The ruling Shiite religious parties are demanding that provisions of the Koran, called Sharia, become the supreme authority on marriage, divorce, and inheritance issues.
Asked if the Supreme Court overstepped its authority in a property-rights case, she said the Court thought not.
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He said most people understood that the president was speaking narrowly about Commerce Clause cases and not broadly challenging the Supreme Court's authority.
The Supreme Council asserted legislative authority in June, after Egypt's Constitutional Court ruled that a third of lawmakers had been illegally elected and invalidated the election.
It's true that the Illinois Supreme Court is the final authority when it comes to interpreting the state constitution.
While the new court was still theoretically under the authority of the Supreme Court, the fact that it heard so many patent cases gave it an outsized influence on patent law.
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Instead, the court unanimously decided that if the Florida court's ruling were based entirely on its interpretation of state law, then it would have been acting within its authority and the Supreme Court would not get involved.
Mr. Burton's treatise, like the man himself, rests between two ages one in which the authority of Scripture reigned supreme, and a newer era acknowledging the power of deductive reasoning to sort out life's great questions.
House Republicans are expected to pass a measure this week that would prevent the NLRB from conducting business until the Senate confirms new members constituting a quorum or the U.S. Supreme Court decides the board has the authority to act.
He also named Mahmoud Mekki as his vice president, and he reversed a June constitutional decree by the Supreme Council that claimed to retain legislative authority until a new parliament could be sworn in near the end of the year, Ali said.
The California Supreme Court later ruled that Newsom had overstepped his authority, although the legal fight over the larger constitutional question has yet to be resolved.
If the Supreme Court finds that it does not have the authority to hear the case, Windsor probably would still get her refund because she won in the lower courts.
In April the Illinois Supreme Court blocked a landgrab by the Southwestern Illinois Development Authority, which offers condemnation services for a 6% to 10% commission.
However, a few months later, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the City did not have the authority to replace the existing Bureau of Revision of Taxes (BRT) for appeals.
Since the New Deal of the 1930s, the Supreme Court had only twice found Congress exceeded its commerce authority, and never for a program designed to expand the social safety net.
WOMEN'S groups were outraged: but when the Supreme Court this week sharply rebuked Congress for overstepping its authority and struck down a key provision of the six-year-old Violence Against Women Act, even congressmen were not surprised.
Conversely, a Supreme Court decision invalidating the mandate would not seriously undermine congressional authority.
Genachowski, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter, seems reluctant to assert more authority in the face of this legal decision.
Mr Ashcroft said there was legal authority "under the laws of war and clear Supreme Court precedent, which establishes that the military may detain a United States citizen who has joined the enemy and has entered our country to carry out hostile acts".
However, the US Supreme Court justices decided 6-3 that he had overstepped his authority.
"The majority has concluded that the Swedish public prosecutor was a 'judicial authority', " said Nicholas Phillips, U.K. Supreme Court president.
She argued that the Supreme Court's judges had reached their decision based on the definition of "judicial authority" published in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
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Such measures would generally be void following the Supreme Court's decision in June that the individual mandate was valid under Congress's constitutional authority to levy taxes.
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On April 18th, for example, the Supreme Court blocked a Palestinian family in America from using American courts to seek redress from the Palestinian Authority for torture and murder.
Yet in his present role, which he has held since 2005, he has repeatedly demonstrated a concern for preserving the Supreme Court's credibility in the delicate role it plays policing the boundaries of federal and state authority.
In 1945, the World War II Allies replied to a Japanese communiqu , saying the authority of the Emperor and the Japanese government to rule Japan would be subject to the Allied Supreme Commander.
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