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Inferior judicial tribunals in England, created by special enactments of Parliament, that possessed local jurisdiction to determi...
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The state's second attempt to find a developer to build a casino in Baltimore will move forward after the disqualified winner of the first attempt dropped his request on Wednesday that the courts put the process on ice.
The move came 30 months to the day after Maryland voters approved slot machine gaming and sets a July 28 deadline for proposals for the city casino site. State officials had worried that a successful bid for an injunction could set the process back by more than a year.
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[...] this Article urges that at a minimum, the courts should require that any ambiguous or equivocal request be clarified prior to continued questioning of a suspect. [...] the Miranda warnings should be altered to include an explicit reminder to the suspect they can assert their right to remain silent at any time, and that such an assertion would not be used against them.
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mandamus action against common pleas court judge and clerk of courts; R.C. 149.43 - Public Records Statute; request for tapes of a hearing; motion to dismiss and motion for summary judgment; respondents have legal duty to provide relator with copies of the requested tapes
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The last living man convicted of gunning down United Mine Workers union reformer Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, his wife and daughter in Washington County wants out of prison, arguing that he helped the government secure other convictions and has served his time.
Paul Gilly, 78, a triggerman in the 1969 deaths, filed a handwritten, 19-page request this week with Washington County Clerk of Courts Barbara Gibbs, who forwarded the documents to the state Supreme Court. Gilly, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Albion in Erie County, wrote he is a pauper who is acting as his own attorney.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rejected a call Monday from Virginia's attorney general to depart from its usual practice and put review of the health care law on a fast track. Instead, judicial review of President Barack Obama's signature legislation will continue in federal appeals courts.
The justices turned down a request by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a leading opponent of the law, to resolve questions about its constitutionality quickly. The Obama administration opposed Cuccinelli's plea.
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The problems afflicting the venerated investment banking firm Bear Stearns first became apparent when two of its overseas Cayman Islands hedge funds had collapsed in 2007 under the weight of the increased delinquencies of their subprime mortgage loans and the subprime mortgage crisis afflicting the US credit markets at that time. Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code contains the rules and procedures that a foreign debtor's representative, such as a liquidator or receiver, can utilize to facilitate a foreign insolvency proceeding, including protecting the foreign debtor's assets and business in the US from creditor enforcement actions and obtaining relief from the US courts. The Bankruptcy and District Court decisions in Bear Stearns make crystal clear that the courts will act as tough gate...
... not necessarily rubberstamp an unopposed request for recognition of a foreign proceeding. Any overs...
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DAYTON -- When a request to destroy foreclosure sales records kept by Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer crossed Deborah Andrews' desk on Jan. 20, the county records manager immediately flagged it for rejection.
Earlier in the month, a county clerk of courts employee phoned Andrews, saying there had been a public records request for the addresses of sheriff's sale appraisers.
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A group that favors the status quo in judicial selection says a group that wants Missouri to adopt partisan election of judges fell short in collecting signatures.
The Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund got copies of the signature pages through a Sunshine Law request to the Secretary of State's Office. The group released the result of its analysis to the media on Wednesday.