In a ruling that helped give Centaurus and other brothels a new lease on life, the judge contended that prosecutors had undertaken a "repressive" approach to dealing with prostitution.
After a three-month investigation, the Queens district attorney has decided not to bring criminal charges against a police officer who was accused of assaulting a State Supreme Court justice on the street in what the judge contended was an unprovoked attack, officials said Wednesday.
The judges contend that the federal judiciary should be exempt from business taxes that are efforts to regulate them.
Even a group of our greatest federal judges is asking the Supreme Court to hear their plea for a ruling that Congress must reinstate the automatic inflation adjustment in their salaries that the legislature had suspended a suspension that was, the judges contend, in violation of the constitutional prohibition of diminishing the pay of a judge while he continues in office.
The one dissenting judge contended that Smith, and any medical marijuana user, could have simply converted the dried marijuana to an oil or butter at any time.
A judge contended that the boat, The Audacity of Hope, was not carrying proper safety equipment and charged the captain, John Klusmire, with "disturbing sea traffic and endangering passengers," a felony, and with disobeying an official directive, a misdemeanor, said Ann Wright, an organizer.
Representatives for Mr. Rawl, 64, a former judge, contended in a hearing in Columbia that the primary results were so rife with irregularities that they should be discarded.
The Booker judges contended that he was writing about misogynists rather than it being a misogynistic novel.
The suit, now before a federal judge, contends that federal officials, using intensive measures to regulate herds and their impact on public land, have violated a law passed by Congress in the 1970s that requires management of wild horses and burros to be at a "minimal feasible level".
As a continuing crime, at least theoretically, the 19 kidnappings cannot be covered by the Pinochet government's amnesty, the judge has contended for the last two years.
But in a series of impromptu interviews, Manhattan defense lawyers and judges contended that the lawyering on both sides had at times been mediocre.
