Virtually every criminal case concerning terrorism filed since the Sept. 11 attacks has relied on the 1996 law prohibiting "material support" of terrorist organizations that Judge Koeltl rejected.
The Court of Appeal held that all criminal cases filed for violations of 166.4(a) PC must be filed directly in Superior Court.
US Bankruptcy Court of Arizona reported 23.14% cases filed pro se in October 2011, up from 20.61% a year before.
With a major new case filed only a week ago, it's clear that this campaign is just ramping up.
He also presented figures he said showed that between 1986 and 1989, of the 1.6 million civil cases filed nationally, only about 2 percent were tort cases.
These cases are easy to win and therefore more often filed when the dollar's value is high, as it was in the mid-1980's, or during an economic downturn, as occurred a decade ago.
Fibreboard was a defendant in one of the first asbestos cases filed, in 1967, against a group of asbestos makers and users.
In New York City last year 320,600 new criminal cases were filed, more than 45,000 of them in Queens.
Every case that comes through that door I could file on, but that's not the point.
The case against the Argentine security forces opened here in March 1996 after several Spanish legal associations filed a complaint.