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Today, a defendant who "fails to appear before a [federal] court as required by the conditions of release" or "fails to surrender for service of sentence pursuant to a court order" remains subject to criminal sanctions. [15] A court will use the following scheme to determine a defendant's punishment: [16]
The class action complaints state that defendant companies have refused to comply with Daniel's Law. Under the law, entities that receive a complaint have 10 days to redact or eliminate the ...
In some common law nations, a recognizance is a conditional pledge of money undertaken by a person before a court which, if the person defaults, the person or their sureties will forfeit that sum. It is an obligation of record, entered into before a court or magistrate duly authorized, whereby the party bound acknowledges (recognizes) that they ...
Compellence is a form of coercion that attempts to get an actor (such as a state) to change its behavior through threats to use force or the actual use of limited force. [1] [2] [3] Compellence can be more clearly described as "a political-diplomatic strategy that aims to influence an adversary's will or incentive structure.
Jan. 14—State Rep. Rebecca Dow waged a monthslong legal fight to avoid testifying on allegations in an ethics case accusing her of violating financial disclosure rules and government conduct codes.
Ford Motor Co. will have to pay up to $165 million for failing to comply with federal recall requirements, the nation's governmental safety agency for cars and trucks announced Thursday.
County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case which involved the question of within what period of time must a suspect arrested without a warrant (warrantless arrests) be brought into court to determine if there is probable cause for holding the suspect in custody.
The motion to compel is used to ask the court to order the non-complying party to produce the documentation or information requested, and/or to sanction the non-complying party for their failure to comply with the discovery requests. The United States court system is divided into three systems; federal, tribal, and state.