So perhaps the famous "broccoli" hypothetical during the Supreme Court ObamaCare debate was not so fanciful after all.
He openly expressed skepticism in Hollingsworth and led the Court in an hour-long debate in Windsor solely focused on whether the court has jurisdiction.
It is an energetic debate in all 50 states, and this summer we will learn whether the Supreme Court will shut down this debate by making it a constitutional issue on which the American people are not allowed to vote.
Apple and Samsung were back in San Jose federal court this afternoon to debate a variety of post-trial motions.
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On Friday, High Court judge Mr Justice McCloskey criticised what he called ill-informed debate involving comparisons between individual court cases.
There's a chance that congress will pull the rug out from under this whole debate before the court can act.
And so the fact that Saddam Hussein is now being tried in an Iraqi court by Iraqi justices brings the debate full circle.
Buchanan is fighting a federal court battle for the right to debate, arguing the Reform Party is one of three recognized parties by the Federal Election Commission, and therefore ought to be included.
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The appeals court ruling is likely to bring the debate over the Second Amendment front and center once again.
And there followed an extended debate among counsel and the court concerning the propriety and the clarity of that definition.
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Kenny MacAskill opened a debate at Holyrood on the court's role and its impact on Scots law following an expert review.
The judge himself has noted that minutes already in the court's possession "showed some debate at a fairly high level in the bank".
First of all, neither the government, nor the various groups challenging the law, wanted to debate the question the Supreme Court asked today, which is whether the 1867 Anti-Injunction Act prohibited the case from proceeding.
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This is a cut above the usual debate in and about the supreme court and sounds like progress.
These divisions were on vivid display on December 5th in a public debate between Antonin Scalia, the court's leading conservative, and Stephen Breyer, its leading liberal.
The final option, the one that would cement the Court at the center of this ongoing public debate, is to bar all prohibitions of same-sex marriage as Constitutional violations.
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There are four vacancies on that bench -- more than any of the 13 federal appeals courts -- and much of the debate on Halligan was whether the court's caseload was enough to justify filling the bench with more judges.
In fact, the only choice left was to keep silent or to debate nuclear safety issues in a law court.
The political, social, and legal stakes of this long-simmering debate will once again put the high court at the center of national attention, a contentious encore to last summer's ruling upholding the massive health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama.
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Mr Bizos issued his statement on Monday, emphasising he had been careful not to debate the proceedings before they came to court, but that remarks by Mr Ayob's son and law partner, Zayd, that were quoted in a Sunday newspaper called for a response.
If the Supreme Court declares a constitutional right to marriage other than one-man, one-woman, then all traditional marriage laws in all 50 states will be invalid, and there will be a serious debate (already in a lower federal court) of whether polygamists also have a constitutional right to national recognition.
Whatever the outcome, the Supreme Court now plans to weigh in on the habeas corpus debate.
The wording of the constitution has opened a debate: Does an inauguration before the Supreme Court have to happen on January 10?
The debate over the nomination of a Texas Supreme Court judge to be a judge on the federal Court of Appeals enters a second day today in the Senate.
She wants the court to reopen the matter so she has a chance to debate the point.
No sanctioned same-sex weddings have yet occurred because the court's ruling hedged a bit, calling for more debate.
The debate was sparked by a ruling from the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) that the display of crucifixes in Italian classrooms was contrary to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.
In the United States itself, the Supreme Court's proper role has always been a subject of hot debate.
Egypt's Supreme Court also cleared the way for Shafiq to run after weeks of debate over whether his candidacy was legitimate.
Activists on either side of the US abortion debate are marking the 40th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing abortion rights.
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