The city would seek to have such cases — which typically accuse the city of rights violations like false arrest, malicious prosecution or use of excessive force — withdrawn or dismissed, and where that failed, it would forgo settlement talks and push them to trial.
The rise of the World Wide Web has been closely tracked by that of the cease-and-desist order, a letter typically accusing a Web publisher of copyright or trademark violations and warning that "your conduct may result in legal action against you".
Skeptics in the media (typically conservatives) deride global warming as a monumental hoax, while those who believe in the evidence for human-induced climate change (typically liberals) accuse the skeptics of being industry-funded hacks.
Many in the industry found irony in the remark: Microsoft is typically the one accused of limiting the public's choice with its industry-dominant Windows operating system.
Lawyers in our system, he points out, like executioners in an older one, typically shrug when accused of putting winning before justice, and say that this is their assigned role in the system: each man plays his or her part, and theirs is the advocate's.
The accused typically has no idea how strong the evidence against him might be.
Arrests of gay men occasionally make headlines and the accused are typically charged with debauchery, immorality or blasphemy, drawing criticism from rights groups.
Case law typically allows for defendants accused of the same crime to be tried together before one jury when most, if not all, of the evidence is applicable to both of them.
The accused is typically represented by a public defender who doesn't speak his language or have the time, the resources, or the understanding of the smuggling business to build a credible defense.
