Sentences with phrase «state supreme courts»

Even state supreme courts and the U.S. Supreme Court are reluctant to overrule themselves, and often will not admit it when they do.

The citizens of the USA judge every day as noted by the US Supreme Court, State Supreme courts and analogous judicial / jury venues across this great land.

An appeals court upheld the decision, and Yelp is now asking the state Supreme Court to review it.

By contrast, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Leo Strine, now chief justice of the state Supreme Court, wrote in the Wake Forest Law Review: «Corporate law requires directors, as a matter of their duty of loyalty, to pursue a good faith strategy to maximize profits for the stockholders.»

«This is really a power grab and it's a phony bill because the whole intention is to take it up to our state supreme court to overturn the constitutionality of the no income tax that has been the tradition of our state, as well as state laws,» Hutchison told CNBC.

In 1981, the United States Supreme Court held in a case named Plyler v. Doe that states must provide public education to undocumented alien children to the same extent they provide public education to citizens.

The Kansas state Supreme Court found Jonathan and Reginald Carr guilty of capital murder in 2000 but overturned the death penalty that the state wanted.

Gleason, too, was found guilty, but the state Supreme Court overturned the death sentence as a punishment.

Another ballot measure asks voters if they want to restore the more favorable solar rates, though that measure is being contested in the state Supreme Court.

Florida's state Supreme Court ruled that a defendant in a capital case doesn't have the right to have a jury determine that.

The next day that firm filed two lawsuits against Diageo, one in federal court, raising a suite of traditional trademark and unfair business practices claims, but the other in New York State Supreme Court, seeking a permanent injunction under a seldom - used statute available only to charitable organizations, known as Section 135 of the New York General Business Law.

At a hearing on Thursday in state court in Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos will consider whether to permit the rare proceeding to go forward, potentially allowing the Club — whose tweedy Manhattan headquarters has, over the years, served the likes of Sir Ernest Shackleton, President Teddy Roosevelt, and Jacques Cousteau — to stop Diageo's (DEO) mighty Johnnie Walker brand from marketing its new Explorers» Club Collection.

In papers being filed with the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the restaurant group likened the rule to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed effort to curb sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (473 milliliters).

Cornyn is the No. 2 Senate Republican and a former Texas attorney general and state Supreme Court justice.

But even there, the industry managed to operate for nearly a decade until the state Supreme Court finally declared those loans usurious in 2008.

When lawyers present a case in front of the United States Supreme Court, they typically speak extemporaneously.

FOR the last two weeks, a justice in New York State Supreme Court has heard testimony in one of the most pivotal cases of the financial crisis.

The legal basis for deriving implied powers from the penumbra of other express powers is best seen in Justice Douglas classic opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut.5 In the Griswold case, the United States Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraception.

Acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler has lost over one million dollars after falling victim of an email scam, NY Daily News reports.

Louis Brandeis, arguably the most quotable judge in the history of the United States Supreme Court, had his doubts about spontaneous acts...

The New York State Supreme Court has granted a motion to dismiss a years - long lawsuit that tried to overturn a technology - specific regulatory regime that targeted cryptocurrency, a newly released document shows.

Mr. Bruckner is licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.

A new law was passed that spring and overturned by the state supreme court months later.

The gambling world is waiting with bated breath for the United States Supreme Court decision that could result in an expansion of sports betting.

Yes it is, in Californa it was the black church support of Prop 8 that denied gay and lesbians the right to marry after it was upheld by the state Supreme Court.

Yesterday's Lewis v. Harris ruling by the New Jersey State Supreme Court is truly unfortunate.

This pushed the state's procedures out of line with constitutional criteria established by the United States Supreme Court back in January.

Lawrence contributed, at least to some degree, to the Massachusetts state supreme court's decision in November that the state must recognize same - sex marriages.

Twenty years ago, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta stood before the President of the United States, before senators and congressmen, before justices of the United States Supreme Court.

The United States Supreme Court denied an appeal Tuesday from Bishop Harry Jackson to hold a ballot initiative in the District of Columbia that would, if approved, have overturned the District's same - sex marriage policy.

In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a confession.

The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court raises the prospect that for the first time in history there will be a supermajority of justices on the same court affiliated to one degree or another with the Catholic Church.

Christian Post: «Live Nativity Scene» to Be Displayed at Supreme Court, Capitol Building The Christian Defense Coalition and Faith and Action are publicly sharing the message of Christmas this season by sponsoring a live nativity scene in front of the United States Supreme Court.

«Nearly one - third of Americans (30 percent) surveyed don't know how the United States Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act last week» Pew 2012

When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals opposed to confirming the nomination at first directed critical scrutiny to statements the nominee had made in favor of employing «natural law» in constitutional interpretation.

The even bigger goal was a United States Supreme Court decision that would do for America what the state supreme court had tried, against the wishes of the people, to do for California.

In its famous 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court mandated elective abortion up to viability, and abortion for broadly defined «health» reasons (i.e., virtually elective abortion) thereafter.

This right was upheld by the United States Supreme Court, on constitutional grounds, in the celebrated «Oregon case» (Pierce v. Society of Sisters) in 1925.

The most celebrated example of Federal intervention in state and local school affairs is the 1954 racial desegregation decision of the United States Supreme Court.

Fortunately, the United States Supreme Court, insisting that religious freedom is the cornerstone of democracy, unanimously supported the traditional exemption.

Today, the United States Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the state of California's appeal of a Ninth Circuit decision declaring unconstitutional a statute enacted in that state which restricted minors» access to graphically violent video games....

As you probably know, Californians recently voted in support of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that overturns a state Supreme Court decision that legalized same - sex unions.

Under the California provisions, for example, the state supreme court invalidated a program providing fourteen dollars» worth of purely secular books for the use of children enrolled in religious schools.

Indeed, in every «Blaine» state in which the legislature attempts school choice reform through statute, lawyers will have to persuade their state supreme court to interpret these old provisions in a manner that respects the legislative and popular will.

When the man appealed to the state supreme court, it said the same thing.

• In Alabama, state Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore said that officials are not «required» to issue licenses for 25 days.

Experts are concerned that, in an unusual baptism gone wrong, a state supreme court has decided yes.

This month a hundred million Americans will watch a United States Supreme Court Justice once again ask a President - elect to place his hand upon a Christian Bible and swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.

Although «secular humanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.»

A retired (read this as «failed in his re-election bid») Washington State Supreme Court Justice helped a woman craft a claim to limit a $ 13,000 fine she received for an original failed claim PLUS a failed appeal concerning Obama's birth records.