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(Scots law, civil law), usually translated as "prior in time, superior in right", the principle that someone who registers (a security interest) earlier therefore ranks higher than other creditors. probatio: Evidence (admissible in a court of law), especially documentary evidence. Types:
A bombshell $787m settlement has been reached in the defamation trial between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News.. Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson, speaking outside court, announced the settlement ...
Scheana Shay and Raquel Leviss MediaPunch/Shutterstock; Gregory Pace/Shutterstock Ready for her day in court. Scheana Shay’s attorney, Neama Rahmani, denied that Raquel Leviss dropped her ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti’s appeal of his convictions for attempting to extort the sportswear company Nike. The court left in place ...
Calling court cases "the trial of the century" is a traditional bit of American hyperbole, like calling a circus "The Greatest Show on Earth". Nearly every juicy tabloid trial in our history was called the "trial of the century" by somebody. "Every time I turn around, there's a new trial of the century," said defense attorney F. Lee Bailey.
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the right of lawyers to advertise their services. [1] In holding that lawyer advertising was commercial speech entitled to protection under the First Amendment (incorporated against the States through the Fourteenth Amendment), the Court upset the tradition against advertising ...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday vacated the 14-year sentence of disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti, who was convicted of swindling his clients, and ordered he be resentenced. Avenatti, who ...
take reasonable measures to ensure that court officials, litigants, and their lawyers cooperate to that end." [20] Speedy justice in the findings and within the confines of the case, facts and the law is a stated goal of many legal systems. [21]