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It is asking the Irish High Court to refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which would then decide whether to ban the use of «model contracts» — common legal arrangements used by thousands of firms to transfer personal data outside the 28 - nation bloc.

The defeated candidate challenges the result in the nation's highest court.

Canada's high court backed B.C. First Nations demands for more consultation before government approves developments.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

«As a family ministry concerned with the sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedom, we are optimistic that Judge Gorsuch will continue to protect our cherished liberties, and earn the entire country's respect as a member of our nation's highest court,» said Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, in a statement.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

The only American Christian detained in the Muslim - majority nation, Brunson lost his initial attempt to appeal unfounded terrorism charges, and advocates aren't sure if he'll be able to continue to the appeals process to a higher court.

Nearly three quarters of all justices who've ever served on the nation's high court have been Protestant.

I understand why some, including some devout religious conservatives, argue that they recognize the moral and temperamental unfitness of a man such as Trump for the nation's highest office, but feel they must cast their ballots for him in an effort to forestall the very real perils of a Supreme Court increasingly hostile to the most basic of religious freedoms and constitutional restraints.

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday struck out suits filed by the engineers who constructed the collapsed six - story building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Ikotun area of Lagos, seeking their fundamental human rights enforcement.

Think PCJ (Permanent Court of Justice) of the United Nations that is highest legal authority in the world.

She's a Manhattan attorney who serves as counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network and led the right's opposition to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest cCourt Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest courtcourt.

In that position, she led the right's opposition to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest cCourt Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest courtcourt.

She's perhaps best known, to those who are familiar with her work, for leading the right's opposition to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest cCourt Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest courtcourt.

In addition, the nation's highest court rejected yet another call to decide whether Americans have a constitutional right to carry guns with them outside their homes.

And the responses suggest a growing divide between the nation and its highest court on constitutional questions that have moved to the heart of the American system, as the advent of super PACs and the abandonment of public financing by both parties in presidential elections have enabled wealthy donors, corporations and unions to play a greater role in political fund - raising.

That finding by the nation's second highest court clearly repudiated the allegation that Westchester's zoning laws are discriminatory and exclusionary.

The decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in a ruling that narrowed the definition of the types of official acts that could be considered as part of quid pro quo arrangemCourt of Appeals was sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in a ruling that narrowed the definition of the types of official acts that could be considered as part of quid pro quo arrangemCourt's decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in a ruling that narrowed the definition of the types of official acts that could be considered as part of quid pro quo arrangemcourt in a ruling that narrowed the definition of the types of official acts that could be considered as part of quid pro quo arrangements.

The nation's highest court left in place a lower court ruling halting President Obama's executive action, which would have affected as many as 4 million illegal immigrants, many of whom are parents of legal citizens, granting them work permits and deferred deportation.

Twenty - one percent of Americans want the individual mandate portion of the health care reform law to be declared unconstitutional by the nation's highest court, a new Marist poll found.

Bringing the case to the nation's highest court is the ultimate legal test for a policy that generated early chaos for the new administration.

Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch spoke for the first time at his Senate confirmation hearing, insisting he will — if appointed to the nation's highest bench — strive for independence and integrity.

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.

An Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Alaba Haruna, on Friday told a Lagos High Court that an aircraft flew over Synagogue Church of All Nations building...

She clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and has argued 20 cases before the nation's highest cCourt Justice Thurgood Marshall and has argued 20 cases before the nation's highest courtcourt.

A Lagos High Court in Ikeja has fixed January 19, 2017 for continuation of trial of the contractors and engineers involved in the construction of a guest house belonging to Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) which collapsed on September 12, 2014 and killed 116 persons.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not the first member of the nation's highest court to mess with presidential poliCourt Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not the first member of the nation's highest court to mess with presidential policourt to mess with presidential politics.

I was shocked that Chief Oyegum, a very senior former bureaucrat who occupied the position of federal permanent secretary and who now chairs the ruling political party, could seek to impugn the judgments of the nation's highest court simply because their judgments did not align with his political interests and expectations.

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The flagbearer of the All People's Party (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has welcomed a High Court order to the Electoral Commission to allow him correct errors on his nomination forms describing the judgment as proof that the nation's democracy is working.

Earlier in the day, the nation's highest court struck down that section of DOMA in a 5 - 4 ruling.

France's Council of State, which advises the government on legal issues and is the nation's highest administrative court of appeal, today upheld a September European Court of Justice ruling that found that France's 2008 prohibition against Monsanto's MON810 variety was out of line on procedural grocourt of appeal, today upheld a September European Court of Justice ruling that found that France's 2008 prohibition against Monsanto's MON810 variety was out of line on procedural groCourt of Justice ruling that found that France's 2008 prohibition against Monsanto's MON810 variety was out of line on procedural grounds.

But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior's rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now.

The film focuses on the years before the infamous Brown v. Board of Education decision and Marshall becoming the first African - American member of the nation's highest court.

The «special masters» will work with state officials and plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which resulted in a decision by the state's highest court that the state was inadequately financing the nation's largest school district.

The Philadelphia Board of Education voted 5 - to - 3 last week not to appeal a court order that opened Central High School, the nation's second - oldest public high school, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year histHigh School, the nation's second - oldest public high school, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year histhigh school, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year history.

The high court declared, «In view of our decision that the Constitution prohibits the states from maintaining racially segregated public schools, it would be unthinkable that the same Constitution would impose a lesser duty on the federal government,» which as a legal and practical matter controlled the affairs of the nation's capital.

The case became one of the nation's most successful educational - adequacy lawsuits when New York's highest court, the Court of appeals, ruled that the state constitution's spare education clause guaranteed a «sound basic education» to every ccourt, the Court of appeals, ruled that the state constitution's spare education clause guaranteed a «sound basic education» to every cCourt of appeals, ruled that the state constitution's spare education clause guaranteed a «sound basic education» to every child.

Recall from prior posts (here, here, and here) that seven teachers in the Houston Independent School District (HISD), with the support of the Houston Federation of Teachers (HFT), are taking HISD to federal court over how their value - added scores, derived via the Education Value - Added Assessment System (EVAAS), are being used, and allegedly abused, while this district that has tied more high - stakes consequences to value - added output than any other district / state in the nation.

Author, journalist, and political commentator Jeffrey Toobin opened the Council of School Attorneys (COSA) School Law Seminar on Thursday in Denver with insights into highest court in the nation.

More than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, the nation's schools are still plagued by inequalities, yet the High Court today declines to intervene on behalf of equal educational opportunity for all children.

ANTHONY FRANZE is a lawyer in the Appellate and Supreme Court practice of a prominent Washington, D.C. law firm, and a critically acclaimed thriller writer with novels set in the nation's highest cCourt practice of a prominent Washington, D.C. law firm, and a critically acclaimed thriller writer with novels set in the nation's highest courtcourt.

The nation's highest court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency held the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, not federal judges.

• Won a key 2007 victory on greenhouse gas vehicle emissions when the nation's highest court sided with our coalition and struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Some examples include a recent hurricane, drought, or winter storm; a controversial Supreme Court decision or a high profile court case; a local policy change or contentious issue; recent military action between nations; or an issue you've personally encountered in the last few wCourt decision or a high profile court case; a local policy change or contentious issue; recent military action between nations; or an issue you've personally encountered in the last few wcourt case; a local policy change or contentious issue; recent military action between nations; or an issue you've personally encountered in the last few weeks.

Just days after his first choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was forced to withdraw from the running, President George W. Bush has nominated a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest cCourt Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was forced to withdraw from the running, President George W. Bush has nominated a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest cCourt of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest courtcourt.

That is the question media writer Dan Kennedy asks at his blog Media Nation about Margot Botsford, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's nominee for a seat on the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Ccourt, the Supreme Judicial CourtCourt.

Ann Althouse wrote this terrific post Saturday on why she has changed her mind about Sen. Arlen Specter's pending legislation to force the camera eye into the nation's high court.

As Anne Casselman reported in 2011: «It sent a strong signal from the nation's highest court,... Not only were environmental issues serious, but citizens going to court to defend those issues was a perfectly legit and valid activity.»

The highest judicial authority of international law is the International Court of Justice and the administrative authority is the United Nations.