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An organ of government belonging to the judicial department and charged with resolving disputes among parties.Courts generally have jurisdictional requirements providing that only certain disputes among described parties for certain amounts of money may be heard.If you file your grievance in the wrong court, you may be prejudiced when the case is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction and the time period during which to file in the proper court has expired.

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Election was conducted, Roila Odinga's lawyer, the opposition candidate who was purported to have lost the election, went to court and approached the court to get certain documents from their electoral body in Kenya and the electoral body started playing hanky-panky and refused to release those documents to him.

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Lisle Austin, from Barbados, has been banned for one year after he went to court in the Bahamas to try to force through his claim to succeed Jack Warner as president of the CONCACAF federation.

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Washington, April 24 (ANI): A lawsuit that had been brought against actor Steven Seagal by a former employee has been put on hold, after his lawyer went to court with a motion to compel arbitration.

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Elizabeth Crew went to court to boot out eldest child Elaine, 43, and her two kids from the pounds 130,000 property in Quinton, Birmingham.

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