Word: cases
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Perhaps not surprisingly, a good chunk of disorderly-conduct charges end up being dropped, as happened in the case against Gates, who was arrested on his porch on July 16 after yelling at the officer who responded to a report of a possible break-in at the Harvard scholar's home in Cambridge, Mass. Gates, who is black, accused Sergeant James Crowley, who is white, of being a racist and also cast aspersions about the cop's "mama." "Mr. Gates was given plenty of opportunities to stop what he was doing. He didn't. He acted very irrational. He controlled...
...public place has sparked plenty of debate, including in the blogosphere. Crowley's account of the incident included the detail that "at least seven" passersby had stopped to rubberneck. Sam Goldberg, author of Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog, thinks the report includes that detail in order to bolster the case that this altercation was playing out publicly. "It's as if he was saying, 'Look, he was really causing a disturbance,' " says Goldberg, a criminal defense attorney at the Cambridge-based firm of Altman & Altman...
...immensely complicated case, made murkier by the passage of time and the February 2008 death, of natural causes, of Patarkatsishvili, who would have been a key witness. His testimony survives in the form of reports from interviews conducted by lawyers, but on July 22, the second day of a pretrial hearing, Abramovich's lead attorney, Andrew Popplewell, referred to this evidence dismissively as a "sort of smorgasbord" of testimony. Popplewell is seeking to convince the presiding judge that Berezovsky's case is weak and should be dismissed before it goes to trial...
...shares in Rusal as part of an agreement he says was made at the creation of Rusal, when a company he owned was subsumed into the new entity. Berezovsky has supplied depositions to Cherney's team. Deripaska denies the allegations. His legal team argues that the case should be heard in Russia. Deripaska's attorney, Ali Malek, told the appeals court that the case had "absolutely nothing to do with [Britain...
...point. Deripaska has a house in London, but Cherney is a resident in Israel, and the companies and events at issue are located in Russia, barring a disputed meeting in London at which an agreement may or may not have been reached. But the original decision to allow the case to proceed in Britain was made on the basis that Cherney's life and freedom could be at risk in Russia and he might not get a fair trial there. The ruling, effectively implying that the Russian court system could not be trusted, has done little to help thaw glacial...