Another student in Professor Knake's First Amendment seminar, Sarah Primrose, wrote a paper on judicial speech rules that was eventually published as an article by the University of Alabama's Journal of the Legal Profession, When Canaries Won't Sing: The Failure of the Attorney Self-Reporting System in the "Cash-for-Kids" Scheme, 36 J. Legal Prof. 139 (2011).
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If your lawyer does not return your call, send them a letter and keep a copy. In the letter, describe what is bothering you and what you need. Suggest meeting with the lawyer face-to-face. Your next step would depend on the nature of the problem.
Sometimes, lawyers take a bit longer than usual to respond because they are away from their office or traveling for business. If you have not heard back from your lawyer within 48 hours of sending them an important email, you should send another email just asking if there is any news or status about your case.
Perhaps the most common kinds of complaints against lawyers involve delay or neglect. This doesn't mean that occasionally you've had to wait for a phone call to be returned. It means there has been a pattern of the lawyer's failing to respond or to take action over a period of months.
As a general rule, give your lawyer 1-2 days to return your non-urgent phone call; very often, your lawyer may be out of the office for a half-day, whole day, or longer if he/she is in court.
Once a case gets filed in court, things can really slow down. Common reasons why a case will take longer than one would hope can include: Trouble getting the defendant or respondent served. The case cannot proceed until the defendant on the case has been formally served with the court papers.
You should never be afraid or feel like an intrusion to contact your attorney every three weeks or so, or more frequently if there is a lot going on with your health or other matters related to your legal case. There is of course a limit to how much you should be contacting or sharing.
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Their goal is to drag the case on and pay out as little as possible. This earns more money for the attorney, who gets paid by the hour, and also can help frustrate the plaintiff into making a better settlement for them out of desperation.
Your canary hasn’t matured yet and is still learning how to sing. The way how canary sings is learned, so if you have a juvenile canary, the possible reason why it hasn’t sing is that it doesn’t know how to.
There are a couple of reasons why your canary doesn’t sing; you should be able to know the primary cause for it because, in some cases, it could mean danger. They don’t have the ability to tell what they feel so as an owner, you must be able to translate how your bird behaves to understand the reason why it doesn’t sing. These are some of the possible reasons why your canary doesn’t sing:
You may also add its water with supplements to ensure that even though it won’t eat a lot, it can still absorb nutrients.
When the male canary stopped singing because of the molting process , there is no need to worry because as soon as the molting season is over, the male canary will have the energy and motivation to sing again.
Molting is a natural process for bird species where they change their old feathers. The canaries molt within 6-12 weeks, where the feathers look disheveled and will appear loose. During the molting process, expect that your bird will loss appetite, irritated, aggressive, and will look tired and drowsy. As long as you are sure that your bird is molting, then there is nothing to worry about. Your canaries energy will go back as soon as the molting process ends. Your canary may molt its feathers a couple of times a year, especially when they haven’t reached their maturity years.
You should know the gender of your canary. A male canary is more into singing, female canaries also sing, but it is simpler and less expressive than the way how males sing. The way to know their gender is through DNA sampling, so consult the expert.
Warmer temperatures in the summer season trigger are molting, but you may also induce molting by exposing your canary to 14 hours light exposure per day. There are proper ways on how to take good care of your canary during the molting process by means of giving them foods that are high in protein content and bathing them regularly to make their skin moist to aid in comfortable molting.
Canaries may stop singing when they start molting. Canary molting is the process whereby a canary loses its old feathers and then grows new ones. Canary molting isn’t an illness. Instead, it is a normal process that occurs annually. Ideally, canary molting takes place in early fall or late summer.
Your canary will appreciate the taste of freedom after being out of the cage for some time. It will sing more as an appreciation for the cherished freedom.
Canary molting takes anywhere between 6 to 12 weeks. Your bird’s feathers will become loose during the molting season. Your canary will also become restless and less active during this time. Male canaries usually stop singing at the onset of the molting season.
Diet plays an integral role during molting. Your canary will need more fat and protein to grow new feathers quickly. You have to change your canary’s diet once it starts molting. Some great diet options for your bird include mealworms, flax, and other oil-rich seeds. Once molting is over, it will start singing as usual.
Thus, it helps to understand when your bird is sick. Fortunately, there are a couple of signs you can watch to tell when your bird is sick. The first sign is a decrease in activity level.
Canaries are cute but more charming when singing. Their lovely singing will make even the most bored person cheerful.
Off-season molting can affect your bird’s health. Your canary may molt abnormally if it is exposed to excess light.