Alford was sentenced to thirty years in prison, after the trial judge in the case accepted the plea bargain and ruled that the defendant had been adequately apprised by his lawyer.

Selig was eager to settle the case because the judge had previously ruled that the Expos could not be moved or contracted until the case was over.

However, in December 2007 an administrative law judge ruled that he would receive benefits, as his action was not intentional misbehavior.

" ( The judge ruled that " intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature ".

In Beacon Theaters v. Westover,, the US Supreme Court discussed the right to a jury, holding that when both equitable and legal claims are brought, the right to a jury trial still exists for the legal claim, which would be decided by a jury before the judge ruled on the equitable claim.

A High Court judge, Mr Justice Floyd, ruled in favour of the creditors and paved the way for the sale of the club to Fenway Sports Group ( formerly New England Sports Ventures ), although Gillett and Hicks still had the option to appeal.

After general manager Marvin Milkes testified that the Pilots did not have enough money to pay the players, the bankruptcy judge granted the Pilots ' filing on April 1 and ruled the move to Milwaukee in order.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

In July 2010 a judge ruled that Larrikin should be paid 5 % of past ( since 2002 ) and future profits.

It was ruled that the judge should have left the defence of automatism open to him, so his conviction was quashed ( he had pleaded guilty rather than not guilty by reason of insanity ).

A Dutch judge has ruled that tourists can legally be banned from entering cannabis cafes, as part of new restrictions which come into force in 2012.

The majority of the lawsuit was dismissed in April 2004, when an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that the case lacked merit since none of the other partners took part in the lawsuit.

On June 6, federal judge Richard Paul Matsch ruled the documents would not prove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execution to proceed.

The judge ultimately ruled that a murder charge could not be supported partly because there were no witnesses to the killing.

A person whose behaviour is not mustahabb can be ruled against by the judge.

In a mockery of William Brevard Hand, a federal judge in Alabama, who ruled secular humanism as a religion, the musician Frank Zappa, who was also a free speech advocate, established the " Church of American Secular Humanism ".

While the defense could show no specific instance where any part of North's congressional testimony was used in his trial, the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge had made an insufficient examination of the issue, and ordered North's convictions reversed.

Litigation continued for nearly six years, until October 6, 1889, when a judge ruled that Edison's electric-light improvement claim for " a filament of carbon of high resistance " was valid.

The Court has ruled that, in certain circumstances, the Due Process Clause requires a judge to recuse himself on account of concern of there being a conflict of interest.

The judge ruled that any similarities in the melody were minor and " Titles " was a Vangelis original.

In July 2004, an appeal judge of the Pretoria High Court ruled that " the crimes were not committed for personal gain ".

However, when Clarke appealed to the High Court against the order, the judge ruled that the order was arbitrary and unjustified and quashed the order.

In August 2010, the trial judge ruled in their clients ' favor.

Microware sued Apple that year for trademark infringement, although a judge ruled that there would be little chance for confusion between the two.

The judge ruled that although the women were being discriminated against, the issue is an International Olympic Committee responsibility and thus not governed by the charter.

She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.

After the judge moved all the dogs individually, she selected several from the group and placed them in the center of the ring.

But responsiveness to these opportunities presumes that all of us judge the good as a human good and not simply as a professional, white, American good.

While at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.

Progressive measures taken during his kingship include: representatives of the commons, besides the nobility and clergy, were involved in governance ; the end of preventive arrests such that henceforward all arrests had to be first presented to a judge to determine the detention measure ; and fiscal innovation, such as negotiating extraordinary taxes with the mercantile classes and direct taxation of the Church, rather than debasement of the coinage.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

* Abimelech ( 9 ) ( who is traditionally counted as a king not a judge, and is considered evil ) vs. all the Israelites who oppose him

The author conceives of a date in the future – the ‘ great day of the Lord ’ – when the Lord will judge all the people of the earth.

Most denominations teach that Jesus will return to judge all humans, living and dead, and grant eternal life to his followers.

* in the United States, determining whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial applies ( a determination of a fact necessary to resolution of a " common law " claim ) or whether the issue will be decided by a judge ( issues of what the law is, and all issues relating to equity ).

We must first judge how human reason works, and within what limits, so that we can afterwards correctly apply it to sense experience and determine whether it can be applied at all to metaphysical objects.

For by fire and by his sword the Lord will judge all flesh, and the slain of the Lord will be many.

In 1699 he succeeded Samuel Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

If the judge approves the reorganization plan and if the creditors all agree the plan can be confirmed.

Specifically, if a judge consistently gives low scores for all divers, or consistently gives high scores for the same divers, the judging will yield fair relative results and will cause divers to place in the correct order.

If the subject could so judge his own superior, then all lawful superior authority could lawfully be overthrown by the arbitrary judgement of an inferior, and thus all law was under constant threat.

*“ Be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers ... and judge of the tree by its fruits .”

In sum, Radbruch's formula argues that where statutory law is incompatible with the requirements of justice " to an intolerable degree ", or where statutory law was obviously designed in a way that deliberately negates " the equality that is the core of all justice ", statutory law must be disregarded by a judge in favour of the justice principle.

The differences between this court and the House of Lords are that in the House all of the peers are judges of both law and fact, whereas in the Court the Lord High Steward is the sole judge of fact and the peers decide the facts only ; and the bishops are not entitled to sit and vote in the Court.