At any time, any judge may stop the fight and ask for a judge's decision about a point.

Until the matter is resolved, a judge stopped the plant's opening.

The judge stopped litigation by the end of 2007.

Court officials said last week that judges had stopped assigning cases to him.

The judge started to speak, stopped, and rubbed his jowls.

"I am pleased the judge has stopped the sale to give us a chance to raise these issues," he said.

This is where a judge decides a case on the spot and stops it going to a full trial.

This time a judge stepped in and stopped it.

But the judge stopped short of allowing the information to be released.

The judge stopped the trial to tell him to stay awake.