During the national tobacco litigation, a memo from Philip Morris executive Frank Gomez revealed that Ridenour ( under her maiden name of Amy Moritz ) had offered " to use any information we can provide re the current anti-tobacco onslaught ..." Ridenour wrote many op-eds attacking the filing of lawsuits by state attorneys general against tobacco firms and on tobacco policies, such as " Ironies of the Tobacco Wars ," " Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Could Pave Way for Litigation Tax on Other Industries ," " Latin America Go Home: Tobacco Policies in Foreign Countries Should Be Made by Foreign Countries, Not in U. S. Courts " and " Lawyers ' Fees in Tobacco Case Should Be Capped.

DADT was upheld by five of the federal Courts of Appeal, The Supreme Court, in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. ( 2006 ), unanimously held that the federal government could constitutionally withhold funding from universities, no matter what their nondiscrimination policies might be, for refusing to give military recruiters access to school resources.

Appeals to British Courts and European Commission of Human Rights were unsuccessful.

Under the White and Taft Courts ( 1910 – 1930 ), the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment had incorporated some guarantees of the Bill of Rights against the states ( Gitlow v. New York ),

In April 2000 two motorists who were caught speeding in the United Kingdom challenged the Road Traffic Act 1988 which required the keeper of a car to identify the driver at a particular time as being in contradiction to the Human Rights Act 1998 on the grounds that it amounted to a ' compulsory confession ', also that since the camera partnerships included the police, local authorities, Magistrates Courts Service ( MCS ) and Crown Prosecution Service ( CPS ) which had a financial interest in the fine revenue that they would not get a fair trial.

The Supreme Court, the highest in the country, may issue writs under Article 32 of the Constitution for enforcement of Fundamental Rights and under Articles 139 for enforcement of rights other than Fundamental Rights, while High Courts, the superior courts of the States, may issue writs under Articles 226.

Courts sometimes mandate its use as a remedy in lawsuits brought under the Voting Rights Act in the United States ; an example of this occurred in 2009 in Port Chester, New York., which had its first cumulative voting elections for its Board of Trustees in 2010 ..

Derogations by states having ratified or acceeded to binding international agreements such as the ICCPR, the American and European Conventions on Human Rights and the International Labour Conventions are monitored by independent expert committees, regional Courts and other State Parties.

* Rights and wrongs: The European Convention on Human Rights and its application in the United Kingdom ( SSC biennial lecture ) by Malcolm Rifkind ( 2000, Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland ) ISBN B0000CP0RH

Năstase claimed the sentence was influenced by rival politician Traian Băsescu, at the time President of Romania, and indicated that if necessary, he will raise his case to the European Courts of Human Rights.

In the interpretation of those rights the Act provides that the domestic Courts " may " take into account the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

Sunstein's books include After the Rights Revolution ( 1990 ), The Partial Constitution ( 1993 ), Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech ( 1993 ), Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict ( 1996 ), Free Markets and Social Justice ( 1997 ), One Case at a Time ( 1999 ), Risk and Reason ( 2002 ), Why Societies Need Dissent ( 2003 ), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle ( 2005 ), Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America ( 2005 ), Are Judges Political?

DeConcini also served on the Senate Judiciary Committee and chaired the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, along with the Subcommittees on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights, the Constitution and the Courts.

* Greenberg, Jack " Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement " ( 2004 )

Koh is the author of several books, including The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair ( Yale University Press, 1990 ); Transnational Legal Problems ( with Harry Steiner and Detlev Vagts, Foundation Press, 1994 ); Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights ( with Ronald C. Slye, Yale University Press, 1999 ); and Transnational Litigation in United States Courts ( Foundation Press 2008 ).

* Human Rights First ; In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts ( 2009 )

In his capacity as director of the Center for International Human Rights, Scheffer runs the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor website, the primary source for accessing news, information, and video of trial proceedings from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

* Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution ( 1994 )

* Crusaders in the Courts ; Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement ( 2004 )

* Human Rights First: In Pursuit of Justice ; Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts ( 2009 )

He wrote Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal ( Duke U. Press 2001 ), and Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform ( U. Chicago Press 2011 ).

Sir Thomas More is commemorated with a sculpture at the late-19th-century Sir Thomas More House, opposite the Royal Courts of Justice, Carey Street, London.

With an ever increasing workload the eleven-storey Thomas More Building was built to house the Bankruptcy and Companies Courts and yet more offices.

Finally, it was necessary to build an additional twelve courts for the Chancery Division named the Thomas More Courts, which opened in January 1990.

Judicial power is exercised by the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Federal Court, the Superior Court of Justice and other Superior Courts, the National Justice Council and the regional federal courts.

Judicial power is exercised by the judiciary, consisting of the Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico, the Tribunal de Apelaciones ( English: Court of Appeals ), and Tribunal de Primera Instancia ( English: Courts of First Instance ).

Plea bargains are so common in the Superior Courts of California ( the general trial courts ) that the Judicial Council of California has published an optional seven-page form ( containing all mandatory advisements required by federal and state law ) to help prosecutors and defense attorneys reduce such bargains into written plea agreements.

* Judicial: Sri Lanka's judiciary consists of a Supreme Court – the highest and final superior court of record, a Court of Appeal, High Courts and a number of subordinate courts.

* Territorial Courts at Federal Judicial Center

* United States District Courts at Federal Judicial Center

** Circuit and County Courts for the 19th Judicial Circuit of Florida

** Circuit and County Courts for the 19th Judicial Circuit of Florida

* To appoint the judges of the Appeals court, the Land courts, the Courts of First Instance, the Judges of Instruction, the Peace Courts and their deputies, the Administrative-Tax Court and the judges of any other judicial courts created by law, according to the provisions of the Law on Judicial Career.

However, under Section 24 of the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Scotland Act 1990, suitably qualified solicitors were for the first time in Scotland granted rights of audience in the Supreme Courts in Scotland as well as in the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as solicitor advocates.

In 2006 Lehigh County voters approved a county-charter amendment to combine the offices of Clerk of Courts, Register of Wills, and Recorder of Deeds into the office of the Clerk of Judicial Records.

Courts: The Clark County Judicial System consists of 8 Courts:

Winner's report, " Findings on Judicial Practices & Court-appointed Personnel In The Family Courts In Dorchester, Charleston & Berkeley Counties, South Carolina " and citizen demonstrations led to the very first laws in South Carolina to establish minimum standards and licensing requirements for guardians ad litem — who represent the interests of children in court cases.

The British Agricultural Revolution relied in large part on the establishment of a democratic government that used Parliament passed laws, English Common law, the established Courts with Judicial independence and the rule of law to protect life, liberty and property in England, Wales, Scotland, etc .. Empowering the farmers, investors, inventors and businessman was accomplished by increasingly and successfully restricting the power the Pope and the king and the so called " aristocracy " had in England.

Before the establishment of the High Court, appeals from the state Supreme Courts could be made only to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which involved the great expense of physically travelling to London.

From 1 January 2007, the Danish Courts are composed of the Supreme Court ( Højesteret ), the two High Courts ( Landsretten ), the Copenhagen Maritime and Commercial Court ( Sø-og Handelsretten i København ( national jurisdiction )), the Land Registration Court, 24 district courts ( Byretten ), the courts of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the Appeals Permission Board, the Danish Judicial Appointments Council and the Danish Court Administration.

* Lecture by Kenneth Keith entitled Aspects of the Judicial Process in National and International Courts and Tribunals in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

Besides, the Faculty has produced Judicial Officers and many distinguished members of the Bar, serving at the Supreme Court of India, Gujarat High Court, other High Courts and Lower Courts.

Held extra assignments as Custodian of Evacuee Properties in the Province of Sindh, Chairman, Special Court under Suppression of Terrorist Activities ( Special Courts ) Act, 1975 ; Special Appellate Court ( Customs ) and Chairman, Provincial Election Authority, Sindh ( for elections to the local bodies ), Member Syndicate, Senate and Election Board of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Member of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi Board of Trustees, Election Tribunal appointed by Election Commission of Pakistan in respect of General Elections held in the year 1985. Participated in a programme titled “ Introduction to Computer and Technology in Courts ” at National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, USA Chief Justice, High Court of Sindh, Karachi from 1989-1990. Elevated to Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1990-1994.

He left that court to become a judge to the Probate and Criminal Courts in Leavenworth in 1862, and then changed courts again to become a judge to the First Judicial District of Kansas in 1865.