Sentence examples for wrongful law from inspiring English sources

Our legislative system has failed Steven, bowing to lobbyists of the powerful American Medical Association (AMA) and the insurance industry, by the Legislature enacting an ill-conceived and wrongful law.

The judge said, though, that his ruling deemed Mr. Langan a spouse only under New York's wrongful death law and not "for all purposes" in the state.

With nothing more than ledgers of stolen identity information — Social Security numbers and their corresponding names and birth dates — criminals have electronically filed thousands of false tax returns with made-up incomes and withholding information and have received hundreds of millions of dollars in wrongful refunds, law enforcement officials say.

Most cases, if settled, wind up with an average payment of about $42,000, and here in "enlightened" New York, we still use a Wrongful Death Law from 1847 that in essence bases compensation on your earnings, penalizing children and the elderly due to their apparently lesser value to the state.

The Whole Truth Project seeks to shed light on the fact that there is substantial fraud in the police lawsuit marketplace, by encouraging the media to expose to the public how there are far too many bogus "wrongful conviction" law suits which are in reality gangsters playing a form of "Cop Lotto".

They were arguing under New York wrongful-death law it wasn't worth very much.

She is a counsel focusing on commercial litigation and personal-injury and wrongful-death law; the groom is the managing partner and a specialist in truck-accident litigation.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine pocket-vetoed a controversial bill on Tuesday that would have expanded the state's wrongful-death law and allowed families to sue for pain and suffering.

Mr. Diallo received considerably less money, Mr. Gair said, because he had died almost instantly and under the "antiquated" wrongful-death law, pain and suffering for the dead cannot be considered.

Adele Bernhard, a Pace Law School professor who is an expert on the wrongful-conviction law, said that the youth of the defendants when they were questioned would create a strong argument.

"Just the fact that you go to jail for something you didn't do doesn't entitle you to money anywhere," said Adele Bernhard, a Pace Law School professor and an expert in wrongful-conviction law.