It gave the Canadian House of Commons the power to decide whether a proposed referendum question was considered clear before any vote, to judge whether a clear majority for change had been expressed and to override a referendum decision, if it felt the referendum violated any of the tenets of the Clarity Act.
Nor is it clear whether a judge or grand jury approved the subpoenas.
The challenges of putting such a law in place and deciding whom it should apply to were made clear Monday when a judge struck down New York City's ban on large sugary drinks.
If TCS is to prevail under U.S. law, it will have to convince a federal judge there is clear evidence of securities fraud.
The PCS trade union say some members of staff are being asked to work in different locations as a result of the cuts and Mr Judge's remarks were a "clear and deliberate ridiculing of our members' anxieties".
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He has the second-longest tenure for a defense chief in history but it's not clear how history will judge him, although that judgment will have a lot to do with Iraq.
Also under the law, 16 states including Florida that with a history of racial discrimination must clear their congressional maps with the Justice Department or a three-judge panel in Washington, D.
It was not immediately clear when the judge will make a ruling on the new motion.
Because nobody including, apparently, the judge could demonstrate a clear understanding of the dangerously vague federal laws under which Edwards was being tried.
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Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the department's largest union, applauded the sentence from the judge, saying it sent a clear message that killing an officer would not be tolerated in New York City.
Even though the limits were quite modest, a federal judge struck them down and ruled it was not clear that position limits could be imposed without determining whether they were necessary and appropriate.
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Incident reports will tell users what the holdup is on a given route, so they can judge whether it is likely to clear up anytime soon.
And then what happens says is the judge says, okay, well, this guy has a completely clear criminal record.
No wonder the ratio of judges is as low as 14 per one million people, compared with over 100 judges per million citizens in the US. Some years ago, a Delhi High Court judge reckoned it would take more than 450 years to clear the backlog given then judge numbers.
But Jim Quinn, the lead Players Association counsel, said the judge made it clear she wanted the two sides to reach a settlement in the lawsuit, which would allow the players to return to work but maintain their legal rights to seek relief in the courts under antitrust laws that prohibit the teams from acting in concert.
U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell issued the sentence, which is sending a loud and clear message of deterrence to Wall Street.
"Having worked on this for many years, the judge really wanted to make it clear that FDA had come to a scientific determination and was once again overruled, and that is not acceptable, " she added.
Citing the slate's "minimalist, modern form, " presiding judge Johanna Brueckner-Hoffmann determined that Samsung's tablet bears a "clear impression of similarity" with the iPad 2, thereby meriting a nationwide ban.
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If I sound quick to judge a music service I have yet to try, allow me to be clear about one thing: we already have more than enough music services.
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"She was unresponsive, not in a position of consent, and they knew about it, and let's be clear, they knew she was drunk, " special prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter told a judge at probable cause hearing last October.
It became clear to me in the early 1990s when for a couple of years I was a judge in the annual Loebner Prize Competition, an annual contest to find out if any computer could yet pass what is known as the Turing test: if it could fool a person into thinking it was a human.
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If the judge is satisfied that you are likely to be able to clear your arrears within a reasonable period of time - and that has got to be before the end of the mortgage - the judge might make a suspended order for possession.
In granting the binding order, Judge Burgess said it was a "sensible way forward" as having read the papers it was clear to him that David Ferris "instigated everything that happened".
Rather, as the British judge made clear in his libelous instructions to the Brighton jury, guilty Israel must be judged by a hanging jury that draws its conclusions in advance.
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