In cases where a defendant challenges personal jurisdiction, a court may still exercise personal jurisdiction if it has independent power to do so.

The defendants challenged the instructions given to the jury on obscenity in two ways.

The Israeli defendants in the countersuit are challenging the Federal court's jurisdiction, an issue that will probably not be decided before early next year.

The record does not show that the defendant separately challenged in the trial court the validity of the first clause.

He was forced to weigh evidence of the admiral's involvement because the three defendants challenged the whole proceeding as tainted.

At trial the defendant challenged the evidence on Fourth Amendment grounds.

In that instance, a defendant could challenge an unlawful detention, he said.

(3) The action is not a genuine case or controversy, as both the original plaintiff and defendant challenge the statute without real opposition.

"Finally, the defendants may challenge plaintiff attorneys' market data, in an effort to show that the submitted market rates are inaccurate."

Other defendants have challenged her combativeness-for instance, she called a defense witness "full of baloney."