"If … the drug industry intends to comply with the voluntary program, then it is unclear why the industry would contest formal withdrawal notices or require time consuming hearings," wrote Judge Katz.
The alternative, he decided, would be to risk going through two time-consuming sets of hearings on remedies -- one based on his legal ruling and one based on a case perhaps scaled back on appeal.
I don't like doing this but learned it's impossible to get around this manager and her rules, fines, penalties and time-consuming, inquisition-like hearings.
"This is not a question of me initialing the bottom of a piece of paper, and tomorrow everyone's out there regulating," Mr. Mintz said, noting that the process requires public hearings and other time-consuming steps that could take months.
When a lawyer for the authority suggested that the hearings would be costly and time-consuming, Justice Scarpulla responded, "Due process always costs money; it always costs money to have public hearings".
In Minnesota, carrying out a shutdown — and a relatively ordinary one, as these things go — has turned out to be a whole new, time-consuming government function, including convening the special hearings to weigh exceptions to the shutdown rules.
Extradition is not only time-consuming but also expensive, requiring the arrest of suspects and entailing complex court hearings and potential appeals.
Once they receive it, they have a right to due-process hearings before dismissal, which in many districts makes it expensive and time-consuming to fire teachers considered ineffective.
And if going to Congress now feels time-consuming, how does it compare to the hours, days, weeks, and sanity expended on the Benghazi hearings?
