For example, in NAACP v. Alabama, it was argued that we were without jurisdiction because the petitioner had not pursued the correct appellate remedy in Alabama' s state courts.
For example, in N.A.A.C.P. v. Alabama, it was argued that we were without jurisdiction because the petitioner had not pursued the correct appellate remedy in Alabama' s state courts.
We believe we complied with all applicable environmental requirements in issuing our regulations and that the petitioners' allegations are without merit".
The Lord Lyon ruled that the petitioner did not meet two criteria: anyone without a blood link to a past chief must be Clan Commander for ten years before being considered for recognition, and that the chiefship in question was of the MacAulays of Ardincaple and not of all MacAulays.
Contact information was not available for the petitioner in the bankruptcy case, Lee Kandu, who represented herself without a lawyer.
Joe Sullivan, the petitioner in Sullivan v. Florida, was sentenced to life without parole in 1989 — when he was just 13 — after a questionable sexual battery conviction.
"At a minimum these circumstances, confirmed by Depperschmidt in testimony, speak to the integrity and regularity of the process by which petitioner sought to track and account for his days within and without New York City," the tribunal noted.
But the legal writing was on the wall, and after throwing up roadblock after roadblock, the state of Florida eventually had to read it, and bow to the inevitable, but not without inflicting an additional indignity on the long- suffering petitioner.
Having joined the opinion in 2007 that rejected the "unique circumstances" line of cases, Justice Alito wrote last week, without apparent irony: "Under these unique circumstances, I agree that petitioner's attorneys effectively abandoned him and that this abandonment was a 'cause' that is sufficient to overcome petitioner's procedural default".
