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The Hughes company and the Consolidated Industries, Inc., both of 3646 N. 2d St., filed for reorganization under the Federal bankruptcy law.
For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).
* September 9 Federal bankruptcy judge Arthur Gonzalez denies Enron's request to block a lawsuit by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, seeking to take control of Enron's pension plans.
On February 13, 1990 after being advised by United States Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), the New York Stock Exchange, and the Federal Reserve, Drexel Burnham Lambert officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The WorldCom bankruptcy proceedings were held before U. S. Federal Bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez who simultaneously heard the Enron bankruptcy proceedings which were the second largest bankruptcy case resulting from one of the largest corporate fraud scandals.
The official Federal bankruptcy forms prescribed in the Federal Bankruptcy Rules come as Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat formatted templates where each bankruptcy form is represented by a Word or Acrobat file.
The Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure ( FRBP ) govern procedure in the U. S. bankruptcy courts.
The Federal Reserve's approval of their bid to become banks ended the ascendancy of securities firms, 75 years after Congress separated them from deposit-taking lenders, and capped weeks of chaos that sent Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. into bankruptcy and led to the rushed sale of Merrill Lynch & Co. to Bank of America Corp.
The Washington Post was purchased in a bankruptcy auction in 1933 by a member of the Federal Reserve's board of governors, Eugene Meyer, who restored the paper's health and reputation.
Then all five major “ free standing ” investment banks ( i. e., those not part of a bank holding company ) entered bankruptcy proceedings ( Lehman Brothers ), were acquired by bank holding companies ( Bear Stearns by JP Morgan Chase and Merrill Lynch by Bank of America ), or became bank holding companies by converting their industrial loan companies (“ nonbank banks ”) into a national ( Morgan Stanley ) or state chartered Federal Reserve member bank ( Goldman Sachs ).
Based on this, a Federal bankruptcy court in Denver, Colorado, allowed the sale of the trademark to IMCOA Licencing America Inc. in December 1998.
On 13 February 1990 after being advised by United States Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve, Drexel Burnham Lambert officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
JPMorgan Chase promptly filed a counterclaim in the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, where the Washington Mutual bankruptcy proceedings had been continuing since the Office of Thrift Supervision's seizure of the holding company's bank subsidiaries.
Shakur was reportedly in Federal Court on July 20, 2007, to file an injunction to prevent Death Row Records from selling any unreleased material from Tupac after the company failed to prove that the unreleased songs were not part of its bankruptcy settlement.
The Federal Magistrates ' Court of Australia deals with more minor Commonwealth law matters which had previously been heard by the Federal Court ( administrative law, bankruptcy, consumer protection, trade practices, human rights and copyright ) or the Family Court ( divorce, residence ( or custody ) and contact ( or access ) of the children, property division upon divorce, maintenance and child support ).
Snyder voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, the ban on partial-birth abortions, banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors, bankruptcy reform, drilling in ANWR, and on October 10, 2002, he was among the 133 members of the House who voted against authorizing the invasion of Iraq.
During the bankruptcy proceedings, the Privacy Division of the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ), a Federal Regulatory Agency, ordered subscriber and xy. com profile data to be destroyed to protect users ' privacy ( more below ).

Federal and court
If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.
Federal law, though invoked in a State court, delimits the Federal claim -- defines what gives a right to recovery and what goes to prove it.
thus, county school board and Federal court joined hands here to promote school desegregation.
In the federal system, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32 ( i )( 4 ) provides that the court must " address the defendant personally in order to permit the defendant to speak or present any information to mitigate the sentence.
The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.
The United States federal courts are divided into twelve regional circuits, each with a circuit court of appeals ( plus a thirteenth, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears appeals in patent cases and cases against the federal government, without geographic limitation ).
The mid-tier Federal Court of Appeal is a single court that sits and hears cases in multiple cities, and thus mid-tier decisions have precedential value throughout Canada ( that is, unlike the United States, Canada is not divided into appellate circuits ).
In the 2011 court case AT & T Mobility v. Concepcion, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state laws that prohibit contracts from disallowing class action lawsuits, which will make it more difficult for consumers to file class action lawsuits.
Under Federal Court Rules, Rules 466, and Rule 467 a person who is accused of Contempt needs to be first served with a contempt order and then appear in court to answer the charges.
It took a Federal court ruling in 1940 to establish that a recording artist had no legal right to control the use of a record after it was sold.
In a non-criminal case in a United States district court, a litigant ( or a litigant's attorney ) who presents any pleading, written motion or other paper to the court is required, under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to certify that, to the best of the presenter's knowledge and belief, the legal contentions " are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law ".
Federal law does not have any provisions for persons convicted of federal felonies in a federal United States district court to apply to have their record expunged.
The Federal Court of Justice of Germany ( Bundesgerichtshof ) is the highest ordinary court and also the highest court of appeals.
The Federal Constitutional Court ( Bundesverfassungsgericht ) is the highest court dealing with constitutional matters.
The Federal Court of Pakistan remained the highest court until 1956, when the Supreme Court of Pakistan was established.
Under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, if the defendant is entitled to a jury trial, he may waive his right to have a jury, but both the government ( prosecution ) and court must consent to the waiver.
However, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 39 ( c ) allows a court to use one at its discretion.
Per Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 23 ( a ), only if the prosecution and the court consent may a defendant waive a jury trial.
The highest court in the judicial system is the Federal Court, followed by the Court of Appeal, and two High Courts, one for Peninsular Malaysia, and one for East Malaysia.
However, it is important to note that nothing in the text of the Constitution explicitly authorized the power of judicial review, despite persistent fears voiced by Anti-federalists over the power of the new Federal court system.
§§ 1153, 3242, and court decisions to be investigated by the federal government, usually the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and prosecuted by United States Attorneys of the United States federal judicial district in which the reservation lies.
In federal court, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure only allow a nolo contendere plea to be entered with the court's consent ; before accepting the plea, the court is required to " consider the parties ' views and the public interest in the effective administration of justice.

Federal and petitions
Federal court review may review state court judgments in criminal cases by ruling on petitions for a federal writ of habeas corpus, in which a federal court is asked to review whether a defendant has been given due process of law as defined under federal law.
Ohlone tribes with petitions for Federal Recognition pending with the Bureau of Indian Affairs are:
Despite numerous petitions, letters, and delegations to the Colonial and Federal Government, the grant of this land in compensation for the country lost was refused.
More recently, since February 2007, he has been chairman of the Primary Industries and Resources Standing Committee and the National Capital and External Territories Standing Committee, as well as being an inaugural member of the Standing Committee on Petitions which was established to receive and process petitions to the Federal Parliament from citizens and groups.
The ALYM's responsibilities have included managing the groundwork in Federal campaigns, aiding State Campaign efforts, collecting signatures for petitions and mobilising the public and Parliament against anti-terror laws.
* Capital Defender and Federal Habeas Clinic, affords students the opportunity to represent death row inmates ( post-conviction ) in other states and defendants in New York who have filed federal habeas corpus petitions.
With founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in May 1949 and its abolishment of the death penalty there was subsequently a number of petitions to close down War Criminal Prison No. 1.
Most tribes have to submit detailed petitions to the BIA's Office of Federal Acknowledgment ( OFA ).
Ngige had accepted the court ruling as the court of appeal was the terminal court in governorship election petitions and to save the state further crises arising from the support given his traducers by the Obasano-led federal government. An attempt to participate in Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) conducted ' Governorship election ' in the state in April 2007 was frustrated by INEC in complicity with the federal authorities through a dubious ' disqualification ' even after a Federal High Court had voided the disqualification.

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