In April 2010, the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 federal court move to overturn his pardon.
In April 2010, the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 federal court move to overturn his pardon, clearing the way for the court case which ended with his life sentence on Wednesday.
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.
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.
The Supreme Court in 1984 reversed the federal court decision finding that the VCR was an illegal product.
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.
But Stone has endorsed Priscilla Owen , Texas Supreme Court Justice, for a federal appellate court judge, and that, Novak says, has brought criticism from other pro- choice Republican groups, including Jennifer Stockman of the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition.
After a 1997 Supreme Court decision barred such lawsuits from federal court, they had brought their case in Maine's state courts.
It was challenged by the state but upheld by the state Supreme Court, and overturned by a federal court following a private legal challenge.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court found a similar federal restriction unconstitutional in Rubin v.
Indeed, the Supreme Court recently overturned a federal ban on commercial gambling advertising on radio and television.
Responding to a petition from the film's Toronto-based director, Deepa Mehta, to prevent a slide into "complete anarchy, " the Supreme Court has upbraided the federal government for not preventing the assaults.
The court cited decisions by federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, recognizing absolute immunity for government lawyers.
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