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Affiant

A person who signs an affidavit. The affiant certifies under penalty of perjury that the statements contained in the affidavit are true to the best of his/her knowledge.

affiant

A person who makes a written statement under oath by way of an affidavit.

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CSIS affiant, which could spoil the lawfulness of the wiretap.

ACCESS TO STATE SECRETS IN TERRORISM PROSECUTIONS: A CASE COMMENT ON R. V. ALIZADEH AND THE STRICTURES OF THIRD PARTY DISCLOSURE

one of the plaintiff's affiants recreated "in the vicinity

Environmental law, Clapper v. Amnesty International, USA and the vagaries of injury-in-fact: "certainly impending" harm, "reasonable concern," and "geographic nexus."

Tina Jackson, the only affiant who testified at trial,

A survey of federal and state courts' approaches to a constitutional right of actual innocence: is there a need for a state constitutional right in New York in the aftermath of CPL (section) 440.10(G-1)?

It would also have been essential for the defense to attack the credibility of affiants and affidavits in front of the District Court.

Fifty years after: a critical look at the Eichmann trial

More come to light only through circumstantial evidence because would be affiants perished during the slaughter.

Munir's Story: 28 Years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila

The case hinges on the issue of whether those affidavits are testimonial, rendering the affiants witnesses subject to the defendant's right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment.

Confronting science: Melendez-Diaz and the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment

Moreover, and even as recounted by Geico's own affiants, there was nothing in the content of Blakes' conversation with Johnson--or the two phone messages she left for him--evincing a willful or avowedly obstructionist attitude toward Geico s inquiries."

Auto insurer's fail to meet noncooperation disclaimer standard: Pepper v. Geico

affiants and deponents will not later reverse their testimony at trial,

Admissibility tolerance: limited latitude for summary judgment material under rule 56

(80.) The Franks test not only applies to cases where false information is included in an affidavit, but also when affiants omit material facts "with the intent to make, or in reckless disregard of whether they thereby made, the affidavit misleading." United States v.

E-discovery in criminal cases: a need for specific rules

"establish[ed] that the affiants' members will ever visit one

Summers v. Earth Island Institute rejects probabilistic standing, but a "realistic threat" of harm is a better standing test

For his part, Soobzokov denied any involvement in the murders, and disavowed knowledge of the affiants or the places and events they described beyond that of what he claimed was his "brief enrollment" in 1945 in a "non-operational" SS unit.

Foreword: settler's remorse

Ference and Cherwin argued that the affidavits of merit filed failed to comply with the applicable law because both defendants were board certified in orthopedic surgery, and neither of the affiants was so certified.