And while contingency fees do little to incentivize lawyers to pursue cases that would result in important injunctive relief without a significant monetary payment (such as certain varieties of public interest cases), third-party financing is no better solution.
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Even the most public of cases, including that against Blackwater guards for the shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square, have resulted in dismissals in U.S. courts.
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Authorities wouldn't say if they thought the attack was related to his job, and all Clements' recent public activities and cases were scrutinized.
So Maiman sees his role as one of providing a face to the public on the cases that are written about and shown on TV.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who took office in 2011 pledging to clean up state government, on Tuesday defended his own record of public-corruption cases during his tenure as state attorney general.
"Cases like this give the people of New York yet another reason to be troubled by the electoral process, " said Mr. Bharara, who is now prosecuting a string of public-corruption cases against city and state politicians.
Specifically, he wrote that the show violated a rule barring lawyers from making prejudicial public statements about criminal cases.
Attorneys who handle terrorism and other notorious cases say public opinion is stacked against the defense for obvious reasons.
Legislative support is more likely in cases where public opinion generally favors intervention.
In most cases, public markets value companies, including hotel owners, in terms of multiples of their cash flow or earnings.
Since not all cases can be pursued, the government tries to get additional deterrent effect by pursuing tax cases against public people.
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In cases involving public officials, courts treat false statements with special condemnation.
Speculation now starts well before a company goes public, in some cases valuations have soared before a start-up is even cash flow positive.
They are performed in public and in most cases no attempt is made by the police or schools to stop the ceremonies from taking place.
But the way the media and the public perception of these cases plays out is important in ways that transcend the ugliness of the spectacle itself.
In most cases where public and private roles have become entangled, the best solution is indeed for the government to step back and leave things to the private sector.
Educators say a district's youngest students are often among those with the worst attendance, in many cases because public preschool is not mandatory and parents regard it as little more than babysitting.
As these industrialised countries, struggling with budget deficits and (in some cases) public war weariness chose to sit out foreign crises more often, the world seems to be becoming a less predictable and more volatile place.
Welsh Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts said the assembly's public accounts committee had heard of cases where the protection for whistle blowers in the health service and other public bodies was deficient.
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But water quality at the majority of public beaches is not tested, or in some cases, it's tested but the public is not notified of the results.
Cases of sexual harassment in public places are rarely reported, but as of April 15 this year the police registered 433 cases, a nearly ninefold increase from 49 reported in the year-earlier period.
The controversy concerns two separate court cases over alleged public housing discrimination in Minnesota's capital.
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Having now lost his job, he has presented 46 cases to the public prosecutor for investigation.
In such cases, the public does not even have to be told whether the information exists.
He said the initiative was designed to make the public more aware of the cases police dealt with.
Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger said broadcasting some cases could boost public engagement in the court process.
Any that cannot show sufficient public benefit might in extreme cases see their assets used for worthier causes.
Before the dramatic increase in awareness of crimes against children in the 1980s, only a few high-profile cases grabbed the public's attention.
And what I think that says in building -- what a President needs to do in many cases is build public support.
Charity, one of the oldest facilities in New Orleans, is a public hospital which accepts indigent cases and those without medical insurance, Gupta reported.
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