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These are the same companies that Europe’s national governments court and listen to on a daily basis.
Having already been condemned by a kangaroo court to death by musketry, my father refused to hoist a white flag.
Going to court is practically unheard of, as it would mean renouncing family practices.
The case went to the local court, where the judge ruled it an "accidental traffic disturbance" and gave the driver a two-year suspended sentence.
The commissions may even sentence detainees to death, with no appeal to a civilian court whatsoever.
The court decided that the doctor and biotechnology company, not the patient, should profit.
A military court issued a warrant for their arrest.
This was followed by the June 2001 court decision to set a date for trial, making it possible at last to present the evidence against these individuals.
After all, its institutional innovations apply only to the new Novo Mercado-listed companies, and not to the bulk of the Brazilian economy’s big firms, which are listed on the stock exchange’s main segment, and thus remain stuck with the old rules, old institutions, and an ineffective court system.
To be sure, no court gets every decision right, or pleases all parties.
Germany versus the EuroBERLIN – Usually, people or institutions are taken to court when things go wrong and a fight ensues about who is liable for the damage.
And, even if the court refrains from setting limits, the underlying problem – growing German aversion to all things European – will not go away.
American President Barack Obama visited China, more in the spirit of a supplicant to an imperial court than the leader of the world’s greatest superpower.
But an attorney attuned to the personality of her client still plays an indispensable role in advising someone contemplating a messy divorce whether to negotiate, mediate, or go to court.
This constitutional approach limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (as well as on military adventure), which had been the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.
It is a test of wills and it will be won or lost in the court of global public opinion.
The government asserted that the court did not have jurisdiction over constitutional amendments.
An amendment to Argentina's Constitution giving international treaties constitutional force lay behind an Argentine court's historic decision this month, reversing amnesties adopted under military pressure in the 1980s for atrocities committed during the country's 1976-83 "dirty war."
The court was already casting an eye at Zadari by examining the deal between former President Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto.
On September 9, in the so-called Microsoft case, just one day after the agreement was reached, the US Department of Justice argued in federal court that US authorities should be granted direct access to data held by private companies abroad, including in Europe.
However the court ultimately rules, the move is a dangerous breach of trust.
The Iranian establishment has supported his attempts to open the country up to its regional neighbors, court foreign investment, call for moderation in religious and cultural matters, and even pursue the nuclear deal with the West.
“Effective participation by members of all racial and ethnic groups in the civil life of our nation,” the court said, “is essential if the dream of one nation, indivisible, is to be realized.”
Retired military officers and commanders told the court that affirmative action was essential to maintaining an integrated officer corps.
But creditors have challenged the move in court, with the US Supreme Court set to issue a ruling by the end of June.
Most lawyers and judges never enter a criminal court.
It has taken the government to court in an effort to force it to reverse its decision.
From country to country, legislation and court judgments are increasingly trampling on long-recognized labor rights.
The formal trappings of a real court always seem better than instant justice, even if the end result is also death.
But then the judges had the misfortune of realizing their fondest dream – trying in their court the arch-villain Slobodan Milosevic.
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