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Pinochet’s Trial, Chile’s DignityThe court battle on whether or not to punish former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is now over.
The turning point in the US came in 1998, when a federal court decision upheld a patent on an accounting system, which launched a flood of business-method patents--over a thousand a year in 1999 and 2000.
(The case was settled out of court last year, with royalties paid to Amazon.com.)
The Swedish court system is characterized by foreseeability, fairness, humanism, and high professional quality.
President Barack Obama’s first visit to China last November, in which he accepted the role of pliant suitor at the court of the emperor, strengthened the impression of a deal between today’s great power and tomorrow’s.
A US court recently ruled that veterans’ rights have been violated.
After Europe and the Americas, Africa will be the third continent with a regional court to redress human rights violations.
Clearly, the birth of an African human rights court should be celebrated.
That is a poor record for any court of law, which should afford defendants certainty and procedural fairness.
Moreover, the first bench of any international court is critically important, because it is entrusted to prepare and adopt other key documents - such as the rules of procedure, internal regulations, and financial regulations - that will govern the court for years to come.
When they meet in July in Addis Ababa, African heads of state would be better off discussing where the court will be located, how it will be financed, and, most importantly, agreeing standards for an open, participatory, and transparent process for electing its judges.
They should not rush into nominating judges for a court that is still largely on the drawing board.
But, above all, Africa needs a human rights court that commands the unreserved and unmitigated respect of the continent's governments and peoples.
Medieval court jesters were often the only ones who could speak truth to despotic kings.
The old man sued her in court, only to surrender a few months later.
Exporters and importers no longer need to know one another, because they can write a contract that a court will enforce.
The one bill that Duda did not veto allows the government to sack all district and intermediate court presidents.
Further complicating matters for the EU, placing the selection of Poland’s lower court presidents under Ziobro’s control means that politically selected judges may adjudicate on challenges to tenders for EU-funded projects.
A court of law will decide whether Goldman Sachs’ behavior – betting against products that it created – was illegal.
But the court of public opinion has already rendered its verdict on the far more relevant question of the ethics of that behavior.
Though our political institutions need a thorough overhaul, I am proud to say that, despite Rajapaksa’s best efforts to corrupt and hollow them out, our victory was made possible because the election commission and court workers adhered to the law.
Nevertheless, electronic eavesdropping without court authorization, of the sort Bush ordered starting in 2002, played a particularly important part in Nixon’s downfall.
In fact, Bush pursued his policy despite a 1978 law – adopted in response to the Nixon-era abuses – that specifically requires judicial approval, and in contradiction to his public assurance that no such eavesdropping takes place without a court order.
The US Environmental Protection Agency, now in the hands of lobbyists from the fossil-fuel sector, dismantles environmental regulations every week (though many of these actions are being challenged in court).
If the court approves the deal, the settlement would put billions of reals into the pockets of savers.
That possibility seems to have had a sobering effect on the country’s top court.
That is why the settlement reached in December – which was ratified by the attorney general – could be interpreted as giving the court a way out.
Companies that do not meet the new gender rules, which also apply to the public sector – risk being dissolved by court order.
And in 2008, the party narrowly escaped being shut down by the country’s top court for “anti-secular activities.”
Although he doesn’t tell us what the second or third action is, he has turned up in a British court to defend six activists who damaged a coal power station.
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