Sentence examples for derail the case from inspiring English sources

In the opening minutes, the justices are asking pointed questions about a legal issue that could derail the case.

A ruling by Judge Kaplan also ensured that the issue of torture would not derail the case, when he rejected a defense request that he dismiss the indictment because of the harsh tactics used on Mr. Ghailani.

But the court also opened up the crucial question of who can legitimately appeal the overturning of California's Proposition 8 amendment – a legal issue that could derail the case before it reaches the Supreme Court.

But although the commanders of the presidential security unit were indicted in connection with Myrna Mack's murder in 1996, their trial was delayed until Sept. 3 of this year while their lawyers filed numerous motions seeking to derail the case.

The panel, drawn from members of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ordered the trial judge to work out a compromise on the issue that has long threatened to derail the case: how to grant Mr. Moussaoui access to information from the captured Qaeda members while preserving the government's rights to interrogate enemy combatants without interruption during wartime.

That ruling and others had threatened to derail the case.

Nothing other than the lack of a corroborating witness, after Jane's withdrawal, emerged that might have derailed the case coming to court.

The absence of the witnesses was the latest in a series of events that appear aimed at derailing the case, in which the officials are charged with using the resources of the Health Ministry to carry out a campaign of sectarian kidnappings and killings.

But while the city's filing in July unmasked its fiscal problems, it also raised thorny legal issues that threaten to derail the bankruptcy case before it gets started.

Connell said the government would "derail the whole Nashiri case" by seeking further appeal, an embarrassment since the military commissions process has dragged on for years without producing many convictions.

He has called on President Bush to direct the Interior Department to cease its effort of "derailing the Cobell case and get on with the job of crafting a consensus solution to the problem".