For that entirely valid reason, legal counsel made it clear that "anything that goes to the special counsel's investigation would be off limits".
Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia argued essentially that since Mr. Montejo had been read his Miranda rights, his continued answers were a valid waiver of counsel.
WEEK IN REVIEW IN NEW YORK -- A special counsel found a "valid legal basis" to seek to remove State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi from office, but stopped short of recommending action.
Since an intelligent assessment of the relative advantages of pleading guilty is frequently impossible without the assistance of an attorney, this Court has scrutinized with special care pleas of guilty entered by defendants without the assistance of counsel and without a valid waiver of the right to counsel.
These results suggest that the updated BOADICEA model is a valid tool for use in genetic counselling.
"We have 24 patents, more than 500 patent claims, the vast majority of which are still valid and enforceable," Richard Marsh, Myriad's general counsel, said in an interview.
"As far as we are concerned, the acquisition of IPTL was valid," said Joseph Makandege, PAP's company secretary and chief counsel.
Roth replied to the DoD that only the Senate's legal counsel could determine the validity of congressional subpoenas because of the "separation of powers" principle in the U.S. Constitution and thus, the subpoenas were valid.
Findings: The TPB was found to be a valid theoretical framework for predicting intention of CNMs to counsel and prescribe EC to women and provided insights to the multiple influences on CNMs' intention to counsel and prescribe EC to women.
But defense lawyers said that any such admissions were not valid because none of the defendants were represented by counsel until a few weeks ago.
"Belligerents who also happen to be U.S. citizens do not enjoy immunity where non-citizen belligerents are valid military objectives," said Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department general counsel, in a speech at Yale Law School.
