* Machan, Tibor, Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being, 1998, Routledge.

A 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found most of the island to be part of New Jersey.

The dispute eventually reached the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled in 1998 that New Jersey had jurisdiction over all portions of the island created after the original compact was approved ( effectively, more than 80 % of the island's present land ).

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

* 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

* 1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.

* 1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.

Oviedo became the Colorado candidate for president in the 1998 election, but when the Supreme Court of Paraguay upheld in April his conviction on charges related to the 1996 coup attempt, he was not allowed to run and remained in confinement.

In December 1998, Paraguay's Supreme Court declared these actions unconstitutional.

In the case of proposed Quebec separation from Canada the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998 ruled that only both a clear majority of the province and a constitutional amendment confirmed by all participants in the Canadian federation could allow secession.

The 1997 – 2000 term was marked by the Bloc's fight against the passage of the Clarity Act, the attempt by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ( himself a Quebecer who represented a strongly nationalist riding ) and Stéphane Dion, a Quebec minister in Chrétien's cabinet, to codify the Supreme Court of Canada's 1998 decision that Quebec could not secede unilaterally.

Congress attempted to grant this power to the president by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to control " pork barrel spending ", but in 1998 the US Supreme Court ruled the act to be unconstitutional in a 6-3 decision in Clinton v. City of New York.

Though the Supreme Court struck down the Line-Item Veto Act in 1998, President George W. Bush asked the Congress to enact legislation that would return the line-item veto power to the Executive Authority.

In 1998, the Supreme Court rejected a prosecutor's appeal to retry Pettersson citing that evidence was not strong enough to place him at the scene of the shooting.

In 1998, the Supreme Court declared that the line-item veto was unconstitutional.

Courts have since made many important decisions, including R. v. Morgentaler ( 1988 ), which struck down Canada's abortion law, and Vriend v. Alberta ( 1998 ), in which the Supreme Court found the province's exclusion of homosexuals from protection against discrimination violated section 15.

On October 13, 1998, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal, allowing the Sixth Circuit decision and the city amendment to stand.

* Xiao Yang 肖扬 ( 1938 -; Heyuan, Guangdong ; Hakka pronunciation: Siau Yong ), President, Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, 1998 – 2008

The Supreme Court, in November 1998, declined to hear an appeal by the record company of an earlier legal ruling giving the rights to the band.

Under section 14 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, a Bill which has been approved by the Northern Ireland Assembly is presented to the Queen by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for Royal Assent after a four-week waiting period during which the Attorney General for Northern Ireland may refer the Bill to the Supreme Court.

Also in 1998, the Supreme People's Assembly wrote the president's post out of the constitution in memory of Kim Il-Sung, who was designated the country's " Eternal President ".

In 1998, The Watchtower reported that, " On March 8, 1996, the Supreme Court of Japan that ... Kobe Municipal Industrial Technical College violated the law by expelling Kunihito Kobayashi for his refusal to participate in martial arts training.

In late 1998, Tyr ( guitars ), Desdemon ( bass, vocals ), Dargoth ( guitars ), and Harth ( drums ) recorded their first demo, Supreme Surrender.

* Supreme Surrender ( 1998 )

* Dargoth-Guitars on " Supreme Surrender " ( 1996 – 1998 )

An attempt to increase majority elements by tweaking the system parameters ( more smaller districts, d ' Hondt method used ) by ČSSD and ODS during their " opposition agreement " 1998 – 2002 was vehemently opposed by smaller parties and blocked by the Constitutional Court as going too much against the constitution-stated proportional principle ; only a moderated form was adopted.

In a 1998 trial James McArdle was imprisoned for 25 years after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court that ended on June 24.

Similarly, Eritrea and Yemen had a border conflict between 1996 to 1998 over the Hanish Islands and the maritime border, which was resolved in 2000 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.

In 1998 the Slovak government turned to the International Court, demanding the Nagymaros part to be built.

* 1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, Crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group is the landmark case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled ( July 23, 1998 ) that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces " a useful, concrete and tangible result ".

At the Russian parliamentary elections in 1995, with a threshold excluding parties under 5 %, more than 45 % of votes were unrepresented ( in 1998, Russian Constitutional Court found the threshold legal, taking into account limits in its use ).

Court injunction blocked enforcement of the first, the Child Online Protection Act ( COPA ), almost immediately after its passage in 1998 ; the law was later overturned.

Under Protocol no. 11 of the Convention, effective since 1 November 1998, the Court became full-time and the European Commission of Human Rights was abolished.

The appeal was heard by the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) in November 1998 and dismissed.

In April 1998, the Court of Cassation confirmed a 12 year sentence for the Ambrosiano crash.

Benedetti was sentenced to six years and four months in prison, but the sentence was overturned in April 1998 by the Court of Cassation.

In April 1998, the Court of Cassation confirmed a 12 year sentence for Licio Gelli for the Ambrosiano crash.

In 1992, the Court awarded most of the disputed territory to Honduras, and in 1998, Honduras and El Salvador signed a border demarcation treaty to implement the terms of the ICJ decree.

In 1998, a United States federal district court in Virginia ruled that the imposition of mandatory filtering in a public library violates the First Amendment of the U. S. Bill of Rights.

In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

Along with other foreign-made works, the film's U. S. copyright was restored in 1998, but the constitutionality of this copyright extension was challenged in Golan v. Gonzales and as Golan v. Holder it was ruled that " In the United States, that body of law includes the bedrock principle that works in the public domain remain in the public domain.

In the Australian state of Queensland, Ombudsman Fred Albietz ruled in 1998 that public schools may not require uniforms.

This annexation was opposed by the City of Portage until the courts ruled in favor of the Town of Burns Harbor in 1998.

In 1998, following the resignation of Suharto and his replacement by President Habibie, Jakarta moved towards offering East Timor autonomy within the Indonesian state, although ruled out independence, and stated that Portugal and the UN must recognise Indonesian sovereignty.

In 1998 his citizenship was restored after a United States federal appeals court ruled that prosecutors had suppressed exculpatory evidence concerning his identity.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton became the first President since Nixon to assert executive privilege and lose in court, when a Federal judge ruled that Clinton aides could be called to testify in the Lewinsky scandal.

Its previous incarnation, the National Islamic Front, ruled from 1989 to 1998.

Between 1995 and 1998, in the municipalities where then-opposition party VMRO-DPMNE ruled, only the old flag was flown from institution buildings.

At the end of 1998, complicated legal maneuverings continued, and two separate cases were before the local court — the Government's effort to break the lease and the tenants ' effort to have the government action ruled illegal.

In 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favor of the Indians and granted them unlimited rights to natural resources, based on an 18th-century treaty.

Until 1998, Turkey was ruled by the centre-right Motherland Party ( ANAP ) and the True Path Party ( DYP ), unofficial successors of the Democrat Party.

In a case involving Richard McLaren and his wife Evelyn as plaintiffs, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled, on April 30, 1998: " Despite plaintiffs ' argument ..... n 1845, Texas became the 28th state of the United States of America.

In 2007 the Supreme Court agreed with the company and ruled that her suit should have been thrown out at the start because it relied on evidence of discrimination in the 1980s, not on unfair pay decisions in 1998 or 1999 ; the Supreme Court declared that employees wishing to file discrimination charges must do so no more than 180 days after they have received their first discriminatory paycheck, although Lilly Ledbetter did not know she had been discriminated against in pay until much more than 180 days had passed.

George's last movie was released in 1998, Elavamkodu Desam, a period movie when mimicry movies ruled the roost.

Exemplifying the Court's legal reasoning on this matter, it ruled in the 1998 case Clinton v. City of New York that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, which authorized the President to selectively void portions of appropriation bills, was a violation of the Presentment Clause, which sets forth the formalities governing the passage of legislation.

Jorge Toriello Garrido ( died 1998 ) was one of the three leaders of the first government that ruled Guatemala from 20 October 1944 to 15 March 1945 as part of the October Revolution.

On Sunday, 1 March 1998, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh ruled that President Hussain Muhammad Ershad's original arrest in 1990 by the Caretaker Government led by Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed was illegal.

The measure was challenged, but in 1998, the California Supreme Court ruled that the two measure system was valid.