It proposes a system of preliminary hearings in which a judge could throw out spurious cases, and would, crucially, have the power to cap costs, so that one side or the other couldn't run up huge bills, with the implicit threat of financial ruin if costs were awarded against the other.
Finally, in the next sentence of her speech, Sotomayor went on to specify that she was addressing the dynamics of an appellate court with multiple judges (such as the three-judge and en banc panels on which she sits as an appeals court judge and the Supreme Court), rather than talking about a trial court context in which a single judge presides.
He was running an auction house, a business in which a single signature from a judge bestows the right to auction off buildings, land, and other assets and collect a hefty commission.
Tuesday's hearing, in which Berry hopes to persuade a judge to order Aubry to stay away from their daughter, will be in a closed courtroom.
The decision to close the probe is part of a set of events in which the government will first ask a federal judge to disband the grand jury that was hearing the case, then request the case documents to be unsealed.
In a sign of further problems to come, Ars Techica has reported that a judge overseeing a US case - in which Apple claims its App Store trademark has been breached by Amazon - had expressed scepticism that consumers would indeed be confused.
In fact, for any defendant, the only time we are introduced to who they are and what they have accomplished in life is contained in a Sentencing Memorandum which is submitted after a guilty verdict (plea) and just before a judge pronounces a prison sentence.
This defense astonished the lender, GSO Re Onshore, which claimed in a letter to the judge that Sapir had never before raised the issue.
The letter was a brief denial of a complaint sent by Weston to a federal judge in which he accused the government of planting land mines on his property in Rimini, Montana.
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The idea is to avoid the so-called multidistrict litigation (MDL) process, in which hundreds of cases are under the oversight of a single federal judge in New Orleans.
On Tuesday, Mr Clarke told MPs mandatory sentencing was "rather an American thing" and to have a situation in which, for example, a 13 was automatically imprisoned without a judge being able to use his discretion would "rather go against how we normally approach the sentencing of juveniles".
Convincing a judge in Sweden, which has one of the world's most liberal press-freedom laws, of the virtues of America's Espionage Act may be tricky.
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On the second of a pair of match points in the tie-break the line judge called Federer's drive in, a decision which would have given him a straight sets win.
He then left the trial, with Spector's permission, for six weeks to film a television judge show, "Jury Duty, " in which he presided over a jury of celebrities.
In the same ruling, Judge Rakoff also admonished the SEC for continuing a policy in which alleged wrongdoers denied any admission of liability or responsibility when settling with the agency.
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Earlier this year it got an Ecuadorian judge tossed from the case after releasing incriminating videotapes in which a pair of sketchy remediation contractors discussed what may or may not be post-trial financial arrangements with the judge.
It also owns a large stake in eCredit, which serves exchanges' users by helping them to judge the creditworthiness of the counterparties to a trade.
The Prime Minister, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, is a senior judge appointed to lead the caretaker administration which was put in place after talks to form a government collapsed.
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The just-completed trial was a good one, in which the lawyers ably represented their causes and the trial judge, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor, did a laudable job keeping control of a celebrity case.
At 9.30am on June 30th, thanks to an immunity law passed by a parliament in which he has a majority, Mr Berlusconi's trial on charges of having bribed a judge was suspended indefinitely.
Holland was the presiding judge in a 2004 case in which Curtis was accused of assaulting a Tupelo attorney a year earlier.
The suspect was expected to make an initial appearance before a federal judge Monday on the charge, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
In the ruling, Judge Pauley dismissed that claim, likening the Facebook access instead to a phone wiretap in which one person on the call allows the government to monitor it -- a practice that has been ruled constitutional.
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On June 20, 2011 a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision demonstrating the way in which the U.S. legal system continues to struggle with the digital revolution, a revolution that is undermining securities regulation, intellectual property law, and even the basics of tort law.
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But a judge ruled in favour of the council, which later said it had always acted with "honesty and integrity".
One of the major issues in the case was a fraud claim by the actors, which the judge threw out last year.
In California, which requires all parties to consent to taping, a judge recently dismissed a class action charging Salomon with illegal taping, finding that Georgia law applied.
Panic may be creeping in at the edges, to judge from a leaked memo which is being called the "Peanut Butter Manifesto", and was penned by a Yahoo!
An attempt to prosecute Mr Kuchma for ordering the killing collapsed in December 2011 when a judge ruled that secret audio recordings which apparently incriminated him could not be used as evidence, as they had been obtained through "illegal means".
In the fall, Judge Scheindlin presided over a hearing during which lawyers for the New York Civil Liberties Union and several legal and community groups attempted to show that police mistakenly believe the program gives them license to automatically detain anyone leaving or outside participating buildings.
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