There is now a possibility that she may refuse to quit, as Sri Lanka's highest courts - the Supreme Court and the Appeal Court - last month quashed the impeachment process as irregular and illegal, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports.
Paul, Minnesota, officials last year in getting them to drop the city's pending Supreme Court appeal over public housing conditions.
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On Wednesday, Lisa Madigan dismissed the notion that waiting for a decision on a Supreme Court appeal was a political maneuver related to her campaign plans.
Washington (CNN) -- Aldo the German shepherd and his human companions in law enforcement won an important Supreme Court appeal on Tuesday over vehicle searches for drugs and contraband.
But campaigners lost a series of court battles against the plans, with the High Court rejecting their claims the council's decision to close the libraries was "flawed and unlawful", the Court of Appeal upholding that ruling and the Supreme Court refusing the right for a further appeal.
Instead, it is narrowly crafted, clearly tied to existing Supreme Court precedent, and I think consciously crafted to be affirmed on an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court can reconsider Court of Appeal decisions if the justices are convinced there is a " point of law of general public importance".
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The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that impeachment will have unpredictable consequences because the government is pressing ahead with it in defiance of orders from both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.
"I am waiting for the final judgement of the Lahore High Court and would then appeal in the Supreme court, " Malik said.
The Supreme Court then accepted an appeal against the Constitutional Court's decision, on procedural grounds.
Mr George's lawyers indicated they would seek to appeal to the Supreme Court - a so-called "leapfrog" appeal.
The Court of Appeal upheld the ruling last year and the Supreme Court has now refused permission for a further appeal because "the application does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance".
At trial, the court denied a Motion to Suppress but on appeal the Florida Supreme Court reversed, holding that in order to reach the level of probable cause, the State needed to demonstrate the reliability of Aldo through such factors as field-performance records showing how many times the dog had falsely alerted.
Tata challenged the move in the high court in Calcutta and is expected to take its appeal to the Supreme Court.
It lost a High Court case in 2011 and has now been refused permission to take the appeal to the Supreme Court.
However, the landlord applied to the Supreme Court to appeal for a second time and Mr Chestnutt's visa was blocked.
In March, the Court of Appeal rejected his appeal against extradition and he was refused leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Retired Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Ian Farlam, who is leading the commission of inquiry, said it would resume on 22 October.
Joseph Chigona told the AP news agency the case involving 3-year-old Chifundo James would come up before three Supreme Court of Appeal judges.
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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Batasuna can appeal the Supreme Court ruling to Spain's top tribunal, the Constitutional Court, but the ban on Batasuna is due to take effect in the coming days even if there is an appeal.
But the Supreme Court of Appeal disagreed.
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Now he put that decision on hold while Research In Motion appealed, but in 2004, a federal appeals court upheld the judgment against Research In Motion, and now it's on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.
The White House has insisted the appeals court decision is wrong and plans to appeal it to the Supreme Court.
The Florida Supreme Court also did not receive an appeal, according to court spokesman Craig Waters.
If the Supreme Court rejects her latest appeal, she can seek a judicial review of the decision from the same court.
EchoStar Communications (nasdaq: DISH - news - people ) lost another court skirmish this week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider EchoStar's appeal of a lower court ruling that it cannot beam local broadcast channels to a nationwide audience.
Beazley still has an appeal before the Supreme Court seeking a full review of his case.
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