For years most courts protected people against overzealous prosecutors by limiting the law's use.
Most courts, he said, have taken a more practical approach to the question.
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This gives the managers two bites at the apple, and it's a dubious prosecutorial practice that is frowned upon by most courts.
Most courts will give you two to three opportunities to defer serving.
For decades most courts dismissed such cases, decreeing that lawyers are accountable only to their clients, not to people their clients may have injured.
Most courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, have held that borrowers who want to do this also must sue the bank within the three-year deadline.
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And while other kinds of debt can be discharged in bankruptcy, student loans must still be paid barring "undue hardship, " a legal test that most courts have interpreted very narrowly.
Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, said most courts have ruled that online spaces aren't covered by the ADA. "Congress never contemplated the Internet at the time, and if they had, they would have included it, " he said.
According to most courts, Oakley must establish that it is likely to succeed on the merits, that it is likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief that cannot be properly addressed by monetary damages, that the balance of equities tips in its favor, and that an injunction is in the public interest.
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Germany said it could put "all interstate peace settlements in jeopardy by allowing domestic courts to re-examine and reopen them", allowing plaintiffs to "shop around for the most favourable courts".
Most federal courts have granted more leniency than the 10th Circuit which rebuffed Hobby Lobby.
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"Bankruptcy is one of the most powerful courts in the U.S. because you can do stuff that you normally can't do, like kill contracts, " says David Lerner, a bankruptcy attorney in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
It is ironic, as the museum's director, Professor Stefano De Caro, explained recently while guiding visitors around the Gabinetto, that over the centuries most European courts, when embarrassed by objects they considered obscene in their collections, would consign them to Naples.
Earlier this year, Congress passed a bill forcing most big class-action suits to go through the federal courts, thus preventing lawyers from shopping around for the most plaintiff-friendly local courts.
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Unlike most other supreme courts, the Law Lords will not have the power to rule laws invalid or unconstitutional.
Nine Republican hopefuls who wish to take Tom DeLay's place are hoping the 5th Circuit, one of the most conservative appellate courts in the country, will overturn Judge Sparks.
Now a city need only mouth the words "adverse secondary effects" when enacting a regulation, and for the most part, courts will uphold it -- even though everyone knows the real reason is that the city doesn't like the books and movies that the store sells.
The two companies have been in various courts for most of the past year.
Telenor refused to pay, whereupon the courts seized most of its 30% stake in VimpelCom.
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In every instance the proposals that we're seeking are proposals that have been tested before in most respects by the courts in other areas of law enforcement and intelligence gathering information.
But it will be influential on any similar cases: most especially in other EU courts.
As in most states, New Jersey courts entitle the surviving spouse to one-third of an estate, regardless of the will.
The Supreme Court said on Monday that "euthanasia is one of the most perplexing issues which the courts and legislatures all over the world are facing today".
Most matches on the outdoor courts were called off by heavy rain and strong winds from Typhoon Higos, one of the strongest storms to threaten Japan's capital since World War II.
The unstable landscape Scalia refers to promotes the lucrative specialty of forum-shopping, in which plaintiff lawyers seek out the courts and judges most likely to allow their cases to survive a motion to dismiss, usually the last step before a tidy settlement.
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The most effective national asset-management companies everywhere have powers to bypass the courts when foreclosing on property assets, the most common form of loan collateral in Asia.
And when Amazon put up a fight, courts agreed, in most cases, with the states.
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Simply put, Congress should devise rules that allow the government to present the most highly classified information to the courts for their sole review.
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