Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Kenneth Starr brought Monica Lewinsky's mother before his grand jury for a second day's testimony today, determined to paint the former White House intern into an evidentiary corner. Marcia Lewis yesterday spent three hours testifying before Starr's investigation, having failed to overturn a subpoena against...
BOSTON: Louise Woodward versus the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Round 2: State prosecutors on Wednesday began the roller-coaster appeals process with an emergency request for the Supreme Judicial Court to overturn Judge Hiller Zobel's ruling which freed the British au pair. But Boston judge Ruth Abrams simply referred to a full appeals court...
...Because the settlement was based on a life expectancy of 85 ? and Diana died only a year after the divorce ? lawyers for Prince Charles considered trying to get a court to overturn the settlement and return the money to her ex-husband, who would put it in a trust for his sons. A spokeswoman for the Prince of Wales said: "We are keen that all tax dealings should be seen as straightforward and that there should be no question of the Royal Family receiving preferential treatment...
Harvard was down 10-8 when a decisive play that Harvard had played was called in but then overruled by another referee. After a big commotion and an overturn of the call, momentum shifted back to Dartmouth...
Citing past cases, Zobel said: "The judge must, above all, use the power sparingly, and with restraint...Because [the power to overturn a verdict] is a kind of safety valve, a means of rectifying disproportionate verdicts, the test is not whether the evidence could support a verdict of second-degree murder, but whether a lesser verdict more comports with justice...