News of the case came shortly before a preliminary hearing in Delhi in the case of five suspects in last month's gang rape.
Old Bailey jurors hearing the case of four Brighton and Hove Albion players accused of sexual assault have retired to consider their verdict.
Jurors hearing the case of a former policeman accused of murdering his estranged wife in her Kent hair salon have retired to consider their verdict.
Parallel to the Yap proceedings, another court was hearing the case of Ruminah Atem, a 57-year-old Indonesian who said she had been forced to live in a grilled area in the backyard of her employer's home for 30 months.
The week of September 17th, the Wilmington, NC, federal district court held a long-awaited evidentiary hearing in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald.
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He said issues about the integrity of the evidence could be argued in front of the trial judge, who would be hearing the case in the absence of a jury or before another court.
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In another email, he tells the researcher the date of the first hearing and updates her on the case of another Libyan journalist.
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Robert Ribeiro, one of the judges hearing the case on Monday, questioned whether this was an issue that could be resolved through the courts alone.
The nine-member bench was hearing arguments in the case of Boyer vs Louisiana, in which Jonathan Boyer is seeking to have his murder conviction overturned because he was held in jail for seven years before trial.
He opposed the move to sist - or pause - the action and said it was sought to take it as quickly as possible to a hearing to argue the relevancy of the case.
The legal costs amounting to several thousand pounds of the hearing, which was the first day of a scheduled four-day case, will be met from public funds.
Mr Hamdan can still take his case to a full hearing of the Appeals Court and from there to the Supreme Court.
South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius is back in court in Pretoria for a bail hearing that may reveal details of the murder case against him.
By chance, a court in Milan is due to begin hearing just such an appeal, of a case in which Mr Berlusconi was acquitted on four charges of bribing judges.
Family members of Mr Jaser attended his hearing, where the court banned the publication of evidence and testimony in the case.
The level of damages in that case will be established at a later hearing, but that could be held up as Friends of the Earth said it plans to appeal.
Mr. Saini, the judge of the special court, is hearing that case as well.
The high-profile bail hearing case has taken on the appearance of a sort of mini-trial.
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The appellate court hearing the new case could declare her in contempt of court but that carries no additional penalties.
There will be a hearing for Norris's case at the Court of Appeal in London, at a date to be set.
State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos, who presided at a preliminary hearing in April of last year, said the case against Greenberg was devastating.
On the day that the jury in San Jose delivered its ruling, a court in South Korea hearing a similar case said both firms were guilty of patent violations against the other and banned some of their devices from sale in the country.
"If, after a fair hearing in Switzerland at which the entire record of this case is truthfully presented, the Swiss determine that extradition is justified, Mr Polanski will of course comply with a lawful extradition order and return to California to litigate the issues of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct and be finally sentenced under the law, " the statement said.
Marc Costanzo said the waiver of the hearing "helps the prosecution in a lot of ways, " such as by speeding up the case.
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Holding hearings within just a few days "allows me sufficient time to review and prepare for hearings, resulting in full and complete knowledge of the documents in the case prior to hearing, " he added.
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The European Court of Human Rights is due to hold a hearing on her case next month.
Bankers and merchants pressed their case on Thursday in a hearing before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.
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The purpose of the hearing was to set deadlines for determining whether the case would go to trial, and it went on for about an hour.
Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter has announced that he is launching a formal probe of the Justice Department's handling of the Padilla case and may hold a public hearing.
Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan appointee on the appellate panel, raised the president's remarks Tuesday during a hearing in Houston on a separate case that challenges a portion of the law.
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