A United States bankruptcy judge has nullified a decision by the Federal Communications Commission that would have canceled 90 wireless telephone licenses claimed by NextWave Telecom Inc.
The court nullified a decision by government prosecutors in 1997 to drop graft charges against Eduardo M. Cojuangco Jr., the chairman of the food and beer conglomerate San Miguel.
In its opinion Tuesday, the court, the Cour de Cassation, nullified a decision by the Paris Appeals Court that the owner of the building — Heart of La Défense, or HOLD — could not avail itself of so-called safeguard procedures, similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States.
How could voters nullify a courageous decision of the California Supreme Court, and leave thousands of married couples in legal limbo?
See articleThousands of protesters held rallies across California in defence of gay marriage, a week after voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative that nullifies a court decision legalising gay nuptials.
The court nullified a 1997 decision in the case because the presiding judge, Milton Pollack, left, 96, belatedly disclosed that he and his wife owned stocks in one of the banks that benefited from his decision.
The ruling, by a panel of three judges, nullified a 2010 decision in which the executives were found guilty and sentenced to six-month suspended sentences by a lower court judge who said they had been too slow to remove a video from a Google-owned Web site in which teenagers bullied an autistic boy.
The court nullified a 1997 decision in the case because the presiding judge, Milton Pollack, belatedly disclosed that he and his wife and a trust that benefited her owned at least $250,000 in stock in one of half a dozen banks suing an insurer for reimbursement.
But even by its own standards, the isolated Communist regime's recent decision to nullify a wartime cease-fire and weeks of increasingly hyperbolic warnings, including of a pre-emptive nuclear strike, appear to have crossed new and dangerous lines.
F5 Health & Fitness F5 SPORTS D1-8 ARTS E1-12 Scramble to Send Out Films Hollywood studios scrambled to send out videotapes of their best movies after a judge's decision to nullify a distribution ban and before new legal action could stop them.
