In 1949, the former lawyer of many Supreme Court cases, St-Laurent ended the practice of appealing Canadian legal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, making the Supreme Court of Canada the highest avenue of legal appeal available to Canadians.

Mofaz accepted the Kadima primary's result, despite his lawyer, Yehuda Weinstein's appeal advice, and telephoned Livni congratulating her.

After initially fighting the Champion to her near-defeat, She-Hulk used her experience as a lawyer as well as her physical power to her advantage, asking for and receiving an " appeal " to the trial by combat, set for three months later.

*" No lawyer in America has tried and argued on appeal as many landmark cases in as many different areas as Mr. Boies.

Miramax hired civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz to appeal the decision and the MPAA relented and re-rated the film with the more commercially viable " R " rating, without alteration.

Orrin N. Hilton, the lawyer representing Hill during the appeal, declared: " The main thing the state had on Hill was that he was an IWW and therefore sure to be guilty.

On July 8, 2004, Schmidt's lawyer Charles Gittins announced plans to appeal the ruling and to file a lawsuit against the Air Force over the public release of documents in the case.

After the Opposition parties unsuccessfully called for a national referendum on the matter, Auckland lawyer Dennis J Gates launched a petition for a non-binding citizens initiated referendum on 3 April 2003, asking the question " Should all rights of appeal to the Privy Council be abolished ?".

Williamson hired a lawyer to handle his appeal who was the former leader of Wiking-Jugend, an outlawed Neo-Nazi group.

His lawyer Phillip Cherney told press that he intends to ask for a rehearing and will lodge a habeas corpus appeal with the state, and then federal courts.

On 9 December 2010, Yekaterina Zatuliveter filed an appeal against arrest and deportation to Russia ; in a statement released by her lawyer Tessa Gregory, Zatuliveter said British authorities had failed to provide evidence of her work not being " conducive to national security "; of MI5 she said: " I fully cooperated with them when they questioned me.

Days after the verdict, the OSC also decided not to appeal the decision, a landmark victory for Felderhof and his lawyer, Toronto based Joseph Groia.

Bobby Donnell, who was a young and inexperienced lawyer at the time, believed his client was guilty and did not appeal the sentence.

On February 22, 2007, a Hungarian appeal court upheld the ruling following an appeal filed by Safarov's lawyer.

On 24 March 2008 the bombers, who were on death row, lost almost any hope of escaping the death penalty as their lawyer, Fahmi Bachmid, withdrew from their last appeal.

He has since recanted these statements, saying that his lawyer advised him to make them because it would help his appeal case.

He acquired a national reputation as a lawyer and an anti-slavery Whig, and in 1849 prosecuted before the United States Supreme Court an appeal from an adverse decision of Judge Joseph Story, and gained a reversal by an argument which Daniel Webster pronounced the best he had heard in twenty years.

Liliane Bettencourt's lawyer said he would appeal, and told Le Monde newspaper that " Mrs. Bettencourt was ready for ' nuclear war ' with her daughter.

The lawyer appointed for Ratsiraka by the court accepted the verdict and sentence as " fair " and said he would not appeal.

Their lawyer, Jim Tucker, used a novel approach: rather than arguing on the basis of Section Fifteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as in the previous cases, he argued that the federal government's failure to appeal the decisions legalizing same-sex marriage in Ontario, BC, and Quebec signalled a change in Canadian common law regarding marriage.

Although other controversial death sentences have been reduced on appeal, Aghajari refused to appeal the ruling, announcing through his lawyer that " those who have issued this verdict have to implement it if they think it is right or else the judiciary has to handle it.

Her lawyer stated that Heatherington could no longer afford to proceed, despite earlier claims that the bankruptcy would not affect her appeal.

Employing Ştefănescu Delavrancea as his lawyer, he brought Caion to trial: a court sentenced Caion for calumny, but he was acquitted after an appeal in June 1902.

Writer Patrick Ferris said he has " a mass appeal in the sense that any audience between the age of 2 and 102 are captivated by his vaudeville antics, hilarious lyrics and animated guitar playing ... His voice is a cross between Popeye the Sailor and a Didgeridoo and the plinkity plink of his VERY worn National steel guitar, sounds like a wind up jack in the box.

Following a 1998 appeal for a pardon on the part of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, President Bill Clinton pardoned Morison on January 20, 2001, the last day of his presidency, despite the CIA's opposition to the pardon.

Skilling's request to remain free during the appeal was denied by Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals on December 12, 2006.

During the appeal against the conviction of the Bridgewater Four, the forensic linguist examined the written confession of Patrick Molloy, one of the defendants — a confession which he had retracted immediately — and a written record of an interview which the police claimed took place immediately before the confession was dictated.

In 2004, the newspaper gained national publicity when two reporters broke University rules to expose security flaws in the University's computer network ; the student journalists responsible, Patrick Foster and Roger Waite, were rusticated by the University's Court of Summary Jurisdiction, but on appeal their punishment was reduced to a fine.

Taaffe was the second son of Louis Patrick John Graf von Taaffe, 9th Viscount Taaffe ( 1791 – 1855 ), a minister of justice in 1848 and president of the Austrian court of appeal.

It was during this time that he heard the appeal of Patrick James Whelan for the murder of Thomas D ' Arcy McGee.

Feeling that the appeal of Hinge and Bracket lay more in the interaction between the two characters than with either of the separate personalities, Logan determined that the body of work he and Patrick Fyffe had created together should stand as a finished item.

Having acquired 50 % of the state's white population, the Upcountry sent representative Patrick Calhoun and other representatives before the Charles Town state legislature to appeal for representation, courts, roads, and supplies for churches and schools.

Although The Patrick Trust focuses on the Midlands, consideration is given to all locations and appeal types.

In 1998, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan asked for appeal on the grounds of " the erratic application of that law and the anomaly of this singular conviction in eighty-one years ".

Though there is strong new evidence that the convicted man was innocent, Judge Fleming refused Kirkland's appeal due to a minor technicality and leaves McCullaugh in prison.

Although Fleming did not appeal to audiences — critics and audiences felt it dwelt too much on unseemly topics and included improper scenes, such as Margaret nursing her husband's bastard child onstage — other forms of dramatic realism were becoming more popular in melodrama ( e. g., Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight ) and in local color plays ( Bronson Howard's Shenandoah ).

He did not speak about his poetry in public until 1933 when he gave a lecture, " The Name and Nature of Poetry ", in which he argued that poetry should appeal to emotions rather than to the intellect.

Moore argued that once arguments based on the naturalistic fallacy had been discarded, questions of intrinsic goodness could only be settled by appeal to what he ( following Sidgwick ) called " moral intuitions :" self-evident propositions which recommend themselves to moral reflection, but which are not susceptible to either direct proof or disproof ( PE § 45 ).

David Perkins, in 1990, argued that " Coleridge's introductory note to Kubla Khan weaves together two myths with potent imaginative appeal.

In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.

* Robert Nozick: Criticized Rawls, and argued for libertarianism, by appeal to a hypothetical history of the state and of property.

It has been argued that, while both civil disobedience and civil rebellion are justified by appeal to constitutional defects, rebellion is much more destructive ; therefore, the defects justifying rebellion must be much more serious than those justifying disobedience, and if one cannot justify civil rebellion, then one cannot justify a civil disobedients ' use of force and violence and refusal to submit to arrest.

David Ownby and Ian Johnson have argued that the Chinese state gave the cultic appellation to Falun Gong by borrowing arguments from Margaret Singer and the West's anti-cult movement to blunt the appeal of Falun Gong.

His lawyers appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, where they argued that the French court's denial of his appeal on a technicality ( rather than on the merits of the case ) constituted a violation of Papon's right to appeal his conviction.

" ( originally a Marx Memorial Lecture, " The British Working Class One Hundred Years after Marx ", that was delivered to a small audience of fellow Marxists in March 1978 before being published in Marxism Today in September 1978 ), he argued that the working class was inevitably losing its central role in society, and that left-wing parties could no longer appeal only to this class ; a controversial viewpoint in a period of trade union militancy.

Long successfully argued the case on appeal before the U. S. Supreme Court ( Cumberland Tel & Tel Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission, 260 U. S. 212 ( 1922 ), prompting Chief Justice William Howard Taft to describe Long as one of the best legal minds he had ever encountered.

Analysts believed that his use of the phrase was seen by many as a tacit appeal to Southern white voters and a continuation of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, while some argued it reflected Reagan's libertarian economic beliefs.

On appeal, defendants argued that federal copyright law, which permits reverse engineering, preempts California state contract law, upon which the EULA's prohibition on reverse engineering is grounded.

In the 20th century, Princeton University professor Peter Singer argued that Bentham's conclusion is often dismissed by an appeal to a distinction that condemns human suffering but allows non-human suffering, typically " appeals " that are logical fallacies ( unless the distinction is factual, in which case the appeal is just one logical fallacy petitio principii ).

The appeal was argued on October 3, 2007.

In 2006, Nassar argued in court filings he could not make his case in a previous appeal because he was in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas in the 1980s and therefore did not have access to Massachusetts legal materials.

Starr also argued that Clinton abused power by: denying the relationship with Lewinsky ever occurred ; using executive privilege to both pursue an appeal against the case without Starr's knowledge ; using executive privilege to cover up the relationship ; delaying his grand jury testimony until August, and by getting the Secret Service to agree to assist in covering up the relationship in an acquiescing matter.

On appeal, Fix argued that the Government / BATFE did not prove the handgun / pistol with a second pistol grip added was an unregistered NFA firearm.

The appeal was then argued on June 29, 1935 .< ref > Lutz, William.

Trotsky argued that the united front could have great appeal to workers who wished to fight fascism: “ The programme of action must be strictly practical, strictly objective, to the point, without any of those artificial ‘ claims ’, without any reservations, so that every average Social Democratic worker can say to himself: what the Communists propose is completely indispensable for the struggle against fascism.

At the same time, Davinder Singh, the legal counsel acting on behalf of eight of the claimants, argued that this case threw up issues far wider than Jeyaretnam's appeal.

Followers of Poussin, called " poussinistes ", argued that line ( disegno ) should dominate art, because of its appeal to the intellect, while followers of Rubens, called " rubenistes ", argued that color ( colore ) should dominate art, because of its appeal to emotion.