absence

A Dictionary of Law;    ELIZABETH A. MARTIN;   18 words ...absence n. (in court procedure) The nonappearance of a party to litigation or a person summoned to attend as a witness.

The effects of collegiality on judicial decision making.

University of Pennsylvania Law Review;  May 1, 2003 ;   Edwards, Harry T.;   787 words ......some academics who have analyzed judicial decision making, especially on the basis of...attention in scholarly writings on judicial decision making. In recent years, especially...empiricists have attempted to quantify judicial decision making, the idea of collegiality...

State courts and school funding: a fifty-state analysis.

Albany Law Review;  June 22, 2000 ;   Lundberg, Paula J.;   787 words ......determine whether they are predictive of judicial decision making on the constitutionality of...theoretical approaches that have analyzed judicial decision making and sets forth the framework...school funding challenge. II. THE JUDICIAL DECISION LITERATURE The complicated nature...

A Political Regimes Approach to the Analysis of Legal Decisions.

Polity;  December 22, 1999 ;   Clayton, Cornell May, David A.;   787 words ......institutions and their influence on judicial decision making.(1) Both of these new institutional...complete understanding of law and judicial decision making. We present a model of Supreme...scholarship about the role of the Court and judicial decision making: the so-called political ...

stop notice

A Dictionary of Finance and Banking;      53 words ...stop notice A court procedure available to protect those who have an interest in shares but have not been registered as company members. The notice prevents...

stare decisis

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;    IAIN McLEAN and ALISTAIR McMILLAN;   32 words ...stare decisis Latin phrase, meaning ‘stand by past decisions’. Foundation of legal application of precedent, where a judicial decision on one case applies to all cases with similar principles.

adjournment

A Dictionary of Law;    ELIZABETH A. MARTIN;   56 words ...adjournment n. (in court procedure) The postponement or suspension of the hearing of a case until a future date. The hearing may be adjourned to a fixed date or sine...

Judicial decision on Pinochet postponed in Chile

Xinhua News Agency;  November 27, 2004 ;     288 words ...Judicial decision on Pinochet postponed in Chile SANTIAGO, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- A Chilean judge said Friday that the decision on whether former military...

Letter to the Editor: Had it been another neighborhood ...

New Haven Register;  May 7, 2006 ;     35 words ...I wonder whether the judicial decision regarding zoning changes for a new Worthington Hooker School would have been different had the site of the new school been in a less affluent section of the city. Deborah A. Somers Milford

Thai PM's case enters court procedure

Xinhua News Agency;  August 5, 2008 ;     175 words ...Thai PM's case enters court procedure BANGKOK, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Constitution Court agreed on Tuesday to proceed with a judicial review whether Prime Minister...

EXPLAINING U.S. CIRCUIT COURT DECISION MAKING

Judicature;  July 1, 2004 ;   Cross, Frank B;   787 words ......sometimes conflicting, theories of judicial decision making. The most common theory is...quantitative analysis of the legal model of judicial decision making. First, it is very difficult...the effect of procedural rules. If judicial decision making were truly driven by ideology...

surprise

A Dictionary of Law;    ELIZABETH A. MARTIN;   95 words ...surprise n. (in court procedure) An unexpected event that causes a party to be put at some disadvantage in litigation. Many rules of pre-trial procedure are designed...

Brazil: Vasp wins R$1.6bil from the government.

South American Business Information;  June 14, 1999 ;     113 words ...The airline Vasp has won a judicial decision to receive from the Brazilian Treasury R$1.6bil,to cover the losses it incurred with the frozen of air tariffs imposed after 1986...

KEEPING LEGAL FEES IN CHECK.(Editorial)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 14, 1996 ;     268 words ...It's a rare judicial decision that draws applause both from GOP conservatives pushing tort reform and from the group Public Citizen, Naderites who want to fillet...

Top trainer slams $400 mix-up fine

The Press;  March 24, 1998 ;   MCCARTHY, David;   200 words ...A prominent Canterbury trainer, Dawn Williams, has slammed the judicial decision to fine Shane Anderton only $400 over the mix-up between Auditive and De Montfort at the recent Hororata meeting. ``I've nothing...