Second, the case was the first Vioxx trial in federal court, where the rules are thought to favor defendants.
Mr Scilingo arrived at the first day of his trial at the national court in Madrid in an ambulance and complained of feeling ill.
During the first trial lawyers spoke freely to reporters outside the court.
Further, conservatives have noted their belief that Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, has an ethical conflict due to having served as Solicitor General for the Obama Administration when the first cases challenging the law were at the trial court level.
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Instead, they will get a new trial at the Supreme Court of Appeal "as if it was a trial for the first time, " the agency said.
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The Orleans Parrish Criminal District Court is scheduled to hold its first jury trial since Hurricane Katrina.
Ms Mills-Westley's two daughters, Sarah and Samantha Mills-Westley, were in court for the first day of Mr Deyanov's trial.
On Tuesday, 25 former officials tied to the operation appeared in court for the first day of what officials say could be a trial of more than two years.
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But in 2011 the appeals court acquitted them, criticizing virtually the entire case mounted by prosecutors in the first trial.
The woman had attended the jury selection procedure at the court in Bobigny without a headscarf, but wore one on the first day of the trial.
The trial has been repeatedly postponed since it first opened in Amsterdam last January, after an earlier high court ruling dismissing the charges was appealed in the lower Amsterdam courts.
The Americans were reluctant to send him back to Venezuela to face trial for corruption, but after five years of court battles he was surrendered, the first time a former ruler of a foreign country had been extradited from the United States.
This trial has afforded him plenty of publicity, which may be why he went to court in the first place.
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