Thus the Ayatollah Khomeini had condemned me to sit through "Four Weddings and a Funeral"; and no Iranian torturer could have elicited a greater variety of winces and flinches, of pleadings and whimperings.
GUPTA'S INSIDER TRADING CHARGES Lawyers for Rajat K. Gupta, a former director of Goldman Sachs charged with insider trading, filed a flurry of pleadings, "seeking to dismiss counts, suppress wiretaps and force the government to clarify its indictment," Peter Lattman reports.
In the two months since the court's ruling, defense lawyers across the country have filed, or have been preparing, a flurry of pleadings asking judges to vacate convictions or reopen cases against their clients.
Since then his case has seen the inside of a courtroom just 54 days, yet it has still managed to generate 3,000 trial exhibits, 86 motions and 25 volumes of pleadings, thanks to what he calls government stall tactics.
When preparing your own complaint or other pleadings to file with the court, you are expected to know and follow all of the rules concerning the form and filing of pleadings.
The court record consists of the pleadings filed with the court including the original complaint, any answer to that complaint, cross-complaints, counterclaims, and any number of other types of pleadings or motions submitted to the court.
Your file will include copies of pleadings, exhibits, original documents (such as a will), and any work product created by your attorney, including digital works.
Some courts will have copies of pleadings from filed lawsuits on the court website, but you can also use a search engine.
The couple shrugged and then flashed the kind of pleading look that is often a prelude to other sorts of expressions: dejection, and its companion, indignation.
For example, the concept of "pleading insanity" when accused of violent crimes is well known (both in the real world and fictional ones).
Nicholas Mystikos tried to discourage Simeon from invading Byzantium in a long series of pleading letters, but the Bulgarian ruler nevertheless attacked in full force in late July or August 913, reaching Constantinople without any serious resistance.
