In immigration courts, for example, hearings can be closed to the public, the burden of proof is lower than in federal court, and a wider scope of evidence, including hearsay, can be used.
It is slated for 6 to 8 p.m. in the Burbank Community Services Building, 150 N. Third St. Officials said the study is just one of many activities moving forward that will provide opportunities for public input, along with, for example, hearings on whether or not to authorize bonds to fund the new terminal, which is expected to cost $400 million, mostly paid for through fees charged to passengers.
In fact, where coercion was even remotely possible -- for example, at hearings where the public testifies -- no prayers were permitted.
See, for example, the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.
So, for example, recent Congressional hearings focused on the very low tax rates that Apple had been paying.
Laws mandating asylum hearings, for example, "bind the government only when the refugees are at or within the borders of the United States".
There was a lag, for example, between the Pecora hearings in the 1933 and some of the modern securities legislation that followed.
In January, for example, during the confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito, Mr Bush's latest choice for the Supreme Court, some Democratic senators upbraided the judge for wanting to apply the law, not make it.
At his confirmation hearings, for example, Attorney General John Ashcroft pledged to defend as the "law of the land" a landmark Clinton-era rule barring logging and other forms of commercial development in 58.5 million acres of roadless national forest.
But sometimes a truth-seeking society needs to be able to compel a person to speak outside his trial -- in grand jury rooms, civil cases and legislative hearings, for example.
The latter will include case summaries, skeleton arguments of the case, documents which are issued during fact-finding hearings – for example where allegations of domestic violence have been made – and experts' reports, to allow the media to perform their watchdog role in society, he said.
