Late Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the leader of the Democrat-led Assembly, said the gun-control negotiations also included talks on strengthening Kendra's Law, a 1999 law that requires people court-ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment to comply with that treatment or risk a period of involuntary commitment.
Rather, she is a woman who thinks on her feet--in a law office, in court and when speaking to audiences--and happens to love shopping for shoes.
Mr Spencer's son-in-law, Michael Carr, who was also taught by Mr King, told the court his father-in-law was fanatical about flying and had already achieved his fixed-wing pilot's licence.
And we can control that by standing up for, and putting in place, and preparing an advocate to defend the constitutionality of the law before the Supreme Court -- that's something the Justice Department has done.
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The rights and wrongs of Suarez's punishment and of the Terry case -- should the FA, for example, have charged the Chelsea captain after he had been cleared in a court of law -- have been played out endlessly in the media and across social-networking websites like Twitter.
Thus, at the time of his arrest he was no longer-as a matter of law, as far as the Supreme Court was concerned-president of Honduras.
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Thus, at the time of his arrest he knew, as well as everybody else, that he was no longer-as a matter of law, as far as the Supreme Court was concerned-president of Honduras.
Recently, Bartels noticed a similar polarization in attitudes toward the health-care law and the Supreme Court.
Emms's former mother-in-law Mrs Brandon told the court she discovered the money had been taken from her grandson's account.
China has developed a modern body of maritime law, expanded a dedicated maritime-court infrastructure and encouraged a specialist bar of maritime lawyers.
Never mind the morality of what brought the parties to court, the law-and-economics crowd said: The courts are a mechanism for shoving the costs on the parties best suited to pay them.
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Olson, a stellar appellate lawyer who worked in Reagan's Justice Department alongside Kenneth Starr, argued that the Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.
In contrast to the polished Ivy League law-school types that sit on the court today, Roosevelt's quadrumvirate was a varied lot.
That law -- now being challenged in federal court -- was not the case in the current dispute, the Maryland high court said.
Instead of written contracts enforceable in a recognized court of law, Sino-Forest operates on the basis of personal relationships, cultivated by its senior management.
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William Adams is a public figure, an Aransas County Court-at-Law judge.
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Sean Quinn was sitting amongst a group of his supporters as the ruling was being read out, his son Sean Quinn Jnr and son-in-law Niall McPartland were also in court this morning.
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If the justices decide that neither the Obama administration nor the House had reason to bring the federal marriage case before the high court, that would keep in place two lower-court rulings nullifying the law.
The Gore team was led by Supreme Court war-horse Laurence Tribe, the Harvard law professor who last week received his 30th souvenir quill from the court, which gives the pens to attorneys who argue before it.
He did not suggest -- did not mean and did not suggest that the Court -- it would be unprecedented for the Court to rule that a law was unconstitutional.
Charles, the court held that a pro-life doctor did not have standing to defend an antiabortion law in court when the state attorney general refused to do so.
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The lawfulness of the first bill passed by the assembly under its new law-making powers was challenged in the Supreme Court by the UK government.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided two securities-law cases today, handing a victory to plaintiff lawyers in one and narrowing the time frame for the Securities and Exchange Commission to go after frauds in the other.
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Opponents are also seeking to have the amendment nullified, arguing that it alters the state's constitution -- meaning the state Supreme Court's May ruling -- and therefore, according to state law, is a revision that requires a constitutional convention.
It is natural for those familiar with the common-law system to object to a non-judicial body overturning an interpretation given by a final appellate court.
In any case, under Singapore law, the merger was left to a court-mandated vote by Vickers Ballas shareholders.
This week Guernsey's Home Department decided to keep secret the details of the out-of-court settlement it agreed with the law firm.
The terms of the agreement also preclude you from referring to this matter, unless a Court of Law could Order the re-examination of evidence.
PCAOB, I laid out changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley law that could be considered if the Court declared the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board unconstitutional.
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"The object of California's establishment of the legal relationship of domestic partnership is to grant committed same-sex couples rights equivalent to those accorded a married couple. but Proposition 8, by depriving same-sex couples of the right to marry, denies them the dignity, respect, and stature accorded similarly situated opposite-sex couples under state law, " the court brief said.
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