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The Court limited its decision to the tax issue involved, commenting: `` It is not our province to pass judgment on the morality of the transaction ''.

In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney opined that blacks were not citizens, and derived no rights from the Constitution.

Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.

Under this standard, the appellate court gives deference to the lower court's view of the evidence, and reverses its decision only if it were a clear abuse of discretion.

The mandate is distinguished from the appeal court's opinion, which sets out the legal reasoning for its decision.

Because of independence, the decision whether to use of the axiom of choice ( or its negation ) in a proof cannot be made by appeal to other axioms of set theory.

At times the imperialist democracy acted with extreme brutality, as in the decision to execute the entire male population of Melos and sell off its women and children simply for refusing to became subjects of Athens.

According to Steven J. Brams and Peter C. Fishburn, the IEEE board in 2002 rescinded its decision to use approval voting.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The use of abeyance in such instances can allow such an organization to ' settle ' with the party without officially binding its actions in the future, should a new group of decision makers within the organization choose to pursue taking the dispute to court.

In 2000, Major League Baseball reversed its decision, ruling that the statistics which were recognized in each year's official records should stand, even in cases where they were later proven incorrect.

On November 14, 2006, Borland announced its decision to separate the Developer Tools Group into a wholly owned subsidiary focused on maximizing developer productivity.

Herald-Traveler Corp. fought the decision in court — by this time, revenues from channel 5 were all but keeping the newspaper afloat — but its final appeal ran out in 1972, and on March 19 WHDH-TV was forced to surrender channel 5 to the new WCVB-TV.

In the midst of the playoff race, this decision and its impact deeply affected the playoff race and seedings with eight teams holding winning records at the moment.

The Toronto Star described Gooch's decision to put an end to its traditions, activities and distinguishing characteristics as " neutering Animal House.

Costas later appeared on Conan O ' Brien's talk show and criticized his employer for its decision to air a preview of the upcoming series Animal Practice over a performance by The Who during the London closing ceremonies.

Chaplin was nonetheless anxious about this decision, and would remain so throughout its production.

Since pure consequentialism holds that an action is to be judged solely by its result, most consequentialist theories hold that a deliberate action is no different from a deliberate decision not to act.

Following unprecedented foreign led and domestic political interference with the CRTC's quasi-judicial independent regulatory process, within 6 months of its original decision, an abrupt CRTC " review " of its policy on third-language foreign services determined to drop virtually all restrictions and adopt a new " open entry " approach to foreign controlled " third language " ( non-English, non-French ) channels.

Sirius Canada in fact initially chose not to air Stern based on the possibility of a future issue with the CRTC, although the company reversed its decision and began offering Howard Stern in 2006.

* Bell Canada usage-based billing: On October 28, 2010, the CRTC handed down its final decision on how wholesale customers can be billed by large network owners.

According to a tweet by Industry Minister Tony Clement, unless the CRTC reverses this decision, the government will use its override power to reverse the decision.

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.

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

The Reference Committee on Hygiene, Public Health, and Industrial Health approved the report and commended the Council on Mental Health for its work.

As part of its mission, NIST supplies industry, academia, government, and other users with over 1, 300 Standard Reference Materials ( SRMs ).

Sheehy's Guide is less international in its scope than Walford: " It seems that Walford is a somewhat better balanced work than Winchell, and is certainly much more comprehensive "-- American Reference Books Annual, quoted in Walford, A. J.

Apple's Cocoa Touch framework, used on its iOS devices, also uses manual reference counting, and does not support automatic garbage collection, though Automatic Reference Counting was added in iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10. 7.

Smith proceeded to argue that Kripke failed to understand Marcus ' theory at the time, yet later adopted many of its key conceptual themes in his New Theory of Reference.

A number of its most important titles are now available electronically in a package called " Oxford Reference Online ", and are offered free to holders of a reader's card or other subscribing institutions ( e. g., universities, colleges, etc.

It is also the reference meridian of the Global Positioning System operated by the United States Department of Defense, and of WGS84 and its two formal versions, the ideal International Terrestrial Reference System ( ITRS ) and its realization, the International Terrestrial Reference Frame ( ITRF ).

As of 2006, the World Reference Base for Soil Resources, via its Land & Water Development division, is the pre-eminent soil classification system.

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ( IERS ), formerly the International Earth Rotation Service, is the body responsible for maintaining global time and reference frame standards, notably through its Earth Orientation Parameter ( EOP ) and International Celestial Reference System ( ICRS ) groups.

* 1890-Central American Mission founded by C. I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Reference Bible ; Methodist Charles Gabriel writes missionary song " Send the Light "; John Livingston Nevius of China visits Korea to outline his strategy for missions: 1 ) Each believer should be a productive member of society and active in sharing his faith ; 2 ) The church in Korea should be distinctly Korean and free of foreign control ; 3 ) The leaders of the Korean church will be selected and trained from its members ; 4 ) Church buildings will be built by Koreans with their own resources

The government of Prince Edward Island initiated the Provincial Judges Reference by asking its provincial Supreme Court a question on judicial independence under section 11.

cattleianum ) has about 25 % of the amount found in more common varieties, its total vitamin C content in one serving ( 90 mg ) still provides 100 % of the Dietary Reference Intake for adult males.

The most recent Earth reference ellipsoid is GRS80, or Geodetic Reference System 1980, which the Global Positioning system uses as its reference.

On February 17, 2011, Sony announced its 25 " OLED Professional Reference Monitor aimed at the Cinema and high end Drama Post Production market.

Due in part to its radio luminosity and its discovery as the first identified quasar, 3C 273's right ascension in the Fifth Fundamental Catalog ( FK5 ) is used to standardize the positions of 23 extragalactic radio sources used to define the International Celestial Reference System ( ICRS ).

The modern approach of the Supreme Court of Canada tends to favour the concepts of flexible federalism ( where jurisdictions overlap ) and cooperative federalism ( where they can favourably interact ), as noted most recently in its opinion in Reference re Securities Act.