Sentence examples for close the courts from inspiring English sources

The proposal to close the courts to victims of discrimination is not at all novel or forward-looking.

JOHN A. PAYTON President and Director-Counsel NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund New York, Oct. 31, 2011 To the Editor: The proposal to close the courts to victims of discrimination as a way to further civil rights is music to the ears of corporations.

Led by a debt-plagued veteran of Bunker Hill and Saratoga named Daniel Shays, they sought firearms with which to enforce their threats to close the courts in western Massachusetts and compel the legislature to enact debt-relief measures, including an inflationary paper currency and an end to mortgage foreclosures.

In the crudest of election-year gambits, the Senate Republican leader, Bill Frist, is suddenly pushing for the fast adoption of a pro-business proposal to close the courts to asbestos victims and substitute an inadequate compensation fund for hundreds of thousands of victims.

In Baltimore City, courts close fairly frequently for all sorts of reasons, including snow days; the judiciary decides when to close the courts.

She notes that, when Vojislav Kostunica became Serbia's prime minister in March 2004, his government promised to close the court.

Instead of being allowed to make his arguments in an open, public court, he said, his lawyers were told that the government would close the court for national-security reasons.

Her face would be uncovered, but she could choose not to see who is watching her to give evidence; and/or I close the court so that only lawyers involved in the proceedings would be in the court.

The militants closed the courts and announced they would soon open courts based on Shariah law.

Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected the argument that immunity closed the courts to the plaintiffs.

The Judicial Branch expects it will save about $1 million by closing the courts.