The trial of the 94 continues at the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi.
Meanwhile, Mr Bush is taking his opposition to all manual recounts to the Federal Supreme Court, the highest court in the country.
Similarly, Germany's Federal Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that regarding an operation as a precondition for a legally valid sex change was increasingly problematic.
First, the federal Supreme Court refused to uphold (or reject) the decision of the Florida Supreme Court to extend the deadline for hand recounts, and sent the case back for the court to explain its reasons.
This argument is often articulated with the preface that since Islam and sharia are not guided by a hierarchical jurisprudence like the Catholic Church or even like our own federal court system with a Supreme Court, any effort at outlawing it will suffer from over breadth and capture perfectly non-threatening "interpretations" of sharia.
In addition, he sits on the U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction and the Arkansas Supreme Court Committees on Technology, Child Support, and Foster Care.
In April 2010, the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 federal court move to overturn his pardon.
The project director, Ed Moloney, and his researcher, Anthony McIntyre, resisted the attempts, and had hoped that the Supreme Court would overturn a Boston Federal Court decision to hand the tapes over.
Roberts, 50, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, considered the most influential federal panel outside of the Supreme Court, took the bench in 2003 after his confirmation was held up two years by Senate Democrats.
Congress has passed laws forcing most shareholder suits into federal court and the U.S. Supreme Court has imposed stricter rules requiring lawyer to make specific factual allegations before cases can proceed to the expensive discovery stage.
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It was challenged by the state but upheld by the state Supreme Court, and overturned by a federal court following a private legal challenge.
What did happen is that for more than two decades, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (which sits below the Supreme Court in the patent appeals process) unilaterally expanded the range of stuff that could be patented.
In several of these cases, federal legislation has preempted state jurisdiction through either actions by Congress or rulings by the Supreme Court, but the federal government is not the only source of regulations.
Third, an executive order can be revoked by a federal appeals court or the Supreme Court.
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Mr. DAVIDSON: We don't think we're ready yet to go before the federal courts and particularly the Supreme Court.
Half of the graduates at the top law schools who then go on to clerk for the Supreme Court or federal appellate courts, are women.
McCain also reminded his crowd that the next president will appoint countless federal judges, from the Supreme Court on down, and that the stakes are high.
The Supreme Court ruled that instead of petitioning a federal court in New York state to hear his case, he should have petitioned in South Carolina, where he is being held.
The 2:1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also might set up yet another fight between the highest court of appeal for patents and the U.S. Supreme Court, which forced the Federal Circuit to reconsider Myriad after reversing the lower court on another landmark case this year.
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The court cited decisions by federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, recognizing absolute immunity for government lawyers.
This is likely to be the term that the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA. There is also an outside chance that the Supreme Court will rule on whether same-sex couples must once again be able to marry in California.
Today there are few more vital appointments than federal judges, especially to the Supreme Court.
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Even if the trial ends quickly, either side could file additional appeals to the state Supreme Court or the federal courts.
It was in that dimly lit room, in 1857, that the Supreme Court overturned a federal law for the first time since Marbury v.
Richard Durbin, D-Illinois, noted the possibility that an upcoming ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the federal Defense of Marriage Act could render the whole issue moot.
The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that detainees can go to federal court to contest their imprisonment but that civilian judges lack the authority to order them freed.
In particular, First Amendment protection of newsmen and scholars has enjoyed some considerable support in the federal courts in Massachusetts since the Supreme Court decided Branzburg in 1972.
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Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith were also arrested for refusing to give up their seats and were among five black women whose federal law suit led to the Supreme Court ruling that the segregation was unconstitutional.
The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act -- again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction -- eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
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