"In this particular case, the BBC attended the hearing in August and did not contest the application or decision of the court.
Despite this history, the Justice Department has decided to contest the application of these laws by federal courts to human rights violations.
Mr Knowles did not contest the application and neither Mr Knowles, 34, nor Ms Stewart, 31, were at the hearing, which lasted less than two minutes.
Counsel for the company contests the application of that case; and we will assume (not decide) with them that it is not determinative of their contention.
How, she added, could dissenting voices contest "the application of religious law, which is a law they want and that they have, wrongfully, attributed to God?" Many of those secular figures point to acts of intolerance; last week, the police used tear gas to disperse thousands protesting an animated film they deemed blasphemous.
Annie accepted that the children needed stability and didn't contest the application in April 2013, on the understanding that once she had completed a course of therapy, and her mental health was stable, she would be applying for the children to come home.
The Government does not contest the application of our death penalty jurisprudence to courts martial, at least in the context of a conviction under Article 118 for murder committed in peacetime within the United States, and we shall assume that Furman and the case law resulting from it are applicable to the crime and sentence in question.
At the same time, the internal incentive system rewards the examiner for granting patents rather than continuing to contest the application.
While viewers across the nation tuned into a free airing last week of the Bloomberg Philanthropies-backed film on coal, "From the Ashes," concerned groups in the coal country of southern Illinois were organizing meetings to contest the first permit application for natural gas fracking in a region bookended by two massive seismic zones.
