Based on six hearsay declarations submitted by plaintiffs, the district court ordered that Microsoft be split into two companies, disclose its valuable intellectual property to competitors, redesign all of its operating system software to plaintiffs vague specifications and reprice that software according to an arbitrary court-imposed formula.
In early July he issued a proclamation offering amnesty to rebels who laid down their arms and took an oath to the crown, and he cracked down on the sometimes arbitrary courts martial held in the field by requiring the review of all sentences in Dublin.
So that they are not themselves seen as arbitrary, the courts are constantly developing and refining general principles of judicial review.
The Cuban dictator has had intellectuals, journalists, political dissidents and members of the Varela project arrested and brutally repressed, using the usual pretexts and means employed by any common or garden dictatorship: spying on its citizens, arbitrary imprisonment, court-room farces and absurd sentences.
Some said Americans working in Iraq would be watching how the Iraqi government dealt with its new power, and would wait and see whether there were arbitrary arrests or court rulings tainted by corruption before deciding whether to stay.
It has outlined why in their view her 22 months of imprisonment over allegations of spying amounted to torture, given "the conditions of solitary confinement, the psychological pressures in the arbitrary detention and court proceedings, and her use as a tool of pressure in wider diplomatic affairs".
This, said the court, was arbitrary.
But one of the fired superintendents, Robert E. Riccobono, is challenging his dismissal in court as arbitrary.
Sunday is an arbitrary date, and the court simply refused to mediate a rational solution.
Otherwise, the move would also likely be struck down in court as "arbitrary and capricious," he argued.
