Ms. Allred said that she had not agreed to any settlement on Ms. McCormack Jackson's behalf and that the city and Mr. Filner would still be defendants in the lawsuit that she expected to move forward with court hearings next month.
"There is inherent discrimination to it, and on top of that there is the potential that as a community that we would be a defendant in a case" filed by a couple who was refused a marriage license.
Traditionally, the entire property would be the defendant's if the defence was successful.
Mr. Dunkiel, on the other hand, said, "The case we're preparing is grounded in well-established traditional federal environmental laws where federal agencies would be the defendants".
Whereas corrective justice theory holds that such a breach saddles the would-be defendant with a second-order duty in particular, a duty of repair civil recourse theory holds that no such second-order duty results directly from the breach.
A lawyer for United, meanwhile, complained in a letter that splitting the trial's time 50-50 betheen the plaintiff and the defendants "would be unfair" because separate defendants may make different arguments.
Plaintiffs in the case lamented the fact that Captain Schettino would be the only defendant brought to trial.
Thus, if indicted, the president would be the only defendant in America ineligible for a pretrial pardon.
The standard transaction goes like this: the prosecutor lays out what the likely sentence would be for the defendant if they are convicted at trial and then suggests they plead guilty to a reduced charge.
"I can assure you", Mr Dreeben said, this standard would "be enforced by defendants".
He would not say if the Saudi government itself would be among the defendants.
