The Supreme Court of California, in affirming the disbarment, held that Rosenthal engaged in transactions involving undisclosed conflicts of interest, took positions adverse to his former clients, overstated expenses, double-billed for legal fees, failed to return client files, failed to provide access to records, failed to give adequate legal advice, failed to provide clients with an opportunity to obtain independent counsel, filed fraudulent claims, gave false testimony, engaged in conduct designed to harass his clients, delayed court proceedings, obstructed justice and abused legal process.

Because North had been granted limited immunity for his Congressional testimony, the law prohibited the independent counsel ( or any prosecutor ) from using that testimony as part of a criminal case against him.

After further hearings on the immunity issue, Judge Gesell dismissed all charges against North on September 16, 1991, on the motion of the independent counsel.

After a three-year investigation, Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr released a report in 1997 also concluding that the death was a suicide.

On the same day, Nixon appointed a new Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and gave him authority to designate a special counsel for the Watergate investigation who would be independent of the regular Justice Department hierarchy.

The dismissal of Cox suggested the use of independent counsel, prosecutors specifically appointed to investigate official misconduct.

* President of Baylor University and former independent counsel Kenneth Starr

She was the 5th cabinet officer be investigated by independent counsel.

In the meantime, Catherine, ever more independent of counsel, continued to pursue her ambitions for her children.

There are special requirements if parties sign the agreement without attorney, and the parties must have independent counsel if they limit spousal support ( also known as alimony or spousal maintenance in other states ).

It should also not be confused with the " independent counsel " who is appointed by the Attorney General pursuant to United States Department of Justice regulations.

When appointed / hired particularly by a governmental branch or agency to investigate alleged misconduct within that branch or agency, the attorney is called independent counsel.

On January 3, 1983, the United States federal government substituted the term independent counsel for special prosecutor.

However, special prosecutor Archibald Cox today would be called independent counsel Archibald Cox in the United States.

She had felt under " considerable internal pressure " to back her employers, despite her own misgivings and as a result she was represented by independent counsel at the Hutton Inquiry.

" Clinton was forced to retract his assertions in August 1998 after the Lewinsky matter came under investigation by independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee forwarded a copy of the report to the Attorney General with a request that he seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate the allegations against Olson and two others.

Olson, who was a Constitutional lawyer, attempted to argue that the independent counsel took executive powers away from the office of the President of the United States and created a hybrid " fourth branch " of government that was ultimately answerable to no one.

He argued that the broad powers of the independent counsel could be easily abused, or corrupted by partisanship.

Instead, even though the President could not directly fire the independent counsel, the person holding that office was still an Executive branch officer, not under the control of either U. S. Congress or the courts.

Liberals also began to share Scalia's concern when independent counsel Kenneth Starr spent $ 40 million and more than four years investigating President Clinton's land deals and extramarital affairs.

Speculations as to the circumstances surrounding the plane crash that caused Brown's death include many government cover-up and conspiracy theories, largely based on Brown having been under investigation by independent counsel for corruption.

Susan's defense lawyer, Mark Geragos, stated that her ex-husband told her that deputy independent counsel W. Hickman Ewing Jr. would be able to " get Clinton with a sex charge " before the 1996 election if she agreed to lie and say she had had an affair with Clinton.

" Get another independent counsel and I'll answer every question ".

In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

Following unprecedented foreign led and domestic political interference with the CRTC's quasi-judicial independent regulatory process, within 6 months of its original decision, an abrupt CRTC " review " of its policy on third-language foreign services determined to drop virtually all restrictions and adopt a new " open entry " approach to foreign controlled " third language " ( non-English, non-French ) channels.

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

But although Mary greatly admired and respected Madison, she had determined to stay single — the only way a woman of her intelligence and accomplishments could hope to pursue her interests and remain independent in that era.

Eventually King Charles I did cooperate with the independent investigation made by the house on the policies of his administration and a political stalemate was essentially determined.

Cassatt even considered giving up art, as she was determined to make an independent living.

For the remainder of her life, she was determined to remain unmarried and independent.

In 1916, however, the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France determined that parts of the Mashreq would be divided between those powers rather than forming part of an independent Arab state.

While some forms are capable of independent movement and can swim hundreds of meters vertically in a single day ( a behavior called diel vertical migration ), their horizontal position is primarily determined by the surrounding currents.

For a given physical process, the selection of suitable independent local non-equilibrium macroscopic state variables for the construction of a thermodynamic description calls for qualitative physical understanding, rather than being a simply mathematical problem concerned with a uniquely determined thermodynamic description.

Thus there are two unknowns ( albedo and size ), which can be determined by two independent measurements ( of the amount of reflected light and emitted infrared heat radiation ).

The site of T-DNA insertions has been determined for over 300, 000 independent transgenic lines, with the information and seeds accessible through online T-DNA databases.

The values determined by a random function evaluated at different points from the same realization would not generally be statistically independent but, depending on the model, values deterimined at the same or different points from different realisations might well be treated as independent.

This means that if we want a set of independent samples, we have to throw away the majority of samples and only take every nth sample, for some value of n ( typically determined by examining the auto-correlation between adjacent samples ).

The pay of judges is determined by an independent pay review body.

The electric potential is independent of the test particle's charge-it is determined by the electric field alone.

The Korean independence officially occurred on 1 December 1943, when the United States, China, and Great Britain signed the Cairo Conference, which stated, “ The aforesaid three powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that “ in due course ” Korea shall become free and independent .” In 1945, the United Nations developed plans for trusteeship administration of Korea.

It was later determined by the High Court in Sue v Hill that this legislation established Britain and Australia as independent nations sharing the same person as their relevant sovereign.

In 1927, Nyquist determined that the number of independent pulses that could be put through a telegraph channel per unit time is limited to twice the bandwidth of the channel.

Because independent variables are assumed, only the variances of the variables for each class need to be determined and not the entire covariance matrix.

Over the next two years in office, deciding not to mobilize to join America or become a colony independent of Britain, Howe determined that Nova Scotia's best option was to remain in Canada and to fight for " better terms.

During 2005 and 2006 it was determined that the governance scenario best suited for the regional stakeholders was to create a new independent town.