Nonetheless, the action today was a binding legal judgment on the merits of the California case.

We make our judgments on the merits, pressure be darned.

A refusal by the Court to accept an appeal is not a judgment on the merits of the case.

She stressed that she was making no judgments on the merits of its accusations.

The only answer is an independent panel of hearing officers, insulated from institutional bias, that can base judgments on the merits of the cases.

On each issue, Mr. Tenore said, he made his judgment on the merits.

But judgment on the merits - mercy on the merits - is needed not only for Robert Broley.

Scalia wrote that there was no final "judgment on the merits" in the California case and thus the Maryland trial was not precluded.

By choosing not to review the state's appeal today, the Supreme Court left those rulings intact and made no judgments on the merits of the prosecution arguments.

Mr. Ramirez's support for Mr. Seabrook is more an effort to expand his own political influence than a judgment on the merits of the candidates.

In a statement, the Garden called the allegations "baseless claims that should have been dismissed" and said Sweet's ruling "makes no judgment on the merits of the case."

It was a transparent vote, of someone who believes that the correct judgment on the merits of the question can only be made based on the complete judicial process".

The action the Court had planned, before an agreement between the White House and the independent prosecutor, was consideration of a stay, not judgment on the merits of the arguments.

A denial of a cert petition is not a judgment on the merits of a case, and the decision of the lower court stands as the final ruling in the case.

One of the informal traditions of the American legal system, derived from the common law, is that all litigants are guaranteed at least one appeal after a final judgment on the merits.

Under RJ, a final judgment on the merits of an action precludes the parties . . . from re-litigating issues that were or could have been raised in that action.

The ruling today is a judgment on the merits of the case, and can be cited as a precedent in other cases, but does not bind the Supreme Court to the lower court's reasoning and analysis.

In 2007, there were 2830 applications lodged against the Republic of Turkey before the ECtHR and consequently 331 judgments on the merits have been issued affirming 319 violations and 9 non-violations.

Under the doctrine of res judicata, a judgment on the merits in a prior suit bars a second suit involving the same parties or their privies based on the same cause of action.

And Shelley E. Parratt, deputy director in the division of corporation finance at the S.E.C., said that it was not the commission's job to pass judgment on the merits of an investment.

We made no judgments on the merits of the Ryan plan; we just said that the characterization by the Democrats was false", and noted that competitors Factcheck.org and FactChecker came to similar conclusions.

If the case necessarily requires the Court to rule on the rights and obligations of a state that has not consented to the Court's jurisdiction, the Court will not proceed to issue a judgment on the merits.

If there is a problem with frivolous lawsuits, that is best addressed by raising the hurdles for filing a malpractice suit, perhaps by requiring an expert judgment on the merits of a case before it can proceed through the courts.

Although Lord Owen said it was impossible to make a final judgment on the merits of the new Serbian-Croatian offer until its authors have produced detailed maps showing how Bosnia would be divided, the rough outlines of the proposal are already clear.

Consumer Reports on Thursday affirmed a point made in its original article, that any seat is better than no seat, but told its readers "to suspend judgment on the merits of individual products until the new testing has been completed and the report republished."