In the end, the Supreme Court's decision in a case concerning investor lawsuits was not the landmark ruling many thought it would be.
The decision came in a case concerning the physical and verbal abuse directed at Joseph Oncale, an oil-rig roustabout, by fellow male workers.
The investor rights crowd is claiming victory after a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision this morning in a case that targets excessive fees in the mutual fund industry.
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However, Cousin only briefly represented Lens and a final decision in his case has already been delayed on a number of occasions.
An even greater potential for Tax Court drama may lie in a fourth decision, handed down in May, in a case involving Thomas and Judith Corson.
And he, again -- the Attorney General and the President were under a court-imposed deadline to make a decision in this case, and they did.
The decision is subject to review by the U.S. International Trade Commission, and a final ITC decision in the case is due in July.
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Merck won a significant decision in a Vioxx lawsuit, emerging victorious on all counts in the New Jersey case of a postal worker and Vietnam veteran who said that two months of Vioxx use caused his heart attack.
In America, a first sign appeared five years ago with a decision in the (civil) case of Daubert v.
The decision in this case could have a huge impact on investor-state arbitration for both sides of the issue.
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Mr McFarlane told the BBC that the decision in his case was "a regrettable judgment" for all faiths, not just Christians.
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The Bethany Survivors Group are reasonably pleased with those comments and have been given to understand by another government minister that Mr Shatter will make his decision known on their case in a matter of weeks.
Zoe Bedford, from legal charity Reprieve, said she expected the Supreme Court to make a decision in Sandiford's case within 96 days.
Finally came word that a decision in an important patent case was pushed back to late June, creating yet more uncertainty and driving down the stock to a recent 52-week low.
And, because the strategic value propositions (or use cases) for a patent often changed as a company developed and competed with others, my approach was an iterative one that was re-visited regularly in case a decision that was appropriate at one time was no longer appropriate because of new information.
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Another tricky task will be training computers to determine whether a holding in a case has been overruled or altered by a subsequent decision.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not participate in the decision, since she had heard the case when serving on a federal appeals court in New York, before joining her current job.
The Junger decision is not a binding precedent in the Goldstein case, which goes on next week.
The immediate trigger for the decision was a deadline of 9 August in the case of one of the prisoners, Jamil el-Banna, who had been cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay and who might have been sent to Jordan if the UK government had accepted him.
The opinions of recognized scholars constitute evidence of customary international law in a case in which there is (a) no controlling judicial decision, (b) no controlling State practice and (c) no otherwise controlling treaty.
Previously, a jury on the case wound up not coming to a conclusive decision, resulting in a mistrial.
So I don't think it was a surprise that the family is appealing the case because it was always a perception that whoever loses in this case, the decision will ultimately go all the way to the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
To see some of the ramifications of this decision, consider a GPS case that occurred in California.
It could be years before a final decision is reached in the Knox case, and undoubtedly Knox's legal team would fight extradition on every level if her conviction is upheld.
That raises the possibility that he will write a middling decision striking down preferences in the case at hand but leave open the possibility that they would pass muster under other circumstances.
Katie Gollop, representing the trust, said that as a result he was not qualified to make the decision to administer the drug but in this case he had been instructed to do so by a doctor.
Musharraf was placed under house arrest over the weekend in connection with a case involving his decision to fire senior judges, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, while in power.
So there is communication between the White House and agencies in a decision-making process like this, but the decision is made by the Secretary in this case, and it was made by Secretary Sebelius.
The recent Tax Court decision in the case of John Dalton Parks, III was a new one on me.
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