On Oct. 23, The Times's Ashlee Vance wrote a Bits blog post on the SAP-Oracle case, noting that SAP had asked the judge to restrain the parties' comments to the media.
"Bloomberg, by going in like a little rodent in the middle of the night, caused us to reach out to get an emergency ruling," Daniel L. Alterman, one of the lawyers, said of the move to get a judge to restrain the city of blocking protesters from the park.
In a statement, Dean G. Skelos, the Senate Republican leader, added, "The judge's decision to restrain the governor from proceeding with this action was the right decision".
It's well within a judge's power to restrain a person who is acting out of order in the courtroom, but rarely do they use this power against an attorney advocating on behalf of a client.
Among those debates: Just what does it mean for a judge to be "restrained," and is "judicial restraint" a virtue or a vice?
Last Friday, a judge removed his right to restrain the media from reporting allegations that he cheated on his wife, and on a teammate, by sleeping with the now former partner of his now former friend and Chelsea teammate, Wayne Bridge, a fellow England defender.
If Mr. Hussein cast himself as the usurped champion of Iraq's nationhood, falsely accused of heinous crimes against his people, he met his match in the judge, who admonished him to restrain his occasionally vitriolic language and respect the court's authority.
But they do fret that their government is growing ever more costly and intrusive, and they fear that liberal judges will do little to restrain it even when it acts unconstitutionally.
In July 2017, a federal judge refused to allow ICE to restrain and force-feed a hunger striking Iraqi detainee who wanted to be housed with fellow Iraqi Chaldean Christians detained Arizona facility.
In a case that once again shines a spotlight on the isolated facility where a major protest broke out in September, a federal judge denied immigration authorities' request to restrain Alaa Ismail Yasin and feed him intravenously or through a nasal tube.
Its promises to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into British law and to introduce a freedom-of-information act are admirable: judges would have more power to restrain politicians' actions; and government would be made more open.
