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 Morocco, for instance, lawyers have started challenging inconsistent and arbitrary court decisions on certain immigration-related issues over the past years.
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.
He later argued against arbitrary jailings by industrial courts.
This doesn't mean suddenly going silent about arbitrary arrests and military courts.
They gathered on the median strip and while traffic resumed around them, they directed their signs toward the Justice Palace, Syria's infamously arbitrary and opaque law courts.
Justice Stephen Gageler issued a dissenting report, determining the detention was indeed punitive and the process sidelined courts while "arbitrary executive detention is played out".
If there is no respect for the rule of law, if we cannot enjoy basic human rights, then our freedom is subject to the whimsical pardons and arbitrary decisions of Azeri courts, not inalienable rights that we are born with.
It was a striking omission: Mr. Bush's State Department, in its most recent human rights report, documented Malaysia's intimidation of the press; its use of the police and courts for arbitrary arrests of Dr. Mahathir's political opponents; and its manipulation of electoral procedures devised to favor the governing coalition that has held power since 1957.
