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The majority of those who miss an appearance will return to court within one year. [59] FTA rates are also challenging to measure and compare. Some jurisdictions treat a single-missed court appearance as an FTA, such that a new FTA arises whenever an individual misses a court date in a single legal proceeding. [ 38 ]
R v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy ([1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] All ER Rep 233) is a leading English case on the impartiality and recusal of judges.It is famous as a legal precedent in establishing the principle that the mere appearance of bias is sufficient to overturn a judicial decision.
In the preface to Bleak House, Dickens cites two Chancery cases as special inspirations, one of which was a "friendly suit": . At the present moment (August 1853) there is a suit before the court which was commenced nearly twenty years ago, in which from thirty to forty counsel have been known to appear at one time, in which costs have been incurred to the amount of seventy thousand pounds ...
Although Justice Louis Brandeis's concurring opinion in Ashwander is the primary case for the modern formulation of the avoidance doctrine, Marshall had cautioned that no questions of "greater delicacy" may be presented to the federal judiciary than those involving a constitutional challenge to a legislative act. [4]
A limited appearance is a term used in the United States law of civil procedure to describe a civil defendant's appearance in a quasi in rem action in the court of another state to dispute liability to the limited extent of the value of the property seized by that court. [3]
Three stealth jurors allegedly lied to get on the jury in the trial of Scott Peterson for the murder of his wife Laci Peterson. [8] Peterson's lawyers argued that "[b]y getting on a nationally famous case, [these jurors] may have aspirations of working their jury service into a book, interviews or some other form of celebrity and possible monetary benefit."
Florida v. J. L., 529 U.S. 266 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court determined that a police officer may not legally stop and frisk someone based solely on an anonymous tip that describes a person's location and appearance, but does not furnish information as to any illegal conduct.
Hagan Scotten's resignation letter. The 2025 U.S. Department of Justice resignations also known as the "Thursday Night Massacre" or the "Valentine's Day Seven" refer to the resignations of seven prosecutors of the U.S. Department of Justice in February 2025 in response to orders from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to dismiss federal criminal corruption charges against New York City ...