She says creating a civil rule would be more effective in making sure paparazzi stay in line.
Any president, that is, has to make difficult decisions about how to balance national security with civil liberties and the rule of law.
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Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11, which in part authorizes the imposition of sanctions on attorneys who sign frivolous pleadings in federal court, is not used nearly as much as it should be.
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That does not necessarily make them wrong: civil disobedience, against British rule in India, or against segregation in America, has a long, honourable history.
In declining to extend the Discovery Rule to government civil penalty enforcement actions, the Court cast the government as a unique plaintiff often tasked with rooting out fraud and armed with many arrows in its quiver just for such an undertaking.
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But Sarah Lipton, policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the rule met their goal of offering "seamless coverage" of contraception to those who would have been affected.
Khalil al-Marzook, a senior Wefaq leader, was cautiously optimistic about the prince's comments on Friday but warned that "establishing the rule of law without civil and political rights is putting the horse before the cart".
Its 150, 000 members were leading businessmen and civil servants during the period of British rule.
While the criminal trial may result in some defendants going to jail, the civil trial is where the court will rule on returning monies that were obtained illegally.
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The best proof is that we now look back at both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the filibuster rule change of 1975 and wonder that they once seemed so impossible.
The decision creates a three-way split among the federal circuits on the proper application of Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
The Supreme Court may announce as early as Monday that it plans to revisit the controversial issue of pleadings standards under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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We honor the courageous men and women who fought to bring those ageless ideals of freedom and fairness into the rule of law -- from the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act to Title IX and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
We all know what is needed -- a transition that is timely, new laws and a constitution that uphold the rule of law, political parties and a strong civil society, and, for the first time in Libyan history, free and fair elections.
On January 23, 2012, doing its best imitation of Inspector Javert and after learning that Douglas had returned to the U.S., the SEC filed a Motion for a Rule to Show Cause and for an Order of Civil Contempt, requesting that the Court hold Douglas in contempt for a second time.
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There are good reasons why the fraud discovery rule has not been extended to Government enforcement actions for civil penalties.
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And the typical 5-4 split between conservative and liberal justices may not rule the day: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former civil procedure professor, is a class-action skeptic who has previously voted to rein in cases on behalf of asbestos claimants and insurance customers.
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The Bolivarian state wants to rule in a most arbitrary manner and have its prerogatives above any civil group.
Lawyers for the claimant, who is set to pursue a civil case, said it was the first time a court had been asked to rule on whether the "relationship between a Catholic priest and his bishop is akin to an employment relationship".
Board of Education, ending school segregation, civil-rights activists came to see courts as the solution to the abuses of majority rule.
On appeal, the United States Supreme Court noted that it had never applied the Discovery Rule in a matter where the plaintiff is the government bringing an enforcement action for civil penalties, in contradistinction to a defrauded victim seeking recompense.
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Beyond this invocation of the Public Safety Rule, Tsarneav will be accorded all the rights of due process prescribed by the Constitution, including a civil trial before a jury of his peers.
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