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A stay of proceedings is a ruling by the court in civil and criminal procedure that halts further legal process in a trial or other legal proceeding. [1] The court can subsequently lift the stay and resume proceedings based on events taking place after the stay is ordered. However, a stay is sometimes used as a device to postpone proceedings ...
The Delta Dental Plans Association, also known as simply Delta Dental, is an American network of dental insurance companies composed of 39 independent Delta Dental members operating in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These member companies provide coverage to 85 million people, enrolled in over 157,000 groups.
A "motion to dismiss" asks the court to decide that a claim, even if true as stated, is not one for which the law offers a legal remedy.As an example, a claim that the defendant failed to greet the plaintiff while passing the latter on the street, insofar as no legal duty to do so may exist, would be dismissed for failure to state a valid claim: the court must assume the truth of the factual ...
A stay of execution (Law Latin: cesset executio, "let execution cease") is a court order to temporarily suspend the execution of a court judgment or other court order. [1] The word "execution" refers to the imposition of whatever judgment is being stayed and is similar to an injunction .
Each judge or courtroom in the United States has a law and motion calendar, setting aside the times when only motions and special legal arguments are heard. These items consist of pretrial motions (such as a motion to compel relating to discovery requests) or other legal requests that are not connected to a trial , and do not include trials ...
Superior Court [31] the court used the "reasonable likelihood of prejudice standard" to grant a mandamus petition and order a change of venue in a murder prosecution. The court emphasized extensive publicity over the course of a year prior to the trial, the small size of the county where the trial was to be held, and the gravity of the charge.
A motion or application for leave is a motion filed with the court seeking permission to deviate from an established rule or procedure of the court. [ 1 ] The most common use of a motion for leave is to seek an extension to an already-passed time frame to amend a court pleading , which is allowed once under the Federal Rules of Criminal ...
North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission , 574 U.S. 494 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case on the scope of immunity from US antitrust law . The Supreme Court held that a state occupational licensing board that was primarily composed of persons active in the market it regulates has immunity from ...