Should America's willingness to use its courts this way worry anyone other than Mr Karadzic?
Businesses use government courts to enforce their contracts and obtain payment for breaches.
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Watson says the ploy works because his adversaries fear that he will use the courts to publicize their own wrongdoing.
He said that if Norway also found grounds for a legal challenge it would use the courts as "a last resort".
In 2001, while getting certified as an instructor, I talked with a couple of hotel managers, who were happy to let me use their courts.
The first is a new willingness to use the courts as arbiters in corporate disputes, which reflects both changes in attitudes and changes in the law.
Wizner says that keeping the documents classified makes them much more difficult to use in courts, for instance, and allows the government to avoid confirming their authenticity.
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Mann has every right to use the courts to protect his reputation, of course, but I do think he might heed the example of Oscar Wilde before he does so.
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Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said greater use by courts of drug rehabilitation in the community was needed as well as more effective limitations on drug supply inside jails.
In Russia, for example, there were worries that if the government was able to use the courts to go after Yukos, one of the country's biggest oil companies, then no one was safe.
The courts use it to establish priority in bankruptcy proceedings and real estate sales.
McCain took the opportunity to praise the use of military courts for the trials of suspected terrorists.
Both Shagufta and Sadia would like to use the UK courts to get access to their children.
Absent precise language in a contract spelling out contingencies, courts use such doctrines as force majeure to decide whether the contract is still valid.
The growing use of English courts by foreign litigants is arousing increasing concern among free-speech campaigners such as Chris Walker of Freedom House, an American lobby group.
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Many state courts use the looser standard of "general acceptance, " which can be met by convening a group of like-minded experts and publishing their papers in a sympathetic journal.
Although their use by the courts has been increasing, Scotland still has a relatively high rate of imprisonment, at 141 per 100, 000 population, compared with 66 in Norway and 70 in Denmark.
After a court had published the damning reasons for its earlier conviction and 11-year sentence on an associate of Silvio Berlusconi , for bribing judges, supporters of the Italian prime minister hit back: let parliament set up an inquiry into political use of the courts.
Companies, councils and courts all use bailiffs to collect money owed to them.
In 2008, following a long debate among judges, he modelled a simplified judicial robe which is now in official use in the civil courts.
In August, new advice was issued for judges and magistrates aiming to encourage the courts to use harsher sentences when dealing with dangerous dog offenders.
The fondest hopes of business hang on both cases, in which the high court must decide whether to put meaningful restraints on the tools lawyers and courts increasingly use to regulate corporations.
He said he had agreed to settle the case because of concerns about moves by the British government to expand the use of "secret courts" in cases involving issues of national security.
But the strategy also urges police, prosecutors and the courts to use existing powers to restrict and monitor computer use by convicted cyber criminals, who are considered likely to strike again online.
Erichson said the court will be forced to decide the circumstances under which courts can use class actions formed under a rule designed to allow large numbers of plaintiffs to obtain injunctive relief, or court-ordered changes in the way an organization operates.
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In a recent paper, Bradford Cornell, of California Institute of Technology, and James Rutten, of Munger, Tolles and Olson, a Los Angeles law firm, argue that even highly developed financial markets such as the New York Stock Exchange are not efficient enough to allow courts to use declines in share prices to calculate the financial damage caused by a fraud.
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This is forcing Japanese companies and foreign companies operating in Japan to use U.S. courts and U.S. contract law, he says.
If a retail trader enters a prohibited transaction working with an unregistered RFED offshore, he may not have rights to use U.S. courts either.
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The Trust believes the problems will not be solved until the courts make greater use of community penalties and stop seeing a prison sentence as the only option after conviction.
Since tribes cannot get such machines yet, some courts have ruled that use of the video slots ought to continue.
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