Lincoln appeared before the Illinois Supreme Court in 175 cases, in 51 as sole counsel, of which 31 were decided in his favor.

Access Now v. Southwest Airlines was a case where the District Court decided that the website of Southwest Airlines was not in violation of the Americans with Disability Act because the ADA is concerned with things with a physical existence and thus cannot be applied to cyberspace.

Polish Constitutional Court however, in September 2008, decided that the regulations were unconstitutional and dismissed them.

One of the earliest lawsuits to establish that citizens may sue for environmental and aesthetic harms was Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, decided in 1965 by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

In March 1987 a dispute concerning oil drilling rights, almost led to war between the countries with Greece advocating the dispute to be decided by the International Court of Justice.

Europe meanwhile decided to reap the benefits of its post – Cold War peace dividend and instead supported the development of international law, for example through the International Criminal Court.

In 2006, the Supreme Court decided Clark v. Arizona upheld Arizona's limitations on the insanity defense.

In Beacon Theaters v. Westover,, the US Supreme Court discussed the right to a jury, holding that when both equitable and legal claims are brought, the right to a jury trial still exists for the legal claim, which would be decided by a jury before the judge ruled on the equitable claim.

In 1954, the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that segregated schools violate the Constitution.

On March 7, 2003, the war tribunal Special Court for Sierra Leone ( SCSL ) decided to summon Charles Taylor and charge him with war crimes and crimes against humanity, but they kept this decision and this charge secret until June that year.

In June 2007, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission decided that there may have been a miscarriage of justice and referred Megrahi's case back to Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh for a second appeal.

* 1963 – The U. S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.

In short, the constitutional issue on which Marbury v. Madison was decided was whether Congress could expand the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

In the 1950s, as a consequence of the 1948 Supreme Court verdict, the studio saw little value in its library, and decided to sell off its back catalog.

It was in relation to the latter that, in November 2008, the United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati decided that a case over sexual abuse by Catholic priests could proceed, provided the plaintiffs could prove that the bishops accused of negligent supervision were acting as employees or agents of the Holy See and were following official Holy See policy.

In order not to let the routine administration take over the running of the empire, the Qing emperors made sure that all important matters were decided in the " Inner Court ," which was dominated by the imperial family and Manchu nobility and which was located in the northern part of the Forbidden City.

The Supreme Court has not decided, however, whether states can provide vouchers for secular schools only, excluding sectarian schools.

On October 28, 2011, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands decided that the legally forced end of squatting can only occur after an intervention of a judge.

As the UN grounds for the effective execution of international law ( such as International Court of Justice ) and UN represents international character for a state after World War II ( such as United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Security Council ), consequently, a majority of the aligned countries during Cold War in the Western world camp decided to terminate official diplomatic relations to ROC and recognize People's Republic of China instead.

William Marbury took the matter to the Supreme Court, where the famous Marbury was decided.

In Mills v. Duryee,, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the merits of a case, as settled by courts of one state, must be recognized by the courts of other states ; state courts may not reopen cases which have been conclusively decided by the courts of another state.

In that case, the Court held that challenges to a state's republican character are non-justiciable political questions, and that the decision of whether a state is " republican " in conformance with the guarantee clause may be decided only by Congress.

The Supreme Court had decided to take up the case, overriding the Court of Appeals, but before they could hear the case, the extended period granted by Congress had been exhausted without the necessary number of States, thus mooting the case.

The Roth test was expanded when the Court decided Miller v. California,.

Mr. Bourcier said that he had consulted several Superior Court justices in the last week and received opinions favoring both procedures.

Once the proposal is accepted by both the creditors and the Court, the debtor makes the payments to the Proposal Administrator each month ( or as otherwise stipulated in their proposal ), and the general creditors are prevented from taking any further legal or collection action.

Patasse has been found guilty of major crimes in Bangui and CAR has brought a case to the International Criminal Court against him and Jean Pierre Bemba from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo accusing them both of multiple crimes in suppressing one of the mutinies against Patasse.

* took a strong line on the right of return for refugees to properties vacated in the 1974 displacement of Cypriots on both sides, which was based on both UN Resolutions and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ;

In its sentence from September 1997, the International Court of Justice stated that both sides breached their obligation and that the 1977 Budapest Treaty is still valid.

In antiquity, the Sanhedrin functioned essentially as the Supreme Court and legislature for Judaism, and had the power to administer binding law, including both received law and its own Rabbinic decrees, on all Jews — rulings of the Sanhedrin became Halakha ; see Oral law.

The differences between this court and the House of Lords are that in the House all of the peers are judges of both law and fact, whereas in the Court the Lord High Steward is the sole judge of fact and the peers decide the facts only ; and the bishops are not entitled to sit and vote in the Court.

* 1921 – Former U. S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.

The supreme courts of both states objected, including this statement from the Massachusetts General Court:

These were of the nature of both a treaty and constitution which contained minority rights clauses that provided for the right of petition and adjudication by the International Court.

The highest court, the Constitutional Court, has both original and appellate jurisdiction.

* 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.

The Court, with John Marshall as Chief Justice, found firstly that Madison's refusal to deliver the commission was both illegal and remediable.

According to professor A. V. Dicey in An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, the essential features of a federal constitution are: a ) A written supreme constitution in order to prevent disputes between the jurisdictions of the Federal and State authorities ; b ) A distribution of power between the Federal and State governments and c ) A Supreme Court vested with the power to interpret the Constitution and enforce the law of the land remaining independent of both the executive and legislative branches.

Under the Constitution, in assuming office the President must subscribe to a formal declaration, made publicly and in the presence of members of both Houses of the Oireachtas, judges of the Supreme Court and the High Court, and other " public personages ".

Impeachment can be pronounced by the High Court, a special court convened from both houses of Parliament on the proposal of either House, should the president have failed to discharge his duties in a way that evidently precludes the continuation of his term.

The court system inaugurated by Congress included a Supreme Court consisting of a chief justice appointed by the president and four associate justices, elected by a joint ballot of both houses of Congress for four-year terms and eligible for re-election.

Svalbard is subordinate to Nord-Troms District Court and Hålogaland Court of Appeal, both located in Tromsø.

Other states ' supreme courts have used the term " Appeals ": New Jersey's supreme courts under the 1844 constitution and Delaware's supreme court were both the " Court of Errors and Appeals "; The term " Errors " refers to the now-obsolete writ of error, which was used by state supreme courts to correct certain types of egregious errors committed by lower courts.

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.