The court held, as preliminary matters that the railway car was in the course of interstate transportation, and it was a car within the contemplation of ?2 of the Act.
22.
Magistrate Boyce, who is handling preliminary matters, chose Salt Lake's largest federal courtroom, which seats about 200 in the galley, for the trial that could last two months.
23.
Even Boyce, who is handling preliminary matters for senior U . S . District Court Judge David Sam, doubted it could begin so quickly when he set the Oct . 16 trial date.
24.
As a preliminary matter, the court addressed the question whether the Government had standing to seek invalidation of a patent because it was used as a means of fixing prices and committing other antitrust violations.
25.
High Court judge Arifin Zakaria dismissed applications from government-controlled Petroliam Nasional, or Petronas, on a range of preliminary matters that, if successful, would have stopped the case from going to trial.
26.
The judge, who had ordered lawyers to confer and try to agree on preliminary matters, asked the dueling parties : " Has anybody even been able to agree on the time of day ?"
27.
As a preliminary matter, the President testified that he recalled receiving a book from Ms . Lewinsky, that he believed he had received it in December, and that he did not recall receiving an accompanying note.
28.
If this issue is raised, evidence will be placed before the court, which will normally rule as a preliminary matter whether the plea is substantiated; if it is, the projected trial will be prevented from proceeding.
29.
When there is preliminary matter whose extent is unknown at the time of making up the text into pages, it is necessary to use lower-case Roman numerals, numbered from the first page of the first sheet.
30.
As a preliminary matter, it is important to explain the difference between Schlup's claim of actual innocence and the claim of actual innocence asserted in Herrera v . Collins, 506 U . S .-- ( 1993 ).
