Sometimes, the appellate court finds a defect in the procedure the parties used in filing the appeal and dismisses the appeal without considering its merits, which has the same effect as affirming the judgment below.

Searle then supposes that he is in a closed room and has a book with an English version of the computer program, along with sufficient paper, pencils, erasers, and filing cabinets.

Dipping used to be the norm for objects such as filing cabinets, but this has been replaced by high speed air turbine driven bells with electrostatic spray.

It has also been alleged that the PAP employs censorship, gerrymandering and the filing of civil suits against the opposition for libel or slander to impede their success.

However, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that certain ballot access requirements, such as filing fees and submitting a certain number of valid petition signatures do not constitute additional qualifications and thus few Constitutional restrictions exist as to how harsh ballot access laws can be.

* Andy Martin ( Anthony Martin-Tragona ), who has been barred since 1983 from filing any legal action in a US federal court without permission.

The Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) has ruled that the Church was tax-exempt some years, and not tax-exempt other years, based on the annual filing statement required of non-profit organizations.

Since Chrysler's 2009 bankruptcy filing in the United States, Chrysler has been controlled by Italian automaker Fiat, which unlike Daimler plans to integrate Chrysler's products into the Fiat portfolio, most notably Lancia and Chrysler's namesake brand.

The post-1984 bailout standard requires that a covered jurisdiction demonstrate nondiscriminatory behavior during the 10 years prior to filing and while the action is pending and that it has taken affirmative steps to improve minority voting opportunities.

Under BAPCPA, a debtor who has moved from one state to another within two years of filing ( 730 days ) the bankruptcy case must use exemptions from the place of the debtor ’ s domicile for the majority of the 180 day time period preceding the two years ( 730 days ) before the filing.

Ventura also stated that he had not left Minnesota for over a month at the time the story was published and that he has refused to fly commercially since filing an unsuccessful lawsuit against the TSA earlier that year.

The likelihood of the county filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection has been debated in the press.

In 2003 Robertson founded SIPphone, which itself has seen legal action, filing suit against Vonage for false and misleading advertising including ' not disclosing the lock the company places on certain pieces of hardware '.

The use of such a standard by the University of North Dakota has been criticized by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education in the case of Caleb Warner, who was suspended for three years in January 2010 on the basis of a report by a complainant who was subsequently charged with filing a false report by state police, a decision which the University has refused to reconsider.

The court will be satisfied that the relationship has broken down irretrievably if there has been a period of 12 months separation immediately preceding the filing of an application for divorce.

However, in civil cases, the insanity of the plaintiff can toll the statute of limitations for filing a suit until the plaintiff has recovered from this condition, or until a statute of repose has run.

While procedures vary by jurisdiction, the process of filing a motion for court ordered child support typically has several basic steps.

Among the numerous campaigns Bozell has led with the PTC have included campaigning to bring back the " Family Viewing Hour ", filing complaints with the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) over what he sees as indecent programs, and boycotting corporations that advertise on television programs that the organization believes to be offensive.

Once a father has established paternity and, if he wishes to be part of the child's upbringing, he can effectively establish his parental rights with his child by filing a parenting plan.

Kimmel has also cited the Parents Television Council, a group known for filing the majority of FCC complaints, as an influence.

3d 863, 873 ( 1989 ) observed: " While the filing of frivolous lawsuits is certainly improper and cannot in any way be condoned, in our view the better means of addressing the problem of unjustified litigation is through the adoption of measures facilitating the speedy resolution of the initial lawsuit and authorizing the imposition of sanctions for frivolous or delaying conduct within that first action itself, rather than through an expansion of the opportunities for initiating one or more additional rounds of malicious prosecution litigation after the first action has been concluded.

On July 21, 2002, WorldCom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history at the time ( since overtaken by the collapses of both Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual in a span of eleven days in September 2008 ).

Root's machinery changed that for Colt, since the machines completed as much as 80 % of the work and less than 20 % of the parts required hand fitting and filing.

The most effective legal argument against reparations for slavery from a legal ( as opposed to a moral standpoint ) is that the statute of limitations for filing lawsuits has long since passed.

After one of the delegates, Hussain bin Manap, withdrew unexpectedly in August from filing the appeal, the remaining litigants have since become famous as the " UMNO 11.

No Republican filed to run against Runnels before the close of filing, and after the death, the New Mexico Secretary of State ruled that the Democrats could have a special primary to pick a replacement candidate, but the Republicans could not have a special election, since they had nobody to replace.

According to the New York Times, Levi Strauss leads the apparel industry in trademark infringement cases, filing nearly 100 lawsuits against competitors since 2001.

Prior to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005, Winn-Dixie was listed in the S & P 500 and had been traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol " WIN " since February 18, 1952.

In an Federal Elections Commission filing showing expenses through the end of June 2006, Ney reported that he had not paid any legal fees since January 5 from campaign funds.

In a Connecticut Supreme Court decision, Blumenthal v. Barnes ( 2002 ), a unanimous court determined that the state ’ s Attorney General could act using only the powers specifically authorized by the state legislature, and that since the Attorney General ’ s jurisdiction is defined by statute rather than common law, Blumenthal lacked the authority to cite common law as the basis for filing suit against Barnes.

GGP failed to reach a deal with its creditors ; and on April 16, 2009, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy: the largest real estate bankruptcy since at least 1980, and the largest ever filing by a mall operator.

ArtistShare has since responded by filing a counterclaim alleging that Kickstarter is indeed infringing its patent.

The courtesy copy of the filing is merely used to decide the motion at issue and is discarded when no longer needed, since the electronic file is now the court's master copy of the case file.

However employees do not usually have to exhaust such procedures if they are suing only the union, since very few collective bargaining agreements even allow for the filing of a grievance against the union by covered employees.

Associates say since the filing for divorce, Moores now spends most of his time in Texas and rarely attends Padres and San Diego State games.

Friendly's has closed about 100 stores since filing for bankruptcy protection in October 2011.

Shortly before filing for bankruptcy, Caldor had $ 1. 2 billion in assets and $ 883 million in liabilities, the lowest amount of assets and the highest amount of liabilities the company had since it was sold by May Department Stores in 1990.

The fourth section continued filing information they had been collected within the OF VOS since 1941.

She has been filing reports for the show since 2007, interviewing newsmakers from multiple locations across the United States.

To round up one's affairs, filing an application to change to another non-immigrant status may therefore become a necessity.

Southeast Air will be filing to become a scheduled service airline once again.

In that year one in every 45 homes received a foreclosure filing and the problem has become more widespread with the increasing rates of unemployment across the nation.

It takes many years of full time saw filing to become proficient in the trade.

The filing claimed that Chambers had become an addict at the age of 14 and was, by 2007, using 10 to 12 bags of heroin a day.

His breakthrough was a series of articles written after living among a group of homeless people, which Sinclair called " Toronto's hobo club " From that point, Sinclair rose to become one of the paper's star reporters, spending most of the next decade travelling the world, filing reports from exotic locations.

While trying to become a full time musician, Labi worked as a warehouseman in Bethnal Green, a filing clerk at Reuters in Fleet Street and as a minicab driver and delivery man.

Some prognosticators have suggested the future of the filing cabinet is in doubt as electronic filing systems proliferate and become lower in cost.

Despite the popularity of Chernoviz's published work, little is known about his work methods: notes and record-keeping, filing system, data retrieval, updating of information, and so on, at a time when typewriters were just beginning to become a standard office appliance.

In contrast to an intervener however, a person filing observations during opposition proceedings does not become party to the proceedings.

Media reports uncovered an LFA trademark filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in December 2008, with the concept LF-A name dropping its hyphen to become LFA for a possible production model.

The Miami Dolphins had cut him after the 1992 season largely because a corollary of this filing would have meant he could have become a free agent and left Miami at any point of the following season, but he continued to play professionally until 1998 and later became marketing and development director for Backfield in Motion, a non-profit group mixing athletics and academics to help inner city boys.

* The PBGC's guarantee of pension benefits that become payable on a plant shutdown is limited if the shutdown occurred within five years of the bankruptcy filing.

I had no idea at that time of how heavy our taxation had become or of the severity of the penalties exacted for not filing tax returns .”

The SEC does not approve or disapprove the issue of securities, but rather permits the filing statement to " become effective " if sufficient required detail is provided, including risk factors.

Workers from China or India with jobs requiring only a Bachelor's degree can expect to wait years after filing the labor certification and immigrant visa petition to become eligible to file the final application for the green card itself.

Kelly made his debut for Leeds in the 1991-92 season, although he did not become a regular in the side until the 1993-94 season, when Wilkinson made him his first choice right-back following the injury-induced retirement of Mel Sterland, occasionally filing in at centre back when needed.