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.
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.
Mr. DAVIDSON: We don't think we're ready yet to go before the federal courts and particularly the Supreme Court.
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.
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.
Even if the trial ends quickly, either side could file additional appeals to the state Supreme Court or the federal courts.
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 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.
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.
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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In April 2010, the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 federal court move to overturn his pardon.
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 federal courts need guidance either from the Supreme Court or more explicit statutory language, i.e.
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The fate of the federal health care law currently before the Supreme Court is likely in the hands of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has already cast the swing vote in a number of contentious cases over the past decade.
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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 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.
The court cited decisions by federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, recognizing absolute immunity for government lawyers.
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.
Whenever the federal government is involved in litigation before the Supreme Court, the Office of the Solicitor General handles the representation.
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 U.S. Supreme Court in 2006 modified the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to insure the ability to gain electronic discovery of messages.
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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 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.
He criticized the former Massachusetts governor for supporting a health law adopted there that includes a state requirement for people to carry insurance coverage that is similar to the federal requirement at the crux of the case before the Supreme Court.
Testimony from such witnesses has long been viewed with skepticism by those experienced in the criminal justice system, but the federal appellate courts, including the U. S. Supreme Court, have never declared such sweetheart deals to be what they logically appear to be: a species of witness bribery or threats.
As many Americans learned for the first time from the Supreme Court decision last June, the federal government is not permitted to order states around.
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