I assumed that the United States Embassy, adhering to American foreign policy and respecting the sovereignty of the Guatemalan government, was largely unaware of the effect of adoptions in Guatemala remaining "extra-judicial," meaning they were processed by private lawyers or notarios, with no judge was involved.
He is under judicial control, meaning he is not allowed to have any contact with Valbuena.
Benzema was also placed under judicial supervision, meaning he cannot meet with the victim or other people charged in the case.
Republicans describe 23 of these vacancies as "judicial emergencies," meaning that the courts in question have an extraordinary backlog of cases.
Swiss officials previously rejected the request as "vague" but an investigating judge in Geneva, Christine Junod, granted judicial assistance, meaning she can lift bank secrecy rules to investigate and freeze accounts.
James S. Bernstein New York, Oct. 29, 2008 To the Editor: Senator John McCain has promised to nominate judges who practice judicial restraint — meaning they would put aside their own passions and prejudices.
Mr. Gates and Admiral Mullen made the argument that the Senate should vote in the next few weeks because delaying would result in a wave of lawsuits and the potential for repeal to be ordered by what Mr. Gates called "judicial fiat" — meaning, he said, that the military would have no time to prepare for the change.
His argument rested in large part on a distinction between "due process" and "judicial process," meaning that while the executive can't kill a citizen for no good reason, the final OK needn't come from a judge or a jury.
And on the issue of parental notification — whether to require minors to obtain permission from either a parent or a judge before an abortion — he said, "I think you have to have a judicial bypass," meaning a provision that would allow a minor to seek court permission from a judge in lieu of a parent.
Last fall, Senate Democrats nixed the filibuster for executive and judicial nominees, meaning that these individuals now just need a simple majority of the chamber to be confirmed.
Making matters worse, six of the 10 open judgeships in Texas are "judicial emergencies," meaning the workload for other judges is now more than 600 cases.
