Topic
Continuance
13 published works
Miami Family Law Blog
Florida family law: sanctions for last-minute continuance request
Posted by Nydia Streets of Streets Law in Florida Family Law ProcedureCan a party be sanctioned for requesting a last-minute continuance of a Florida family law hearing? This was an…
Estate Planning in California
Granting a Continuance
By Unknown
Occasionally a party will request that a court hearing be continued to a future date for whatever reason. For example, a party is ill, a party is recovering from surgery,…
Legal Profession Blog
Recurring Pain
The Illinois Administrator has filed a complaint alleging that an attorney and his non-lawyer spouse made a series of false statements concerning his health in order to secure continuances in…
Illinois Workers Compensation Law Blog
How Many Times Can The Defense Attorney Get A Continuance?
By Mike Helfand
There are so many things about Illinois Workers' Compensation Law that are so far removed from what court cases are like on TV or in the movies. For newcomers who…
Legal Profession Blog
Priorities
An attorney who did not attend a scheduled court hearing after failing to secure a continuance has been reprimanded by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct Panel AIn…
Legal Profession Blog
Willing To Wait
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has held that denying a continuance sought for an in-person suppression hearing was an abuse of discretionThis case concerns whether the use of an Internet-based…
Legal Profession Blog
Too Late To Postpone
A continuance motion was denied by the Upper Canada Law Society Hearing Division TribunalThe Lawyer sought an adjournment, without notice, on the day of his conduct hearing on the basis…
Death Penalty
Update on Bannister Trial: Continuance to October 2017
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
In our last post, we discussed the upcoming August 2017 trial of James Bannister and gave some background information for the continuance motion filed and argued by Terence Lenamon as…
Death Penalty
Bannister Trial Goes Forward After Lenamon’s Continuance Motion Denied
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
The capital murder trial of James Bannister is set to go forward in a little over two weeks. Bannister Jury Selection Set for August 14 Terence Lenamon's motion for a…
Delaware Bankruptcy Update
SemCrude Decision Delineates the Process for Analyzing Motions for Continuance vs. Motions for Summary Judgment
Summary In an 24 page decision signed June 20, 2011, Judge Shannon of the Delaware Bankruptcy Court partially granted several parties’ motions for a continuance opposing several motions for summary…