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18 May 2023, 11:07 am by Adrian Santiago
Request a Jury Instruction: If the case goes to trial, the attorney will request a jury instruction on punitive damages. [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 11:02 am by admin
The injured woman argued that the deviation from current building codes was evidence of common negligence, and that the trial court should have allowed this evidence and instructed the jury accordingly. [read post]
15 Jan 2010, 11:23 am
Fred Lewis wrote letters requesting that the Florida Supreme Court Committees for Standard Jury Instructions in Civil and Criminal Cases consider “the problem of jurors engaging in electronic communications, research or the use of technology by jurors during a pending case. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 4:25 am by Ryan McKeen
The Connecticut Civil Jury Instruction on this issue reads as follows: In advising a client concerning settlement, the attorney must exercise that degree of learning and skill which the average and ordinarily prudent attorney in that line of practice in Connecticut would apply under all the relevant circumstances. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 7:08 am
Proof The standards of proof are very different in criminal and civil proceedings. [read post]
30 Nov 2014, 4:30 pm by Robert Kreisman
In this case and during the jury-instruction conference, the plaintiff moved for a directed verdict, which the trial court denied. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 11:12 am by Brian A. Comer
" The clear and convincing standard is the highest burden of proof known to civil law. [read post]
15 Nov 2012, 8:11 am by Jay R. Nanavati
” “This case, like Williams, appears to eschew the strict criminal standard of willfulness that the IRS has for years applied to the civil FBAR penalty,” said Jim Mastracchio, Co-Chair of the firm’s Tax Controversy Practice. [read post]
29 Jul 2015, 2:30 pm
These appeals involve the subsequent petitions filed by Letitia James, as Public Advocate for the City of New York (hereinafter the Public Advocate), the Legal Aid Society, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and [branches of the NAACP], . . . to unseal and release the grand jury minutes to themselves and to the general public, including transcripts of testimony, exhibits, information about certain grand jurors, and legal instructions. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 11:25 am
Perhaps the prosecutors didn't present their case well enough, perhaps the police did not gather enough evidence, or perhaps the jurors were not well-instructed on the law. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 8:00 am by Erica Blachman Hitchings
  At trial, the court instructed the jury that it was enough for the U.S. to show the defendant failed to disclose the AKS violation. [read post]
28 May 2013, 10:53 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
In a case like this one, international human rights standards can help inform our courts in interpreting the duty that is owed to victims and survivors. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 1:45 am by Matrix Legal Support Service
He argued that the respondent was wrong to instruct the jury to apply the civil standard of proof when considering whether James Maughan had committed suicide. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 1:42 am by Gerson & Schwartz, P.A.
Last month, an Okeechobee, Florida jury went a little further, awarding a Sanford man over $11 million in damages in a civil lawsuit against the Okeechobee Eagles Aerie #4137. [read post]