Not exact matches
Prince William climate
case judge already
anticipating the
appeal By Tom Jackman Washington Post The e-mails of climate researcher Michael E. Mann are at the heart of a Freedom of Information Act
case that will almost certainly wind up
in the Virginia Supreme Court.
Shortly before Christmas, the Court of Justice delivered its highly
anticipated judgment
in case C - 104 / 16 P Council v Front Polisario, on
appeal against the General Court (GC) judgment
in case T - 512 / 12 Front Polisario v Council, an action for annulment brought by Front Polisario, the national liberation movement fighting for the independence of Western Sahara.
It had been
anticipated that the
appeal would fail on the basis that established company law (per Salomon v A Salomon and Co Ltd [1897] AC 22) would defeat the
appeal on the basis that the corporate veil should not be pierced
in family
cases save
in very exceptional
cases.
Judge Simmonds QC, no doubt
anticipating the public interest
in this
case, and perhaps reflecting his own concern, granted permission for the claimant to
appeal; he made no order for costs against the claimant as he had found for him on the two preliminary issues relating to breach and had accepted a significant proportion of the claimant's legal submissions.
However, this week's decision by the Patent Trial and
Appeal Board said that SurfCast's patents
in this
case were invalid, due to the fact that their idea was «obvious or
anticipated in view of a host of references.»