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Most often, ICE agents target criminal defendants who may be deportable, but they have also arrested people in New York family court, juvenile court, and specialized courts devoted to the prevention of human trafficking.

Following the model of about 2,000 "therapy courts" devoted to drugs and spousal abuse that have opened nationwide in the last two decades, the setup here allows defendants to avoid jail time if they follow a court-supervised program that includes counseling sessions, credit checks and twice-monthly meetings with Justice Farrell.

(A second, on the Defence of Marriage Act, which denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples, was due to be heard on March 27th).Many of the 80 minutes the court devoted to Prop 8 were given over to procedural discussions of "standing"—the question of whether the proponents of the amendment had the right to argue their case in court.

The second and fourth floors and library court are devoted to paintings and sculpture, and the third floor to drawings, prints, books and manuscripts.

"Fidel" resembles nothing so much as the work of a second-rate Renaissance court painter devoted to the flattery of the subject rather than the accuracy of the portrait.

By the twelfth century, Chan had both religious and political prestige and the vast majority of public monasteries supported by the Song court were devoted to the practice of Chan (see Welter 2006).

There are squash courts, a pavilion devoted to chess, fitness trainers and aquasizing (water exercise) classes.

Other statistics discussed have to do with merchandising equipment and clothing, growth of tennis camps and courts, television time devoted to tennis, the growth of prize money for tournaments, and so on.

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Who could be used to unvarnished comments like those published on Tuesday in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica? "The leprosy of the papacy," Francis said, was the culture of the Vatican court that was devoted to cosseting popes in flattery.

As a result the Reading Room at the center of the court is now devoted to art history, while the King's Library, which housed George III's collection, will reopen as exhibition space.