Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in an action. It is a claim made by the respondent or defendant that the other party is misusing or perverting regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) not justified by the underlying legal action.
In Queensland, the process for having someone declared a vexatious litigant is governed by the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2005, which supplanted an earlier Act. [5] The Act defines a vexatious proceeding to include a proceeding brought without merit or any prospect of success, with the consequence that it is not necessary to prove the existence of any improper motive in order to obtain relief ...
Malicious prosecution is a common law intentional tort.Like the tort of abuse of process, its elements include (1) intentionally (and maliciously) instituting and pursuing (or causing to be instituted or pursued) a legal action (civil or criminal) that is (2) brought without probable cause and (3) dismissed in favor of the victim of the malicious prosecution.
Watts is charged with abuse of a corpse, a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in jail and […] The post Ohio prosecutor says he’s duty bound to bring Black woman’s miscarriage ...
Kerans v. Porter Paint Co. [1] was a leading case in Ohio on employer liability for workplace sexual harassment. In an opinion by Alice Robie Resnick, the court held that victims of harassment could bring tort claims against their employers.
Dec. 11—The Ohio Supreme Court said this week it will not reconsider a local case involving boneless chicken. Diners should still be on guard against chicken bones even in pieces of supposedly ...
The Idaho Supreme Court found that to require a defendant to show actual innocence in order to proceed with a legal malpractice claim against a criminal defense lawyer would conflict with the presumption of innocence a defendant is to enjoy at trial, disregards harm that may result to a client other than being convicted, and potentially allow a ...
A ruling from Ohio's 10th District Court of Appeals may help thousands of Ohioans with suspended driver's licenses get behind the wheel again legally.