At two weeks per trial, Baumberger says, the single judge handling tobacco cases in Broward County will take 30 years to clear his docket.
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To get judgments against the borrowers, the judge said, a single Mel Harris employee named Todd Fabacher signed 40, 000 affidavits attesting to the accuracy of debt claims.
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Criminal cases are conducted in secret, and in writing (and the papers sewn together) by a single investigating judge, who directs police inquiries, weighs the evidence, and brings charges.
On Wednesday, the Second Circuit said that the judge's ruling that a single color can never serve as a trademark in the fashion industry was inconsistent with a 1995 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which granted Qualitex Co. the exclusive right to use a green-gold color on pads for commercial dry-cleaning presses.
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.
Instead, a single judge will hear the entire case and then rule on a person's guilt or innocence.
Last summer, applications for permission to appeal by both men were rejected by a single judge who considered the papers from the case.
Ms. MITCHELL: The thing is that I am a single parent, and I'm here to let the judge know that my intentions are to be moving out, but I need enough time to do so because I have two younger children and I also work a full-time job.
"Even if the Court has jurisdiction over Armstrong's remaining claims, the Court finds they are best resolved through the well-established system of international arbitration, by those with expertise in the field, rather than by the unilateral edict of a single nation's courts, " stated Sparks, a judge in the U.S. district court based out of Austin, Texas.
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.
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.
Apple had bundled the move, together with several other changes to the way in which the company is organised, into a single voting proposition for shareholders - something that Mr Einhorn said is illegal and the judge agreed.
Judge Smith had ordered the government to submit at least three single-spaced pages.
The cases were consolidated into a single case in Maine, where U.S. District Judge D.
Howard and his legal team say they plan to appear in federal court in San Diego, California, later this week, trying to persuade a federal judge to combine the 88 individual lawsuits so far filed against Toyota into a single class-action litigation.
There a single judge passes a death sentence -- mandatory for first-degree murder of the kind Mr. Simpson was charged with.
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