Instead, he noted, "the board's vote itself provides that competent evidence."

When appropriate, auditors may use statistical methods to derive competent evidence.

There are two questions that this court must answer: Was there substantial competent evidence in the record below to support the judge's findings?

You say he can't give competent evidence.

Immigrants were investigated through means of competent evidence.

Slip laws are also competent evidence.

These materials are not supported by competent evidence, and their untimely submission makes a mockery of the Federal rules and the court's orders.

A committee of the board's three independent directors investigated and concluded that there was "substantial competent evidence" that the auditors were right not to trust management.

It is difficult to provide competent evidence that proves the transmission of AIDS was used as a weapon of war.

Competent evidence - indeed compelling evidence - supports every element of Paula Jones's claims against Mr. Clinton.

The court was highly critical of this decision, writing that "the record is devoid of any competent evidence that $55 represented the per share intrinsic value of the Company."

Section 113 of title 1 of the United States Code provides that slip laws are competent evidence in all the federal and state courts, tribunals, and public offices.

Many of the photographs of the show are competent evidence of the daily grind, the photographing of milestone events meaningful to those who paid for VanDerZee's services.

Some malicious persons, it is true, deny the identity of this reputable character with the Evangelist of old times, and even pretend to bring competent evidence of an imposture.

This requires not just that something happen to the perpetrators, but that it happen the right way, according to clear rules and competent evidence, and that the result be just.

However, the judges held, Mr. Simon's testimony "does not constitute legally competent evidence" that Mr. Nussbaum "was in fact acting in concert with and on behalf of Manes."

The appeals court denied his defense arguing that the evidence was admissible, despite the egregious behavior of the officers, as it was "competent evidence," and the courts are not allowed to question the means in which it was obtained.

Suit was brought to recover from the trustees of such a corporation the amount of a judgment against the corporation, the judgment roll is not competent evidence to establish a debt due from the corporation to the plaintiff.

Referring to the Court of Appeals decision in the Pullman Case, Judge Lebovits ruled that "the court may not decide whether competent evidence of the shareholder-tenant's alleged objectionable conduct exists to support the board's terminating his tenancy."

But Linda Steiman, a lawyer representing the Freedom to Read Committee, a group of publishers working to oppose censorship, said the ruling was "particularly troubling because it appears there was little to no competent evidence of any threat to Israeli security or lives."

Referring to the substantial competent evidence issues, isn't it highly unusual for a trial court to admit into evidence a certain document that one party claims will be controlling, with reference to the claim they bring to the court, and yet never examine those documents before making their decision?

The court said in its ruling last month, "We hold that the individual claiming the privilege must demonstrate, through competent evidence, the intent to use material - sought, gathered or received - to disseminate information to the public and that such intent existed at the inception of the newsgathering process."

"Competent evidence - indeed compelling evidence - supports every element of Paula Jones's claims against Mr. Clinton," her lawyers declared in a statement issued here as they were having another sheaf of legal papers filed in Federal District Court in Little Rock, Ark.