The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

The hearings were then reopened, and Hill was called to publicly testify.

During the McCarthy Era in 1947, when US Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin claimed that the federal government and other institutions were riddled with Communists, the US House began hearings about purported communist influence in Hollywood.

On 22 May 2007, hearings were held in the UK Parliament concerning citizen-initiated petitions for special regulation of franchising by the government of the UK due to losses incurred by citizens who had invested in franchises.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

The Court's business being conducted in English and French as official languages, and hearings were public, unless otherwise specified.

For public hearings he was assisted by interpreters, but for private meetings only he, the Registrar and the Deputy-Registrar were admitted.

Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings.

Public hearings of the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Amnesty Committee were held at many venues around South Africa, including Cape Town ( at the University of the Western Cape ), Johannesburg ( at the Central Methodist Mission ), and Randburg ( at the Rhema Bible Church ).

The hearings were initially set to be heard in camera, but the intervention of 23 non-governmental organisations eventually succeeded in gaining media access to the hearings.

Additional high-profile hearings, such as Winnie Mandela's testimony, were also televised live.

The rest of the hearings were presented on television each Sunday from April 1996 to June 1998 in hour-long episodes of the " Truth Commission Special Report " by progressive Afrikaner journalist Max du Preez, former editor of the Vrye Weekblad.

Gretzky did not attend the Coyotes ' training camp, leaving associate head coach Ulf Samuelsson in charge, due to an uncertain contractual status with the club, whose bankruptcy hearings were continuing.

The hearings were later adjourned amid claims that witnesses were being intimidated on Mandela's orders.

The records of loyalty review hearings and investigations were supposed to be confidential, but Hoover routinely gave evidence from them to congressional committees such as HUAC.

The hearings held by the Senate Committee, in which Dean and other former administration officials testified, were broadcast from May 17 to August 7, 1973.

Technically, Bonanno kept the vow of omertà and answered no questions in government hearings, but many then-current New York Mafia leaders were outraged at what he had said in his book and considered him to have already broken the vow.

In the spring of 1961, there were a series of hearings in Congress, where Sandia presented the prototype of a special electro-mechanical lock, which was then known still as a " Proscribed Action Link.

During the Wen Ho Lee scandal, involving stolen nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory, hearings were called in Congress regarding the Department of Energy's handling of the matter.

The committee's unravellings, which showed Mafia infiltration of the unions, made Mulroney well known in Quebec, as the hearings were extensively covered in the media.

The commission conducted hearings and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination.

The House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights began hearings on FBI undercover operations in March 1980 and concluded with a report in April 1984.

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After 11 days of open hearings in August, the panel concluded that there were what it called " covert attempts " to pressure Chung into discontinuing his polls.

The Commission held hearings in April 2004 to determine whether or not 527s should be regulated under campaign finance rules, but concluded that the law did not cover these independent 527 organizations unless they directly advocated the election or defeat of a candidate or engaged in advertising within the 30 and 60 day windows specified by Congress in the McCain-Feingold law.

" Your sub-commission reports with regret the resignation, before the hearings were concluded, of one of its members, Mr. Carleton Beals.

After holding hearings, the court concluded that there was no longer time to hold primaries and instead forced all candidates ( Democrats and Republicans ) be listed together on the November general election ballot in a jungle primary.

Four years ago, the hearings of the Commission concluded but not before a controversy broke out with the sole Commission's Counsel Anupam Gupta dissociating himself from it owing to personal differences with Justice Liberhan.

The hearings concluded in June 2005.

The Metropolitan Police inquiry opened on July 11 and after six days of hearings concluded on July 26.

" In 1947, the federal government convened Congressional hearings and concluded that the proposed dam at The Dalles would not violate tribal fishing rights under the treaties.

His assistance of Thomas proved somewhat controversial because he assisted Thomas in his highly contested hearing after his own appointment to the federal bench had been approved by the Senate, although he did not take office as a judge until after the Thomas hearings had concluded.

In November 1986 as the sale of weapons was made public, North was fired by President Ronald Reagan, and in July 1987 he was summoned to testify before televised hearings of a joint Congressional committee formed to investigate Iran-Contra.

After two years of preliminary hearings, Meinhof was sentenced to 8 years ' imprisonment on 29 November 1974.

This referendum followed nine months of research and hearings by a Charter Study Commission elected by the residents at a referendum that occurred in November 1989.

In November 1309, the Papal Commission for the Kingdom of France began its own hearings, during which de Molay again recanted, stating that he did not acknowledge the accusations brought against his order.

Following a series of public hearings, the Commission on November 12, 2008, voted 13-7 to recommend that the General Assembly repeal the capital punishment statutes as carries the real possibility of execution of innocent persons and may be biased against African Americans.

On November 15, 1984, the CRTC launched another call for applications, and in 1985 it held public hearings in Montreal to examine competing applications from partners Cogeco Inc. ( 60. 3 %) and Moffat Communications ( 39. 7 %), and another application by the Pouliot family, owners of Montreal's CTV affiliate, CFCF-TV and radio stations CFCF-AM ( later CINW, now defunct ) and CFQR-FM ( now CKBE-FM ).

The task force scheduled the first hearings on the case for November 17 and 18, with more meetings in December before a final recommendation was made.

His trial started on 3 November 2008, and the hearings finished in September 2009.

Oral hearings were held from 30 October to 15 November 1995.

Most of that testimony did not become officially available to the public until the commission released its 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits in November 1964, around the time of the one-year anniversary of the assassination.

The commission held hearings in Victoria, British Columbia from November 23, 1896 to February 2, 1897.

In November 1991, became involved in the Vietnam War POW / MIA issue when he appeared before hearings of the United States Senate Select Committee on POW / MIA Affairs.

On November 11, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Taylor, a judge advocate in the regional defense counsel's office at Camp Victory, ordered that all further hearings in the case will be held at Fort Hood, Texas.

November 1990-February 1991-The Special Committee on Bill C-80 conducts hearings.

These hearings led to citations for contempt being issued by the United States on November 24, 1947.

On October 19, 2005, Specter and Leahy announced their intent to begin confirmation hearings for Miers on November 7, 2005.

Newcap's formal application to acquire the stations was published for public hearings by the CRTC on November 13, 2008, but was subsequently withdrawn in January 2009.

After two public hearings conducted through the NTC in 2004, the " Guidelines in the Administration of the. ph Domain Name " was issued by the CICT in November 2004.

The indictment was filed on November 15, 1947 ; the hearings lasted from January 6, 1948 until November 18 that year, and then the judges took a whole five months to compile their 833-page judgment, which they presented on April 11, 1949.

On November 20, 2007 the New Jersey Casino Control Commission initiated hearings for the renewal of the casino license of Tropicana and whether its parent companies, Adamar of New Jersey and Columbia Sussex, were suitable to hold a casino license.

*" U. S. policy and the future of Cuba: the Cuban Democracy Act and U. S. travel to Cuba " joint hearings in the U. S. House of Representatives of the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade & Environment, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, and Subcommittee on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Washington, D. C., Thursday, November 18, 1993.

They withdrew from the hearings on 12 November 1964 claiming biased conduct of the Inquiry by Anderson as the reason.