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A preposition indicating division or allocation for each unit of time or measure.
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Piper Patel, a solo practitioner, logs fifty hours of free legal work for low-income clients each year. She divides the time evenly across twelve months to meet her professional goal. The court later recognizes her compliance when reviewing her bar standing.
Pedro Pacheco challenges a state law restricting abortion access. The court weighs the woman's liberty interest per week of gestation against the state's interest in potential life. The statute is upheld in part and struck down in part.
Pierre Poulin's company seeks to build a factory on land zoned residential. The village defends its comprehensive plan allocating one industrial use per district as a valid exercise of police power. The Supreme Court sustains the zoning restriction.
Phoebe Park offers epidemiological studies linking a drug to birth defects. The trial court must decide reliability per scientific method used. The Supreme Court sets the standard for admitting such evidence.
Pierce Patterson alleges a zoning decision blocks affordable housing for minorities. The village claims neutral motives per its records. The court examines whether discriminatory purpose can be inferred from the record.
Peter Park sues telecom firms alleging an agreement to fix prices. The complaint describes parallel conduct but little more per the facts alleged. The Supreme Court requires facts showing an actual conspiracy.
The rule states that a lawyer should aspire to render at least fifty hours of pro bono publico legal services per year.
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…trial judge submitted the case to the jury under instructions that the statements in the advertisement were "libelous per se" and were not privileged, so that petitioners might be held liable if the jury found that they had published the advertisement and that the statements were made "of and concerning"…