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19 Aug 2024, 2:15 pm by Ambrosio Rodriguez
In addition to the risk of a much lengthier sentence, having a felony on your record impacts your civil rights, including your: Right to vote Right to own a firearm Obtaining professional licenses There are many other negative impacts of a felony conviction. [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 1:41 pm by Wiggam Law
However, having a tax professional handle your case can immediately strengthen your position. [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 11:51 am by Steven Schwartzapfel
In a civil case, however, it’s often a matter of one side’s story being slightly more likely than not. [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 8:59 am by Ambrosio Rodriguez
While financial penalties are capped in criminal cases, compensation awards in civil court can be much higher. [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 6:55 am by Bernard Bell
  Among the “executive” powers conferred was the primary responsibility for conducting certain civil litigation to vindicate public rights (generally within the exclusive purview of the Department of Justice). [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 6:40 am by Patrick Bracher (ZA)
In the case of unconscionable abuse of the juristic personality of the company as a separate entity, section 20(9) provides that the court my declare a company not to be a juristic person in respect of a right, obligation or liability and to make any further order it considers appropriate. [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 6:06 am by Cristina Mariottini
However, the general approach of EU instruments concerning judicial cooperation in civil matters does not seem to be especially open to receiving the instances of protection of the rights of categories of weaker parties, which are not expressly mentioned in those instruments. [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 4:57 am by Beatrice Yahia
The announcement came hours before the Hamas-run health ministry confirmed the first case of the disease in the enclave in years. [read post]
18 Aug 2024, 11:00 pm by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
While the Supreme Court has imposed a more defendant-friendly "but-for" causation test for other civil rights statutes, including Sections 1981 and 1983, the more plaintiff-friendly "motivating factor" test still governs the Fair Housing Act. [read post]
18 Aug 2024, 5:09 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Veterinarian Civil Immunity: A ✓ indicates a vote in favor of HF 472, which would provide civil lawsuit protections for veterinarians who assist law enforcement with animal cruelty crime investigations. [read post]
18 Aug 2024, 12:20 pm by Francis Pileggi
The court also explained the limits to the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment in a civil proceeding. [read post]
18 Aug 2024, 10:24 am
 So your ticket allows you to board the train, and the train is the civil justice system. [read post]
18 Aug 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Finally, the organized representatives of the working class—labor unions as well as civil rights organizations—showed little interest in pro-debtor policies. [read post]
18 Aug 2024, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
  Ronald Dworkin's Right Answer Thesis is the claim that even common-law judges have a legal duty to reach a legally correct answer in cases in which there is no prior case with a binding holding. [read post]
17 Aug 2024, 6:36 pm
  Indeed, human rights due diligence occupies a space at the heart of the current state and future trajectories of the business and human rights project. [read post]
17 Aug 2024, 6:15 am by Lawrence Solum
When cities go bankrupt, for example, police unions enjoy added leverage while police brutality victims are denied a seat at the negotiating table; the system is more forgiving of civil rights abuses than of the parking tickets disproportionately distributed in African American neighborhoods. [read post]
16 Aug 2024, 8:55 pm by Lawrence Solum
Anchored in the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825, the paper elucidates how legislative and judicial mechanisms codified the status of slaves as property, devoid of personal rights and entirely subjugated to their masters' will. [read post]