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" In 1981, the Supreme Court stated that " a claim drawn to subject matter otherwise statutory does not become nonstatutory simply because it uses a mathematical formula, computer program, or digital computer " and a claim is patentable if it contains " a mathematical formula implements or applies the formula in a structure or process which, when considered as a whole, is performing a function which the patent laws were designed to protect ".
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His mother, Anita Frances ( née Levy ; later Livingston ; May 22, 1926 — July 1981 ), was a lawyer and judge in New Orleans and, later, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice.
By virtue of practice directions issued under section 75 ( 1 ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, an indictment must be tried by a High Court judge, a Circuit judge or a recorder ( which of these it is depends on the offence ).
* 1981 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O ' Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1981 – Sandra Day O ' Connor is unanimously approved by the U. S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
* 1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O ' Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* March 26 – Sandra Day O ' Connor, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( 1981 – 2006 )
In 1981, Drew Lewis, the first Transportation Secretary of the Reagan Administration, influenced by studies done by the auto industry, " killed " the previous administration's mandate ; the decision was overruled in a federal appeals court the following year, and then by the Supreme Court.
One argument resulting from this case was reviewed by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1981.
The current statute dealing with the Admiralty jurisdiction of the England and Wales High Court is the Supreme Court Act 1981, ss.
In its decision in the Patriation Reference ( 1981 ), the Supreme Court of Canada had ruled there was a tradition that some provincial approval should be sought for constitutional reform.
This procedure was renamed by the Civil Procedure ( Modification of Supreme Court Act 1981 ) Order 2004 to become a mandatory order.
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It was promptly challenged on First Amendment grounds and the Nevada Supreme Court declared it to be constitutional in 1981.
In 1981, he portrayed the Supreme Being in a cameo appearance near the end of the Terry Gilliam film Time Bandits.
In 1981, Georgia's treatment of abandonment as a felony when the defendant leaves the state was upheld as constitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of the United States held in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana, 453 U. S. 609 ( 1981 ), that in the absence of federal law to the contrary, states may set ecotaxes as high as they wish without violating the Commerce Clause or the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.
Current U. S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito served as an assistant to Solicitor General Lee from 1981 to 1985, where Alito argued 12 cases before the U. S. Supreme Court.
In 1981, he was closely considered by the Ronald Reagan administration as a Supreme Court nominee.
Upon completion in 1981, the White House was used by the Supreme Soviet of Russia, which had until then held its sessions in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
The primary reason for this, according to the Supreme Court of Canada in its 1981 Patriation Reference, is that, " They are generally in conflict with the legal rules which they postulate and the courts are bound to enforce the legal rules.
Section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 gives the court wide discretion in awarding costs and non-parties are not immune.
It was renamed the " Supreme Court of England and Wales " in 1981, and again to the " Senior Courts of England and Wales " by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
Reagan stunned the nation by appointing the first woman to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O ' Connor in 1981.
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Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.
In English law ( a common law jurisdiction ) the law on contempt is partly set out in case law, and partly specified in the Contempt of Court Act 1981.
The Crown Court is a superior court of record under the Senior Courts Act 1981 and accordingly has power to punish for contempt of its own motion.
Magistrates ' Courts are not superior courts of record, but nonetheless have powers granted under the Contempt of Court Act 1981.
Under the Contempt of Court Act 1981 it is criminal contempt of court to publish anything which creates a real risk that the course of justice in proceedings may be seriously impaired.
* 25 Years of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court, Richard Findlater ( ed ) Amber Lane Press 1981.
Seven years later, on June 5, 1981, Little's conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeal, and he was later acquitted in a retrial in Monterey County.
The establishment of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal ( 1981 ), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( 1993 ) and the International Criminal Court ( 2002 ) in the city further consolidated the role of The Hague as a center for international legal arbitration.
In 1981, the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, however, found that Congress did not have the authority to extend the deadline, even when only contained within the proposing joint resolution's resolving clause.
On October 9, 1981, both parties in the Mermelstein case filed motions for summary judgment in consideration of which Judge Thomas T. Johnson of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County took " judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944.
This changed in 1981 with the appointment of a Registrar, John Adams, an academic and lawyer, who significantly reformed the internal workings of the Court.
The Senior Courts Act 1981 provides that the Court of Appeal comprise 38 ordinary sitting Lords Justices and the Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls, President of the Queen's Bench Division, President of the Family Division, and Chancellor of the High Court.
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One columnist stated in April 1981 that " the microcomputer industry abounds with horror stories describing the way Commodore treats its dealers and its customers.
Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.
John C. Gonsiorek criticized their study on several grounds in 1981, pointing out that while Masters and Johnson stated that their patients were screened for major psychopathology or severe neurosis, they did not explain how this screening was performed, or how the motivation of the patients to change was assessed.
In " The Empty Child " ( 2005 ), the Doctor stated that the telephone is not connected to a telephone line, and in Logopolis ( 1981 ), the Master materialised his TARDIS around a normal police box while a police officer was using the telephone, causing the line to go dead.
Although information obtained well after the fact supported Captain Herrick's statements about the inaccuracy of the later torpedo reports as well as the 1981 Herrick / Scheer conclusion about the inaccuracy of the first, indicating that there was no North Vietnamese attack that night, at the time U. S. authorities and all of the Maddox crew stated that they were convinced that an attack had taken place.
Rumors that the band was originally known as Dragonslayer, after the 1981 movie of the same name, were denied by King, as he stated, " We never were ; it's a myth to this day.
Regarding college athletics, it has been stated that “ Between 1981 and 1999 university athletic departments cut 171 men ’ s wrestling teams, 84 men ’ s tennis teams, 56 men ’ s gymnastics teams, 27 men ’ s track teams, and 25 men ’ s swimming teams ".
In March 1981, an ad appeared in which Rowland stated that the previous members of the band had " hatched a plot to throw Kevin out and still carry on under the same name ".
" The non-canonical introduction to the 1981 LDS Church edition of the Book of Mormon stated, " the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.
Between 1975 and 1981, Belizean leaders stated their case for self-determination at a meeting of the heads of Commonwealth of Nations governments in Jamaica, the conference of ministers of the Nonaligned Movement in Peru, and at meetings of the United Nations ( UN ).
The songs from " I Don't Know " through to " Paranoid " were recorded live in Cleveland, Ohio on May 11, 1981, though Osbourne stated upon the album's release in 1987 that the performance had been recorded " somewhere in Canada ".
" In 1981, Adam and the Ants ' lead guitarist and co-songwriter Marco Pirroni stated that he was greatly influenced by the first gig he ever attended which was Slade at Wembley Pool in 1973.
In 1981 a Banja Luka priest stated that Filipović told him, in the month after he relinquished command at Jasenovac, that he was guilty of crimes at the camp but was innocent of involvement in the massacres in and around Drakulić in February 1942.
The software alone was worth $ 1, 500, but the Osborne 1 sold for $ 1, 795 ; as InfoWorld stated in an April 1981 front-page article on the new computer after listing the bundled software, " In case you think the price printed above was a mistake, we'll repeat it: $ 1795.
* Then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher stated in 1981 that " A crime is a crime is a crime " in reference to the actions of members of the IRA.
Agutter has stated that the innocence of the characters she played in early films, combined with the costumes and nudity in later adult roles such as Logan's Run ( 1976 ), Equus ( 1977 ) and An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 ), are " perfect fantasy fodder ".< ref name =" McLean ( 2002 )"> McLean, G., 2002.
( The census boundaries changed in 1981 so these figures do not directly compare with those stated for the current population )
Citing Podesta's influence in the formation of the Obama Administration, a November 2008 article in Time stated that " not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway.
The episode's setting is stated in dialogue and a newspaper masthead as being 18 – 25 December 1981, and Sarah Jane's experiences with the Doctor and UNIT are in her past, indicating that the Third and Fourth Doctor serials took place more or less contemporaneously to their original broadcast dates.
In the 1979 election the Conservative manifesto stated that lowering income tax took priority over abolition of the rates, but the Government did find the time to publish a Green Paper, Alternatives to Domestic Rates, in 1981.
Martel also stated that his inspiration for the book's premise came from reading a book review of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novella Max and the Cats, about a Jewish-German refugee who crossed the Atlantic Ocean while sharing his boat with a jaguar.
* the focus of the Project ( 1977 – 1990 ) on public education and advocacy, rather than providing food and other direct action ( on May 30, 1981 the board of directors of Oxfam Canada passed a resolution which stated they would not endorse any activities or programs sponsored by The Hunger Project, nor would they accept funds from the project.
Goodwin later stated he made the climb as a gift to a young Dallas boy stricken with cystic fibrosis whom he had met shortly after his May 25, 1981, ascent of Chicago's Sears Tower.
He initially stated to the Sunday Times, after his defection to the West in 1981, that it was a book " about my father, not by him ".
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