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

The hearings were concluded in November 2004, and the report was published 15 June 2010.

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.

Il ritorno has been described as an " ugly duckling ", but also as the most tender and moving of Monteverdi's surviving operas, and as one which, though it might disappoint initially, will on subsequent hearings reveal a vocal style of extraordinary eloquence.

Although his role was initially greatly reduced after the move west, Tom's promotion marks his renewed influence in the family and he goes on to be instrumental in both securing the loyalty of Senator Pat Geary and defending Michael during the Senate hearings on the Mafia.

It was instructed to produce a final report within six months, and after public hearings, depositions, and document collection, released a completed study on October 31, 1979.

The International Court of Justice completed hearings on October 2, 2009, between Argentina and Uruguay over the dispute.

Public hearings on whether to build a Green Line and the route it should take were completed in 1973, and portions of the Green Line was originally scheduled to open in 1976.

After the public hearings were completed, the board was left to deliberate with the evidence it had collected.

Since Ken Starr had already completed an extensive investigation, the House Judiciary Committee conducted no investigations of its own into Clinton's alleged wrongdoing, and it held no serious impeachment-related hearings before the 1998 mid-term elections.

The committee, appointed on 23 July 1954, convened and operated rapidly — it reported on 20 September, barely 10 days after it completed hearing evidence, 59 days after its appointment, and 55 days after hearings began.

When the TRC hearings were completed in 1997, Krog took up the post of Parliamentary Editor at SABC.

The Commission completed its hearings phase in the last week of July 2009.

The court became embroiled in a lengthy ethics scandal in 2006 when the Hartford Courant revealed that retiring Chief Justice William J. Sullivan postponed the publication of a controversial decision opposing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents that track the status and history of legal cases in the Connecticut legal system until hearings for his successor Justice Peter T. Zarella were completed.

Once pretrial hearings are completed, the case is considered ready for trial and will usually be transferred to a courtroom that specializes in handling trials.

Peter Marshall noted that Bang-Jensen had later referred to his two interviews with the Gross group as `` unfortunate experiences '', and after his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused to attend further hearings without legal counsel.

The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan hearings had to do with `` sweetheart contracts ''.

Anyone familiar with the details of the McClellan hearings must at once realize that the sweetheart arrangements augmented employer profits far more than they augmented the earnings of the corruptible labor leaders.

Nonetheless, as Frank Bowe predicted when he testified as the lead witness on Title III in the Senate hearings leading up to enactment, the fact that Title III calls for accessibility in, and alterations to, thousands of stores, restaurants, hotels, etc., in thousands of communities across the U. S. means that this Title probably has had more effect on the lives of more Americans with disabilities than any other ADA title.

Many of the independent agencies operate as miniature versions of the tripartite federal government, with the authority to " legislate " ( through rulemaking ; see Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations ), " adjudicate " ( through administrative hearings ), and to " execute " administrative goals ( through agency enforcement personnel ).

After the Congressional hearings in early 2005, and with the scrutiny of the sports and national media upon this issue, Selig put forth a proposal for a stricter performance-enhancing drug testing regime to replace the current system.

The EPA then held seven months of hearings in 1971 – 1972, with scientists giving evidence both for and against the use of DDT.

The Minister of Industry, Margaret Hodge, conducted hearings but resisted any government regulation of franchising with the advice that government regulation of franchising might lull the public into a false sense of security.

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

This duty allowance was limited to 20, 000 florins a year for the judges and 30, 000 florins for the Vice-President ; as such, it provided for 200 days of court hearings, with no allowance provided if the court sat for longer.

In it, she argues against making alliances with the political right in opposition to pornography and prostitution, as occurred, for example, during the Meese Commission hearings in the United States.

While in the academy, B ' Elanna was constantly having trouble with the rules of Starfleet, resulting in her getting four disciplinary hearings and one suspension.

* In My Country ( 2004 ), very loosely based on Country of My Skull, an autobiographical text by Antjie Krog which dealt with her coverage of the hearings, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche

The Senate Judiciary Committee conducts hearings and votes on whether the nomination should go to the full Senate with a positive, negative or neutral report.

Some require court hearings and others require that treating psychiatrists comply with a set of requirements before compulsory treatment is instituted.

Physicists have testified at United States Congressional hearings, however, that weapons with yields of 10 kilotons ( 42 TJ ) or less can produce a very large EMP.

The most famous examples of McCarthyism include the speeches, investigations, and hearings of Senator McCarthy himself ; the Hollywood blacklist, associated with hearings conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ); and the various anti-communist activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) under Director J. Edgar Hoover.

During the 1960s and 1970s psychosurgery became the subject of increasing public concern and debate, culminating in the US with congressional hearings.

Thurmond served as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court in 1991 and worked closely with Joe Biden, then the chairman.

Colonel Paul Tate preferred not to make public comments ; however, he was a constant presence during the murder trial, and in the following years attended parole hearings with his wife, and wrote letters to authorities in which he strongly opposed any suggestion of parole.

The decrypted Purple traffic, and Japanese messages generally, was the subject of acrimonious hearings in Congress post-World War II in connection with an attempt to decide who, if anyone, had allowed the attack at Pearl Harbor to happen and who therefore should be blamed.