It accordingly refused to assume jurisdiction, whereupon the California Superior Court made the restraining order permanent.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

He made a vehement and complete denial, saying that he was being subjected to a " high-tech lynching for uppity blacks " by white liberals who were seeking to block a black conservative from taking a seat on the Supreme Court.

A person can also be made bankrupt after a creditor's petition results in the making of a sequestration order in the Federal Magistrates Court.

However, by 1906, the English Court of Appeal had made it clear in the decision of Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co v Cunningham 2 Ch 34 that the division of powers between the board and the shareholders in general meaning depended on the construction of the articles of association and that, where the powers of management were vested in the board, the general meeting could not interfere with their lawful exercise.

The Supreme Court decision made it possible to value software, and also purchase Software patents.

The brewery gained more esteem in 1914 when it was made " Purveyor to the Royal Danish Court ".

He also signed the Worker's Compensation Act of 1910, which required a compulsory, employer-paid plan of compensation for workers injured in hazardous industries and a voluntary system for other workers ; after the New York Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional in 1911, a popular referendum was held that successfully made the law an amendment in the New York Constitution.

For an appeal from an acquittal to be successful, the Supreme Court of Canada requires that the Crown show that an error in law was made during the trial and that the error contributed to the verdict.

District Attorneys Michael Guarino and Ira Riener made a motion for a retrial which was denied by Judge Isacoff, Superior Court Judge for the County of Los Angeles.

He implemented desegregation of the armed forces in two years, and made five appointments to the Supreme Court.

The decision was made public shortly before Medawar took responsibility in a United States District Court for bilking $ 3. 4 million from about 50 investors.

The Court have emphasised the fundamental nature of Article 3 in holding that the prohibition is made in " absolute terms ... irrespective of a victim's conduct.

In 1789 he was made court painter to Charles IV and in 1799 he was appointed First Court Painter with a salary of 50, 000 reales and 500 ducats for a coach.

Such appeals are rare: the first appeal from the FISC to the Court of Review was made in 2002, 24 years after the founding of the FISC.

This resulted in a case at the International Court of Justice against Greece for violation of the Interim Accord, and a verdict is to be made public in the following months.

In addition to Greek Foreign Ministry meetings with Turkish officials, Greece ’ s Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes launched an emergency inquiry on 27 December, ordering the investigations into the mid-1990s wildfires blamed on arson to be reopened with regard to the initial claims reportedly made by Yılmaz.

On May 1 and 2, 2008, they made a well-publicized appearance on the show Divorce Court to air their differences in an attempt to save their marriage.

Of approximately 500 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, only 10 have been tried by the Guantanamo military commission, but all cases have been stayed pending the adjustments being made to comply with the U. S. Supreme Court decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.

The first draft of the declaration was made by Zvi Berenson, the Histadrut trade union's legal advisor and later a justice of the Supreme Court, at the request of Pinchas Rosen.

An international agreement to create it, the Convention Relative to the Creation of an International Prize Court, was made at the Hague on October 18, 1907.

It made substantially the same division of power between the central and state governments, and among the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

The artistic interest, then, lies in what the encounter may be made to represent, in the power of some central significance to draw the details into relevance and meaningfulness.

The play of novel lighting effects also entered into these compositions, whose controlled power and varied activity made them well worth meditating.

Lawmaking power is removed from the Board of Estimate and made a partnership responsibility of the City Council and the Mayor.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

They can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.

During the period of the Iberian Union ( 1580 – 1640 ), Portugal lost influence and power and made new enemies.

The Armenian Government is working toward closing the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant and has already made an agreement with Russian " businessmen " about the construction and operation and ownage of a new Nuclear power plant.

In 1061, Abu Bakr ibn Umar made a division of the power he had established, handing over the more-settled parts to his cousin Yusuf ibn Tashfin, as viceroy, resigning to him also his favourite wife Zainab.

Art depicting battle scenes, and occasionally the impaling of whole villages in gory detail, was intended to show the power of the emperor, and was generally made for propaganda purposes.

In order to achieve this mission properly, significant quantities of both man power and funding have to be made available.

That was made possible by changes in party leadership, programme, reduction of its power base and other which permitted economic reorientation toward a market system.

The power of the navy made Britain the dominant world power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority ..." The first famous statement of " the judicial power " was Marbury v. Madison,.

He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers.

From Aeschylus ' Agamemnon, it appears that she has made a promise to Apollo to become his consort, but broke it, thus incurring his wrath: though she has retained the power of foresight, no one will believe her predictions.

Finally, the small, external power supply, MFM-based Commodore 1581 3½ " drive was made, giving 800 KB access to the C128 and C64.

Newly placed missiles in Cuba made little strategic difference in the military balance of power.

According to Josephus, power made Caligula incredibly conceited and led him to think he was a god.

The same engine, however, can be made to provide evenly spaced power pulses by using a crankshaft with an individual crank throw for each cylinder, spaced so that the pistons are actually phased 120 ° apart, as in the GM 3800 engine.