Second, a similar assessment should be done using U.S. federal legal cases (this study looks only at cases from courts in the the 50 states) as the study sample, using either the Google Scholar small sample of Appellate Court cases, or a larger one including a broader set of Trial Court cases that did not reach Appellate Courts.
Division of property (at least in California) is handled at trial and only approximately 2-3 percent of the cases go to trial.
It presented 11 of those cases at trial, along with testimony of physicians that the plaintiffs had no evidence of asbestosis.
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At the time of his death, the case was still open and had not yet gone to trial because of a backlog of cases at the Toulouse public prosecutor's office, Mouton said.
Google Scholar, the open source database used to identify published cases, is not a complete data base of state cases involving Shariah because as a search tool it allows retrieval only of those reported appellate and trial court level cases that are available through open sources.
In California, members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang go on trial in one of the largest death penalty cases in U.S. history.
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The alleged intermediaries include Cesare Previti, a former lawyer to Mr Berlusconi's companies who is another long-standing and close friend and who is also on trial in two further cases of bribery of judges, which he too denies.
So far, the joint effort between the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission has produced nearly 70 guilty verdicts, a perfect record of convictions in criminal cases that have gone to trial, and millions of dollars in penalties.
This week the federal government will go to trial in of its biggest insider trading cases in decades.
Prosecutors said they knew of other victims, including adult women, but at this point didn't expect to bring any of their cases to trial.
The number of disputed cases going to trial, average awards and legal costs have all ballooned.
The big question that investors are trying to divine from the trial is how many of the thousands of cases Merck faces it will eventually lose or settle.
Of course, few of these cases actually go to trial.
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Few of these cases ever go to trial.
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He also co-sponsored a bill designed to cut down on malpractice litigation in 2005, and voted for the Class Action Fairness Act, a law that made it harder for trial lawyers to file some of their most lucrative cases.
In the meantime, the first cases are set for trial in April of next year, with another batch set for July 2014.
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Moreover, for those cases in which either the outcome of trial or intervening legal rulings by other courts raise questions about the merits of the original prosecution, it can often be difficult to get the special attention that is often required in the interests of justice.
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The case is likely to be one of the last Mississippi Katrina cases to go to trial, according to Barrett.
Among the cases reported to have been affected is the trial of a 17-year-old accused of the murder of Rhys Jones in Liverpool.
And Miller-El's lawyers had also introduced evidence that the two prosecutors in his case had been found by a Texas court to have struck jurors on the basis of race in two other cases that went to trial at about the same time as Mr. Miller-El's case.
In a lot of cases it's the state not bringing the trial lawyers under control.
That would make forum shopping harder, although it would not strengthen the position of defendants themselves in cases that do make it to trial.
In a 2004 trial of 2, 000 children in Mozambique the Glaxo vaccine slashed severe malaria cases by about half.
Many of the cases she worked on were settled without going to trial, and there is only one Bachmann case on file that ended up in a courtroom.
Defence lawyer Joe Amendola said after the hearing that he had doubts that Sandusky had received due process, saying that the defence team "ran out of time" to prepare as the cases were rushed to trial.
The government has lost roughly half of the more than sixty Adam Walsh cases that have gone to trial so far.
It would be a victory for trial lawyers who have complained they must eat the costs of prosecuting contingency-fee cases as incurred and only get to write them off against any fee they obtain at the end.
Most of those are undefended - only 36, 000 debt cases went to trial in 2000.
Chevron, with a series of court cases around the country, has attempted to prove that the trial was flawed and biased toward the plaintiffs.
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More than 400 other criminals are accused of committing serious further offences, but their cases have not yet come to trial.
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