This decision will likely have little impact on future cases but it will impact pending cases.
The number of pending cases swelled from 800 in fiscal year 2006 to 1, 200 in 2007.
The main page users see resembles Microsoft Outlook, with a calendar that reminds users of deadlines on pending cases.
Professor MARY ELLEN O'CONNELL (Notre Dame): Now, the way I read Hamdan is that that would apply to all the pending cases.
"I think this can be analogized to the attorney-client privilege, " says LaBovick, because lawyers frequently swap advice about pending cases.
Circuit decision, and the issue is being raised in other pending cases.
California, Wisconsin and New Jersey now have pending cases similar to Rhode Island's, involving 3.6 million homes, enough, in the worst outcome, to bankrupt the company.
However, the program, which differs from other law-enforcement shows because it deals with pending cases, still faces scrutiny from some defense attorneys whose clients may be featured.
The sizzle could come about because, when the Hamdan case was originally pending before the Supreme Court last year, Congress passed a statute that stripped the courts of jurisdiction over at least some pending cases.
Other cases will seek to achieve class action status, and if even one succeeds then banks and defendants in the innumerable pending cases spawned by the mortgage market meltdown are likely to take it on the chin.
Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law who specializes in legal ethics, said while there is "nothing wrong" with a prosecutor detailing his office's work on a TV program, there is a limit to what prosecutors are allowed to disseminate about still-pending cases.
Canadian authorities have also indicated that priority consideration in granting immigration visas would be given to pending adoption cases.
Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson, called him to inquire about pending corruption cases against state Democrats before the November elections.
He remains on bail for a number of other pending court cases, including in Halifax where he has appeared this week.
Still pending are cases against brokers and hedge funds for shorting the shares of weak companies and against Ford Motor for rollover accidents caused by the Explorer.
Kroes and her team, for instance, probably won't recall Barnett's comments with reverence and careful consideration when they are looking over pending antitrust cases like that of Intel, Rambus and Qualcomm.
But the travel law contains language reserving the right to withhold passports for reasons of national interest and for people with pending legal cases, and he's sure that's affecting his situation.
For instance, the administration has begun to review 300, 000 pending court cases against low-priority offenders who are undocumented immigrants with a view to allow many of them to remain in the country.
What all this means is that employers with pending NLRB cases must be diligent as to which forum would most likely invalidate any adverse decision because of defective recess NLRB appointments and uber-quick to appeal such a decision to that forum.
The lawsuit is one of three pending federal cases that involve the New York Police Department's stop, question and frisk practice, championed by police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a necessary crime-fighting measure that has helped the nation's biggest city reach historically low crime rates in recent years.
Officials believe there are at least 300 cases pending, while advocacy groups say there may be some 900 adoption cases under way.
There are as many as 100, 000 rape cases pending in India's legal system, activists estimate.
He has several criminal cases pending against him and has served time in jail too.
The appeals court had suspended the cap in those cases pending its ruling on their challenge.
There are hundreds of cases pending involving natural resource use on tribal land, with billions of dollars at stake.
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This is going to be settled fairly soon, because right now we have cases pending in the federal courts.
In June, I wrote that the ruling had led to the dismissal of 75 pending class action cases.
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The only two recent cases have both been won by Norwood Wilner, a Floridian lawyer who has 150 individual cases pending.
Around half of these were withdrawn, 10 were settled without admission of liability, four were settled and there are nine cases pending.
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