decisionmaker

In answer to a question about the CIA, Albright observed that the CIA gets the blame a lot, but we have to realize that intelligence is a product and the decisionmaker is the consumer.

Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of State of where? Ellen Beth Gill 2008

Specifically, they argue that Chevron deference should turn on the nature of the decisionmaker, not the process through which the decision was made.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s Scholarship 2010

Muris: as a decisionmaker, when a party insists on fighting an obviously specious point, it casts doubt on other points.

Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

While it is quite possible that the Secured Creditors did in fact receive what they might have received in a liquidation, that conclusion is to a large extent pure speculation — valuation in bankruptcy is always a matter of some guesswork, but in most cases the parties fighting over valuation get the opportunity to muster evidence and present their cases to an impartial decisionmaker in the adversarial setting.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy 2010

While it is quite possible that the Secured Creditors did in fact receive what they might have received in a liquidation, that conclusion is to a large extent pure speculation — valuation in bankruptcy is always a matter of some guesswork, but in most cases the parties fighting over valuation get the opportunity to muster evidence and present their cases to an impartial decisionmaker in the adversarial setting.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy 2010

They will try to characterize Paulson as a mere kibitzer, and ACA as the ultimate decisionmaker for legal purposes.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Goldman Fraud Suit 2010

But the Court gives some hints about what sorts of things a decisionmaker may look to in determining whether an agreement authorizes class-action arbitration.

The Volokh Conspiracy » After Stolt-Nielsen v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp.: Deciding When Class Arbitration Is Permissible 2010

The crucial American decisionmaker, of course, was never Hull but rather his boss, who was somewhat tougher-minded in his assumptions—less concerned with trade and international law and more enthusiastic about the great-power-concert aspects of the new system than the orthodox collective-security aspects.

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

I wouldn't go that far, but clearly the franchise's top decisionmaker on all things football has to own his part in this season-long migraine.

Albert Haynesworth wins battle, but everyone ultimately loses Mike Wise 2010

While it is quite possible that the Secured Creditors did in fact receive what they might have received in a liquidation, that conclusion is to a large extent pure speculation — valuation in bankruptcy is always a matter of some guesswork, but in most cases the parties fighting over valuation get the opportunity to muster evidence and present their cases to an impartial decisionmaker in the adversarial setting.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy 2010