Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several women's rights activists the night before the judge's ruling. A number of legal and strategic options were discussed, but foremost was the Browns' commitment to appeal the judge's decision. Other options discussed were a recall effort against the judge and a plan to file a complaint against Fuller with the state bar association...
...current and future Kay Weekleys of Boone County may have a better chance of stopping the violence before it ends in death. Under the new laws, a victim of domestic abuse can drop just one complaint, and that only after signing a waiver and agreeing to counseling. And along with the new laws has come what Riffe calls "substantial consciousness raising." Since 1990, the number of domestic complaints has jumped more than 300%, while the arrest rate for such complaints has tripled...
Your comment that "Faced with a big judgment, Simpson could simply declare bankruptcy" contributes to the public's misconception about our bankruptcy laws. Debts for "willful and malicious injury" cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, provided a timely complaint is filed. If the civil jury finds that O.J. Simpson is liable for money damages for killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the facts necessary for that type of verdict would also serve to prevent that judgment's discharge in bankruptcy. While nothing prevents Simpson from simply filing for bankruptcy, his legal bills are the only thing likely to be discharged...
...purpose of the petition in her case, according to Sewall, is to notify the Turkish government that "the judge prevented the proper registering of the complaint," and to ask for an investigation of Erdohan's charges...
There is one legitimate complaint that cab drivers can raise, however, and that is the fact that they are required to pay an $85,000 medallion fee in order to operate in Cambridge, while the U.S. Shuttle gets off scot-free. While cab drivers point out that the U.S. Shuttle can offer low prices because it doesn't have to pay the $85,000 medallion fee, this one-time licensing gives the right to operate as a taxi and provide services the U.S. Shuttle does...