But the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, ruled last year that the plaintiffs were entitled to proceed in state court under the Texas law.
Garnier's letter to May accepts the German authorities were "entitled to proceed as they did" but said the case had left Gray's family with a sense that "justice has not been done".
Mr. Clinton's chief lawyer, Robert S. Bennett, said in the court papers filed today that Mrs. Jones was not entitled to proceed in the lawsuit because she had not demonstrated that she suffered as a result of the encounter.
"We chart no new course," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said today in holding that Mr. Lee was entitled to proceed in federal court despite technical violations of state court rules in his initial request for a delay.
Brigid was entitled to proceed under Rule 28a even though she was playing her next stroke from a spot nearer the hole than where her ball came to rest.
In such a case, the citizen who has given no good cause for believing he is engaged in that sort of activity is entitled to proceed on his way without interference.
However, Attorney General John Larkin QC, responding on behalf of the department, argued that it was entitled to proceed with caution "on this difficult, fraught area".
(b) whether the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic was entitled to proceed, in November 1991, to the 'provisional solution' and to put into operation from October 1992 this system.
In relation to the second point the Court found that Czechoslovakia was entitled to proceed, in November 1991, to Variant C in so far as it then confined itself to undertaking works which did not predetermine the final decision to be taken by it.
Proponents of the distribution idea usually include the condition that recipients would only be entitled to proceeds once RBS's share price had reached break-even for the state (although Cable did not mention that in his speech on Wednesday).
In Superior Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Ms. Dick sued Electric Shepherd Productions, the company run by Dick's daughters, from earlier marriages, Laura Leslie and Isa Dick-Hackett, saying she is entitled to proceeds from those two novels under the terms of her divorce agreement with the author, who died in 1982.
