Sentence examples for blocking the case from inspiring English sources

The ruling, while blocking the case against Mr. Sharon, did allow a Belgian court to hear the case against Mr. Sharon's co-defendant, Amos Yaron, the former Israeli Army chief of staff.

Crawford ultimately judged that this met the legal definition of torture and blocked the case from proceeding.

In a vote last week, Italian senators voted to defend Salvini's parliamentary immunity and blocked the case against him.

It was the second time the court rejected an appeal from Yugoslavia, trying to block the case, which was first filed in 1993.

Relatives believe that some sailors survived long enough to have been rescued, but Russian court rulings have blocked the case from being reopened.

The president managed to avoid standing trial in that case by getting enough members of the lower house of Congress to block the case from reaching the Supreme Court — the only court where senior Brazilian elected officials may be tried.

But there had been concern that the ministry might try to block the case by invoking a section of the Iraqi criminal law that proscribes the prosecution of officials who are executing their official duties.

Should any charges be brought, the official said, prosecutors anticipated that Mr. Braswell would try to block the case by arguing that Mr. Clinton had indeed pardoned him in connection with this current matter.

Twelve Nigerians took the Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell to court in the US over allegations of torture and other human rights abuses in the Niger delta in the 1990s, but the supreme court blocked the case in 2013.

A court ordered military documents to be turned over in 2009, and the military began to comply, one of several cracks in the wall that had blocked the case.

Apple also sought to block the case by asking China's State Intellectual Property Office to invalidate the patent, but was refused.