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The word "lawsuit" derives from the combination of law and suit. Suit derives from the old French "suite, sieute" meaning to pursue or follow. This term was derived from the Latin "secutus", the past participle of "sequi" meaning to attend or follow. [3]
“If they claim the attorney-client privilege, the privilege goes to the county, and decisions in the county are made by a majority vote of council,” Bender said. “So all it takes is a majority.
In international institutional law, a simple majority (also a plurality) is the largest number of votes cast (disregarding abstentions) among alternatives, always true when only two are in the competition. In some circles, a majority means more than half of the total including abstentions.
The Republican majority responded by changing the standing rules to allow for filibusters of Supreme Court nominations to be broken with simple majority rather than three-fifths. [55] The vote threshold for cloture on nominations to lower court and executive branch positions had earlier been lowered to simple majority. That change was made in ...
The court citation consists of the names of the opposing parties; the volume number; "U.S." (signifying United States Reports, the official reporter of Supreme Court decisions); the page number on which the decision begins; and the year in which the case was decided. The names of the opposing parties are listed in the format "Petitioner
Simple majority may refer to: Majority, a voting requirement of more than half of all votes cast; Plurality (voting), a voting requirement of more votes cast for a ...
That is, a U.S. court will say that "we affirm (or reverse)" the lower court's decision, or, "the decision of the [lower court] is hereby affirmed (or reversed)." By saying so, the court does so. In the United Kingdom and many other common law countries, the disposition in a majority opinion is phrased in the future tense as a
The majority of cases are decided by a settlement. Both sides (regardless of relative monetary resources) often have a strong incentive to settle to avoid the costs (such as legal fees, finding expert witnesses, etc.), the time and the stress associated with a trial, particularly where a trial by jury is available.