In 1984, the Sandinista government filed a suit in the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) against the United States ( Nicaragua v. United States ), which resulted in a 1986 judgment against the United States.

In July 1984, after a hearing panel of the State Bar Court, after 80 days of testimony and consideration of documentary evidence, the panel accused Rosenthal of 13 separate acts of misconduct and urged his disbarment in a 34-page unsigned opinion.

An example of a Court's treatment of frivolous arguments is found in the case of Crain v. Commissioner, 737 F. 2d 1417 ( 1984 ), from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit:

In 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case of Dirks v. SEC that tippees ( receivers of second-hand information ) are liable if they had reason to believe that the tipper had breached a fiduciary duty in disclosing confidential information and the tipper received any personal benefit from the disclosure.

American pressure against the government escalated throughout 1983 and 1984, including attacks on Nicaraguan ports and oil installations and the laying of magnetic mines outside Nicaraguan harbours, actions condemned as illegal in 1986 by the International Court of Justice.

The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America was a 1984 case of the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in which the ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States and awarded reparations to Nicaragua.

# Decides that in adjudicating the dispute brought before it by the Application filed by the Republic of Nicaragua on 9 April 1984, the Court is required to apply the " multilateral treaty reservation " contained in proviso ( c ) to the declaration of acceptance of jurisdiction made under Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court by the Government of the United States of America deposited on 26 August 1946 ;

In 1984, the Supreme Court reviewed and further outlined the standing requirements in a major ruling concerning the meaning of the three standing requirements of injury, causation, and redressability.

Freetown Court, 1984 The population of Freetown is almost equally divided between Muslims and Christians.

Following a Supreme Court decision in 1984, the primary function of the CFA was to negotiate television broadcast rights for its member conferences and independent colleges.

After the 1984 Supreme Court decision in California v. Greenwood, in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the warrantless search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside of a home, paper shredders became more popular among US citizens with privacy concerns.

In his 1984 High Court judgment, which considered many aspects of Scientology, Justice Latey wrote that " many examples disconnection have been given and proved in evidence.

In a 1984 United States District Court ruling, the court affirmed that the municipal boundary of the City of Prior Lake did include the tribal lands in question.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist Chief Justice William Rehnquist's majority opinion relied upon Roberts v. United States Jaycees, 468 U. S. 609, 622 ( 1984 ), in which the Supreme Court said: " Consequently, we have long understood as implicit in the right to engage in activities protected by the First Amendment a corresponding right to associate with others in pursuit of a wide variety of political, social, economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends.

In 1984, she first gained international attention when she almost upset the tenth seed, Jo Durie of the United Kingdom, in a fourth round Centre Court match at Wimbledon.

The Supreme Court upheld the 1984 Act's provision providing for pretrial detention based on community-danger in United States v. Salerno.

The key issue in the copyright infringement case was the so-called ' Sony safe-harbor ' principle that was set by the Supreme Court over 21 years ago in Sony v. Universal Studios 464 U. S. 417 ( 1984 ).

The Pogues mention Tottenham Court Road in the song Transmetropolitan ( 1984 ), written by Shane MacGowan:

Bassist Dave Schools met Bell and Houser in 1984 and first played with them on February 24, 1985, at the A-Frame house on Weymanda Court in Athens.

* The rise of college football on television, which had until a 1984 Supreme Court anti-trust decision been limited by the NCAA to only one-four games per week, all of which never went into the Saturday morning timeslot.

As a Utah Supreme Court Justice from 1980 to 1984, Oaks authored opinions on a variety of topics.

One other major consequence of the Betamax technology's introduction to the U. S. was the lawsuit Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios ( 1984, the " Betamax case "), with the U. S. Supreme Court determining home videotaping to be legal in the United States, wherein home videotape cassette recorders were a legal technology since they had substantial noninfringing uses.

* Records of Early English Drama-Norwich 1540-1642, 1984, 114-115 Mayors ' Court Books XIII p. 418-Record of payment to Kemp for his jig

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc .' s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the video game crash.

The system had been designed in 1983 through 1984 with an intended mass market rollout in June 1984, but was canceled shortly thereafter due to the sale of the company to Tramiel Technology Ltd on July 2, 1984.

Atari's launch of the 7800 under Tramiel was far more subdued than Warner had planned for the system in 1984 with a marketing budget of just $ 300, 000.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London ..." In the year 1984 Big Brother appears on posters and the telescreen as a man of about 45.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Beginning in 1984, women biathletes had their own World Championships, and finally, from 1989, both genders have been participating in joint BWCHs.

In 1984, the two leagues, American and National, each had two divisions, East and West.

The Valley Club ( CAFC Supporters Club ) was situated in Harvey Gardens behind the North Stand, and was managed by licensee Ray Donn from 1970 – 1984 the club had a full club licence supplying food and drink to its members and guests during match days and live entertainment, with cabaret and dancing every night of the week.

By the beginning of 1984, quarterly sales of the ColecoVision had dramatically decreased.

Total sales of the ColecoVision are uncertain but were ultimately in excess of 2 million units, as sales had reached that number by the spring of 1984, while the console continued to sell modestly up until its discontinuation the following year.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

However, although Gorbachev acted as a deputy to the general secretary throughout Andropov's illness, Gorbachev's time had not yet arrived when his patron died early in 1984.

Persons who had a notable career in France returned to Corsica to write in Corsican, such as the musical producers, Dumenicu Togniotti, director of the Teatru Paisanu, which produced polyphonic musicals, 1973 – 1982, followed in 1980 by Michel Raffaelli's Teatru di a Testa Mora, and Saveriu Valentini's Teatru Cupabbia in 1984.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

In 1984 IBM introduced the Enhanced Graphics Adapter which was capable of producing 16 colors and had a resolution of 640 by 350.

Ultimately, the name change campaign lasted for a three year period from 1982 to 1984 ( Datsun badged vehicles had been progressively fitted with small " Nissan " and " Datsun by Nissan " badges from the late 1970s onward ) until the Nissan name was given prominence in 1983-although in some export markets vehicles continued to wear both the Datsun and Nissan badges until 1986.

In 1984 he married Julia Sheehan, whom he had met in Wisconsin while researching Ed Gein and other serial killers.

The PC / AT, introduced in 1984, had three 8-bit slots and five 16-bit slots, all running at the system clock speed of 6 MHz in the earlier models and 8 MHz in the last version of the computer.

When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.