Having to sit through hearings in those cases "prevents the judges from hearing the valid claims, from granting relief to individuals who do need relief," said Arthur, a former immigration judge in Pennsylvania.
A receiver was also asked for the purpose of taking charge of the assets, paying the valid claims against the same, including those of the complainants, and otherwise settling, under the direction of the court, the affairs of the state dispensary.
The nuclear Greek tragedy for Hegel is, understandably, Sophocles' Antigone, with its conflict between the valid claims of conscience (Antigone's obligation to give her brother a suitable burial) and law (King Creon's edict that enemies of the state should not be allowed burial).
It has also been suggested that 35 U.S.C. 285, which allows a court to award reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing party 'in exceptional cases,' 44 and 35 U.S.C. 288, under which a patentee forfeits his right to recover costs even as to the valid claims of his patent if he does not disclaim invalid claims before bringing suit, work to inhibit repetitious suits on invalid patents.
"It's probably one of the lowest-risk primary exposures in industry in America that we're aware of," says Heymann, noting that most of the valid claims have been identified.
Four alleged warlords from Ituri are currently facing trial but despite the valid claims by government and international forces that they have defeated the bulk of Ituri's militias, small groups of gunmen continue to kill and loot in the south of the district.
In a statement, Chief Executive Hardwick Simmons said, "We are pleased to bring this difficult situation to a close in a manner that fully recognizes the valid claims of investors who may have been sold limited partnerships in the 1980s that were improperly marketed or unsuitable for their investment needs". But the settlement is unlikely to end the firm's legal problems.
A federal law passed in 1997 caps a company's liability for a single train accident at $200 million -- a sum that Lichtman said was woefully insufficient to address the valid claims of survivors who will need lifelong medical care and families who lost children and providers.
The Normans argued that the count, as the eldest grandson of William the Conqueror, had the most valid claim over the kingdom and the Duchy, and was certainly preferable to Matilda.
Each proposition set might support the scientifically valid claim (the scientifically valid claim was intravenous injection) or refuted the scientifically invalid claim (the scientifically invalid claim was drowning).
