It is difficult (though not impossible) to imagine a tweet from a public official that qualifies as the kind of "decision or action on a question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy" McDonnell generally requires for a bribery prosecution.
In November 2011, a judge dismissed some of American's claims but let the suit proceed.
Arguing for Gonzaga, John G. Roberts Jr. said that the state courts were wrong to let the suit proceed in the first place.
The bride, dressed in a white gown and a sparkling tiara, and the groom, wearing a beige suit, proceeded to their seats overlooking the dance floor.
But legal analysts said the suit could open new avenues for extracting information from the administration, because Plame and Wilson could conduct discovery if the U.S. District Court in Washington lets the suit proceed.
It argued, as had the dissenting judge on the Ninth Circuit, that letting the suit proceed would invite similar suits against consumer groups by manufacturers vexed by product ratings.
Mr. Gillani, wearing a dark blue business suit, proceeded to shake hands with a teary-eyed Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 19, Mrs. Bhutto's son, who is the other chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, with his father.
As the suit proceeds, the discovery process could show how IMDb, a vast repository of movie and television information that has become Hollywood's quasi-official record book, compiles the facts and figures by which people in the entertainment industry are publicly defined.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20 — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a motion by the Bush administration to dismiss a lawsuit against AT&T over its cooperation with a government surveillance program, ruling that state secrets would not be at risk if the suit proceeded.
The suit proceeds to describe several aggressive marketing tactics allegedly practiced by testosterone makers.
