"pretrial order" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It refers to a court-issued written document that outlines the rules and procedures to be followed during a pretrial conference. Example: The judge issued a pretrial order outlining the deadlines for filing motions and evidence submission before the trial begins.
The mountain of legal briefs would frighten a Sherpa: the pretrial order from the three-judge federal panel hearing the case — this is before the trial has even started — runs 158 pages.
Citing Judge Coleman's pretrial order barring them from talking about the case outside court, Mr. Martin and other lawyers declined to say why they had changed their minds over the last eight weeks.
In 2013, a navy judge cited comments by Obama when he issued a pretrial order that two defendants in sexual assault cases could not be punitively discharged if they were found guilty.
Mr. Cutler later was convicted of contempt of court, deemed to have defied the judge's pretrial order to curb his vehement comments to reporters, in which he likened the prosecutors to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and accused them of framing Mr. Gotti.
The ruling was part of a flurry of pretrial orders from Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who is presiding over the case.
"The sheer volume and wide geographic distribution of cases bringing the prospect of chaotic, conflicting and value-destroying pretrial orders and remedies has necessitated commencing this case at this time".
But two former Southern District prosecutors who studied the episode noted that the government had not sought a pretrial protective order — a procedure that would have restricted the document's dissemination.
The question is whether the administration was entitled to a prompt appeal of the Federal District Court's pretrial discovery order without first having to make specific objections or assert claims of executive privilege.
According to a pretrial conference order, Mattel said MGA has earned more than $600.0 million after-tax profit on Bratz dolls since the line launched in 2001 and that current yearly sales exceed $500.0 million, said Caris & Co. Analyst Linda Bolton Weiser.
Court files don't reveal whether she testified against her now ex-husband, who, according to a judge's pretrial detention order, she believed was "cheating on her".
Many of the legal issues are arcane procedural questions about when pretrial discovery orders can be appealed.
