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Furthermore, only one "impeachment proceeding" is allowed to be held against an official in a year, although the definition of the term "impeachment proceeding" and "year" have been debated. The House of Representatives has the sole power to impeach, while the Senate has the sole power to try the impeached official. The House of Representatives ...
The term is not defined in statute law, but has been defined in legal cases. One case was Keaveney v. Geraghty, [3] where the plaintiff's libel proceedings were stayed on the grounds that they were, inter alia, frivolous, vexatious, and "an abuse of the process of the Court". The plaintiff was effectively declared a vexatious litigant.
Legal proceeding is an activity that seeks to invoke the power of a tribunal in order to enforce a law. Although the term may be defined more broadly or more narrowly as circumstances require, it has been noted that "[t]he term legal proceedings includes proceedings brought by or at the instigation of a public authority, and an appeal against the decision of a court or tribunal". [1]
A less common, broader meaning of proceedings are the acts and happenings of an academic field, a learned society. For example, the title of the Acta Crystallographica journals is Neo-Latin for "Proceedings in Crystallography"; the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is the main journal of that academy.
the party has no real prospect of succeeding on all or a part of the plaintiff’s claim; and; there is no need for a trial of the claim or the part of the claim. However, a Court may set aside a default judgment if the defendant can prove a number of key issues. [48]
There’s understandable confusion over Capitol Hill lingo discussing the budget process and appropriations/spending process — which are two distinct things.
In the legal system in the United States, In re is used to indicate that a judicial proceeding may not have formally designated adverse parties or is otherwise uncontested. In re is an alternative to the more typical adversarial form of case designation, which names each case as "Plaintiff v. (versus) Defendant", as in Roe v. Wade or Miranda v.
"I wasn't happy with what was going on," Allen said. "I was yelling a little bit. He just said, 'don't be yelling.' So, my bad. Sorry to Bill." Fortunately for the Bills, the missed call didn't ...