It is certain that he uses the name Abbreviators, but speaks as if they had existed before his time, and had, by overtaxation for their labour, caused much complaint and protest.

The chief complaint was that the Jewish communities sometimes erred in setting Passover to fall before the northern hemisphere spring equinox.

Any citizen could bring a matter before a grand jury directly, from a public work that needed repair, to the delinquent conduct of a public official, to a complaint of a crime, and grand juries could conduct their own investigations.

Germany then modified its complaint in the case before the ICJ, alleging furthermore that the U. S. violated international law by failing to implement the provisional measures.

" One of these commercials, featuring Mr. T crashing through a wall on the back of a technical vehicle before firing Snickers bars at a speed walker wearing tight-fitting yellow shorts, was pulled by Mars following a complaint by the U. S .- based group Human Rights Campaign, despite the fact that the advert had never been shown outside the U. K.

A demurrer is a pleading ( usually filed by a defendant ) which objects to the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleading ( usually a complaint ) and demands that the court rule immediately about whether the pleading is legally adequate before the party must plead on the merits in response.

Code pleading was criticized because many lawyers felt that it was too difficult to fully research all the facts needed to bring a complaint before one had even initiated the action, and thus meritorious plaintiffs could not bring their complaints in time before the statute of limitations expired.

Liverpool and Nottingham Forest met in the semi-final at Hillsborough the previous year, 1988, and fans reported crushing at the Leppings Lane end leading to Liverpool lodging a complaint before the match in 1989.

A related complaint seeking similar relief for property damage claimants is stayed pending the outcome of the Sahu appeal before the federal district court in the Southern District of New York.

In November 1955, just three weeks before Parks ' defiance of Jim Crow laws in Montgomery, the Interstate Commerce Commission, in response to a complaint filed by WAC Sarah Keys, closed the legal loophole left by the Morgan ruling in a landmark case known as Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.

* The timing of the events-if the event or events occurred before the State concerned became a party to the First Optional Protocol then the complaint is inadmissible ratione temporis.

Although both serve the function of bringing a complaint before the court, the prosecutor is a servant of the state who makes accusations on behalf of the state in criminal proceedings, while the plaintiff is the complaining party in civil proceedings.

Desperately playing for more time, their lawyer, Emanuel Hirsch Bloch, filed a complaint that this offended their Jewish heritage, so the execution was scheduled before sunset, at 8 pm on Friday instead of the regular time of execution at Sing Sing of 11 pm.

However, on January 21, 2006, the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad stated in a speech before the convention of the Arab Lawyers Union in Damascus and translated into English by SANA, the official state news agency of Syria that there are two legal requirements for demarcating the border: first, the complaint must be registered with the UN ; and second, engineers must precisely define the border.

Appearing personally before the United Nations General Assembly, Smuts defended the policies of his government by fervently pleading that India's complaint was a matter of domestic jurisdiction.

These women were brought before the local magistrates on the complaint of witchcraft and interrogated for several days, starting on March 1, 1692, then sent to jail.

The chief complaint was that the Jewish practice sometimes set the 14th of Nisan before the spring equinox.

Samuel and Cyrus had gone to Constantinople, in defiance of the terms on which the excommunication had been lifted, to lay their complaint before the emperor and Patriarch of Constantinople, deciding that a hearing by Domnus would obviously be biased towards Ibas.

It may take the form of letters, telegrams, phone calls, petitions, law-suits, speeches and Bills before Congress and other modes of complaint, threat and punitive action '.

On the one hand, Colonel Picquart, having vainly sought military justice, had decided to lay a complaint before a civil court against the unknown authors of the forged " Speranza " letter and of the forged telegrams which he had received in Tunis.

This was a highly irregular step, as most victims of assault are not required to sign a complaint before an investigation can begin.

But, before assuming the high responsibilities now dimly foreshadowed, it is their solemn duty to remove even-just cause of complaint against themselves, so that they may stand before High Heaven and the civilized world without fear and without reproach, ready to devote their lives and their fortunes to the support of the best form of government that has ever been de

The complaint alleged the bill was not afforded due consideration by the United States Congress before being signed by the President.

The German Federal Act on the Public Service provides that any inferior has to consult and support any superiors, that he or she – only – has to follow “ general guidelines " of the superiors, and that he or she would have to be fully responsible for any own act in office, and would have to follow a specific, formal complaint procedure if in doubt of the legality of an order.

* Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy An article about the scandalous nature of Gustav Siegfried Eins broadcasts and the complaint by British Labour politician Sir Stafford Cripps.

The persistence of the French in offering only money as compensation to the German princes who had claims in Alsace afforded matter of complaint to the Empire.

Furthermore, in response to a German complaint about the importance of Silesian coal for the German industry, Germany was given the right to import 500, 000 tons per year at discounted prices.

The Society's South American district superior, the Very Reverend Father Christian Bouchacourt, posted an official letter of complaint on the Society's website, and a German Catholic website, Kreutz. net, stated that because of this and Bishop Williamson's refusal to stop publishing his weekly e-mail, Bishop Bernard Fellay, the Society's Superior, would expel him, though this needs confirmation from other Catholic and independent sources.

This came after a complaint made to the European Commissioner for Trade, Peter Mandelson, by the German dairy trader, Egenberger.

Three years after that, Lehder wrote a letter of complaint to a Jacksonville federal district judge, complaining that the government had reneged on a deal to transfer him to a German prison.

These include the nativist United States American Party, often called the Know Nothing movement of the mid-19th century, which objected to increased Catholic immigration of predominantly Irish and German origin ; the Immigration Restriction League, which objected to greatly increased immigration from southern and eastern Europe during the late-19th and early 20th centuries, and the joint congressional Dillingham Commission, which studied this latter complaint and proposed numerical restrictions.

Encroachments against Jews caused a further support of the German Committee by the Jewish population and the breakdown of Prussian authority allowed long-simmering resentments to explode, as the German Committee urged in a complaint addressed to the Polish Committee: " There have been many cases in which armed groups of your people have threatened and violated the property and personal security of your German-speaking neighbors.

Jews entering and residing in Japan, China, and Manchukuo were treated the same as other foreigners and, in one instance, Japanese officials in Harbin ignored a formal complaint by the German consulate which was deeply insulted by one of the Russian-Jewish newspapers ' attack on Hitler.

On November 14, 2006, invoking the principle of command responsibility, German attorney Wolfgang Kaleck filed a complaint with the German Federal Attorney General ( Generalbundesanwalt ) against Yoo, along with 13 others for his alleged complicity in torture and other crimes against humanity at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay.

In November 2006, human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck filed a high profile criminal complaint at the German Federal Attorney General ( Generalbundesanwalt ) against Donald Rumsfeld and several other US officials and officers including Thomas Pappas for their alleged involvement in human rights violations at the Abu Ghraib prison.

On November 14, 2006 human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck filed a high profile criminal complaint at the German Federal Attorney General ( Generalbundesanwalt ) against Donald Rumsfeld and several senior US officials including Barbara Fast for their alleged involvement in human rights violations at the Abu Ghraib prison.

In the United States, if a person with immunity is alleged to have committed a crime or faces a civil lawsuit, the State Department asks the home country to waive immunity of the alleged offender so that the complaint can be moved to the courts.

In its judgment, the U. S. Supreme Court held that it lacked jurisdiction with respect to Germany's complaint against Arizona due to the eleventh amendment of the U. S. constitution, which prohibits federal courts from hearing lawsuits of foreign states against a U. S. state.

Actions in local courts could usually be started by an informal complaint, which did not necessarily need to be written down.

The initial pleading in a civil lawsuit that seeks only money ( damages ) might be called ( in most U. S. courts ) a complaint.

Similarly, a complaint for breach of a promise to marry could be met by a demurrer because the law in most jurisdictions expressly prohibits such claims on public policy grounds ( while there may be claims for damages on a breach of promise to marry, e. g., U. S. courts are not going to force someone to marry another ).

Although the courts confiscated the film based on a citizen's complaint, the initial audience reaction was positive.

The prohibition is done so that the courts will not be clogged by complaints of people who may file more than one complaint in an effort to gain a favorable decision in any of the numerous cases filed.

If the bishop rejects the clerk within that time he is liable to a duplex querela ( Latin ; " double complaint ": The procedure in ecclesiastical law for challenging a bishop's refusal to admit a presentee to a benefice ) in the ecclesiastical courts, or to a quare impedit in the common law courts, and the bishop must then certify the reasons of his refusal.

Although the Federal Circuit typically hears all appeals from any of the United States district courts where the original action included a complaint arising under the patent laws, the Supreme Court has decided that it does not if the patent claims arose solely as counterclaims by the defendant.

The Yanukovych team attempted to mount a fierce legal challenge to the election results using both the Ukrainian courts and the Election Commission complaint procedures.

As he got no answer to his emails to Facebook, he decided to lodge a complaint for " infringement of freedom of expression " and against the legality of Facebook's terms which define the courts located in Santa Clara County, California, as the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all litigating claims.

In 2006 he filed a criminal complaint in the courts of Germany requesting the criminal prosecution of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other US officials for the abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.

Nor was this a question that was " capable of repetition, yet evading review " because the plaintiff would never again face this situation, and others who might raise the same complaint in the future might be able to receive full review in the courts.

The BAI filed a complaint in Haitian courts, to no avail, and in early 2006 it filed a petition with the IACHR.