Given Microsoft's earlier confidence that the government's case would fall apart when it told its side of the story, the collapse in court of successive Microsoft witnesses has been mysterious, and embarrassing.
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Arguably, it is Mr. Wilner's aggressive representation, along with the determined efforts of the Kuwait government, that has had the greatest influence in the outcome of all the enemy combatant cases, in the court of law and in the court of public opinion.
The board also will oversee dispute resolution between retailers and union representatives, which will be subject to arbitration with decisions enforceable in a court of law in the country of the retailer.
Last week, lawyers who said they represent one of the alleged victims filed a suit in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia seeking an injunction, because alleged victims of abuse might seek monetary damages from the nonprofit.
Mr Clegg said he wanted to break the "dismal cycle of repeat crime" which was reflected in the fact that 60% or more of the adults in court because of last week's disturbances had previous convictions or were known to the police.
In 2001 he was charged with five counts of indecent assault but the day before he was due in court in October of that year he was found dead in a caravan at Treco Bay, Porthcawl.
While Clemens has spent the better part of the past five years ardently defending himself and his career achievements in a court of law, Rodriguez is about to embark upon another turbulent journey through the court of public opinion in an attempt to restore authenticity to a career that has been once again tainted by serious accusations.
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On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal ordered substantial costs against Suffolk County Council in both the Court of Appeal and Upper Tribunal which is the equivalent of the High Court in the administrative justice system.
Nor is there much reason to believe that the second case, in which Judge Young ordered an even larger number of tapes to be turned over to the authorities, will fare any better in the Court of Appeals (nor, alas, in the editorial columns of the news media).
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But judges in the Court of Appeal were told of delays in getting a medical expert to carry out the process.
The retail giant's plans for shops in Inverness and Tain have faced legal challenges - including the one from rivals Tesco which was dealt with in the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
The California teachers pension fund's lawsuit, filed in the Court of Chancery in Delaware, alleges that two Wal-Mart executives engaged in opportunistic stock trades between the time the newspaper originally inquired about the story in December 2011 and when publication occurred last month.
It rarely reaches the level of evidence required in a court of law to prove matters beyond a reasonable doubt.
As you well know, in the Simpson trial he was acquitted of all charges of murder, and at the same time in the court of public opinion, many, many people, certainly millions of Americans, still saw--thought that Simpson got away with literally murder in this case.
In the film, Depp plays John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, a well-known scoundrel in the court of Charles II (who is played by John Malkovich).
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"Singapore and FAS have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to match-fixing and football corruption which includes the imposition of permanent suspension from all football activities on any player or official convicted in a court of law for football corruption offences, " the FAS said in a statement.
In both cases, innocence or guilt resides in the court of public opinion rather than in a jury verdict.
We can do so by giving both Martin and Zimmerman a just weighing of the evidence, both in the court of law and public opinion.
"One of the things we have avoided here is the tremendous cost of litigation and the uncertainty in a court of law, " Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said.
In the court of public opinion, the social networking giant has already been convicted of what is, in the America of 2011, the greatest crime of all: elitism.
And though a review of these revelations does seem pretty damning to the naked eye, does it pass the same burden of proof that would be required in a court of law?
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In the court of common sense, the ban is similarly in trouble.
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Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies chart the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful minister in the court of Henry VIII.
Without these rights granted to all defendants pursuant to Miranda, anything this suspect might say to interrogators before being advised of these rights would still be admissible in a court of law.
But in 2008 the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favor of the four-time Paralympic champion after a lengthy legal battle with the IAAF.
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The rights and wrongs of Suarez's punishment and of the Terry case -- should the FA, for example, have charged the Chelsea captain after he had been cleared in a court of law -- have been played out endlessly in the media and across social-networking websites like Twitter.
But none of this, I suspect, would stand up in a court of law.
Wolf Hall followed the life of Thomas Cromwell from his impoverished beginnings as the son of a violent blacksmith, to his meteoric rise in the court of King Henry VIII.
As Director of the Office of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Greece from 1976 to 1995, he had represented the Ministry in the case of the Continental Shelf of the Aegean Sea in front of the International Court of Justice (The Hague) in 1976.
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