The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that contemporary Maryland blue laws ( typically, Sunday rest laws ) were intended to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest, and that this day coinciding with majority Christian Sabbath neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

The Court responded, " We reject this claim because neither the Supreme Court, nor this circuit, has ever held that evolutionism or Secular Humanism are ' religions ' for Establishment Clause purposes.

It should be noted that neither the National Assembly nor the Supreme Court has actually defined what the term " existing national boundaries ," as stated in the constitution, actually means.

Marbury held that Congress can neither expand nor restrict the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

In Cooper v. Aaron ( 1958 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that federal law prevails over state law due to the operation of the Supremacy Clause, and that federal law " can neither be nullified openly and directly by state legislators or state executive or judicial officers nor nullified indirectly by them through evasive schemes.

The wording of the Potsdam Declaration —" The Japanese Government shall remove all obstacles ..."— and the initial postsurrender measures taken by Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers ( SCAP ), suggest that neither he nor his superiors in Washington intended to impose a new political system on Japan unilaterally.

The United States Supreme Court decided 7 – 2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules.

The Supreme Court of Canada in October 2011, ruling in that case, neither reiterated nor rescinded that standard.

" In a Wisconsin Supreme Court opinion from 1935, Justice Fowler referred to it as " that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to know what he did mean.

In case the People ’ s Assembly is dissolved at such a time the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court shall take over the presidency on condition that neither shall nominate himself for the presidency.

The ultimate result of this land dispute is that the east half of Maynard's claim reverted to public land, as neither of his wives had satisfied their requirements for their share ; the legal battle passed through several hands until it was ultimately decided against all the Maynards in the United States Supreme Court case of Maynard v. Hill.

In addition, according to the defense, the Supreme Defense Council was not exercising operational control over Yugoslav troops, neither de jure nor de facto.

However, the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, the majority of them ( 7 out of 9 ) appointed by Trudeau ( Bora Laskin, Robert Dickson, Jean Beetz, Willard Estey, William McIntyre, Bertha Wilson, Antonio Lamer ), ruled in the Patriation Reference and the Quebec Veto Reference that neither Quebec nor any other province had a veto to prevent the federal government from petitioning the British Parliament to pass the Canada Act 1982, and that the new constitution applied to all provinces notwithstanding their disagreement.

When the United States assumed the role of protector of the tribes, it neither denied nor destroyed their sovereignty .” As determined in the Supreme Court case United States v. Nice ( 1916 ), U. S. citizens are subject to all U. S. laws even if they also have tribal citizenship.

As a justice of U. S. Supreme Court, Holmes challenged a traditionalist concept of the Constitution that said that the written document does not change, so neither should its interpretation.

Originalism is usually linked to opposition against substantive due process rights, and the reasons for that can be found in the following explanation that was endorsed unanimously by the Supreme Court in a 1985 case: " e must always bear in mind that the substantive content of the Process Clause is suggested neither by its language nor by preconstitutional history ; that content is nothing more than the accumulated product of judicial interpretation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Originalism is usually linked to opposition against substantive due process rights, and the reasons for that can be found in the following explanation that was endorsed unanimously by the Supreme Court in a 1985 case: " e must always bear in mind that the substantive content of the Process Clause is suggested neither by its language nor by preconstitutional history ; that content is nothing more than the accumulated product of judicial interpretation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Missouri voting legislation, saying that voting was not an inherent right of citizenship, that the Constitution neither granted nor forbade voting rights for women, and that allowing only male citizens to vote was not an infringement of Minor's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Though a challenge to this amendment to the constitution was challenged in the Supreme Court, the court neither heard the matter immediately or gave any relief to the Rulers.

The Supreme Court of California disagreed, holding that the tort does not extend to claims in which the electronic communication involved " neither damages the recipient computer system nor impairs its function.

The Supreme Court held that the Brown decision and its implementation " can neither be nullified openly and directly by state legislators or state executive or judicial officers nor nullified indirectly by them through evasive schemes for segregation whether attempted ' ingeniously or ingenuously.

The Supreme Court, however, held that the ordinances were neither neutral nor generally applicable: rather, they applied exclusively to the church.

According to their view, neither supreme God nor does lesser divinities exist ; rituals alone yield the fruits of karma ; thus, they believe that the karmas ( rituals ) themselves yield the results, and there is no Supreme God or Ishvara or even lesser divinities dispensing the results.

" In Dred Scott, neither Taney nor dissenting Justice Curtis mentioned or relied upon the Court's previous discussion of due process in Murray, and Curtis disagreed with Taney about what " due process " meant in Dred Scott.

O ' Brien had also argued to the Court that the First Circuit had unconstitutionally sustained his conviction for a crime of which he was neither convicted nor tried, and much of the Court's questioning of the government during oral argument challenged this ruling.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

Both Morgan and Holliday apparently thought they had fired the shot that killed Frank, but since neither of them testified at the hearing, this information is only from second-hand accounts.

During this time, neither Morgan nor Mary showed any interest in abolitionism nor did they participate in the American Civil War.

Each faction favored its own candidate for governor: Hiram Barber from the lead-region faction and Morgan L. Martin from the eastern faction ; after neither candidate could gather enough votes to secure the nomination, the two factions began searching for a compromise candidate.

He also appears in the novel Wolfsbane by Jacqueline Rayner, where he briefly aids the currently-amnesic Eighth Doctor in dealing with a plot involving a woman who believes herself to be the reincarnation of Morgan Le Fay in 1936 when the Fourth Doctor's TARDIS accidentally materialises there long enough for Harry to leave, having apparently been drawn off course by its damaged future self, although the Eighth Doctor's amnesia means that neither recognises the other despite Harry noting that the Doctor has a certain ' Doctorishness ' about him.

He goes to ask Captain Morgan for permission to marry Patience, but Captain Morgan turns him out of the house, informing him that he is not a suitable husband for her because he is neither a Quaker nor a whaler.

Arddu and Morgan continue to travel into the north, a dangerous land controlled by neither the Circle or the Line, but with both in pursuit.

The Coroner's Jury ruling neither condemned or exonerated the lawmen for shooting the Cowboys.

Despite high expectations, the new policy neither made the Moscow-backed Kabul regime more popular, nor did it convince the insurgents to negotiate with the ruling government.

In all, 72 stores were sold that were neither part of the original Competition Commission ruling or part of the Safeway Compact portfolio.

It is an instance in which a statement which is neither part of the ruling of the Court, nor part of the opinion of a majority or dissenting minority of the Court has been taken as precedent for subsequent decisions of the Court.

In the absence of a final ruling, the United Kingdom and the United States agreed to a provisional settlement in 1831 / 1832, stating that territory already in the exclusive jurisdiction and authority of the respective state and provincial authorities would remain as such, and that neither would attempt to extend jurisdictional authority over areas still in dispute.

In neither case do metropolitans have any special authority over other ruling bishops within their provinces.

The name Songhay is historically neither an ethnic nor a linguistic designation, but a name for the ruling caste of the Songhay Empire.

The name Songhai is historically neither an ethnic nor a linguistic designation, but a name for the ruling caste of the Songhay Empire.

Surprisingly, he unleashed his wrath neither against the Galicians nor against Daniil Romanovich ; instead, he accused the minor Rostislavichi ruling insignificant domains in the Kievan land of killing his relatives, and expelled them.

His personal allegiance to Lutheranism was sound, but he liked neither the growing strength of Brandenburg nor the increasing prestige of the Palatinate ; the adherence of the other branches of the Saxon ruling house to Protestantism seemed to him to suggest that the head of the Electorate of Saxony should throw his weight into the other scale, and he was prepared to favor the advances of the Habsburgs and the Roman Catholic party.

In support of the scheme, NMP Paulin Tay Straughan said in Parliament on 26 April 2010 that it neither compromises the democratic process nor perpetuates the dominance of the ruling party, because during elections Singaporeans vote for the political parties that best represent their interests and ideals, and the presence of NMPs in the House does not factor into this choice.

This ruling was then appealed to the United States Supreme Court, by Sheriff Eisenstadt, who had prosecuted the case, on the ground that Baird lacked standing to appeal, being neither an authorized distributor under the statute nor a single person.

The court upheld the law, ruling that making a crime of public intoxication was neither cruel nor unusual.

With neither the charisma of Michael Wamalwa nor the crowd-pulling popularity of Raila Odinga, Kombo struggled to establish the party as an influential component of the ruling coalition.