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.
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.
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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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.
Another criticism is that the Supreme Court is treating corporations like people.
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.
In 1995, the Supreme Court tried to stop this by saying people could not dodge social obligations, or avoid bigamy charges, by changing faith.
Ellen started off wondering why people were sending their briefs to the Supreme Court.
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's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) Fox network this January, reigns supreme across mediums.
People forget why Obamacare was upheld by the Supreme Court last year.
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The obvious answer is that most people in the software industry believed that the Supreme Court had excluded most software from patent protection.
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Those Obamacare tax increases include the individual mandate, upheld by the Supreme Court precisely because it is an effective tax on working people and the middle class.
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The activists, along with members of the media and curious bystanders, thronged the area in front of the Supreme Court building while police officers enforced traffic rules and discouraged people from blocking the sidewalk or the steps of the court.
He paints a nightmare picture of scientists owning people's genes (based on a California Supreme Court decision that declared a patient's tissue ceased to be his once it left his body and that doctors could profitably conduct research on that tissue).
Customers range from the Green Bay Packers, to Timberland (nyse: TBL - news - people ), to the U.S. Supreme Court, and include 70% of the companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, along with other government and military contracts.
Supreme Court President Lord Neuberger has warned that spending reductions may limit people's access to justice.
The Supreme Court ruled that reporters and photographers could not accompany police into people's homes to record arrests, since this invaded their privacy .
This will be far cheaper than the cost of fighting a losing constitutional battle all the way to the Supreme Court and the Governor can save the lives of some 100 people previously approved but now being denied the transplants.
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And the notion that a -- she received a strong, bipartisan vote for being the Solicitor General, for being the person that represented the interest of the American people and the government as they argued in front of the Supreme Court.
Under a Supreme Court ruling, the government is required to place the bill before the people and have it approved by a referendum after it is passed in Parliament.
The Supreme Court restricted the reach of the Americans With Disabilities Act , ruling that people with conditions that could be cured or corrected could not generally claim to be disabled.
In 2005, groups that opposed life sentences without parole for young people, began to gain traction after the U.S. Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by 16 and 17 year olds in the landmark case Roper v.
"This measure would overturn a California Supreme Court decision that held that police officers can lawfully search the cell phones of people who they arrest, " the governor's brief statement said.
Why, on the eve of the Supreme Court announcing its ruling on this, has the administration failed to convince the American people this is a good thing?
"The Supreme Court's hearing of this matter is of the highest significance for the American people, " Tom Johnson, chairman and chief executive of the CNN News Group, said Saturday.
EchoStar Communications (nasdaq: DISH - news - people ) lost another court skirmish this week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider EchoStar's appeal of a lower court ruling that it cannot beam local broadcast channels to a nationwide audience.
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