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Many political commentators say it is unnecessary, since the Supreme Court did not directly question the legitimacy of the election itself.

The fear of blacks with guns was one of the reasons behind the Supreme Court's notorious decision in the Dred Scott case.

Microsoft said it had yet to decide whether to pursue the case further, but hinted it would try to take it to the Supreme Court.

I considered him to be sort of cross between an old-time Argentine gentlemen and a thoroghly incorruptible magistrate of some supreme court.

Nevertheless, his friends seem to think he would make a great attorney general or federal judge, perhaps even a Supreme Court Justice.

Supreme Court rules allow Judge Ginsburg to either issue her own ruling on the appeal, or take the matter to the entire Court.

The Supreme Court issued warrants yesterday for the arrest of Mr Thaksin and his wife Pojamarn after they failed to appear in court.

Officials said the Supreme Court's announcement would not affect the state's execution docket.

By the time the company was broken up the US Supreme Court in 1911, the corruption had already leaked into the US political landscape.

In December 1956, the Supreme Court banned segregation on public transportation, and the boycott ended over a year after it had begun.

White was the first African-American man to serve on the Missouri Supreme Court and was a highly regarded judge.

I had assumed the Supreme Court was one of the places that needed to be elitist.

But a case now being heard by the Supreme Court in London is likely to give such agreements more clout.

It seems very likely that the Supreme Court will have to decide the matter, and that could take two years or more.

(Para. 2) His voice had a surprising tone of respect, almost as if he were addressing the Supreme Court instead of a group of youngsters.

Many legal experts believe the U. S. Supreme Court could review the case law on abortion during the next presidential administration.

He said he might support President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court.

"They have not tried hard enough to help me, " she wrote about the college in her lawsuit filed at the Bronx Supreme Court.

The matter is expected to end up in the Supreme Court.

In response, the Supreme Court changed its decision, and said the extradition should proceed unless Mr Apablaza was granted asylum.

He already has one conviction in the Supreme Court over the sale of public land to his wife.

Good morning. The United States Senate is now considering my nomination of Judge Sam Alito to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court.

Earlier in the day, Gibbs' deputy, Bill Burton, had been confident that there would not "be a lot of Supreme Court stuff today. "

A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be appealed to any other court.

Given the number of contradictory rulings by the courts, the matter is bound to end up, sooner or later, in the Supreme Court.

Two years ago the problem made it to the U. S. Supreme Court, in a case that might have been called U. S. Navy v. Whales.

They did not even attend the legal arguments when their case reached the United States Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O Connor is in her 70s, and former surgeon general C. Everett Koop chairs an Internet start up in his 80s.

That is at the heart of a Supreme Court judgment yesterday upholding free domestic flights for the attendants of severely disabled people.

The trouble was that this long-standing benefit had been struck down by the Supreme Court in June as discriminatory.

Hitherto Tasmania had only been a dependency of New South Wales, but in 1825 it was made a separate colony, with a Supreme Court of its own.

The Supreme Court of the United States has never upheld a government attempt to stop the press from publishing classified information.

Before the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, I thought these changes alone would be enough at least to get reform started.

It's been a frenetic few days for the U. S. Supreme Court as its session winds down.

On that view, it was unsurprising that the Supreme Court last month struck down a law that made it a crime to sell videos of dogfights.

The Supreme Court sent the case back to Texas to see if it could be resolved there.

But some advocates for gay rights hold out a slim hope that the matter may eventually come before the United States Supreme Court.

Asked if the Supreme Court overstepped its authority in a property-rights case, she said the Court thought not.

Capital punishments have been used more frequently since the U. S. Supreme Court lifted a death penalty ban in 1976.

Nebraska used to use the electric chair until its Supreme Court ruled in February that this was unconstitutional.

And the Supreme Court decided to hear several cases calling for the party's election victory to be annulled.

The NLD lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court to protect the party's legal status, but it was turned down in November.

Nevertheless the United States Supreme Court is not to have appellate review of every case.

In the home of judicial activism, the U. S. Supreme Court is still no result of a controversy on judicial activism and judicial restraint.

More appellate reviews are expected before the matter ends up in the Supreme Court.

But cases like this do not usually come to court, or at least the Supreme Court.

And that's how you know America is a great country, when your Supreme Court justice has the same back story as your lap dancer.

Reacting to the decision, Mr Emanuel confirmed that he would appeal to Illinois' supreme court and said he had no doubt he would prevail.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was a classmate too, but I never got to know him.

Link to the site of the Supreme Court Historical Society, which has biographies of every Justice, as well as other historical materials.

When these cases got to the Supreme Court, the court threw out key parts of Roosevelt's program as unconstitutional . The U. S.

Would-be road-builders must now consider appealing the matter to the Supreme Court.

The industry may have the Supreme Court on its side, but it will now be watching carefully to see who wins the White House.

If Barack Obama thought Ms Sotomayor would vote to overturn Roe, he would not have nominated her to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.

I didn't want him to leave the Senate but was excited by the prospect of appointing George to the Supreme Court.

Bush said he would move quickly to choose a "highly qualified" candidate as his replacement on the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is called into session by a crier announcing , "God save the United States and this honorable court. "

Scott then took his case to a federal court. Finally, he asked the United States Supreme Court to decide if he was a slave or a free man.

Gore: Now the US Supreme Court has spoken . Let there be no doubt , while I strongly disagree with the court's decision , I accept it .

As a lawyer and a Supreme Court justice, he was the legal architect of the civil-rights revolution.

The Supreme Court did not rule on the merits of the claims, but it did prevent the women from suing Walmart as one big group.

ONE of the most effective ways for a president to put his mark on the future is to nominate judges to the Supreme Court.

On the last day of the term, the Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Supreme Court gave its first and final ruling on two cases connected to former President Chen Shui-bian and his wife Wu Shu-jen.

A losing litigant in the court of appeals may, in some cases, be able to obtain review by the United States Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court has not addressed the matter directly since 1972.

The state's highest court, like the Supreme Court of the United States, interprets the constitution and the laws of the state.

But the long-term challenge for Illinois is to stay within the Supreme Court's limit as the population grows.

Is the Supreme Court up-to-date enough to acknowledge the reality of new media?

Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said the 72-year-old justice took a spill over the weekend.

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from her respirator.

Mrs Clinton may have damped down Hillary-hatred for a while. But it is sure to revive if she starts appointing Supreme Court justices.

Honduras's Supreme Court and Congress absolved the military officers who removed Mr Zelaya from power of any wrongdoing.

Buchanan said he expected the Supreme Court to rule soon on the right of the people of a territory to decide this.

The Supreme Court, by means of a writ of certiorari, may call up a case from a district court for review.

In the middle of the war, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the all-white primary system that was the norm throughout the South.

THIS may not have occurred to you, but a Supreme Court judge is like an aircraft-carrier. How? Just count the ways.

Back in January, in my State of the Union Address, I warned of the danger posed by a Supreme Court ruling called Citizens United.

The city will not wait for the Supreme Court ruling, which could take as long as a year, Mr. Ebrard added.

"The defence lawyers, under Libyan law, have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court for a second and last time, " he told SciDev. Net.

Since the Supreme Court ruling in nineteen eighty, more conservative justices have been appointed to the Court.

The Supreme Court has chided Mr Singh for dragging his feet over a scam at the telecoms ministry costing probably billions of dollars.

America's video game industry was the winner in a decision last week by the United States Supreme Court.

Known as "The Great Dissenter, " he wrote Supreme Court opinions that continue to shape American jurisprudence.

Decisions of the Circuit Court of Appeals can be appealed further to the U. S. Supreme Court, although such appeals are rarely granted.

The vice-president of China's supreme court said the country would reduce death-penalty executions "to an extremely small number" .

Executive Orders can be a powerful tool for the President to achieve policy objectives, and this power has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

It would be a watered-down version of the line-item veto presidents have long craved but the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional.

Lawyers represented Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, Potjaman, in court in the proceedings at the Supreme Court.

As an appeals-court judge, she was always obliged to defer to precedents set by the Supreme Court.

Middle-class protests against Mr. Musharraf have risen in recent months, triggered by his ouster of the Supreme Court's chief justice.

One country has already volunteered to let its supreme court be the court of final appeal for the new judicial system there.

The final legal recourse available to Blume and Holt was an appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court's intervention, welcomed Wal-Mart, said the "collective action of all the confusion is bad. "

Several Supreme Court justices throughout history have had no earlier experience as a judge.

The Supreme Court reinstated the general, and the electoral tribunal ordered the ballots to be confiscated.

In this paper, the actions and functions of the Supreme Court are analysed by means of a review of the history of segregation.

In a late-night television address, the president blasted the Supreme Court for "abuse of power" and for "applying justice selectively" .

General Musharraf, who has no power to sack judges, has filed a complaint against Mr Chaudhry to the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court ruling on October 20th found that a prenuptial agreement, even if it is not drawn up to English legal standards, can count.

The center is named for Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. , who died in 1997 and was no relation to Mr. Brennan.

In the case of an impeached president, the chief justice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial.

She said doing so could be seen as pre-judging cases that the Supreme Court might consider.

The ruling was suspended by the Supreme Court, which took more than a year to issue its judgment.

The highest appellate court in a state is usually called the supreme court but may be called by some other names.

The United States Supreme Court found that the " extreme facts " of the case raised the probability of bias to an unconstitutional level .

Benjamin Cox, now 18, was six when he was regularly bullied by an older, disturbed pupil, the New South Wales state Supreme Court heard.

In none of these cases did the supreme court deny the right of the states to regulate railroads and other corporations.

Has the Supreme court ever heard such a peculiarly American story as that of Anna Nicole Smith?

It was argued before the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26, 1971, and is known as the Pentagon Papers.

The Supreme Court in Quirin did not consider the allegation that one of the accused was a United States citizen.

It may be weeks or even months before U. S. President Barack Obama announces his first appointment to the United States Supreme Court .

The attorney-general is chosen for a four-year term by the Supreme Court from a list of three candidates drawn up by the president.

In . Flemming vs Nestor ( 1960) , the U. S. Supreme court held that you have no " accrued property rights" to a Social Security check .

If they got to the Supreme Court before the ground was prepared, might there be a precedent-setting loss?

In May 2008, the state's supreme court declined to hear an appeal of a $405m verdict issued against three natural-gas companies.

The U. S. Supreme Court has often been called on to resolve disputes over the reach of the commerce clause.

As the political makeup of justices on the U. S. Supreme Court changes, interpretation of the Constitution also changes.

The Supreme Court said it would not rule on his extradition until the asylum issue was settled.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas again finds himself in the crosshairs of liberals.

Any further proceedings will take place in the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court.

However, the majority of the Supreme Court did not agree with Justice Breyer .

Police cited a ruling by Israel's Supreme Court that the houses belong to Jews and that the Arab families had been living there illegally.

The independent judiciary is headed by the Supreme Court, which oversees the High Court, magistrate's courts and a number of lower courts .

She lobbied hard for a woman on the Supreme Court, though pillow-talk had no effect in that case.

While the Supreme Court may choose to hear cases directly, it most often selects cases that have been decided in lower courts.

If so, the resolution of the dispute, in the form of a Supreme Court ruling in Mukesh's favour on May 7th, has probably made matters worse.

In 2006 the Florida Supreme Court accepted the decision but dissolved the class and said each case had to be tried separately.

Cases in the state courts similarly may proceed through a trial court, a state appellate court, and then the state supreme court.

His appearance in the Supreme Court was the first stage in an uncertain process that could, in theory, end with his suspension.

The Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 that this was a violation of the Constitution.

But now, after a landmark ruling by the American Supreme Court, the spectre of a blunderbuss of liability suits may have receded.

I wanted to put him on the Supreme Court, but he didn't want that job, either.

The Supreme Court did not hand down a sentence, but ordered the Appeals Court to re-examine the case.

The Supreme Court is currently looking at the constitutionality of that case.

However, the Supreme Court justices also might prefer a chance to limit any ruling to California, he said.

the case was argued in the Supreme Court, it was discovered that the code had accidentally been amended out of existence .

It is fair to say that the Supreme Court of Chief Justice John Roberts is not extravagantly admired by Democrats.

The reprieve came with less than two hours to go: the United States Supreme Court had granted a stay.

The Supreme Court said reporters cannot be forced to identify confidential sources - a protection granted by the state's Shield Law.

"I knew where the boat was going, it was 8ft in the air, " she told the Supreme Court in Nassau.

' The jockey decision, which the Supreme Court allowed to stand, has subsequently figured heavily in arguments about railroad workers.

this , said the supreme court , was in breach of the constitution and as a result , the bill fell in its entirety.

The Supreme Court of the U. S. A. deliberate whether the ballots of Florida should be re-counted.

The others are the executive branch, led by the White House, and the judicial branch, headed by the Supreme Court.

Before Mr Padilla's case made it back to the Supreme Court, the administration finally found an applicable set of charges.

The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania disagreed with Carrie Burnham, and she was denied the right to vote.

Supreme Court decisions are binding on absolutely everyone in America, beyond appeal to any dictionary or any other power.

Fred Graham has been a legal journalist since becoming Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times in 1965.

The Supreme Court met again; did not announce their decision, but ordered a re-argument.

A 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that segregation had no place in public schools.

Whatever the outcome, the case is likely to end up in the Supreme Court.

Aditi Kur with Child Line India said the Supreme Court's ruling shuts down such excuses.

The Supreme Court did not agree and quickly dismissed their application.

The Supreme Court of the United States receives more than 7, 000 petitions for review each year, but generally agrees to hear 100 or fewer.

The diminutive figure of Arundhati Roy strode into the Supreme Court surrounded by dozens of heR supporters.

In its opinions, the Supreme Court recognized the importance of free speech and a robust news media to a functioning democracy.

The court agreed with Scott and gave him his freedom. But the decision was appealed, and the Supreme Court of Missouri ruled against him.

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom was established and hundreds of hereditary peers kicked out of the Lords.

Despite the Supreme Court's enterprising spirit, it was difficult to see this one coming.

The judgment on the famous case of Marburye v. Madison, tried by the Federal Supreme Court of the U.

But at the last minute, Hill was granted a stay of execution by the U. S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent the night in a hospital in Washington after getting sick at the office.

Now, keep in mind this is a court case, the Supreme Court is going to be looking at the legal definition of marriage.

The Governor named him to be a justice on the state Supreme Court.

The decision to have the Supreme Court sit in judgment over acts of the legislature was a later invention.

This program is recognised by the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and the State of New South Wales .

All capital cases now have to be reviewed by the Supreme Court, which is said to approve only tenth of cases, a remarkable change, if true.

Before Miranda case of 1966, the guidelines of the Supreme Court of U. S. to pre-trial interrogation had been changing.

The Supreme Court is often called the high court.

The right tends to blame the left for the Supreme Court's expanded ambit, and not unjustly.

On July 30th the Supreme Court ruled against her, arguing that "This relationship exists, regardless of whether they are divorced. "

In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court establishes a woman's right to abortion, effectively canceling the anti-abortion laws of 46 states.

If a federal constitutional question is involved the decision of the state supreme court may be reviewed by the United States Supreme Court.

If Gore got more votes than Bush in Florida, it would be harder for the Supreme Court to give Bush the presidency anyway.

But how could the Supreme Court justify this extension, since the Bill of Rights by its terms limited only the federal government?

China's supreme court in February called for criminal cases to be handled with "justice tempered with mercy, " Xinhua reported at the time.

On Monday, the Supreme Court held that the "machine-or-transformation test, " was not the proper one to apply to business-method patents.

As a reporter, Mr. Lewis brought an entirely new approach to coverage of the Supreme Court, for which he won his second Pulitzer, in 1963.

The U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee starts confirmation hearings Monday for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

But since the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of the constitution, appointments are fiercely political.

The Supreme Court's nine justices make up the court of final appeal from the lower federal and state courts.

The newly empowered republicans have vowed to repeal the bill and it's likely the hot issue could end up in the Supreme Court.

Judicial Branch - The judicial power of the United States is vested in the Supreme Court and the federal courts.

The Supreme Court ruled the Americans with Disabilities Act does not extend to people with poor eyesight or other correctable conditions.

Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President on the motions of the National Council of Judiciary for life tenure.

The U. S. Supreme Court upholds the amendment to the Cincinnati City charter that denies discrimination rights to homosexuals.

The U. S. Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from seven Chinese Muslims being held at the U. S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The United States Supreme Court has refused to block the extradition to France of the former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega.

Cases also come to the High Court from a state supreme court if the dispute turns on an issue of federal law or the Constitution.

Elena Kagan, the former solicitor general of the United States, is now the 112th Justice of the Supreme Court.

President Bush has nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'connor.

Politicians have the right to be tried by the supreme court, but many cases lapse before they are heard.

But interpretations vary on whether Argentine law allows same-sex unions, and the question is now before that country's supreme court.

Supreme Court held that the right to a hearing aftertermination was sufficient (agreed with government).

The amnesty already has lapsed technically, after parliament failed to ratify it by a Supreme Court-imposed deadline of last month.

ROME (Reuters) - Recording secret videos of sex with your partner is not illegal, Italy's supreme court has ruled.

The arrest came despite a State Supreme Court ruling that his condoms are protected by the Constitution's guarantee of free speech.

But five of the nine Supreme Court justices seem to find it troubling.

In 1961, the Supreme Court of Israel when he was appointed lead Orlando a three-judge trial panel hearing the case of Eichmann.

Litigants who lose their cases in the state supreme court may appeal their cases to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Supreme Court, and the court is now considering a case which could invalidate the revised process.

And he may well be right; the decision could be overturned either by Switzerland's supreme court, or by the European Court of Human Rights.

Yesterday, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor fell and broke her ankle, and she's expected to be on crutches for several weeks.

Exxon appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing the punitive damages were excessive and a "windfall" to the plaintiffs.

As the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson pointed out, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.

We shall see that the Supreme Court's decisions on sexual privacy are not only poorly reasoned but poorly informed.

A 2007 Supreme Court ruling held that as part of that responsibility, the agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

The Dutch Supreme Court must decide, probably next month, whether the sale can go ahead without a vote by ABN amRO shareholders.

Twenty years ago the Supreme Court ruled that states had no right to restrict gambling on Indian reservations if they allowed it elsewhere.

The writer was Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice, who came of age during the time of DuBois.

Governor Bush immediately appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court to stop the recount.

But the Supreme Court backed the general and later ordered Mr. Zelaya's arrest for violating the constitution.

The legal definition of the Online Pornography in US goes through a progress from Congress-made law to Supreme Court case law.

The Supreme Court has ruled that textbooks and other goods made abroad can be resold in the United States without violating copyright law.

The incumbent may be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of parliament, with the concurrence of the Supreme Court.

The US Supreme Court is reviewing whether or not a court case about women being treated unfairly at work can proceed.

Historian Jeff Sklansky says a slow shift to personhood for American companies began with a Supreme Court ruling in eighteen nineteen.

Israel started dismantling a section of its controversial West Bank separation barrier as ordered by the nation's Supreme Court.

Finally, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Missus Parks's case. It made racial separation illegal on city buses.

The Canadian Supreme Court has found that many of these individuals suffer chronic pain and that some die awaiting treatment.

Supreme Court has much to do with the rise and fall of the racial segregation system.

As in that case, Perry v Schwarzenegger is expected to be decided ultimately by the Supreme Court.

It could be again after the decision by the country's Supreme Court to declare Pervez Musharraf's former state of emergency illegal.

Finally, state supreme court justices, especially the chief justice are often given additional duties by the states.

If you also feel strongly about this issue, please write to your Congress representatives, senators, and even the Supreme Court. I am.

The supreme court directed the EPA two years ago to examine whether the gases should be monitored.

The 9 justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President but must be approved by Congress.

The justices of the Supreme Court are also investments for the long term.

The Supreme Court deemed this unconstitutional in 2003, but ruled that less explicit preferences might be allowable.

That provoked an anti-Musharraf backlash, and increased pressure on the Supreme Court to rule against the president.

The Tennessee Supreme Court later upheld the constitutionality of the statute but overturned Scopes' conviction on a technicality.

The Supreme Court took up Mr Padilla's case in 2004 but ruled against him on procedural grounds.

Once on the Supreme Court she will be free to rule as she pleases, for two, three or even four decades to come.

To keep up with the global trend of broadening the plaintiff's qualification, the supreme court and its judicial interpretation will . . .

Finally, in nineteen eleven, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was misusing its powerful market position.

Beginning in 1983, the U. S. solicitor general routinely urged the Supreme Court, on behalf of the federal government, to overturn Roe.

Even then, the Supreme Court has the power to reject the law if it comes before the court.

Finally, the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial separation in the Montgomery bus system was unconstitutional.

In some instances, the Supreme Court also hears cases from the court of last resort in a state system.

Supreme Court Justices and lower court judges are nominated by the President and take office only when confirmed by the Senate.

The Supreme Court is the only court specifically created by the Constitution.

Hundreds of riot police and commandos were deployed around the election office and nearby Supreme Court.

And I look forward to the Senate voting to confirm Judge Sam Alito as the 110th justice of the Supreme Court.

I entirely disapprove of that, although the US supreme court has ruled it's admissible.

The door slams closed in his face and the Supreme Court isn't hearing any appeals.

The Supreme Court had begun the process of applying pressure on southern states in a string of desegregation decisions.

Elena Kagan was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, two days after the Senate confirmed her appointment in a largely partisan vote.