Sentence examples for In the first hearing from inspiring English sources

In the first hearing, on California's Proposition 8, the arguments by the proponents of that ban on same-sex marriage boiled down to one strange proposition — that society's interest in marriage as an institution begins and ends with what their lawyer, Charles Cooper, called "responsible procreation".

In the first hearing over the BHS scandal earlier this month, Lesley Titcomb, the chief executive of the Pensions Regulator, told MPs that she only found out about the controversial sale of BHS to Retail Acquisitions after reading about it in the newspapers.

In the first hearing, Mr. Kelly, who had not previously appeared in the case, stood up in court and argued that if the judge agreed to release Dr. Lee to home detention on bail -- something the judge was clearly leaning toward -- the security preparations would require so much time and supervision that it would amount to the creation of a "private jail" at Dr. Lee's home.

It would have been much better if we had everything coherently before us in the first hearing".

The judge in the first hearing said he could not extradite Mr Bout because FARC is not a banned terrorist group in Thailand.

Richards denied in the first hearing that he had ever been involved in fabricating blood injuries, branding the accusation as ridiculous.

Although the PRBs were established by executive order in 2011, the first hearing did not take place until 2013, immediately after a mass hunger strike.

Nearly a dozen reporters were present in the courtroom, the first hearing before Judge Khanna in the fast-track court specifically set up for this trial.

When the Guantanamo military commission opened this morning in the 9/11 case, the first hearing in the case since October, it quickly became clear that once again, things weren't going to get very far.

Dauman and his legal team are preparing for an important court appearance in Massachusetts on Tuesday – the first hearing in the matter brought by Dauman and fellow Viacom board member George Abrams.

Wegelin was not in court on Wednesday, nor did it appear at the first hearing in the case in February.