears of such a suit can discourage law breaking.
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All three litigants were represented by the Los Angeles entertainment attorney Charles J. Harder, who received financial backing from the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel in a decade-long effort to destroy Gawker Media.
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In May, he told the New York Times that he was in fact supporting other litigants against Gawker, but seemed to claim at a press conference this week that he supported Hogan's case alone.
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Lawsuits must also be filed within 90 days of a claim's being denied, and if litigants lose a case, they must pay all the Kodak plan's fees and expenses incurred defending against the suit.
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In her order, Chutkan also ordered the Trump administration to notify the litigants two days in advance of any "ground-disturbing" activities in the former monument areas, such as mining or exploration for minerals.
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Given that much of the interest in the department's activities has been driven by Clinton's presidential candidacy, litigants have hoped to have as much information as possible out before the elections on Nov. 22019.
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Other American litigants will be emboldened to insert themselves in American foreign policy, and other nations will feel liberated to set aside the international immunity principle and target lawsuits at America with renewed vigor.
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"What litigants would do is bring their claims according to which court they think is likely to be more favorable to them," added Dan Tokaji, a professor of election law at Ohio State University.
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District jurists resolve immense caseloads, thus constituting the New York justice system's "workhorses," and the myriad vacancies pressure New York courts and litigants, conditions which epitomize those in many of the country's 2202 districts.
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"It was like being in a grade B movie every day," she said in the Stanford oral history, citing the characters (litigants, police officers, court personnel) she encountered and the camaraderie among her colleagues.
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I observed in the year that I worked at the court what many litigants and commentators have since noted, that Gorsuch possesses an incisive legal mind, writes with skill and wit, and is scrupulously fair.
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Purdue hired law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP for restructuring advice, Reuters reported in August, fueling concerns among litigants, including Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter, that the company might seek bankruptcy protection before the trial.
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Sullivan raised a high threshold for litigants to win defamation cases by requiring them to prove that the publisher acted not just with recklessness or in error, but with "actual malice" against the defamed party.
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Defendants take a plea, litigants settle, lawyers change their minds, or, more often than not, our strategy of throwing up every objection we can think of makes the whole thing more bother than it's worth.
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When the Constitution was ratified, the American practice was to allow litigants in civil and criminal cases a certain number of peremptory challenges that could be used to eliminate potential jurors for any reason whatsoever.
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It's unclear whether the deleted emails will be released through the State Department's website, as the 30,000 Clinton messages that she handed to the department in 2014 were, or directly to litigants such as Leopold.
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Unlike a private party seeking damages, the government works to vindicate the law, so paying settlements to private litigants and agreeing to regulatory sanctions do not necessarily end the threat of criminal and civil liability.
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The litigants filed a formal notice Friday with the Fish and Wildlife Service — as required under the law — saying that they'll file a lawsuit in 60 days if the agency does not reverse its decision.
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As part of an attempt to move the cases to federal court and argue the law exempted them, the company countersued or sued more than 1,000 litigants without seeking financial damages, according to the Times.
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The group claims the state elections commission should have immediately deactivated voters who didn't respond within 30 days to a mailing sent in October, an indication that the person may have moved, say the litigants.
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Our data alone cannot explain these counterintuitive trends, but it is possible that some litigants have failed to internalize consensus about what makes for a successful challenge, while others have adapted to bring better cases.
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Lawyers who specialize in the field of sex abuse and employment litigation will howl at any discussion of limitations on NDAs as an illegal restraint on the ability of private litigants to resolve their own disputes.
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The company—which is already taking "applications" from would-be litigants—will automatically determine where, when, and with what judge to file a lawsuit, turning the American justice system into little more than computer programming problem.
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Burwell is any indication, an evenly divided court may prompt the justices to reach practical compromises that assist real-life litigants, instead of making bold, sweeping and highly debatable proclamations about the meaning of the Constitution.
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In 2013, a former part-owner of one such company pleaded guilty in federal court to engaging in a kickback scheme with a brokerage firm that recruited litigants looking for cash advances ahead of their settlements.
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Other times, litigants claimed the industry was purposely packaging dangerous firearms — such as assault weapons — in a way that allowed them to evade gun control laws like background checks, again putting the firearms in criminal hands.
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Michelle Stennett told the AP. Ohio and Tennessee are the only other states in the U.S. where transgender people cannot change their birth certificates, according to Lambda Legal, one of the litigants in the 2018 ruling.
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The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the main court hearing the states' challenge, refused to block the rule in January, saying the litigants hadn't met the stringent requirements for such an extraordinary action.
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Since a jurisdictional inquiry is ancillary to the substantive legal dispute, it makes sense to have more resources — both of the judicial system and of litigants — devoted to resolving the substantive dispute than the jurisdictional inquiry.
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Litigants in the lawsuits filed by New York City, King County in Washington State, and in Colorado (City of Boulder, Boulder County, and San Miguel County), are still jostling over which courts should hear the cases.
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Writing alone, Thomas said, "I would return to our pre-Batson understanding -- that race matters in the courtroom -- and thereby return to litigants one of the most important tools to combat prejudice in their cases," he said.
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Diamond declined to comment on the California case; it said that the litigants in the Florida suit "never made a purchase from Diamond" but were owners in a resort company it had purchased without assuming such liabilities.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of cases related to land and property are stuck in Indian courts, draining litigants of resources and highlighting the urgent need for land reform in the country, a legal advocacy group says.
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In resolving this appeal, we remind the litigants and the public that if the First Amendment means anything, it means that the best response to disfavored speech on matters of public concern is more speech, not less.
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Material obtained through discovery that is later submitted as evidence becomes part of the court record; as a matter of law, litigants must provide a reason for submitting such evidence under seal, and the judge must approve.
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According to immigration law experts, the ICE policy of staking out courthouses to detain people with questionable immigration status has made them and their family members fearful to appear as litigants or even as witnesses in court.
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As in the past, the Roberts Court may decide that the litigants do not have standing to sue or that each plan, even if it is blatantly partisan, presents a "political question," inappropriate for judges to address.
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Should these foreign litigants win judgments against the U.S. — based on their own foreign domestic laws as applied by their own foreign courts — they would look to assets of the U.S. held abroad to satisfy those judgments.
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The division, the Office for Access to Justice, began as an initiative in 2010 under former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to increase and improve legal resources for indigent litigants in civil, criminal and tribal courts.
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As Darren Samuelsohn and Josh Gerstein explain for Politico, each of these courts has its own particular partisan bent, and litigants on both sides would try to steer any case toward a venue more favorable to their party.
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Although both sides made sensible decisions in settling before trial, Mr. Trump will still have to worry that potential litigants will be emboldened by these settlements to pursue cases of their own against the new Commander-in-Chief.
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The Supreme Court Bar Association had threatened to go on strike after the shooting but Pakistan's Chief Justice Saqib Nisar asked for a protest to be called off for the sake of litigants with cases fixed for Monday.
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"Making unfounded allegations in the court of public opinion requires no actual proof at all, but merely the word of the very lawyers and litigants who already failed in a court of law," he said in an email.
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In nearly all jurisdictions, judges are required to provide an on-the-record rationale for allowing litigants to file information under seal — to protect trade secrets, for example, or an individual's medical records — but they rarely do that.
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After an attorney from the Carter Administration said that the Justice Department would not pursue the litigants while the trial proceeded, during which time the students would be able to attend school, Judge Justice issued the requested injunction.
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Public attention naturally focuses on Supreme Court appointments, yet with the nine justices hearing less than 1% of the petitions that reach their door, the regional courts of appeals constitute a powerful last stop for the nation's litigants.
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"They suggest that he has demonstrated a potential bias involving enough potential litigants before the court that he would not be able to perform his full responsibilities," Justice Stevens said in remarks to retirees in Boca Raton, Fla.
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The action is part of a burgeoning movement in which litigants, including a group of 21 young people in the United States, have made the novel argument that governments face a fundamental duty to ensure a livable environment.
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Two of the judges in the panel from the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit questioned the litigants who are trying to restrict a new administration's ability to change a previous administration's policies and priorities.
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The litigants requesting a preliminary injunction say National General received millions of dollars fraudulently for commissions on the policies, while Wells received kickbacks from the insurer, higher interest costs, and collecting additional levies such as fees associated repossessing cars.
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I thought that the government had kept confidential and refused to share, either with the litigants or the courts, exactly what was done, how, what the evaluation and how it was applied to all those countries in the world.
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It wasn't soot-stained laborers who faced off against environmentalists during Kavanaugh's twelve years on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit but coal companies , and they and other polluters have been this judge's favored litigants.
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This decision proved too much even for the famously agency-friendly U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which ordered ATF not to enforce the ban against the litigants in that case pending a full appeal.
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The news comes after Scott Harris, the Clerk of the Court, informed lawyers involved in the case that Sotomayor "believes that her impartiality might reasonably be questioned" due to her friendship with one of the litigants in the case.
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" Attorney for one of the group of litigants said in a statement that while "our clients would like to speak publicly about their experiences, they are potentially subject to a confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement with Mike Bloomberg 2020.
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Hundreds of thousands of people were killed or seriously injured by allegedly harmful products after judges in recent years allowed litigants to file under seal, beyond public view, evidence that could have alerted consumers and regulators to the dangers.
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"In resolving this appeal," the court concludes, "we remind the litigants and the public that if the First Amendment means anything, it means that the best response to disfavored speech on matters of public concern is more speech, not less."
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"I have a duty to continue to preside in this case, in part to avoid encouraging the perception that litigants can manipulate the system to jettison an impartial judge in the hope of getting another more to their liking," he wrote.
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"JASTA threatens to reduce effectiveness of our response to state involvement in terrorism by taking such matters out of the hands of national security and foreign policy and putting them in the hands of courts and private litigants," Obama wrote.
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Tech giants like Intel and Apple say the Eastern District of Texas, within the federal 85033th Circuit, has become a haven for frivolous patent lawsuits, with favorable rulings often handed down to litigants that would lose elsewhere in the country.
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On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Neil Wake in Phoenix signed an order that in effect authorized a deal reached between the state and the lawyers for death row inmates, according to Dale Baich, a lawyer for the death row litigants.
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Sure, the bricks in her opinion aren't as brightly colored as they were in Oz, and no one expects a wizard to be lurking at the end of it—but her roadmap to future litigants is clear and easy to follow.
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"The new policy discriminates against women and girls and makes it harder for them to learn in a safe environment," said Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women's Law Center, which is representing the litigants in the suit.
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Newly confirmed Solicitor General Noel Francisco filed a notice Sunday night with the Supreme Court informing the justices about the new directive and urging that the litigants in the travel ban cases be allowed to file new briefs by Oct.
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Lawyers, acting on behalf of some 300 citizen litigants, asked the State Council, the umbrella organization for the administrative courts that adjudicate disputes between the state and citizens, to rule on whether the islands were, in fact, Egyptian or Saudi.
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" Duncan also notes in his ruling that while Congress has legislated in specific "gender identity discrimination," it "has said nothing to prohibit courts from referring to litigants according to their biological sex, rather than according to their subjective gender identity.
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So, based on the 2nd Circuit's decision, litigants in foreign proceedings can use 1782 petitions to get hold of foreign evidence from foreign respondents for use in foreign proceedings, as long as they can establish specific jurisdiction over those targets.
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This decision, which strongly supported the FCC's authority and decision to use Title II, was a powerful deterrent; litigants were forced to acknowledge that more decisions like this would only further cement the Open Internet Order's legitimacy and pile up hostile precedents.
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About 90 percent of litigants had an annual income of less than 300,000 rupees ($4,500), while 80 percent had not studied beyond school, according to the research by Daksh which expects to release its full report on the Indian judicial system on Wednesday.
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Whether the litigants were an evangelically-owned retail chain like Hobby Lobby, or a Catholic religious order such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, Catholic and evangelical campaigners were as one in offering free legal advice and cheering on the opters-out.
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This isn't an alarmist cry; in recent years, prosecutors and litigants have been gunning hard for Section 230, and courts have responded with a strikingly high number of rulings in which they found that safe harbor protections did not apply in specific cases.
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"It would stand to reason that prospective litigants - which undoubtedly include minority owned and operated businesses - expect there to be the possibility that the person who stands in the shoes of both judge and jury reflects the diverse population," the petition said.
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"EPA's audacious assertion of authority in this Rule is more far-reaching than any previous effort by the agency," the litigants, led by West Virginia and a group of utilities, told the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Friday.
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" He noted if the opinion ended up reducing the doctrine "to the role of a tin god -- officious, but ultimately powerless—then a future Court should candidly admit as much and stop requiring litigants and lower courts to pay token homage to it.
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Matters related to land and property make up about two-thirds of all civil cases in the country, according to a recent study by Bengaluru-based Daksh, which found most litigants were poor men belonging to so-called lower castes with only basic education.
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"The use of racially derogatory and demeaning language to describe litigants, criminal defendants or members of the public, even behind closed doors or during off-the-record conversations, erodes public confidence in a fair and impartial judiciary," Judge Kristina Marx wrote in the commission's report.
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The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals said the impact of its decision would be "limited" to cases in which the board had issued final written decisions, and litigants challenged on appeal the appointment of the board's judges under the U.S. Constitution's Appointments Clause.
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"It would stand to reason that prospective litigants — which undoubtedly include minority owned and operated businesses — expect there to be the possibility that the person who stands in the shoes of both judge and jury reflects the diverse population," the music star's petition said.
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I can see a number of different types of litigants potentially bringing suit for various reasons, and if they have standing then a court would be asked, potentially, to look at the question of whether the president's declaration of a national emergency was actually valid.
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These orders, though meant to protect specific information such as medical records and trade secrets, often give companies wide latitude to designate as confidential material exchanged between litigants in the pretrial discovery process – internal emails, data, research, meeting minutes, sworn depositions and the like.
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In its letter outlining the case against Mr. Parker, the commission alleged that from approximately 2013 to 2016, he "engaged in a pattern of personal relationships with many female litigants" that included setting favorable bond conditions or releasing the women from jail without bail.
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JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR: I thought that the government had kept confidential and refused to share, either with the litigants or the courts, exactly what was done, how, what the evaluation and how — The administration says the latest travel ban was the result of careful study.
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Unlike civil litigants, who may have a choice of whether to be in court at all, and who are more likely to be paying their own lawyers, criminal defendants facing serious charges have every incentive to make whatever arguments they can get away with.
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The bank has already paid billions in combined fines and settlements with regulators and private litigants over its sales abuses, and remains on a tight leash with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as it continues remediation efforts.
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District judges may be, as Mr Roberts writes, the "calm central presence to ensure fair process and justice for the litigants", but they and their counterparts on circuit courts are something else, too: ground zero in the partisan struggle over control of the third branch of government.
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" He warned that the law would hurt the effectiveness of the administration's action against terrorism by taking questions of foreign states' involvement in terrorism "out of the hands of national security and foreign policy professionals and placing them in the hands of private litigants and courts.
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The latest litigants aiming to take a bite out of the law are a coalition of religious non-profit organisations including Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns who care for the impoverished elderly by running a few dozen nursing homes in several states.
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In just a handful of cases Reuters analyzed, hundreds of thousands of people were killed or seriously injured by allegedly defective products – including cars, drugs and guns – after judges allowed litigants to file under seal evidence that could have alerted consumers and regulators to potential danger.
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"The use of racially derogatory and demeaning language to describe litigants, criminal defendants or members of the public, even behind closed doors or during off-the-record conversations, erodes public confidence in a fair and impartial judiciary," Judge Kristina Marx, the agency's chair, wrote in her ruling.
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Litigants may seek records from journalists pertaining to nonconfidential sources only if they demonstrate that the information is "highly material and relevant" to a case, that it is "critical or necessary" to a legal claim or defense, and that it cannot be obtained from an alternative source.
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But if there is a vital interest in the integrity of the court, why was Justice Stephen G. Breyer allowed to rule on a case last fall in which his wife held about $33,000 worth of stock in a company whose subsidiary was one of the litigants?
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"When you schedule a trial as Mitch McConnell did, that's designed to be hidden in the dead of night, where you require litigants who are going at it for the entire day to go into the wee hours, you're going to have tempers flare," Schiff said.
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Certainly, many of those who lauded Justice Kennedy for his commitment to dignity and liberty when the litigants were juveniles facing the death penalty or Guantanamo detainees seeking habeas corpus found it difficult to understand his refusal to rule in favor of groups in other cases.
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"Preliminary injunction disputes like this one recur regularly and ensuring certainty in the rules governing them, and demonstrating that we will apply those rules consistently to all matters that come before us, is of exceptional importance to the law, litigants, lower courts, and future panels alike," he wrote.
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And even if the litigants do ham it up for the cameras, it's important to note that the guests on the show did actually try to take their cases to real small-claims court before anyone ever approached them about being on TV. "They're real-ish," Benson told me.
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Sony has agreed to a settlement with the litigants to pay $55 to anyone who can prove they owned an OtherOS-capable PS3 (what the settlement adorably refers to as a "Fat PS3," as opposed to the slim model that never supported OtherOS) and actually used that functionality.
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In scaling back on a district court's nationwide injunction, the appellate court said that "other litigants" wishing to challenge the rule could do so in other courts, a move that will allow the issue to percolate in the lower courts before it might arrive at the Supreme Court.
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Litigants walk onto the show's courtroom set, and into a strict list of Sheindlin guidelines: The bad guys are people scamming government programs, con artists preying on hard-working parents, parents who coddle their kids, young adults who act like children, and men who shirk their obligations to family.
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Jo Becker spent four years following the litigants of the Perry case — riding with them in cars, sitting with them in court, and listening in on their conference calls — and the result is an intimate look at some of the major players in the fight for same-sex marriage.
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"Now, more than ever, it is critical that the public charge policy, which the lower courts called 'repugnant to the American Dream of prosperity and opportunity through hard work and upward mobility,' continues to be blocked," the litigants, who represent several public interest groups, said in a statement.
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The newly released data confirms findings in a paper published in 2013, "How Business Fares in the Supreme Court," in which a trio of academics found that the Roberts Court was more likely to decide cases for businesses in general and for bigger businesses when two companies were the litigants.
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"If I were to start telling you which are my favorite precedents or which are my least favorite precedents or if I view a precedent in that fashion, I would be tipping my hand and suggesting to litigants that I've already made up my mind about their cases," he said.
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This approach, the judges wrote, "allows other litigants wishing to challenge the rule to do so" and fosters the "percolation of legal issues in the lower courts" so that if the issue reaches the Supreme Court, the justices will have the "benefit of additional viewpoints" and a "fully developed factual record".
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Some analysts reckon that the cost of settling with the authorities and private litigants, worldwide, and fixing the affected cars or compensating their owners, might come to a grand total of as much as €22 billion—roughly the amount by which VW's stockmarket value has fallen since the scandal broke.
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According to the Washington Post, the nascent Occupy ICE movement erupted from a gaggle of protestors at the Portland ICE facility, who reasoned that the U.S. could not deport people if the judicial process was prevented from working and thus sought to bar judges, lawyers and litigants from the building.
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Last week, litigants in at least two pending, unrelated lawsuits against Mr. Sessions in his official capacity submitted motions asking judges to declare that by law, Mr. Rosenstein should be his rightful acting successor and so his name, not Mr. Whitaker's, should be substituted as the defendant in the litigation.
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In 2016, NHTSA and CPSC, seeking to address what they acknowledge is a blind spot in their efforts to safeguard consumers, issued bulletins recommending that judges and litigants agree to protective orders that would allow them to share confidential evidence pertinent to public health and safety with the relevant regulators.
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" Another state court judge was confirmed to be a federal judge whom the ABA said: "Displays inappropriate judicial temperament with lawyers, litigants, and judicial colleagues; that all too frequently, while on the bench … is arrogant, pompous, condescending, impatient, short-tempered, rude, insulting, bullying, unnecessarily mean, and altogether lacking in people skills.
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Although secrecy makes complete analysis impossible, Reuters found that hundreds of thousands of people were killed or seriously injured by allegedly defective products after judges in just a handful of cases allowed litigants to file under seal, beyond public view, evidence that could have alerted consumers and regulators to potential danger.
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In the letter, Jacobs' attorney writes that his client's suggestion, early on during his employment, to create a secure and encrypted centralized database for ensuring "recordkeeping and confidentiality" was rejected by Uber managers "because they objected to preserving any intelligence that would make preservation and legal discovery a simple process for future litigants".
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" Although the DOJ has questioned the faith of litigants it perceives as politically progressive, Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrBarr: Inspector general's report on alleged FISA abuses 'imminent' DOJ unveils program aimed at reducing gun violence Trump goes on tweeting offensive ahead of public impeachment hearing MORE has condemned progressives as "militant secularists.
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"We will no longer go behind closed doors and use consent decrees and settlement agreements to resolve lawsuits filed against the agency by special interest groups where doing so would circumvent the regulatory process set forth by Congress," Pruitt said, adding that he is also cracking down on attorneys' fees paid to litigants.
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The Times has separately filed a brief in the Bonie case on behalf of several news organizations, urging the Court of Appeals to reverse the lower court's decision and set clear guidelines on the circumstances under which litigants should be given access to journalistic material that is not in the public domain.
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"The AAA's arbitration procedures, and specifically its roster of neutrals for large and complex cases in New York, deprive black litigants like Mr. Carter and his companies of the equal protection of the laws, equal access to public accommodations, and mislead consumers into believing that they will receive a fair and impartial adjudication," they wrote.
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As for demands that Kavanaugh discuss his views on past high court decisions that could be revisited by the Supreme Court in the future, it would be unethical for any nominee to state how he or she might rule in a future case – and unfair to future litigants for a judge to predetermine the result.
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A lot of the work at the Justice Department and other advocates and litigants had been focused on was addressing the voter suppression issues that especially came to light after the Shelby decision, when states felt pretty emboldened to enact legislation that would make voting harder, not easier, particularly for low-income and minority communities.
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"To overrule a sound decision like Hall is to encourage litigants to seek to overrule other cases; it is to make it more difficult for lawyers to refrain from challenging settled law; and it is to cause the public to become increasingly uncertain about which cases the Court will overrule and which cases are here to stay," Breyer wrote.
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" He added, "To overrule a sound decision like Hall is to encourage litigants to seek to overrule other cases; it is to make it more difficult for lawyers to refrain from challenging settled law; and it is to cause the public to become increasingly uncertain about which cases the court will overrule and which cases are here to stay.
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District courts conduct trials and are typically the first judicial forum to hear a federal case; circuit courts (or courts of appeal) are the first recourse for litigants seeking to appeal a district court's decision; and the Supreme Court sits at the top of the judicial pyramid, hearing a small percentage of the most vexing appeals.
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But the full measure of Judge Wapner's celebrity was not realized until 1981, when he was approached by the television producer Ralph Edwards, the creator of "Truth or Consequences" and "This Is Your Life," to officiate on a new show, loosely inspired by daytime legal dramas like "Divorce Court" but involving actual litigants arguing actual cases.
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These lawsuits, filed by several levels of government, are not just an attempt at getting vengeance on these drugmakers for what they did; the litigants hope they can get a lofty settlement that will come with money to pay for a lot more addiction treatment and place restrictions on marketing that could help prevent future drug crises and slow down the current one.
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To date, the Environmental Working Group has found, co-litigants in lawsuits Pruitt either brought or joined have contributed more than a quarter-million dollars to his campaigns and affiliated PACs—a number that does not include contributions to two secretive political organizations, the Republican Attorneys General Association and the affiliated Rule of Law Defense Fund, in which Pruitt is an active member.
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The state investigations and investigations by potential private litigants are of allegations that ExxonMobil fraudulently represented to investors and customers that scientific research on the environmental effect of fossil fuel emissions is flimsy and inconclusive when they knew from their own in-house research decades ago that global warming is real, potentially catastrophic and largely caused by fossil fuel emissions.
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Gorsuch fought back Tuesday by pointing to his findings on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that favored litigants who could be viewed as "the little guy," such as Little Sisters of the Poor — which sued the Obama administration over requirements to provide health coverage for contraception — and Andrew Yellowbear, a prison inmate who was denied the ability to access a religious sweat lodge.
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After Jeffrey Berns and other Coinbase users moved to intervene in the IRS's ongoing case to enforce a "John Doe summons" requesting the identities of all users of that service, the IRS responded in late December by filing documents arguing that Berns and his fellow litigants had already identified themselves and thus were unable to claim that their privacy was threatened.
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Apart from formally promulgated codes of judicial conduct, the Supreme Court has recognized that those whom our legal system entrusts to resolve controversies among litigants have a constitutional duty to step aside whenever a conflict of interest — or the public appearance of such a conflict — is so powerful as to erode public trust in the fair and impartial administration of justice.
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"I spend a lot of time thinking about how to do it right — in terms of correctly applying law to facts, but also in making sure that I treat litigants and their lawyers with respect and in trying to ensure that people, win or lose, feel like they were heard and their views fairly considered," she said in a 2016 article in the Boston Bar Journal.
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But Judge Kavanaugh has used such dissents to press his views to several audiences: to the Supreme Court, which pays close attention to them when deciding whether to hear an appeal; to litigants, who have pursued legal strategies that Judge Kavanaugh mapped out; and to the conservative legal movement, which got a detailed account of his views on legal issues not directly before him.
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The lawyers representing the litigants are some of the most high-profile in the country, including Jose Baez, who defended Casey Anthony and Nick Gordon in the death of Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and is currently defending former NFL star Aaron Hernandez; Joe Tacopina, who has represented Jay Z and Alex Rodriguez; and civil rights lawyer Benjamin L. Crump, who represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
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By offering a discounted royalty rate that reflects the harsh reality of business conditions in China, they gave Chinese companies a way to achieve IP compliance and avoid having to fight a two-front patent war — against the growing army of litigants targeting them with patent suits on the one hand, and the more muscular China trade and IP policies likely to be implemented by President Trump on the other.
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"Even if the litigants aren't winning in court, they can use this as an opportunity and a platform to really talk very sincerely about their faith, and about what is motivating them to pour vials of their own blood on nuclear weapons, or what is behind their motivation to be leaving jugs of water in a place where there are dozens and dozens of people dying from dehydration," Platt said.
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" He wrote: "Sharing with the English the common law tradition of judge-made law, Americans are blessed with a much fuller literature on their judges' lives, reflecting, I believe, an American appreciation of the truth that the law a judge makes is a projection of values that are inescapably personal — even while the judge labors to be impartial between the litigants and objective in his framing of the dispositive legal rule.
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The litigants say the policy, unveiled in October by EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE, violates government ethics standards, the federal law governing advisory committees and laws that created the specific committees.
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The litigants say the policy, unveiled in October by EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE, violates government ethics standards, the federal law governing advisory committees and laws that created the specific committees.
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