According to the Legal Project's website, it acts in four ways to counteract Islamist threats to free speech, " Fundraising for an Escrow account to supplement the court costs and litigation fees for victims of Islamist lawfare ( all funds raised go directly to lawfare victims ); Arranging for pro bono and reduced rate counsel for victims of Islamist lawfare ; Maintaining an international network of attorneys dedicated to working pro bono in the defense of free speech ; and, Raising awareness about the issue.

* Legal case, dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court of law

Legal systems in all socialist states preserved formal criteria of the Romano-Germanic civil law ; for this reason, law theorists in post-socialist states usually consider the Socialist law as a particular case of the Romano-Germanic civil law.

Legal analyst Jeffrey Rosen has argued that Section 4 gives the President unilateral authority to raise or ignore the national debt ceiling, and that if challenged the Supreme Court would likely rule in favor of expanded executive power or dismiss the case altogether for lack of standing.

She appeared in the 1954 NBC legal drama Justice, based on case files of the Legal Aid Society of New York.

Legal action has been taken in at least one such case.

Legal experts who had followed the trial said that the prosecutors found it hard to present a convincing case due to the 25 years that had elapsed since Calvi's death.

Legal drama sometimes overlap with crime drama, most notably in the case of Law & Order.

During a case in the TV law drama Boston Legal, a method of proving reasonable doubt was credited to Perry Mason with much success.

Legal appeals of Luciano's conviction continued until October 10, 1938, when the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.

She still appeared in an episode of CBS's anthology series Appointment with Adventure and NBC's Justice, based on case files of the New York Legal Aid Society.

Legal action was taken in the case of Neil Innes ( formerly of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and The Rutles ) who sued after the song " Whatever " borrowed from his " How Sweet to Be an Idiot ".

Legal historian Wilfrid Prest writes that despite these legislative enactments, the tally of which " begins to look quite impressive ", the old problems continued, albeit less frequently ; one barrister of the time claimed that going to the Court with a case worth anything less than £ 500 was a waste of time.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund brought the Swann case on behalf of six-year-old James Swann and nine other families, with Julius L. Chambers presenting the case.

Their case Christian Legal Society v. Martinez reached the Supreme Court of the United States in 2010.

The 1870 case Hepburn v. Griswold found unconstitutional the use of greenbacks when applied to debts established prior to the First Legal Tender Act as the five Democrats on the Court, Nelson, Grier, Clifford, Field, and Chase, ruled against the Civil War legislation in a 5-3 decision.

In 1884, the Court, controlled 8-1 by Republicans, granted the federal government very broad power to issue Legal Tender paper through the case Juilliard v. Greenman, with only the lone remaining Democrat, Field, dissenting.

The gay rights advocates from Lambda Legal litigating the case convinced Lawrence and Garner not to contest the charges despite their innocence and to plead no contest instead.

In 1953 the NAACP Legal Defense Fund asked Commager for advice for their argument before the Supreme Court for the case of Brown vs Board of Education, but at the time he was not persuaded that this litigation would succeed on historical grounds, and so advised the lawyers.

An episode of the television series Boston Legal, " Squid Pro Quo ", which originally aired on May 9, 2006, featured a case involving USAID's withdrawal of funding to an overseas non-profit organization.

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: Legal briefs are used as part of arguing a pre-trial motion in a case or proceeding.

Legal scholar and columnist Anthony Lewis called Near the Court's " first great press case.

His case is recognized by the State Bar of Michigan as one of its " Michigan Legal Milestones ".

* Legal remedy, an action by a court of law to impose its will

However, this self-regulation will come to an end when those bodies themselves come under the regulation of the Legal Standards Board, composed of non-lawyers, under the Legal Services Act 2007.

There will be modules not commonly seen in other courses to meet specific needs among local graduates, such as the Legal Language and Communication Skills to address the poor command of English and the Practice Management Skills to expose lawyers intending to start their own firm on risk management.

Lambda Legal carries out its legal work principally through test cases selected for the likelihood of their success in establishing positive legal precedents that will affect lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those affected by HIV.

Complaints from the public are handled by the Legal Complaints Service but this function will shortly pass to the Office for Legal Complaints which will be a single portal for complaints by the public made against all providers of legal services including the Bar, licensed conveyancers etc., but excluding unqualified will-writers.

The Law Society remains the approved regulator, although following the Legal Services Act 2007 a new body, the Legal Services Board ( chaired by David Edmonds, a government appointee ) will oversee all the approved regulators including the Bar Council, which has also divested its regulatory functions into the Bar Standards Board.

Legal constraints, including copyright, pose another concern: will copyright infringement occur as documents are digitized and as companies such as Google promote digitization?

The First Law of the Provisional State Council, Paragraph 18, of the Order of Government and Legal Arrangement stated that " the Provisional Government is empowered to set up armed forces on land, sea and air, which will be authorised to carry out all necessary and legal actions for the defence of the country.

Usually at the top of the hour Joyce will perform a Legal identification for KPFA, and near the end of the show will make a similar closing announcement.

Legal challenges as well as concerns about the design and how costs will be paid delayed the start of construction.

The winner will have excelled in Legal, Policing and Technical Studies, the Social Sciences, Communications, Physical Education Studies, Gaeilge and Dissertation.

Legal doctrine also holds that a retailer incurs the risk that merchandise will be destroyed by placing it where customers can handle it and not doing anything to discourage them.

Up to twelve separate awards will be made in three categories-Applied Science, Engineering and Mathematics ; Basic Science ; and Managerial or Legal Achievement.

The bill has been referred to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee and will be debated in the Senate when the Committee has reported.

Legal ideas from other systems are turned on their head: someone pronounced " innocent " ( guilty in other terms ) by the court is torn to pieces by angry spectators ; judges may have bias (" if I can decide for my side, I will "), though not prejudice (" I will decide for my side, regardless "); defendant and plaintiff are chosen at trial by the side bringing the complaint choosing one role or the other ; torture is permitted ; and all procedural rules may be violated, but only by finding conflict within procedural rules ( an example of Nomic ).

( 2 ) If the Majlis or the Legal Committee considers that the following of the tenets of the Shafi " i school of law will be opposed to the public interest, the Majlis may follow the tenets of any of the other accepted schools of Muslim law as may be considered appropriate, but in any such ruling the provisions and principles to be followed shall be set out in full detail and with all necessary explanations.

Legal conflicts over the will took years to resolve, but in 1982 the trust finally received Getty's full bequest.