In a precedent-setting case brought by Alain and his sister, SNCF, the national railway of France, was ordered on June 6, 2006, to pay almost $ 80, 000 in reparations for transporting members of their family to the Drancy deportation camp during World War II.

The Whitinsville Savings Bank was involved in a precedent-setting case in the U. S., involving tort and contract law, known as " Swinton vs. Whitinsville Savings Bank ( 1942 )".

* United States v. Carroll Towing Co., precedent-setting United States appeals court case

Yerodia was involved in a precedent-setting case by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ).

In 1958 in a precedent-setting case, descendants of the de Tournebu family brought suit against another French noble family, the de Foucaults, to prevent them using the de Tournebu name in their title.

The case of Iraq war resisters clearly became more than a legal issue when Canadian government lawyers entered the situation and presented arguments to the Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator just prior to this precedent-setting hearing.

As co-counsel in a federal jury trial, Smith won for his clients a million-dollar judgment in a precedent-setting case that a cover story in The New York Times proclaimed to be the largest of its kind in New York history.

It was a precedent-setting case in the right to own higher lifeforms, where the Canadian ruling went against findings in the US and Europe, where the patent was upheld.

Publications, Inc., a precedent-setting case that was appealed to the Supreme Court and helped to define the boundaries of parody in American law.

Lucy Duff Gordon is also remembered as a survivor of the sinking of Titanic in 1912, and as the losing party in the precedent-setting 1917 contract law case of Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, in which Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo wrote the opinion for New York's highest court, the New York Court of Appeals.

Occasional spats between the two have caused numerous issues, and in several instances the company's and its licensees ' relations have degenerated into precedent-setting court cases.

He was sued in the federal civil court of Miami, Florida in the United States in two precedent-setting cases.

Wolch's primary practice has been in the area of Criminal Law where he has had conduct of very serious precedent-setting criminal litigation at all levels of court.

In his precedent-setting decision, the Federal district judge stated that on a radio dial " a radio station's frequency is its address " and one cannot copyright an address.

In his precedent-setting decision, the Federal district judge stated that on a radio dial " a radio station's frequency is its address " and one cannot copyright an address.

In the US, a precedent-setting model Solar System project the Voyage National Program began with installation of Voyage on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in front of the Smithsonian museums.

Bennett, under the aegis of producer Joseph Papp, created A Chorus Line based on a precedent-setting workshop process which he pioneered.

In 2008, Smith served as lead trial counsel in a precedent-setting $ 23 million jury trial in New York City on behalf of large private MRI medical practice against over 50 insurance companies.

Attorney Anne Kajir uncovered evidence of widespread corruption and complicity in the Papua New Guinea government that allowed rampant, illegal logging that is destroying the largest remaining intact block of tropical forest in the Asia Pacific region In 1997, her first year practicing law, Kajir successfully defended a precedent-setting appeal in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea that forced the logging interests to pay damages to indigenous land owners.

Most of its occupants to that time followed Hyde's precedent-setting conception of the presidency as a conservative, low-key institution that used its ceremonial prestige and few discretionary powers sparingly.

Stephen was furious over what he saw as potentially precedent-setting papal interference in his royal authority, and initially refused to allow Murdac into England.

His dismay at the Chernobyl disaster led to precedent-setting concerts in parts of communist Asia and Europe.

Judge Horn rendered his precedent-setting verdict, declaring that Howl was not obscene and that a book with “ the slightest redeeming social importance ” guarantees First Amendment protection.

He later became one of the nation's foremost trial lawyers, representing thousands of injured persons in precedent-setting cases and mentoring several generations of young attorneys.

In 2009, the Cunningham Dance Foundation announced the Legacy Plan, a precedent-setting plan for the continuation of Cunningham ’ s work and the celebration and preservation of his artistic legacy.

This lawsuit is widely recognized as one of the most famous, influential and precedent-setting sports-related cases in the history of American jurisprudence.

Gunther von Hagens ' BODY WORLDS exhibitions are the original, precedent-setting public anatomical exhibitions of real human bodies, and the only anatomical exhibits that use donated bodies, willed by donors to the Institute for Plastination for the express purpose of serving the BODY WORLDS mission to educate the public about health and anatomy.

One of the results of Jim's trial is that the California Courts allowed, in a precedent-setting decision, a virtual reality reenactment of the murder to be entered into evidence.

With the developments of cloning cells, genetic profiling, mind-altering antibiotics and even virtual rape, the attorneys of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero find themselves with an ongoing case-load of precedent-setting cases.

Earthjustice has been a critical player in a number of important, precedent-setting cases regarding environmental protection in the United States.

Though short, her political career was precedent-setting as one of the few female political figures in Africa.

Fischel was one of the leading pioneers in the growth of American Judaism, in general, and in American Jewish Orthodoxy, in particular, particularly in the dynamic precedent-setting first half of the 20th Century.

Priority was able to achieve unrivaled success as an independent label by developing a precedent-setting " street-based " formula of underground marketing which bypassed mainstream radio.

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

But it is crucial that here, unlike Burford, the trial court was ordered to retain the case until the state courts had had a reasonable opportunity to settle the state-law question.

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

William A. Redding asserted that if the case had been heard in open court under rules of evidence, the testimony would have been completed in sixty days instead of five years.

He asked members of the panel to tell him if anyone outside the court had spoken to them about the case.

In United States appellate procedure, an appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law.

The nature of an appeal can vary greatly depending on the type of case and the rules of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was prosecuted.

Depending on the particular legal rules that apply to each circumstance, a party to a court case who is unhappy with the result might be able to challenge that result in an appellate court on specific grounds.

The appellant is the party who, having lost part or all their claim in a lower court decision, is appealing to a higher court to have their case reconsidered.

This can mean that where it is the defendant who appeals, the name of the case in the law reports reverses ( in some cases twice ) as the appeals work their way up the court hierarchy.

The second is the collateral appeal or post-conviction petition, in which the petitioner-appellant files the appeal in a court of first instance — usually the court that tried the case.

Generally, an appeal of the judgment will also allow appeal of all other orders or rulings made by the trial court in the course of the case.

However, certain critical interlocutory court orders, such as the denial of a request for an interim injunction, or an order holding a person in contempt of court, can be appealed immediately although the case may otherwise not have been fully disposed of.

The highest state court, generally known as the Supreme Court, exercises discretion over whether it will review the case.

It may, in addition, send the case back (" remand " or " remit ") to the lower court for further proceedings to remedy the defect.

This might be the proper standard of review, for example, if the lower court resolved the case by granting a pre-trial motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment which is usually based only upon written submissions to the trial court and not on any trial testimony.

After an appeal is heard, the " mandate " is a formal notice of a decision by a court of appeal ; this notice is transmitted to the trial court and, when filed by the clerk of the trial court, constitutes the final judgment on the case, unless the appeal court has directed further proceedings in the trial court.