"The way to close the dark pages in your own history is not by besmirching the history of other countries with irresponsible and groundless parliamentary decisions," tweeted Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
It was a suspicion that turned out to be groundless, but a decision was made several hours later to search the home of his mother, Cynthia Jarrett, for stolen goods.
But the dissenting justices predicted that the decision would generate groundless litigation and undermine confidence in the judiciary.
This requirement prevents unmeritorious applications from being taken against decision-makers by filtering out groundless cases at an early stage to prevent wastage of judicial time, and protects public bodies from harassment, intentional or otherwise.
But the four dissenting justices predicted that the decision would generate a flood of groundless recusal motions and undermine confidence in the judiciary.
In an apparent reference to a report on Tuesday in the official China Daily newspaper, the commerce ministry said the report, predicting a decline of up to 30 percent in rare earth export quotas next year, was "totally groundless and purely false," and added that no decision had been made yet on future quotas.
For their part, American shrimpers should rethink their decision to pursue what amounts to a groundless case.
Telenor has called the original ruling and the decision to allow seizure of its shares groundless and is appealing to a higher court in the Siberian city of Tyumen.
Doctors should not undertake groundless examinations or make even hazardous, harmful or injurious decisions.
And I believe such decisions are not fair because their accusations are groundless," Lu said at a press conference.
