From 1992 to 1994, she was special master for another mass torts case involving property damaged by asbestos.

Most of the payments were for cases involving property damage or personal injury, especially in the area of medical malpractice.

He said the Court's doctrine of following precedent is at an "acme in cases involving property and contract rights, where reliance interests are involved."

This is the second case involving properties managed by Ocwen under contract with the VA.

Mr. Craxi and the younger Mr. Berlusconi had been charged in a bribery case involving property deals.

The Hawaii State Tax Appeal Court has jurisdiction over cases involving property, excise, liquor, tobacco, income and insurance taxes, and is a part of circuit court.

The Chief Justice declared that the Court's doctrine of adhering to its own precedents is at its strongest in "cases involving property and contract rights," because people make commercial arrangements in reliance on those cases.

Considerations in favor of stare decisis are at their acme in cases involving property and contract rights, where reliance interests are involved; the opposite is true in cases such as the present one involving procedural and evidentiary rules.

Mr. Marvin won an Academy Award in 1966 for his role in "Cat Ballou," and he played an unwanted part in a landmark "palimony" suit that set a precedent for legal cases involving property rights for unmarried couples.

By limiting full protection of the doctrine of stare decisis to "cases involving property and contract rights," the majority sends a clear signal that essentially all decisions implementing the personal liberties protected by the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment are open to re-examination.

Originally from County Kilkenny, he was a key witness to the Mahon Tribunal which investigated improper payments by property developers to Irish politicians and will be a key witness in pending political corruption cases involving property developers and politicians to whom he paid bribes on their behalf.