In 1910 it required the convening of a special three-judge court for the issuance of certain injunctions and allowed direct appeals to the Supreme Court.

The taking of depositions, he suggested, should be placed under a special court examiner empowered to compel responsive and relevant answers and to exclude immaterial testimony.

Whatever professionalism there was tended to disguise itself ; it was possible to pay for the services of a speechwriter ( logographos ) but this was not advertised in court ( except as something your opponent had to resort to ), and even politically prominent litigants made some show of disowning special expertise.

They were placed in special training as court servants to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Because mass actions operate outside the detailed procedures laid out for class actions, they can pose special difficulties for both plaintiffs, defendants, and the court.

However, a French court ruled, in June 1990, that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989, for the tower's 100th anniversary, was an " original visual creation " protected by copyright.

In 1996, STATS, Inc., a major statistical provider to fantasy sports companies, won a court case, along with Motorola, on appeal against the NBA in which the NBA was trying to stop STATS from distributing in game score information via a special wireless device created by Motorola.

The court ruled in Carpenter: " It is well established, as a general proposition, that a person who acquires special knowledge or information by virtue of a confidential or fiduciary relationship with another is not free to exploit that knowledge or information for his own personal benefit but must account to his principal for any profits derived therefrom.

* Dayan ( judge )-An ordained rabbi with special legal training who belongs to a beth din ( rabbinical court ).

A court whose subject-matter jurisdiction is limited to certain types of controversies ( for example, suits in admiralty or suits where the monetary amount sought is less than a specified sum ) is sometimes referred to as a court of special jurisdiction or court of limited jurisdiction.

He argued that he need not attend Philip's court because of his special status as the Duke of Normandy, who was exempt by feudal tradition from being called to the French court.

By early 1961, the British had withdrawn their special court system, which handled the cases of foreigners resident in Kuwait, and the Kuwaiti Government began to exercise legal jurisdiction under new laws drawn up by an Egyptian jurist.

A federal court has a " special obligation to ' satisfy itself not only of its own jurisdiction, but also that of the lower courts in a cause under review.

Since early 2003, a special law court with prison facilities has been operational at Schiphol airport.

Absent very special conditions, a court can not impose a penalty-civil or criminal-against an individual who has not received

Other special pleas used in criminal cases include the plea of mental incompetence, challenging the jurisdiction of the court over the defendant's person, the plea in bar, attacking the jurisdiction of the court over the crime charged, and the plea in abatement, which is used to address procedural errors in bringing the charges against the defendant, not apparent on the " face " of the indictment or other charging instrument.

Impeachment can be pronounced by the High Court, a special court convened from both houses of Parliament on the proposal of either House, should the president have failed to discharge his duties in a way that evidently precludes the continuation of his term.

Officers of the court include: lawyers, judges, referees, and those appointed ; guardian ad litem, parenting time expeditors, mediators, rule 114 neutrals, evaluators, administrators, special appointees, and any others whose influence are part of the judicial mechanism.

In July 2010, the Puntland Council of Ministers unanimously approved a new anti-terrorism law to more efficiently handle terror suspects and their accomplices ; a special court is also expected to be established within the region's existing criminal courts system to facilitate the task.

In Michigan v. Ohio, the court upheld a special master's report and ruled that the boundary between the two states in Lake Erie was angled to the northeast, as described in Ohio's state constitution, and not a straight east-west line.

Henry now had no choice but to put his great matter into Wolsey's hands, who did all he could to secure a decision in Henry's favor, even going so far as to convene an ecclesiastical court in England, with a special emissary, Lorenzo Campeggio from the Pope himself to decide the matter.

The President is elected every five years by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ), a special body convened only for this purpose, comprising the entire Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state diets.

" The final article providing that it can only be amended by a vote of a two-thirds majority of the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) at a special session convened for that purpose was left unchanged.

Emergency special sessions have been convened under this procedure on ten occasions.

For the task, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convened a special search group — the Governor General Consultation Committee — which consisted of Sheila-Marie Cook, secretary to the Governor General ( the chairperson ); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod ; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University ; Rainer Knopff, a political scientist at the University of Calgary ; Father Jacques Monet, of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies ; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

On 23 May 1533, Cranmer ( who had been hastened, with the Pope's assent, into the position of Archbishop of Canterbury recently vacated by the convenient death of Warham ) sat in judgment at a special court convened at Dunstable Priory to rule on the validity of the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

The General Assembly then convened for its second special session between 16 April to 14 May 1948, during which it considers a working paper submitted by the United States ( U. S .) on the question of the " Trusteeship of Palestine ", which was opposed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( U. S. S. R .) as well as the Jewish Agency.

On June 19, 2012, a special meeting of the Maryland Racing Commission was convened at Laurel Park at the request of Penny Chenery, who hired companies to conduct a forensic review of the videotapes of the race.

The principal event of the golden jubilee of Indian independence was President K. R. Narayanan's midnight address to the nation during the special session of Parliament convened on the night of 14 August ; in this address, he identified the establishment of a democratic system of government and politics to be the greatest achievement of India since independence.

In 1752 an attempt to settle the matter, Newcastle travelled to Hanover where a special Congress was convened.

The work of Frank Luntz is a notable example when focus groups are convened and the favorable or unfavorable characterizations are used in the selection of special code wording.

Some high level members of the court are ex officio members of special ad hoc courts ; the investigatory commission of the High Court of Justice ( Haute Cour de Justice ), which may be convened to try the French President for high treason ; the French Court of Justice ( Cour de Justice de la République ), which may be convened to try current or former cabinet ministers for crimes committed while in office ; and the National Judicial Council ( Conseil supérieur de la magistrature ), which serves as a court of judicial discipline and disciplinary counsel.

" Meetings that are unable to transact business or lack of a quorum are considered meetings nevertheless (" if a quorum fails to appear at a regular or special meeting, " the inability to transact business does not detract from the fact that the society's rules requiring the meeting to be held were complied with and the meeting was convened — even though it had to adjourn immediately ").

Nonetheless, at a special congress convened in November 2001 the GAA voted by an overwhelming majority to change the rule and allow members of British security forces to play hurling and football.

Journalist John Ed Pearce, however, contends that Beckham had already declined to become a candidate – citing his own ill health and that of his son – before the special session convened.

The consistory is a formal meeting of the Sacred College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, except when convened to elect a new pope ( in which case the meeting is called a conclave, and special rules of membership, procedure, and secrecy apply ).

A special meeting of the council can grant the honour by passing a resolution with a two-thirds majority at a specially convened meeting.

In view of great challenge from the Ahmadiyyah Movement, Darul ‘ Uloom convened the All India Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Conference and established a special department to refute Qaadiyaanism.

The Assembly was to have convened August 12, but owing to the death of two members-elect a special election was called and the convening of the legislature was postponed until August 27, 1890.

On June 11, 1937, the Soviet Supreme Court convened a special military tribunal to try Tukhachevsky and eight senior officers for treason.

In October 2009, Arnold Gundersen, a member of a special oversight panel convened by the Vermont General Assembly, confirmed that radioactive contamination had been detected in underground pipes.

A special general meeting was convened at the former Liverpool College building on Shaw Street on 25 January 1892.

The synod can hardly be a fabrication, since Mercator was a contemporary writer ; but it was very possibly convened, as Fritzsche suggests, without any special reference to the Pelagian question.

A parliamentary committee hearing was convened, and Prime Minister Lester Pearson appointed Vancouver Sun publisher Stuart Keate as a special investigator.