Since the Supreme Court's decision of that year this is more doubtful ; ;

Since the Supreme Leader of Iran is the ultimate clerical authority, Hezbollah's leaders have appealed to him " for guidance and directives in cases when Hezbollah's collective leadership too divided over issues and fail to reach a consensus.

Since the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., lay judges have become " gatekeepers " of scientific testimony.

Since the Spending Clause of the United States Constitution vests only Congress with power to spend money from the public fisc, the Supreme Court has held that only Congress may waive sovereign immunity, and Congress may place limitations on any such waiver.

Since all such proposals have failed, the Supreme Court has never ruled on the constitutionality of such a division.

Since Wesberry v. Sanders ( 1964 ) and Reynolds v. Sims ( 1964 ), the Supreme Court has interpreted the Equal Protection Clause as requiring the states to apportion their congressional districts and state legislative seats according to " one man, one vote ".

Since 1935, the Supreme Court has met in the United States Supreme Court Building.

Since he was serving in Japan as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers occupying that nation, he was unable to campaign for the nomination.

Since the debates about whether the future independent Estonia would be established as a new republic or a continuation of the first republic were not yet complete by the time of the August coup, while the members of the Supreme Soviet generally agreed that independence should be declared rapidly, a compromise was hatched between the two main sides: instead of " declaring " independence, which would imply a new start, or explicitly asserting continuity, the declaration would " confirm " Estonia as a state independent of the Soviet Union, and willing to reestablish diplomatic relations of its own accord.

Since at least Dartmouth College v. Woodward ( 1819 ), the U. S. Supreme Court has recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts.

* Since the episode aired in 1992, the Simpsons episode, Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie, ends likely at this year, stating 40 years later, with Bart in his 50s and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, watches the repeat of the repeat of the Itchy and Scratchy film, with his elderly father Homer.

Since the late 20th century and the rise of Indian activism over sovereignty issues, as well as many tribes ' establishment of casino gambling on reservations as a revenue source, the US Supreme Court has been asked repeatedly to address the IRA's constitutionality.

Since the replacement of the House of Lords with the Supreme Court the full title of a solicitor is now " Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales ".

Since passage of the 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, the decision has not been a precedent case, but retains historical significance as perhaps the worst decision ever made by the Supreme Court.

Since 1997 the movement in Greece has been institutionalized under the Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes.

Since the Judiciary Act of 1925 and the Supreme Court Case Selections Act of 1988, most cases cannot be appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court as a matter of right.

Since the Supreme Court decided Bakke, California banned the state's use of race as a factor to consider in public schools ' admission policies.

Since Griswold, the Supreme Court has cited the right to privacy in several rulings, most notably in Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113 ( 1973 ), where the Court ruled that a woman's choice to have an abortion was protected as a private decision between her and her doctor.

Since most students are fluent in both English and French, and receive a uniquely transsystemic legal education, they are highly successful as candidates for clerkships at the bilingual and bijuridical Supreme Court of Canada.

Since 2010, several other federal courts have found DOMA to be unconstitutional, and five of those cases are awaiting a response for review by the U. S. Supreme Court.

Since these recounts resulted in a sizable net gain for Gore ( 665 net Gore votes ) they have no bearing on the assessment that Bush would likely have won the recounts requested by Gore and ordered by the Florida Supreme Court.

Since the matter has not been determined by the Supreme Court of Canada, it is still possible that a woman could be convicted elsewhere in Canada, but interpretation of moral law in Canada has become increasingly liberalised.

Since Romer stood in obvious tension with the Court's earlier decision in Bowers v. Hardwick,, it laid the groundwork for 2003's Lawrence v. Texas,, which overturned Bowers.

Since the Court's decision in Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476 ( 1957 ), the Court had struggled to define what constituted constitutionally unprotected obscene material.

Since Roberts had previously ruled against most New Deal legislation, his perceived about-face was widely interpreted by contemporaries as an effort to maintain the Court's judicial independence by alleviating the political pressure to create a court more friendly to the New Deal.

Since there had been no violation of 5-1 or 5-2 in the Court's opinion there could be no consideration of 5-5.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

Since 2001, the government has asserted the privilege in more cases and at earlier stages of the litigation, thus in some instances causing dismissal of the suits before reaching the merits of the claims, as in the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan.

Since demurrer procedure required an immediate ruling like a motion, many common law jurisdictions therefore went to a narrower understanding of pleadings as framing the issues in a case but not being motions in and of themselves, and replaced the demurrer with the motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action or the application to strike out particulars of claim.

Since the defeat and expulsion of the ruling Kuomintang ROC government by the Communist Party of China from mainland China in 1949, the ROC government has controlled only Taiwan and its surrounding islands.

Since the ruling vacated Andersen's felony conviction, it theoretically left Andersen free to resume operations.

Since the election of President Ma Ying-jeou ( KMT ) in 2008, significant warming of relations has resumed between Taipei and Beijing with high level exchanges between the ruling parties of both states such as the Chen-Chiang summit series.

Since the KMT was the long-time ruling party in Taiwan, the term is in mainstream use in Taiwan and often has no political implications.

Since the mythic event drew together numerous heroes — among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times — the Calydonian Boar hunt offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around its protagonists on other occasions, around their half-divine descent and their offspring.

Since the days of Rudolph of Habsburg and the 1283 Treaty of Rheinfelden, the combination of red-white-red was widely considered to be the Austrian ( later also Inner Austrian ) colours used by the ruling Habsburg dynasty.

Since he had friendly relations with Zenobia, the separatist queen of Palmyra ruling in Syria, he maintained his occupancy of the bishop's house in Antioch for another four years.

Since then, the court ruling has been tested and upheld several times.

Since the Berne Convention does not offer any guidance on which law shall be applied to determine copyright ownership, this ruling is still the relevant case law in this question and the principle is applied in the U. S. even in other recent cases.

Since the ruling came into effect in all of the EU in 1995, several notable players in European football have benefited from the ruling.

Since then, notable players have become brand names and seized the ruling to command and negotiate deals according to their market value when their contracts expired.

Since Johnson is considered by those both inside and outside the movement to be the father and architect of the intelligent design movement and its strategies, Johnson's statements are often used to validate the criticisms leveled by those who allege that the Discovery Institute and its allied organizations are merely stripping the obvious religious content from their anti-evolution assertions as a means of avoiding the legal restrictions of the Establishment Clause, a view reinforced by the December 2005 ruling in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial which found that intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature.

Since he lacked viable heirs ( the next in line was his daughter Isabel, and both Pedro II and the ruling classes considered a female monarch unacceptable ) the Empire's political leaders believed that there was no reason to defend the monarchy.

Since the ruling, the name " Superboy " has rarely been used in print to refer to any version of the character.

Since the Supreme Court had ordered the Missouri Supreme Court to rehear the case in light of its ruling, Gaines ' legal battle was not over.

Since becoming leader, MacKay and the party's ruling council had done little to facilitate election readiness and preparation which may have been an early signal of MacKay's intentions to not run a full slate of 308 PC candidates in the expected election.

Since the President of South Korea usually has leadership over the members of the ruling party, KBS's president is considered to be designated by the President of South Korea.

Since 1973, USAID has followed the Hyde Amendment ruling, banning use of US Government funds to provide abortion as a method of family planning anywhere in the world.