Sentences with phrase «lower courts»

Over the next 2 or 3 months, the lower courts will follow the high court's instructions, and the injunction will be presumably lifted, and NASA will have to decide how to proceed once the injunction is lifted.

The Trump administration has acted expeditiously to fill vacancies on top courts around the country, including the Supreme Court and powerful lower courts that could decide the fate of regulatory challenges and novel lawsuits, like localities suing oil companies for damages caused by sea - level rise.

In 2013, in a 7 - 1 vote (Justice Elena Kagan recused herself), the Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower courts, saying they had failed to adequately determine that UT's use of race as a factor in its admissions was necessary and that the policy was «narrowly tailored.»

While the U.S. Supreme Court has not confronted the topic of the Fifth Amendment and encryption, a handful of lower courts have.

Late last year, NhRP filed lawsuits in three New York lower courts on behalf of four captive chimpanzees in the state.

That didn't happen: All three lower courts dismissed the lawsuits.

But if lower courts interpret the decision broadly, that could invalidate patents on other biological molecules, says Leslie Meyer - Leon, a registered patent and intellectual property lawyer.

They may also hear misdemeanor appeals from lower courts.

The first request the government makes — asking for the court to put a hold on the lower courts» injunctions — might be an uphill climb.

Onnoghen spoke on Monday at the 2016 Conference of All Nigerian Judges of the Lower Courts, held at the National Judicial Institute, NJI, in Abuja, with the theme: «The lower courts as veritable instruments for justice and peace in a democratic society».

At least, four lower courts of concurrent jurisdiction had given conflicting judgements on the controversy surrounding the leadership of PDP, a development that made one of the groups to take the matter to the Appeal Court.

Judge Story said that because the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld Georgia's 5 % petition for Governor in Jenness v Fortson, and because lower courts had upheld Georgia's 5 % Read more»

She added that there are several openly gay judges in New York's lower courts, at least one of whom has been mentioned in the past for a seat on the state's highest court, and appeared on a list of semi finalists in 2014.

Judge Story said that because the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld Georgia's 5 % petition for Governor in Jenness v Fortson, and because lower courts had upheld Georgia's 5 % petition for Congress in Cartwright v Barnes, and Coffield v Kemp, therefore the Georgia presidential petition of 1 % must be constitutional.

Two lower courts dismissed the case with a technical finding that the Working Families Party state executive board wasn't served the legal papers.

Several lower courts have ruled against it, saying it is un-constitutional, but the nation's highest court will take up a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, a law passed by congress in 1996 that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

His statement said, «It is important to note that Justices Ngwuta and Okoro have alleged that they are the targets of a witch hunt because they refused offers of inducement and bribes made to them by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi; and the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, to subvert justice in appeals against the decisions of lower courts in election petitions in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Ekiti and Rivers states.

ALBANY — New York City taxpayers ducked a giant new pension bill Monday when the state's highest court overruled lower courts to rule that the city didn't have to make...

Firstly, the lower courts have the same «judicial power» as the Supreme Court.

So if the Supreme Court can rule something unconstitutional, then the lower courts can, too (but their ruling will probably get appealed).

It has been pointed out that this supervisory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over lower courts which Zanetor Agyeman — Rawlings sought to invoke can only be invoked if there is patent error and when the grounds for doing so exists.

He continued, «this special jurisdiction was not meant to usurp or replace the jurisdiction of the lower courts».

Adopting their written briefs, Marwa's counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), urged the court to allow the appeal and set aside the verdict of the two lower courts.

Glick says she's not backing any one specifically, but she says there are several openly gay judges in lower courts across the state, and at least one has been mentioned for a federal judgeship.

The governor also has the power to appoint Justices to the Supreme Court and all the lower courts of the island.

«The lower courts have issued varying decisions and we seek clarity,» the department said.

Lower courts have ruled in favor of the TRS, but Empire Center officials said they'll try again at the seven - judge Court of Appeals.

Janus is also pursuing the same legal strategy as the Friedrichs plaintiffs, encouraging losses in the lower courts in order to fast track its way to the Supreme Court.

But what really hurts in this decision is that the Ninth Circuit vacated all of the lower courts finding.

After suffering setbacks in lower courts, the plaintiffs behind a lawsuit seeking to overturn the so - called «LLC loophole» in election law have filed an appeal in the state Supreme Court's appellate division.

Though the final details of their Lordships» decision are yet to be out, unlike the two lower courts before it, the Supreme Court, perhaps itself buried in arcane legality, has all but buried the card reader as a force in sane elections!

This means not only that different parts of the country may effectively have different law (the lower courts are regional), but that the law may be determined by which court happens to hear the case first.

«It's a shame they have to go to court to appeal it when the two lower courts have already ruled... They are throwing good money after bad.»

However, it seems that the lower courts of Mississippi don't know what it means to be a parent.

And it leaves a lot of questions open that the lower courts will have to decide.

Fellow bakers, photographers, and florists have challenged anti-LGBT discrimination laws in lower courts.

Wednesday evening, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency appeals from the 10th Circuit Court, said the company failed to meet «the demanding standard for the extraordinary relief,» and that it could continue to pursue its challenge in lower courts and return to the higher court, if necessary, after a final judgment.

The Supreme Court has not provided any such set of principles, and the «test» it has handed down (which is binding on the lower courts that must decide most of the cases) is worse than useless.

The longstanding unanimity in the lower courts has now been confirmed by unanimity in the Supreme Court.»

Instead, justices unanimously decided to send their case back to the lower courts.

Noting that lower courts had not addressed is accusation of selective enforcement (and that the Supreme Court «is not the proper forum to air the issue in the first instance»), Ginsburg said the Ninth Circuit Court could consider the argument.

Slow, old python of my Everglades, he astutely picks where he invades: data dumps; the depths of lower courts; knotted weeds in annual reports.

That's how I read the Supreme Court's decision not to hear cases in which lower courts ruled that marriage laws in various states that recognize unions only of a man and a woman are unconstitutional.

The justices said the lower courts were too restrictive in denying funds in one of two cases in which they sided with defendants.

Despite the fact that at least five of the judges involved in the two appeal court judgements were originally appointed to lower courts by Brian Mulroney's Conservative government, Harper insisted: «It was the government that decided to put the judges on the bench, the government that decided not to appeal, the government that decided to lose the case and the government that decided not to come back to Parliament.

«The lower courts have held that both the NFIB and Kaj Ahlburg have standing to challenge the individual mandate, and Mary Brown's bankruptcy in no way affects those rulings.

New York City's ban on large sugary drinks, which was blocked by lower courts, has been declared illegal by the state's Supreme Court.

After the customer filed a lawsuit that received backing from Northern Ireland's Equalities Commission, lower courts ruled that the bakery's refusal was discriminatory.

The case and others like it pending in lower courts raise questions about how much companies protect the privacy rights of their customers.

A split decision would keep the injunction in place, and potentially send the case back to the lower courts for yet more legal wrangling.