Instead, the court dismissed the case because the petitioners had waited too long to file their suit.
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Portsmouth Crown Court judge Roger Hetherington dismissed the case of a 16-year-old boy also charged with the attack.
But after a federal judge dismissed the case, Armstrong said he would no longer participate in the investigation.
The judge dismissed the case against Andres, and he was released that day.
So far a court in the Ninth Circuit has dismissed a case and the Second Circuit has waved one through.
After a judge dismissed the case on April 19, Patton Boggs refiled with new allegations that largely mirrored the first.
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The Manhattan District Court, in its March 2011 decision, dismissed the case saying it was barred by the statute of limitations.
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This time the judge dismissed her case, not doubting that conversations took place in which Pratt said he would support her.
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The district court dismissed the case in September, but Teva has appealed.
The ruling marks Apple's second patent loss in a week, after a judge dismissed a case it brought against Google's Motorola unit on Monday.
The judges - in a 2-1 verdict - overturned a lower court ruling that dismissed a case against the pledge brought by the father of a schoolgirl.
The court in Strasbourg said it dismissed the case because German courts, which had previously rejected the claim, had properly taken into account national and international law.
First, an Illinois judge dismissed a case brought against mother Kimberly Garrity by her two children, Steven Miner and Kathryn, for emotional distress due to bad parenting.
"There is some personal mea culpa in all this, and there is some institutional recognition that we too readily dismissed this case, " noted Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas.
Judge Mark Plawecki said he dismissed the case not because it was an attack on Muslims, but because it could be an attack on football and sports in general.
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In April, Judge Masterman, at Cardiff County Court, dismissed the case, saying the hospital authorities could not have been expected to know of the dangers of latex until January 1997.
None of these incidents resulted in a successful prosecution - charges against the Oxford student and the Scientology protester were eventually dropped, while a judge dismissed the case against the hoteliers.
The reason: Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, dismissed the case on the grounds that the defendants enjoy a free pass from private litigation.
Meanwhile, the RFU dismissed the case against Leicester flanker Craig Newby for an alleged dangerous charge on Saracens' Glenn Jackson in the match, deciding that no foul play had taken place.
Subsequent to the close of discovery on September 11, 2012, CAIR filed a motion for summary judgment to have the case dismissed.
The same judge later dismissed a similar case against Compaq, but "the Toshiba case became a template, " says Greve of the American Enterprise Institute.
But the employer cannot get the case dismissed on a motion for summary judgment because its reason for terminating the employee has been called into doubt.
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Owners, on the other hand, are trying to have the case dismissed as quickly as possible, arguing the two sides should settle their disputes through collective bargaining.
Many of the claims and counterclaims have been dismissed but the case is still slowly working its way through the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Most lawyers have dismissed the entire case as a fraud, arguing that only an apathetic judge (who often dozed off during the proceedings) saved it from being thrown out of court.
The judge in their case dismissed the Hannas' 89-page reconstruction of their real estate activities as an "impermissible ballpark guesstimate" that didn't prove Susan spent more hours on real estate than on computers.
The Ecuadorean plaintiffs first sued Texaco in New York in 1993, and after years of wrangling Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2000, got the case dismissed in 2002 on forum non conveniens grounds.
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In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court found the idea of a legal right of same-sex couples to marry so outlandish that it dismissed a Minnesota case presenting the issue without bothering to write an opinion.
Last year, when the insurer tried to have the case dismissed in federal court, California lawmakers passed legislation granting Armenians living in California the right to pursue World War I era claims against insurers in state court.
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