Sentence examples for litigants from from inspiring English sources

In the past, this requirement has discouraged some litigants from pursuing journalists, or even from filing cases.

The wiretap law -- which requires prosecutors to prove their need for a wiretap and forbids civil litigants from ever using them -- applies to e-mail messages only when they are in transit.

The legal challenges had mostly concerned procedural matters, with litigants from Pelham contending, among other things, that Mount Vernon acted improperly when it approved a study of the property and rezoned the site to allow the project.

In Cantil-Sakauye's case, she argued in a letter that allowing ICE agents to conduct enforcement at or near courthouses impeded administration of justice by discouraging victims of crime, witnesses and litigants from "seeking justice and due process of law".

Apollodorus, an Athenian politician and litigant from the 4th century BCE, in one of his speeches attempted to use an Athenian law about betrothal to make his mother an epikleros.

We speak of Andy Martin: peripatetic electoral also-ran, self-styled "consumer advocate" from a parallel universe in which evil consumer advocates thrive, and one of the few people to earn the label "vexatious litigant" from the Wikipedia.

In public law our judges are now prepared to stand up to governments in ways they were reluctant to do in the past, and in commercial matters litigants come from all over the world clamouring to have their cases heard by an independent and impartial judge.

But at yesterday's hearing, at Cardozo Law School in Manhattan, some of the harshest criticism of the state's divorce courts came not from litigants, who have often been dismissed as disgruntled, but from legal insiders.

Most of those charges are based on complaints from litigants, lawyers and other judges.

The ratings agencies have also managed to continue hiding behind the defense that their ratings are opinions and subject to First Amendment protection from litigants.

Civil disputes apparently cost more: up to $20,000 to win a case in the high court, and as much as $190,000 for one in the appeal court.Some judges allegedly demanded sexual favours from litigants.