This so-called necessity is all in the name of a mistaken adherence to an all-male celibate priesthood in my church.
Judge Wilbert rejected Mr. Roeder's efforts to present a so-called necessity defense, pursuing an acquittal on the basis that he was justified in his actions to prevent some greater harm.
The case is a blow to environmental campaigners but marks the furthest defendants have managed to go in an American courtroom using the so-called "necessity" defense that argues such actions are justified to combat catastrophic climate change.
A judge in Wichita ruled that Kansas law did not allow a so-called "necessity defense" in the trial of a man charged with killing a doctor who performed abortions.
Mr. Yengich, a veteran of civil rights battles in Utah — he defended protesters against President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s and anti-nuclear activists in the 1990s — has asked Judge Dee Benson of Federal District Court to allow a so-called necessity defense at the trial.
So-called "necessity" entrepreneurs, who emerge from unemployment to establish their own businesses, experience improvements in mental but not in their physical health, according to the study from economist Milena Nikolova, a faculty member at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
A particularly neat illustration of how Albany has reinterpreted the rules of democracy is provided by the so-called message of necessity.
Mr. Silver said Mr. Pataki was out to hurt the city by failing to send a so-called "message of necessity" that would allow the Assembly to pass the measure immediately.
The aide shrugged off the fact that the governor, at the Legislature's request, seemed to put some urgency in the matter last week by sending a so-called message of necessity.
The lawsuit also asserts that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had no basis for issuing a so-called message of necessity, which allowed lawmakers to vote on the marriage bill immediately after the language was drawn up, rather than allowing it to "age" for three days, as is usually required.
However, when a physician is confronted with a conflict of duties he or she may invoke the so-called defence of necessity.
