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Bakke case
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case-sensitive
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Case Law
CASE LAW Legal principles enunciated and embodied in judicial decisions that are derived from the application of particular areas of law to the facts of individual cases. As opposed to statutes— Read more |
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Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
WEBSTER V. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490, 109 S. Ct. 3040, 106 L. Ed. 2d 410 (1989), the United States Supreme Court reviewed the constitutionality of several Missouri statutes restricting access to abortion services and counseling. Webster is... Read more |
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industrial arbitration
industrial arbitration method of settling disputes between employer and employees by seeking and accepting a decision by a third party. Such arbitration may be compelled by the government, as in New Zealand (since 1894), Australia (since 1904), Canada (since 1907), Italy (since 1926), and Great... Read more |
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Interlocutory
INTERLOCUTORY Provisional; interim; temporary; not final; that which intervenes between the beginning and the end of a lawsuit or proceeding to either decide a particular point or matter that is not the final issue of the entire controversy or prevent irreparable harm during the pendency of the... Read more |
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intron
intron (intervening sequence) A nucleotide sequence in a gene that does not code for the gene product (compare exon). Introns, which occur principally in eukaryotes, are transcribed into messenger RNA but are subsequently removed from the transcript before translation (see RNA processing). In... Read more |
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locative
locative [Lat.,=placing], in the grammar of certain languages (e.g., Sanskrit), the case referring to location. Nouns in this case are often translatable into English phrases beginning with at, in, or on.... Read more |
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nominative
nominative , [Lat.,=naming], in Latin grammar, the case usually employed for the noun that is the subject of the sentence. The term is used in the grammar of languages with Latinlike features, but the case may in fact have different functions.... Read more |
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Pope's secret plea to Blair on Pinochet.
...representation from the Vatican on General Pinochet's behalf...who favours Pinochet being allowed...Pope who had intervened in person...pressing for Pinochet to be freed...I think in a case like this, the ... |
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PAKISTAN COURT UPHOLDS COUPLE WHO WED FOR LOVE
...they knew of two cases of hearing loss...after the accident. Vatican admits asking Pinochet be sent home LONDON (AP) -- The Vatican confirmed today that it intervened in the extradition...over Gen. Augusto Pinochet, asking ... |