The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this title shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.

In some cases, an appellate court may review a lower court decision " de novo " ( or completely ), challenging even the lower court's findings of fact.

In cases where a judge rather than a jury decided issues of fact, an appellate court will apply an " abuse of discretion " standard of review.

Scholars also point to the silence of Photios as late as the 9th century, and the fact that he does not mention the Testimonium at all in his broad review of Josephus.

In general, the availability of a jury trial if properly demanded has given rise to a system where fact finding is concentrated in a single trial rather than multiple hearings, and where appellate review of trial court decisions is greatly limited.

" The review then concluded, " His ' psychological curiosity ', as he terms it, depends in no slight degree on the establishment of the previous fact which we have mentioned: but the poem itself is below criticism.

Furthermore, it has been argued that the Supreme Court should have been able to issue the writ on original jurisdiction based on the fact that Article III of the Constitution granted it the right to review on original jurisdiction " all cases affecting … public ministers and consuls ," and that James Madison, Secretary of State at the time and defendant of the suit, should have fallen into that category of a " public minister consul.

For example, Kenneth L. Woodward stated in his review in Newsweek that " errors of fact and ignorance of context appear on almost every page.

In fact, the first proven occurrence of the term derives from a review of Reclus ' Nouvelle géographie universelle from 1884, written by Paul de Rousiers, a member of the Le Play School.

In fact, the Maxinquaye album review by the Rolling Stone magazine read, " Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and the more melancholic strains of 80s British rock.

The review tallying website Rotten Tomatoes scores The Abyss a " Certified Fresh " rating of 88 %, with 36 out of the 41 counted reviews being positive and an average rating of 7. 4 out of 10, with the consensus: " The utterly gorgeous special effects frequently overshadow the fact that The Abyss is also a totally gripping, claustrophobic thriller, complete with an interesting crew of characters.

In her review in The Washington Post, Rita Kempley, giving it a mixed review, wrote that the film " isn't as passionate as the title suggests — in fact, it's facile — but Ryan and Kevin Kline, as her attractive opposite, are irresistible together.

They might have been more persuasive in maintaining the system had they pointed to the fact that the NSC apparatus was essentially limited to policy review, but was not used by them to manage foreign policy crises or day-to-day decisions.

In fact, he asked me if I would review it in Ramparts just so that people would know about the book.

Not all reviews were positive: Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, in a review subtitled " Hot Air ", criticized the film's abundance of long, preachy speeches ; Chayefsky's self-righteous contempt for not only television itself but also television viewers ; and the fact that almost everyone in the movie, particularly Robert Duvall, has a screaming rant: " The cast of this messianic farce takes turns yelling at us soulless masses.

The data processing refers to the fact that wwPDB staff review and annotates each submitted entry.

On review in Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lessee, 11 U. S. 603 ( 1813 ), the U. S. Supreme Court disagreed with this conclusion, ruling that the treaty did in fact cover the dispute, and remanded the case back to the Virginia Supreme Court, but the Virginia court then decided that the U. S. Supreme Court did not have authority over cases originating in state court:

In fact, the view of Czerny as primarily a composer of didactic works is being challenged, as can be seen in the review cited below of a Sony Classical CD of some of Czerny's four-hand works.

" A 2004 critical review of research on firearms by a National Research Council panel also noted that academic studies of the assault weapon ban " did not reveal any clear impacts on gun violence " and noted " due to the fact that the relative rarity with which the banned guns were used in crime before the ban ... the maximum potential effect of the ban on gun violence outcomes would be very small ...."

Maine de Biran's philosophical reputation has suffered because of his obscure and laboured style, and the fact that only a few of the least characteristic of his writings appeared during his lifetime: the essay on habit ( Sur l ' influence de l ' habitude, 1803 ), a critical review of Pierre Laromiguière's lectures ( 1817 ), and the philosophical portion of the article " Leibnitz " in the Biographie universelle ( 1819 ).

In a debate with Project Censored's Associate Director Mark Lowenthal, Jack Shafer wrote that Project Censored had " an overbearing left-wing bias -- a fact belied by its refusal to review stories from the right-wing or conservative press, the openly partisan nature of the stories that are selected and the leftist panel of judges who help select them.

In audit engagements, CPAs are ( and have always been ) required by professional standards and Federal and State laws to maintain independence ( both in fact and in appearance ) from the entity for which they are conducting an attestation ( audit and review ) engagement.

The Times in its main paper gave the book a second review in its issue of July 2, 1935 when they described its plot as " ingenious " and commented on the fact that Christie had evolved a method of presenting a crime in a confined space ( with reference to The Mystery of the Blue Train and Murder on the Orient Express ) which " however often employed, never loses its originality.

However, critical review of the site content revealed that many of the private care listings, medicinal recommendations and medical trial referrals were in fact paid advertisements.

Even at the time of its release, Variety noted that the " story bespeaks authority in detail, obviously explained by the fact that Capt.

) she also became part of the Music Variety Show ASAP ( variety show ) When it first aired in 1994 as a Host for 5 years as she came in and out of town in 1997 – 1998 as she came in and out of town in 2007, she visited the Philippines but could not perform due to the fact of schedule conflicts.

The BBC's Bangor base played host to the BBC Variety Department during the war, although this fact was never officially announced.

In fact, the greater part of the Suite for Variety Orchestra is recycled material:

Both Herodotus and Plato record variations of an anecdote in which Themistocles responded with subtle sarcasm to an undistinguished man who complained that the great politician owed his fame merely to the fact that he came from Athens.

( 2 ) There, once he had described his achievements, he complained mildly about his soldiers ' lot more than his own regarding the fact that after the settlement of the province he had not been permitted to bring his army home.

In fact, both Rundstedt and Blaskowitz complained to the Chief of Staff, General Franz Halder, about the Army Command's apparent tolerance of such incidents.

Collectors have complained that Brunswicks from 1936-1939 showed a drop in sound quality as well as pressing quality, but in fact, those records had a wider groove than the earlier Brunswicks.

In fact in 2005, the US Ambassador at the UN complained that the incumbent, as a ' civil servant ', was not authorized to act upon information ( in this case world wide press reports on abnormal detention forms in the ' war against terrorism ' suspected to breech the rights of the suspects ) not obtained by the organisation's official channels.

Cambridge forwarded the letter to Cardigan for comment and Cardigan's reply in turn complained that Paget had not in fact taken his regiments into the attack that day.

Subsequently, in letters to Leibniz, Varignon and others, Bernoulli complained that he had not received enough credit for his contributions, in spite of the fact that l ' Hospital acknowledged fully his debt in the preface of his book:

In fact Richard Feynman complained that he had been taught electromagnetism from the perspective of E and B, and he wished later in life he had been taught to think in terms of the A field instead, as this would be more fundamental.

While the filmmakers acknowledged the fact that " Anastasia uses history only as a starting point ", others complained that the film would provide its audience with misleading facts about Russian history, which, according to the author and historian Suzanne Massie, " has been falsified for so many years.

She continuously complained about that fact, and this angered Emperor Guangwu.

In turn, the Sunnis have complained of discrimination and human rights abuses by Iraq's Shia majority government, which is bolstered by the fact that Sunni detainees were allegedly discovered to have been tortured in a compound used by government forces on November 15, 2005.

Weizmann had called them " treacherous ", " arrogant ", " uneducated ", and " greedy " and had complained to the British that the system in Palestine did " not take into account the fact that there is a fundamental qualitative difference between Jew and Arab ".

I have always complained about the convenience with which some Post journalists rely on Israeli sources, despite the fact that they were proven over and over again to be grossly inaccurate, if not altogether fabricated.

Duchenne effectively used the newly invented medium of photography to capture electrically induced expressions of his subjects, but wasn't able to record the actual movement of the facial muscles, a fact he complained about in his writings.

Shermy would sometimes make reference to the fact he seemed doomed to have that look ; he complained to Charlie Brown he got a new hairstyle one weekend only to shortly come down with an illness that kept him from attending school.

The label executives complained that " cast albums don't sell " ignoring the ongoing success of Funny Girl and The Music Man and the fact that many of their shows had been outright flops.

As Tedder complained during the Berlin crisis, when war at any moment seemed possible, the defense of the west relied " on the use of a weapon about which we in fact know very little ".

In a Sunday Telegraph article published before its first repeat transmission Grace Wyndham Goldie complained that Cathy Come Home " deliberately blurs the distinction between fact and fiction ... have a right to know whether what they are being offered is real or invented.

Astronauts, managers and various members of the press all complained that the benefits of the program were outweighed by the risks associated with it, especially considering the fact that most of the US science experiments had been contained within the holed module.

Windisch, on the other hand, complained about the fact that stationed was named for Brugg despite actually being located on its territory.

He bitterly complained that the suspensions he received from the NBA were unfair given the fact that Chris Mullin was never disciplined by the league for his well-documented alcohol problem, implying that this " double standard " existed because Richardson is African-American while Mullin is white, and became a frequently cited example of destructive lifestyles in the NBA.

One reporter complained that " a hit made in Providence near that foul line post is not a long hit ; in fact that same hit in the right field seldom gives more than one base.

In fact, whenever anyone came into Dr. Swain's office and complained about Allison's book, he would roar them down and after a tongue lashing from him, that person wouldn't ever complain about Allison's novel after that.

America remained a zone of piracy until the mid-nineteenth century, a fact of which Charles Dickens and Mark Twain bitterly complained.