"How many tickets are you contesting?" The city issues nearly 10 million parking tickets each year, and about 1.2 million are contested in hearings.
The city issues nearly 10 million parking tickets each year, and about 1.2 million are contested in hearings.
The bitterly contested confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas, who was accused of sexual harassment by a former employee, Anita F. Hill, played out before a rapt national television audience.
When challenged about this sort of practice, lawyers will argue that the trajectory of many legal transactions is impossible to predict – cases can be quick and relatively low-cost or they can be prolonged and extremely complex, requiring contested court hearings with all the associated expense.
(Reuters) - A plan to salvage RadioShack Corp's business by co-branding most of its 1,740 surviving stores with cellular phone provider Sprint Corp earned U.S. bankruptcy court approval on Tuesday, ending four days of contested court hearings.
The National Committee is sitting to-day [June 15] to conclude the hearings on contested seats and awarding every seat possible to Mr. Taft.
At the hearings over the hotly contested matter, representatives of the press and private investigators argued that the public's interest was best served by making virtually all of the records available online.
The guilt or innocence of Mr. Schwarz, a former police officer, has been contested in two prior trials, many hearings and countless news articles since the 1997 torture of Mr. Louima, the Haitian immigrant, in a station house bathroom one August night.
Next Thursday, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct will begin issuing its findings as it prepares for embarrassing, headline-grabbing public hearings that Democrats, in this hotly contested, contentious midterm election season, are desperately hoping to avoid.
Three months later, when the House of Representatives convened hearings into the election, whose result Harrison contested, Davis's victory was upheld on the ground that any "man of ordinary courage" could have made his way to the polls.
