Furthermore, this is as much about artful pleading as it is about trying to nail down the legal standard.
In overturning the law, O'Connor established a new legal standard on abortion laws, that they impose no "undue burden" on women seeking the procedure.
The Supreme Court, whose makeup has changed since the first ruling, has now ruled that legal standard does not apply in a K-12 public school setting.
In 1999, a group of environmental scientists pointed to this legal standard when they petitioned the EPA to issue regulations that would confront the issue of global warming.
Wright dismissed the suit, saying that even if what Jones alleged was true, it would not rise to the legal standard required to prove a federal sexual harassment claim.
Prosecution experts say that even if Yates were mentally ill, she knew that killing her children was wrong, and therefore, she does not meet Texas's legal standard of insanity.
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The government also contends that most cellphone tracking conforms to a lower legal standard than a search warrant, which requires authorities show probable cause to suspect connection to a crime.
Approval of the measure is being urged by industry groups and some national corporations, which say the lack of a uniform legal standard on electronic signatures is impeding interstate commerce.
The court stated a new legal standard for a "tying claim" and remanded the issue to the district court for reconsideration of whether Microsoft should be found liable for "tying" its Internet Explorer to Windows.
Although this would create a different legal standard for celebrities versus private citizens, our legal system makes a similar distinction in defamation cases, holding public figures to a higher standard of proof than the average person.
While the number of standard legal malpractice claims have remained steady, awards are getting bigger.
Here is the standard legal disclaimer: there is nothing illegal about counting cards.
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At his morning hearing, Jackson responded to standard legal questions about his soundness of mind by acknowledging his treatment by a psychiatrist.
At his morning hearing, the former legislator responded to standard legal questions about his soundness of mind by acknowledging his treatment by a psychiatrist.
Buyers and suppliers who have no binding relationship, by contrast, and who stick to standard legal tenders without reference to current difficult market conditions, could find themselves in a new realm of uncharted territory with little trust.
This latest legal maneuvering by Cupertino is pretty standard fare, as paring down the legal issues is something all courts encourage to make the adjudication process more efficient, and Apple is simply distilling its case down to its strongest arguments.
Mr. CULLY STIMSON (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense): For the first time in DOD history, here we are establishing for all detainees regardless of their legal status a baseline standard of care and treatment.
The legal profession has long held the professional standard that the pursuit of justice and the practice of law must include providing legal services to those who can not afford to pay.
Those without foundation skills often end up in informal labour, with no legal status, regulations or standard work conditions.
In urban Bolivia, for example, women are much more likely to be self-employed in the informal sector with no legal status, regulations or standard work conditions and low pay.
Both the company and Mr Khodorkovsky insist, with some justification, that the crimes for which they are being prosecuted were, at the time, standard and even legal business practice among their peers.
Fergus Woods has legal responsibility for the quality and standard of any registry set up in the islands.
After the settlements with federal and New York authorities, Standard Chartered's legal problems in the U.S. appeared to be over.
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While firms have built their own legal identifiers, but a single standard maintained by a third party would reduce costs and eliminate the need to translate the information from system to system, said another panelist.
In such a scenario, since local subsidiaries (Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru) cannot reduce capital reserves below a certain level, we assume these subsidiaries would only lower their capital reserves up to one standard deviation above the legal minimum, to prevent potentially violating any regulatory requirements during periods of heightened volatility.
Now, lawyers and laymen too often, I think, treat the standard of proof as meaningless legal jargon with no real application to the world of difficult decisions, but I suggest to you that it is much more than that.
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Moreover, if the wine tasted good for the price point, Gallo probably assumed that at least some merlot and syrah were blended in (small-percentage additions such as these are standard practice, and there are legal limits that vary by country of origin).
Competency to stand trial is a very (VERY) low standard, among the lowest in the legal system.
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In addition to the one over licensing fees and a case in Germany involving standard essential patents, Google has maintained legal action against Microsoft in the ITC over a patent relating to a wireless peer-to-peer network, which is not a standard essential patent.
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