In a statement, Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney, said no other charges were possible because of laws governing cases of injury or death from drunken driving.
Although this case, Sprint/United Management Company v. Mendelsohn, No. 06-1221, concerns age bias, the court's eventual ruling will also govern cases about workplace discrimination based on race and sex.
What Fox's critics have seized upon are some comments Koh is alleged to have made that Islamic law, or sharia, should govern cases in U.S. courts.
Hatch has proposed legislation to provide a default mens rea — literally, "guilty mind" — standard to govern cases in which a particular statute doesn't spell out the required state of mind: The defendant would have to have engaged in a criminal act "willfully" in order to be prosecuted.
Mr. Verniero, who was attorney general until May 1999 and was responsible for many of the early decisions governing the case, has refused to grant interviews to reporters since joining the State Supreme Court.
Texts have been transmitted in an almost limitless variety of ways, and the criteria employed by the textual critic technical, philological, literary, or aesthetic are valid only if applied in awareness of the particular set of historical circumstances governing each case.
The protective order governing the case says the lawyers may not discuss such information outside a "secure area" and may not disclose any of that information to their clients, or anyone else without the proper security clearances.
Many physicians and bioethicists contended that the nondiscrimination principle was far too blunt an instrument to do justice to such enormously delicate and complex cases, and sought to amend the moral principles governing such cases in a way that would capture such complexity (Rhoden and Arras 1985).
Under the rules governing transplant cases involving children under 12, Sarah would have been made to wait for paediatric lungs.
