Persuading Courts to Impose Sanctions on Your Adversary by Douglas J. Pepe We’ve all been there. You’re embroiled in a knock-down‚ drag-out fight. Your adversary crosses the line separating forceful advocacy from misconduct. Not once. Not innocently. Not trivially. Sanctions are in order. Yet‚ most judges don’t like them. So‚ how do you persuade the court to impose them? What kinds of sanctions can you ask for? Here are five tips for filing an effective sanctions motion. Tip Number 1:
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One of he most difficult and burning problems in administration of civil justice is of delay. The delay can be addressed from two side’s namely compulsory delay and intentional delay. Compulsory delay is caused due to our age old legal system and intentional delay is caused by the persons who are instrumental in administration of justice and more specifically the lawyers and parties to the suits. three classes of people may be mainly responsibility for delay in disposal of cases. They are court staff
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IN WRITING THE STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: 1. The problem should be stated both in general and in specific terms. The general statement of the problem is usually a reiteration of the title of the study. 2. The problem is always in an interrogatory form; hence‚ it must ask a question. Sub-problems must follow the main problem‚ which are the key points for investigations in the research. 3. The problem should be
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Business Law Midterm Chapter 1 - Nature of Law and Legal Rights * Legal Rights: rights (legal capacity to require another person to perform or refrain from performing an act) and duties (obligation of law imposed on a person to perform or refrain from performing a certain act) coexist. * Individual right: any statutes‚ ordinances‚ or court decisions cannot violate the rights given in Constitution. * The Right of Privacy: Fourth Amendment (only search under reasonable suspicion) and protecting
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Phase 4 Case Scenario Contents Abstract................................................................................................................. 2 Double Jeopardy....................................................................................................3 Case Scenario-Robbery and Assault…………………………………………….3 Theory of Punishment……………………………………………………………6 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………..7 References..................................................................
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Kodak filed a motion for summary judgment before respondents had initiated discovery. The District Court permitted respondents to file one set of interrogatories and one set of requests for production of documents‚ and to take six depositions. Without a hearing‚ the District Court granted summary judgment in favor of Kodak. As to the § 1 claim‚ the court found that respondents had provided no evidence
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[pic] THE INTERNAL CONTROLS AND FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES THAT LED TO THE BAILOUT OF OUR NATION’S LARGEST INSURANCE COMPANY By: Monte Schwartz PREFACE Anyone who watches TV has most likely seen the American International Group (hereinafter AIG) commercial with the little boy who walks into his parent’s room while they are sleeping. When his mother asks if he had a nightmare‚ he says “no” and that he’s worried about his parent’s financial future. After a twenty-second
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UPDATED: December 1‚ 2011 Version 2.0 Arkansas Divorce Packet Arkansas Legal Services Partnership Arkansas Access to Justice Commission Center for Arkansas Legal Services & Legal Aid of Arkansas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This self-help resource was created for Angela R. Pruitt by the Arkansas Legal Services Partnership (ALSP) and is endorsed by the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission. ALSP
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Zippittelli v. J.C. Penney Co. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA February 28‚ 2007 JOANNE ZIPPITTELLI‚ PLAINTIFF v. J.C. PENNEY COMPANY‚ INC.‚ J.C. PENNEY TELEMARKETING‚ INC.‚ AND JAMES JOHNSON‚ DEFENDANTS The opinion of the court was delivered by: Judge James M. Munley United States District Court MEMORANDUM Before the court is defendants’ motion for summary judgment (Doc. 18). Having been fully briefed and argued‚ the matter is ripe for disposition
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1. Henry James’s theory of the novel‚ introduced in his critical essay The Art of Fiction‚ has been considered as “playing an important part in the definition of the new conventions of the modernist novel” (Dobrinescu‚ 203). The theory’s central point or main concern has to do with‚ as Hopkins considers‚ “taking the novel (and‚ consequently‚ theoretical discussion of the novel) seriously”. For James‚ the novel corresponds to the ultimate art form and it should have a position the community as such
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