What is "defendants"

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In light of the bloodiness of the crime, its hands-on physicality, and the number of victims and defendants, the discovery of a few mass-produced fibers from items available in Wal-Marts and other clothiers all over the country struck Lax as an infinitesimal amount of evidence, which was also highly circumstantial.

The defendants appear not to recognize this, for they have filled the record with earlier instances of the same dramatic instances and devices, as though, like a patent, a copyrighted work must be not only original, but new.

The jury nonetheless found for plaintiff and defendants appeal seeking a judgment N.

Dour retained as leading counsel by the defendants among the seventeen law firms involved in the dispute.

The defendants deny infringement but admit production and distribution of the alleged infringing motion picture entitled The Blood in the Red White and Blue.

Issue of originality did apply plaintiff would lose since though defendants might have used the play they had taken only what the law allowed, that is, those general themes, motives or ideas where there could be no copyright and that in any case if they did copy this constituted fair use, embracing the famous dictum that even if a law does not apply, if it did the result would be thus.

In so arguing, defendants in the case before us have sought and found refuge in a decision embracing property rights in an idea, thus narrowing the issue to those mean constraints which the district court had then proceeded to analyze in light of the New York Court of Appeals decision in Downey v.

In his Fifth Cause of Action plaintiff claims fraud and conspiracy between defendants Erebus and Kiester in the non-performance clause of their contract.

The effect was that news outlets focused on the three defendants and on what Jessie had said about them.

In the beginning, Lax, like Stidham, assumed that all three defendants were guilty.

Now, in his official capacity, he told the defendants that they were each charged with three counts of capital felony murder.

Perhaps anticipating that one or more of the defendants would plead not guilty by reason of insanity, the judge noted that so far, none of the lawyers had sought mental evaluations for their clients, and he gave them fair warning.

None of the defendants waived their rights to a speedy trial, so Burnett announced that they would be tried early the next year.

Since they seemed to have no information that implicated any of the defendants, Lax did not interview them.

Since then they had contacted all of the principals in the case: the families of the victims, the defendants and their families, the police, the lawyers, and the judge.