But the Supreme Court was careful to say that arbitration should look and feel just like a judicial case.
Berlusconi has been waging a publicity offensive to help his judicial case.
Some months later, the new Finance Minister, Ms Lagarde, overruled objections from her officials and intervened in the judicial case, pushing the bank and Mr Tapie into binding arbitration.
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Mr. TOM DASCHLE (Former Senate Democratic Leader): What would you suggest ought to be the message to the country when a judicial review case is before the court as to whether or not legislator or the executive branches are to adhere to?
But the silence and seeming insensitivity of the Israeli mainstream in the face of all this is not merely a case of judicial or even moral flaccidity.
For the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey said the foreign secretary should have been "more contrite" following the ruling, and he called for a judicial inquiry into the case.
If this is the case, judicial process based on specific evidence could surrender to the political will of the President that claims to speak on behalf of social interests.
The alliance is hoping for an early decision from the court on whether to allow a judicial review of the case which they hope could take place before the new year.
An Italian prosecutor has more possibilities to appeal a ruling than exist in the U.S., thereby prolonging a case in a judicial system that already is notoriously slow.
The evidence suggest that the president and Ms. Lewinsky made false statements under oath and obstructed the judicial process in the Jones case by preventing the court from obtaining the truth about their relationship.
Iraqi judicial law will be implemented in case these forces commit a serious and deliberate felony outside their military bases and when off duty.
Sir Richard and his People's Lottery team consulted lawyers, who said they had a "strong case" for a judicial review, but feared the "ramifications" of a successful challenge.
The case is still being fought and has moved up the judicial ladder, with the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on the case soon.
Not surprisingly, his most talked-about ruling, a case from early in his judicial career, deals with abortion.
Some judicial circuits have their own tests and case law that would affect the outcome differently depending on where a suit was filed.
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More death penalties and sentences of life imprisonment have been awarded in this case than in any other single case in India's judicial history.
That key procedural failing alone might have been enough to dismiss the case against her in many other judicial systems.
Is the President closely following the case -- not just the judicial side of it but the personal story of Sergeant Bales?
The public prosecutor said on Tuesday that a judicial investigation would now be opened into the case following a preliminary investigation begun in January.
The judicial officer who dealt with Burger's case, Alan Hudson, cleared him of the specific charge of eye-gouging as determined by the International Rugby Board, but found him guilty of committing an act contrary to good sportsmanship.
"It is open to the individual state, to make statutory provision for the imposition of a whole life minimum term, and in an appropriate case, as a matter of judicial discretion, for the court to make such an order, " he said.
Lamberth is hearing a case brought by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch.
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The minister said there was always the possibility of the exceptional case and he supported the principle of judicial discretion.
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Cuffaro, a Christian Democrat, said the case had reinforced his trust in the judicial system, as well as his religious faith.
Judicial interpretation has been necessary to decide the Pinochet case either way.
In those circumstances, he said, he was satisfied that no case had been made out for a judicial review and he dismissed the application.
Judge Selna, who is also presiding over that case, last month overruled a lower judicial official's finding questioning the veracity of the Internal Revenue Service's lead lawyer.
The case, too, reflects the aggressive conservative judicial activism of the Roberts Court.
But BBC political correspondent Norman Smith said any pressure by the UK government in Sandiford's case was now likely to occur after the judicial appeals process was complete.
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The Economist is thus concerned about Mr Berlusconi both as an outrage against the Italian people and their judicial system, and as Europe's most extreme case of the abuse by a capitalist of the democracy within which he lives and operates.
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