The justice overseeing the case, Albert Tomei, ruled that the recording was too muffled to be useful.
In December, a State Supreme Court justice overseeing the legal battle said that claims of elder abuse had not been substantiated.
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity, in a letter earlier this week, suggested that the State Supreme Court justice overseeing the case appoint a special master well in advance of the July 30 deadline, noting that state lawmakers did not appear close to an agreement.
Both Joaquim Barbosa, the justice overseeing the trial, and Prosecutor General Roberto Gurgel, who is in charge of the case and called the scandal "the most daring and outrageous corruption scheme and embezzlement of public funds ever seen in Brazil," were appointed by Mr. da Silva, the former president.
As if 134 deaths in a two-week rash of prison riots were not dramatic enough for Brazil, on January 19 a plane crash killed Teori Zavascki, the Supreme Court justice overseeing a high-profile nation-wide corruption case known as Operation Carwash, which has incriminated the upper echelons of national politics.
Justice Michael L. Pesce, the judge overseeing the guardianship case during Ms. Taylor's tenure, is facing a review by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct for his oversight of the guardianship case.
Distributive justice oversees a right to the thing, rather than a right in the thing (a ius ad rem rather than a ius in rem).
As chief legal officer of England and Wales, the lord chancellor has been in effect Britain's justice minister, overseeing the court systems and the naming of judges in addition to serving as speaker of the Lords.
The defendant, Gerald Garson, a former State Supreme Court justice who oversaw matrimonial cases, has been charged with accepting bribes.
Robert Badinter, who as justice minister oversaw the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981, called Mr. Davis's execution a "defeat for humanity".
