By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.

He gave the city as his place of birth and said he was aged 41 in testimony under oath at the High Court of the Admiralty in October 1695.

The Supreme Court of California, in affirming the disbarment, held that Rosenthal engaged in transactions involving undisclosed conflicts of interest, took positions adverse to his former clients, overstated expenses, double-billed for legal fees, failed to return client files, failed to provide access to records, failed to give adequate legal advice, failed to provide clients with an opportunity to obtain independent counsel, filed fraudulent claims, gave false testimony, engaged in conduct designed to harass his clients, delayed court proceedings, obstructed justice and abused legal process.

In September 2010 the Guatemalan Congress overwhelmingly gave its approval for a referendum to be held to give the people of Guatemala a say in whether or not that country ’ s claim to Belize should be taken to the International Court of Justice for final resolution.

After a decision of the High Court in favour of the Nevis Island Administration, the Prime Minister gave newspaper interviews stating that he " refused to accept the decision of the High Court ".

In 2001, the International Court of Justice gave Bahrain sovereignty over Hawar Islands while giving Qatar sovereignty over smaller disputed islands and the Zubarah region on mainland Qatar.

Despite the clear connection between deforestation and the increasing number of floods ( in 1732, 1734, 1736, 1747, 1756 and 1787 ) the East India Company ’ s Court of Directors gave little support to efforts by governors to eradicate the goat problem.

On 22 July 2010, the International Court of Justice gave the following advisory opinion: " The declaration of independence of Kosovo adopted on 17 February 2008 did not violate international law.

Robert Bork, often considered an originalist, stated during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing that a judge should not apply a constitutional provision like this one if he does not know what it means ; the example Bork then gave was a clause covered by an inkblot.

On February 21, 2006, the Supreme Court of Appeal gave him leave to sue Philip Morris, demonstrating that a vexatious litigant is not completely blocked from launching further court action.

In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft, who would later serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Harding's administration, at the embattled Republican National Convention in Chicago — before he completed his introduction, a fist fight ensued between the Taft supporters and the more progressive Roosevelt faction, but the speech was quite a personal success.

These South African actions gave rise to several rulings at the International Court of Justice, which in 1950 ruled that South Africa was not obliged to convert South-West Africa into a UN trust territory, but was still bound by the League of Nations Mandate with the United Nations General Assembly assuming the supervisory role.

The Court found that, although the Louisiana legislature had stated that its purpose was to " protect academic freedom ," that purpose was dubious because the Act gave Louisiana teachers no freedom they did not already possess and instead limited their ability to determine what scientific principles should be taught.

The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction, but it also gave the opinion that " To introduce Bayes ' Theorem, or any similar method, into a criminal trial plunges the jury into inappropriate and unnecessary realms of theory and complexity, deflecting them from their proper task.

Burnside, whose reputation had suffered from his 1862 defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg and his poor performance earlier that year at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, gave Pleasants the go-ahead.

On 10 October, the High Court ruled that the act passed at the joint sitting that gave the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) and the Northern Territory two senators each was valid.

" The Supreme Court gave a broad interpretation to the words " any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting " in Allen v. State Board of Election,.

The Supreme Court nonetheless held several decades later that the act implicitly gave the courts the power to enjoin such strikes over subjects that would be subject to final and binding arbitration under a collective bargaining agreement.

Court eunuchs had a significant role in the power structure, as Emperors often relied on a few of them as confidants, which gave them access to many court documents.

This gave rise to the 2006 U. S. Supreme Court antitrust case of Texaco Inc. v. Dagher, which cleared both Texaco and Shell of any antitrust liability concerning the pricing of Equilon's gasoline.

It is known that Gusmão was working on this principle at the public exhibition he gave before the Court on August 8, 1709, in the hall of the Casa da Índia in Lisbon, when he propelled a ball to the roof by combustion.

Because the majority of the Court did not agree with Murphy, it effectively gave the FCC power to regulate the networks.

While all but one justice personally rejected segregation, the self-restraint faction questioned whether the Constitution gave the Court the power to order its end.

Despite his lack of judicial experience, his years in the Alameda County district attorney's office and as state attorney general gave him far more knowledge of the law in practice than most other members of the Court had.

Cameroon has repeatedly demonstrated its preference for resolving this conflict through peaceful legal means and has submitted its case to the International Court of Justice.

* The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory effected a moratorium on appointment of Queen's Counsel in its own jurisdiction in 1995 in preference to appointing Senior Counsel.

The late Harvard Law School Professor Philip Areeda, who favours more aggressive antitrust policy, in at least one Supreme Court case challenged Robert Bork's preference for non-intervention.

In 1904, McCay moved an amendment to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 to remove the clause that empowered the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration to give preference to trade unions.

Although it overturned the conviction, the Court decided that the law was not in violation of the Religious Preference provisions of the Tennessee Constitution ( section 3 of article 1 ), which stated that " that no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship.

While the Court in Reed applied only a rational basis review to strike down a decision giving males preference to females for administrator of estates positions, the Court would later apply intermediate scrutiny in Craig v. Boren.

Male judges of the Court are titled e. g. " The Honourable Mr Justice John Smith ", while female judges are ( depending on preference ) " The Honourable Mrs / Ms / Miss Justice Jane Smith " or similar.

While some legal scholars, such as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, have expressed a strong preference for bright-line rules, critics often argue that bright-line rules are over-simplistic and can lead to harsh and unjust results.

There the Court adopted strict scrutiny for race preference in federal contracting.

The Court said the purpose of the section was principally to spare the Government the embarrassment and trouble of dealing with several parties, one of them a stranger to the claim, and to prevent traffic in claims, particularly tenuous claims, against the Government.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

Such settlement can be declared binding for all injured parties by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ( section 7: 907 Dutch Civil Code ).

This section applies only to Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court.

In the case of an amendment related to the Office of the Queen, the use of either official language ( subject to section 43 ), the amending formula itself, or the composition of the Supreme Court, the amendment must be adopted by unanimous consent of all the provinces in accordance with section 41.

Similarly, section 7482 of the Internal Revenue Code provides that the U. S. Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeals may impose penalties where the taxpayer's appeal of a U. S. Tax Court decision was " maintained primarily for delay " or where " the taxpayer's position in the appeal is frivolous or groundless.

Congress has enacted section 1912 of title 28 of the United States Code providing that in the United States Supreme Court and in the various courts of appeals where litigation by the losing party has caused damage to the prevailing party, the court may impose a requirement that the losing party pay the prevailing party for those damages.

By virtue of practice directions issued under section 75 ( 1 ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, an indictment must be tried by a High Court judge, a Circuit judge or a recorder ( which of these it is depends on the offence ).

Section 5, the last section, was construed broadly by the Supreme Court in Katzenbach v. Morgan ( 1966 ).

On July 3, 2007, the Court ( through the original three-judge panel ) ruled ( 1 ) that the taxpayer's compensation was received on account of a non-physical injury or sickness ; ( 2 ) that gross income under section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code does include compensatory damages for non-physical injuries, even if the award is not an " accession to wealth ," ( 3 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries is an indirect tax, regardless of whether the recovery is restoration of " human capital ," and therefore the tax does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 9, Clause 4, that capitations or other direct taxes must be laid among the states only in proportion to the population ; ( 4 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, that all duties, imposts and excises be uniform throughout the United States ; ( 5 ) that under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the Internal Revenue Service may not be sued in its own name.

As per section 90 of the Rules of Practice of the Superior Court of Québec in Civil Matters, such litigants are now indexed in a registry kept by the Chief Justice in the judiciary district of Montreal.

See the section on Family Court of Australia for further explanation on jurisdiction on de facto relationships.

India criminalized homosexuality until June 2, 2009, when the High Court of Delhi declared section 377 of the Indian Penal Code invalid.

In Brownlee v The Queen ( 2001 ) 207 CLR 278, the High Court of Australia unanimously held that a jury of 12 members was not an essential feature of " trial by jury " in section 80 of the Australian Constitution.

On the other hand, Bonaparte was opposed to the indictment jury (" grand jury " in common law countries ), and preferred to give this task to the criminal section of the Court of Appeals.

In the case Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder ( 2009 ), the Supreme Court ruled that the district should have greater capability of applying for exemption from this section.

The primary significance of the EC Act 1972 is that ( apart from being the instrument whereby the UK was able to accede to the European Union ( or ' European Communities ' as then termed ) it enables under section 2 ( 2 ) for Government ministers to lay regulations before Parliament to implement required changes to UK law ( for example, Decisions of the European Court of Justice and EU Directives ).

On June 28, 2010, the United States Supreme Court unanimously turned away a broad challenge to the law, but ruled 5 – 4 that a section related to appointments violates the Constitution's separation of powers mandate.

Experiments were carried out on the Earl's Court to High Street Kensington section, and a jointly-owned train of six coaches began passenger service in 1900.

Its county seat is the Cape May Court House section in Middle Township.

In 1883, after years of lobbying, Kentucky created a special section of law, allowing Campbell County to form a Court House District.