North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly - the rubber-stamp parliament - convened on Monday for a day-long annual session.
Money matters were being discussed this week by the Supreme People's Assembly, the North's parliament, which met on April 7th.
The Supreme People's Court - the highest in China - has told lower courts to suspend death sentences for two years.
Four years ago the Supreme People's Court took back the right to review every death sentence handed out by lower courts.
On Monday, North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, which normally focuses on making economic decisions, endorsed plans to give nuclear weapons "greater prominence" in the country's defences.
The official events began with a banquet last Monday and continued with large meetings later in the week of the Workers' Party and Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's rubber-stamp legislature.
Meetings of the central committee of North Korea's Worker's Party on on Sunday and the Supreme People's Assembly on on Monday have emphasized trying to extract production gains from the moribund industrial and agricultural sectors without suggesting any economic reforms.
In 2006, the central government seized oversight of death sentences from provincial courts, restoring it to the Supreme People's Court after a 23-year hiatus, amid what state media suggested was a rash of errors in judicial judgments and excessive use of the capital sentence.
North Korea took another step in building up the image of the current leader Kim Jong Eun later on Friday when its Supreme People's Assembly gave him the final title that his father and grandfather had before him chairman of the National Defense Commission, considered the most powerful organ in the state.
The 12 judges based their ruling on the principle of salus populi ex supreme lex (the welfare of the people is the supreme law of any land), words perhaps more familiar to European lawyers than Pakistanis.
And that's something that's been missing on the Supreme Court, people who actually saw real cases with real people in terms of the law.
Thanks to a decision by the Supreme Court, more people could soon be joining the wildcatters.
The Supreme Court convicted 25 people for a scheme that used public funds to pay parties for political support.
The most influential institutions in Iran's elaborate power-structure, including the Revolutionary Guards, the Guardian Council, the presidency and parliament, are all still run by direct appointees of the supreme leader or by people unfailingly obsequious to him.
Aho created his software around advice he got from copyright attorney Paul Goldstein , who in the 1980s counseled the attorneys who won the Supreme Court case freeing people to record TV shows and movies for private use.
Starting in 2000, he worked as a print journalist, filing stories for Fang Yuan, a state-run magazine sponsored by the People's Supreme Court.
Unbeknownst to most people, the Supreme Court heard a case last week that, had they ruled differently, might have destroyed the vaccine system in the United States.
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Critics interpreted that controversial decision over campaign finance to mean that the Supreme Court regarded corporations as people (with a right to free speech when it comes to political donations).
Even then, the head of the Supreme Presidential Election Commission kept people waiting -- after beginning 45 minutes later than expected, he took 45 minutes before finally announcing Morsi the victor.
She represents the American people before the Supreme Court.
At the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, people waiting in line for tickets to this week's arguments on gay marriage held umbrellas or put tarps over their belongings as the snow fell.
State media said the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army issued an ultimatum demanding an apology from South Korea for "hostile acts" and threatening that unspecified retaliatory actions would happen at any time.
"From this moment, the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army will be putting in combat duty posture No 1 all field artillery units including long-range artillery units and strategic rocket units that will target all enemy objects in US invasionary bases on its mainland, Hawaii and Guam, " the KCNA statement said.
Another criticism is that the Supreme Court is treating corporations like people.
So, what the Congress wants to do is to correct that Supreme Court decision - the results of the Supreme Court decision, so that people can file claims of discrimination despite the fact that they've occurred over a long period of time and they didn't know that they were actually being discriminated against.
Because the only thing that is supreme is the majority will of the people -- nothing else.
Even the pre-dawn snowfall did not deter about 73 people from sleeping on the Supreme Court plaza in hopes of getting one of the few public seats for Wednesday's argument.
Thus people protested in front of the Supreme Court building as if it was the Capitol or White House.
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They went to court, to the Supreme Court, to prevent the disclosure of people who were meeting with the Vice President.
In 1995, the Supreme Court tried to stop this by saying people could not dodge social obligations, or avoid bigamy charges, by changing faith.
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