Alford was sentenced to thirty years in prison, after the trial judge in the case accepted the plea bargain and ruled that the defendant had been adequately apprised by his lawyer.

Selig was eager to settle the case because the judge had previously ruled that the Expos could not be moved or contracted until the case was over.

However, in December 2007 an administrative law judge ruled that he would receive benefits, as his action was not intentional misbehavior.

" ( The judge ruled that " intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature ".

In Beacon Theaters v. Westover,, the US Supreme Court discussed the right to a jury, holding that when both equitable and legal claims are brought, the right to a jury trial still exists for the legal claim, which would be decided by a jury before the judge ruled on the equitable claim.

A High Court judge, Mr Justice Floyd, ruled in favour of the creditors and paved the way for the sale of the club to Fenway Sports Group ( formerly New England Sports Ventures ), although Gillett and Hicks still had the option to appeal.

After general manager Marvin Milkes testified that the Pilots did not have enough money to pay the players, the bankruptcy judge granted the Pilots ' filing on April 1 and ruled the move to Milwaukee in order.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

In July 2010 a judge ruled that Larrikin should be paid 5 % of past ( since 2002 ) and future profits.

It was ruled that the judge should have left the defence of automatism open to him, so his conviction was quashed ( he had pleaded guilty rather than not guilty by reason of insanity ).

A Dutch judge has ruled that tourists can legally be banned from entering cannabis cafes, as part of new restrictions which come into force in 2012.

The majority of the lawsuit was dismissed in April 2004, when an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that the case lacked merit since none of the other partners took part in the lawsuit.

On June 6, federal judge Richard Paul Matsch ruled the documents would not prove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execution to proceed.

The judge ultimately ruled that a murder charge could not be supported partly because there were no witnesses to the killing.

A person whose behaviour is not mustahabb can be ruled against by the judge.

In a mockery of William Brevard Hand, a federal judge in Alabama, who ruled secular humanism as a religion, the musician Frank Zappa, who was also a free speech advocate, established the " Church of American Secular Humanism ".

While the defense could show no specific instance where any part of North's congressional testimony was used in his trial, the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge had made an insufficient examination of the issue, and ordered North's convictions reversed.

Litigation continued for nearly six years, until October 6, 1889, when a judge ruled that Edison's electric-light improvement claim for " a filament of carbon of high resistance " was valid.

The Court has ruled that, in certain circumstances, the Due Process Clause requires a judge to recuse himself on account of concern of there being a conflict of interest.

The judge ruled that any similarities in the melody were minor and " Titles " was a Vangelis original.

In July 2004, an appeal judge of the Pretoria High Court ruled that " the crimes were not committed for personal gain ".

However, when Clarke appealed to the High Court against the order, the judge ruled that the order was arbitrary and unjustified and quashed the order.

In August 2010, the trial judge ruled in their clients ' favor.

Microware sued Apple that year for trademark infringement, although a judge ruled that there would be little chance for confusion between the two.

The judge ruled that although the women were being discriminated against, the issue is an International Olympic Committee responsibility and thus not governed by the charter.

After the war, Rear-Admiral Michael Musmanno, a U. S. naval officer and judge, published an account apparently based on eye-witness testimony: " At about 8: 15 pm, Goebbels arose from the table, put on his hat, coat and gloves and, taking his wife's arm, went upstairs to the garden.

He was acquitted of the murders of his stepdaughter and his estranged wife's boyfriend, then hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife and a judge.

Robert Brown Aderholt Aderholt's father, a part-time minister for a small group of Congregational churches in northwest Alabama, was a circuit judge for more than 30 years, and his wife's father was a state commissioner and senator.

" After the American Revolution, he moved to his wife's family estate in Newton, Massachusetts and served as a judge and state senator in Massachusetts.

In all three notes, the judge talked about his distress at his wife's death, his declining health and his failing eyesight, according to a police spokesman.

During the early 1980s, Cossiga attacked several times the antimafia judges and spoke in favour of judge Corrado Carnevale, a member of the Corte di Cassazione ( Italy's supreme court ) who had annulled numerous sentences against mafia leaders and was later tried for these actions.

In sum, Radbruch's formula argues that where statutory law is incompatible with the requirements of justice " to an intolerable degree ", or where statutory law was obviously designed in a way that deliberately negates " the equality that is the core of all justice ", statutory law must be disregarded by a judge in favour of the justice principle.

They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.

The judge concluded that he was bound by the GWCT ’ s conclusions of law and also ruled in favour the English.

The matter was eventually settled in court, where a judge ruled in Carte's favour about two years later.

The judge ruled in Urban's favour, but an appeal in the House of Lords in 1914 reversed the decision.

Although he refers to her loyalty to Rome, he invites the reader to judge her " treacherous " role in the capture of Caratacus, who had sought her protection ; her " self-indulgence " her sexual impropriety in rejecting her husband in favour of a common soldier ; and her " cunning strategems " in taking Venutius ' relatives hostage.

In November 2004, after much public debate in favour of and against retaining the title ( see for example Sasha Wass QC ), it was announced that appointments of Queen's Counsel in England would be resumed but that future appointees would be chosen not by the government but by a nine-member panel, chaired by a lay person, which would include two barristers, two solicitors, one retired judge and three non-lawyers.

Initially the judge found in Spill's favour, but ultimately it was judged that neither party held an exclusive claim and the true inventor of celluloid / xylonite was Alexander Parkes, due to his mention of camphor in his earlier experiments and patents.

The judge in this suit eventually ruled in McLachlan's favour on the songs ; though Neudorf may have contributed to the songwriting, neither regarded each other as joint authors.

The judge ruled in Neudorf's favour on the payment issue.

The figures are no longer abstractions ; they are concrete examples of the folly of the bibliophile who collects books but learns nothing from them, of the evil judge who takes bribes to favour the guilty, of the old fool whom time merely strengthens in his folly, of those who are eager to follow the fashions, of the priests who spend their time in church telling " gestes " of Robin Hood and so forth.

On 24 June 2008, Fenech won the grudge match against Azumah Nelson by a majority decision, one judge scoring the fight a draw and the last two judges scoring it in favour of Fenech.

Court of First Instance judge Susan Kwan initially approved the merger on 6 April on the grounds that such " share splitting " was legal in Hong Kong ; however, the SFC appealed the case, and on 22 April, Anthony Rogers, Johnson Lam, and Aarif Barma of the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the SFC and against Li, thus blocking the buyout.

The presiding judge found in favour of the settlers, and said that the report damaged the community ’ s reputation.

Out of the nearly 200 Central Committee that was elected by the Congress, it is possible to judge from the number of votes cast in favour the delegates who lacked support in the party.

The case went to a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, who ruled in favour of Näslund on 29 June.

Abbott's central weakness as a judge was seen to be his support of James Scarlett, his leader when Abbott was a barrister ; " The timid junior, become Chief Justice, still looked up to his old leader with dread, was afraid of offending him, and was always delighted when he could decide in his favour ".

In granting judgment in favour of a taxpayer, the Tax Court of Canada may order the Minister of National Revenue to reassess on the basis described by the judge in the reasons for judgment or, where the assessment or reassessment is wholly incorrect, the assessment or reassessment may be vacated entirely.

The dispute was settled with the judge deciding in favour of both disputants on different counts.

Among his most famous dissents was his opinion in Murdoch v. Murdoch, where he was the sole judge to vote in favour of the wife of an abusive husband in a case regarding the division of matrimonial property.

In 2002, a District Court judge found in favour of Mr Able that Brownlee had " used excessive and unnecessary force on Mr Abel when he tried to remove him from a staircase handrail ".

The judge ruled that " even if those votes were introduced in breach of the rules and if they had all been counted in favour of the first respondent their exclusion would still have given the first respondent ( Ms Gildernew ) a majority of one vote and the result would not have been affected.