We proposed this in order to avoid jousting over preliminary matters and to permit the litigation to move directly to the merits.
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Preliminary matters in the case will be heard by Magistrate Judge O . Edward Schlatter, who said he didn't own any stock.
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The companies have agreed on certain preliminary matters, but there are no assurances that any transaction will be completed, Sprint officials said Thursday.
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Response : As a preliminary matter we should keep in mind that, as Jimbo Wales puts it, Wikipedia is " organic nature of Wikipedia.
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Commission held an informal meeting at Lahore on 3 June 1974 to consider various preliminary matters and then decided to resume proceedings at Abbottabad from 16 July 1974.
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"It's important to note that this is a preliminary matter unrelated to the substantive matter yet to be decided, " a Daiwa spokesman said.
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So in an article about R ( E ) v JFS ( [ 2009 ] UKSC 15 ) you could include the preliminary matter decided at [ 2009 ] UKSC 1 here.
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But Mr Justice John Mortimer said it would make " a mockery of justice " if challenges could be launched in the Court of Appeal to preliminary matters such as this.
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May : " Mr . Milosevic, in due course you will have the chance to put in motions challenging the jurisdiction or any other preliminary matters which you wish to do.
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Under the Minnesota approach, as a preliminary matter, the moving party must meet the burden of showing that the circumstances which bring the case within the purview of SLAPP protection exists.
