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re·hear
(rē-hîr′)
tr.v.re·heard(-hûrd′), re·hear·ing, re·hears
1. To hear again.
2. Law To allow a second hearing of (a case) or allow (a second argument of a motion or appeal) after a decision has been rendered, usually as a result of a request citing a perceived defect in the decision.
Section 78(2) of the same law further states that decisions are to be made based on the opinion of the majority of the remaining judges, but 'if there is no majority, the proceeding shall be reheard'.
A federal appeals court in February ruled that a Michigan county's policy of opening its meetings with exclusively Christian prayers was unconstitutional, a decision that will be reheard by the full appeals court.
First, it is not required to re-prefer the charges (34) or conduct a new Article 32 hearing, assuming no new preferred charges are combined with the charges to be reheard. (35) However, a referral to a new court-martial is required.
On these grounds, the cassation court rejected the appeal court's decision and ordered that the appeal be reheard. Court records show that the woman and her neighbour, who is also Emirati and a former policeman, attacked the maid at the Emirati woman's villa in Abu Dhabi.
Until a referendum that the majority of Turkish people approved in 2010, it was not possible under the law regulating the Constitutional Court for a case to be reheard, as the verdicts of the court were considered to be absolute.