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In the first trial, on June 24, Karma Samdrup, 42, one of the wealthiest Tibetan businessmen in China, received a 15-year sentence from a court in Xinjiang for stealing antiques.
Human rights groups suggested the charge was invented, because the police had dropped the case for lack of evidence when it was first investigated 12 years ago, and neither witnesses nor new evidence were produced in court.
Indeed, Public Citizen, a US consumer advocacy group, has calculated that, in the US alone, the pharmaceutical industry has paid out billions of dollars as a result of court judgments and financial settlements between pharmaceutical manufacturers and federal and state governments.
Indeed, anything worthwhile that a monarch can do, an elected non-executive president can do better – not least because an elected official is much less likely to be undermined by the scandals of pampered offspring or degraded by the inevitable hypocrisy and servility of a royal court.
Gilani had been convicted weeks earlier of contempt of court, after he refused to comply with a court order directing him to write to Swiss authorities and demand that they reopen a money-laundering investigation against President Asif Ali Zardari that had been launched in the mid-1990’s.
In the short order of June 19, the court said that “the Election Commission shall issue a notice for disqualification and the president is required to take necessary action to ensure the continuation of the democratic process.”
Since neither Gilani nor the government appealed the Supreme Court’s judgment in the contempt case, “the conviction has attained finality,” the court wrote.
The president, the prime minister, and the speaker of the national assembly chose to ignore the court’s order, limiting themselves to responding to a petition moved in the court by the main opposition party.
The petition asked the court to seek compliance, and the court agreed.
With the Supreme Court’s short order, the ball is back in Zardari’s court, and he has no choice but to play it this time.
By raising the double-freeze solution, China put the ball in America’s court, and placed the onus for resolving the crisis squarely on Trump’s shoulders.
Meanwhile, China is seeking to seize opportunistically on the recent flare-up of a territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan to court the government in Seoul.
To prevent journalists from reporting on a political rally by then-opposition leader Raila Odinga, the Kenyan government forced three private television stations off the air for days, ignoring court orders to end the blockade.
Here, indeed, is a wonderful plot to force the State to retrench, but Italians shouldn't get their hopes up too early, for Italy's supreme court ruled that taxation is not for the people to decide.
The third issue highlighted by Ms. Bonino is the quaint Italian labor law that allows a dismissed worker to go to court and seek reinstatement.
The country will be unable to avoid tyranny unless it is willing to respect the minimal democratic guarantees provided by the constitution, such as a supreme court, an attorney general, a comptroller, and an electoral council appointed with two-thirds of the National Assembly’s support.
He could also be tried before a national court in a country that accepts the idea of universal jurisdiction, as happened in Spain as well as in the United Kingdom in the case of Chile's former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet.
If it does not, the EU should take America to court.
If EU member states believe that taking America to court is too confrontational, they have the lesser option of asking the United Nations to seek an advisory opinion from the ICJ on the compatibility of the NSA’s alleged activities with the Vienna Convention.
Anyone familiar with Dubai understands that these are but small examples of a much broader embrace of creativity that has allowed the country to court elite foreign professionals in finance and other industries.
A private tribunal would hear cases and issue binding rulings, with no possibility of appeal to any court or other democratically accountable authority.
His election is being challenged in court by other candidates, and Western backing could play a role in stabilizing his government.
In Germany the highest court decided that to the use of a contract, or the formation of associations on the basis of contract, for the purpose of eliminating competition was compatible with the law, it was compatible with the freedom to compete.
I saw it many times on the tennis court.
Eagleburger, who was short, but only a little overweight at the time, would range over the court, not particularly mindful that he was playing doubles.
Under the 2002 Rome Statute, which established the ICC, the court has jurisdiction to prosecute all crimes that Philippine law-enforcement agencies are “unable” or “unwilling” to pursue themselves.
Multiple state attorneys general are now taking drug manufacturers – including Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, Endo Health Solutions, Inc., and their subsidiaries – to court for marketing and distributing their products by “nefarious and deceptive” means.
By emphasizing the ideological divide between him and Hollande, Sarkozy is also being led to court, more openly than ever, the extreme-right electorate of Marine Le Pen’s National Front, as if he sensed that she might not find enough signatures to qualify for a place on the ballot.
It is wrong – and sexist – to treat female sex-crime accusers as if they were children, and it is wrong to try anyone, male or female, in the court of public opinion on the basis of anonymous accusations.
For example, if the required majority of shareholders adopts such a plan, the court should protect the rights of the minority of creditors who may have opposed it.
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