A friend of mine in New Mexico said the Court order had caused no particular trouble out there, that all had gone as merry as a marriage bell.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

He had come to learn that a reputation for peculiarity allowed mere field officers a certain leeway at Court ; ;

I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

The Court held that Congress had intended the federal judiciary to `` fashion '' an appropriate law of labor-management contracts.

However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.

In Maryland the Harford County Board of Education had prepared a desegregation plan which the Court approved but which a plaintiff had challenged ; ;

As a school district, the District of Columbia has had desegregated schools since 1954, shortly after the Supreme Court decision.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

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

The Supreme Court of Virginia has stated that '" This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to " annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

In 1866, these dissenters filed a suit in the Bombay High Court against Hasan Ali Shah, claiming that the Khojas had been Sunni Muslims from the very beginning.

In February 2011, the Bombay High Court reaffirmed astrology's standing in India when it dismissed a case which had challenged its status as a science.

The case was remanded to the District Court which did not apply the superior court's criteria ( on the grounds that in the interim, the Supreme Court had changed the applicable law ).

The Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that the defendant had voluntarily entered the guilty plea, with knowledge of what that meant.

" The Court allowed the guilty plea only with a simultaneous protestation of innocence as there was enough evidence to show that the prosecution had a strong case for a conviction, and the defendant was entering such a plea to avoid this possible sentencing.

" He said of the Supreme Court case, " They had to make a decision about what to do.

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

As domestic prelates, prelates of the Roman Court, they had personal preeminence in every diocese of the world.

The United States Supreme Court ( in Penry v. Lynaugh ) and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ( in Bigby v. Dretke ) have been clear in their decisions that jury instructions in death penalty cases that do not ask about mitigating factors regarding the defendant's mental health violate the defendant's Eighth Amendment rights, saying that the jury is to be instructed to consider mitigating factors when answering unrelated questions.

The Supreme Court agreed on October 18, 2010 to consider whether Ashcroft could be sued.

Marbury can also be criticized on grounds that it was improper for the Court to consider any issues beyond jurisdiction.

For example, a district court in the United States First Circuit could consider a ruling made by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as persuasive authority.

In the typical case where there is a finding of nonjusticiability due to the political question doctrine, the issue presented before the Court is usually so specific that the constitution gives all power to one of the coordinate political branches, or at the opposite end of the spectrum, the issue presented is so vague that the constitution does not even consider it.

In 1943 an international panel met to consider " the question of the Permanent Court of International Justice ", meeting from 20 March to 10 February 1944.

The Court would not consider the request until the Salem church removed Williams.

Starting in the early 1900s, the Supreme Court began to consider cases in which persons were punished after speaking or publishing.

Most recently, in Philip Morris USA v. Williams ( 2007 ), the Court ruled that punitive damage awards cannot be imposed for the direct harm that the misconduct caused others, but may consider harm to others as a function of determining how reprehensible it was.

In 2003, a Supreme Court decision ( Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 US 244 – Supreme Court 2003 ) regarding affirmative action in higher education permitted educational institutions to consider race as a factor ; a small plus factor, when admitting students, but ruled that strict point systems are unconstitutional.

For example, the U. S. Supreme Court will generally not consider an appeal of a state court determination that someone has both a state constitutional right and a federal constitutional right, if the result would be no different if that person had only a state constitutional right.

2389, was introduced in Congress in 2005 which, if enacted into law, would have stripped the Supreme Court and most federal courts of the power to consider any legal challenges to government requiring or promoting of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Jewish organizations, and the Supreme Court of Israel ( regarding the Law of Return ), have rejected this claim, and instead consider Messianic Judaism to be a form of Christianity.

In 1713, the House of Lords began to consider appeals from Scotland's highest criminal court, the High Court of Justiciary.

This was the subject of a review by the Judicature Commission, established in 1867 to consider the creation of a " Supreme Court " ( a High Court and Court of Appeal ) which was published in 1869.

The Family Court of Australia or the Federal Magistrates Court will consider a range of factors, including: the degree of financial separation between the parties, whether any formal documentation was signed indicating separation, whether the separation was publicly known, whether there were continued levels of intimacy between the parties and whether there was any change in domestic responsibilities.

" In Russia, the government had refused to consider the church for registration as a religious organization, which became the subject of proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Church of Scientology Moscow v. Russia.

Representatives for the Scheme later said that they would consider appealing to the Supreme Court.

The ensuing court case Wisconsin v. Mitchell ( 1993 ) was not only one of the few high-profile cases about a hate crime perpetrated by African Americans against whites but also led to a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that a state may consider whether a crime was committed or initially considered due to an intended victim's status in a protected class.

If they consider a question of law or a matter of public importance has arisen they can ask for the advisory opinion of the Supreme Court.

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

The highest state court, generally known as the Supreme Court, exercises discretion over whether it will review the case.

The Court is quite permissive in accepting a state's derogations from the Convention but applies a higher degree of scrutiny in deciding whether measures taken by states under a derogation are, in the words of Article 15, " strictly required by the exigencies of the situation ".

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.

The Supreme Court has ruled that if imprisonment is for six months or less, trial by jury is not required, meaning a state may choose whether or not to permit trial by jury in such cases.

" The Court has applied this same standard of voluntariness in determining whether a waiver of a suspect's Fifth Amendment Miranda rights was voluntary.

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 analyzing the third question, Marshall divided the question further, asking if a writ of mandamus was the correct means by which to restore Marbury to his right, and if so, whether the writ Marbury sought could issue from the Supreme Court.

As regards Honduras and Costa Rica, the Court states that, in the absence of sufficient information as to the transborder incursions into the territory of those two States from Nicaragua, it is difficult to decide whether they amount, singly or collectively, to an armed attack by Nicaragua.

Regarding human rights violations by the Contras, " The Court has to determine whether the relationship of the contras to the United States Government was such that it would be right to equate the Contras, for legal purposes, with an organ of the United States Government, or as acting on behalf of that Government.

The Charter provides that, in case of doubt, it is for the Court itself to decide whether it has jurisdiction, and that each member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of the Court.

In the case of hybrid offences in England and Wales, the decision whether to deal with a case in Magistrates Court or Crown Court is not made by magistrates until after a plea has been entered.

The court further held that during an investigatory stop a police officer ’ s search “ confined to what minimally necessary to determine whether suspect is armed, and the intrusion, which made for the sole purpose of protecting himself and others nearby, confined to ascertaining the presence of weapons “ ( U. S. Supreme Court ).

This did not directly affect the Court, since the protocol accepting Court jurisdiction was separately ratified, but it did influence whether a nation would be willing to bring a case before it, as evidenced by Germany's withdrawal from two pending cases.

This ad hoc judge, selected by the member state, was expected to fulfil all the requirements of a normal judge ; the President of the Court had ultimate discretion over whether to authorise him to sit.

The U. S. Supreme Court has instructed federal courts to follow the continuity-plus-relationship test in order to determine whether the facts of a specific case give rise to an established pattern.

The Court remanded for consideration of whether PLAN committed the requisite acts in a pattern of racketeering activity.

The court was asked to decide whether Mohawk Industries, along with recruiting agencies, constitutes an ' enterprise ' that can be prosecuted under RICO, but in June of that year dismissed the case and remanded it to Court of Appeals.

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

The Court has not indicated, however, whether this holding extends to the public school context, and it may well be limited to the context of individuals training to enter the ministry.

" A large group of artists, including Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin, and scholars signed a legal brief arguing the film's artistic merit ; the Court dismissed the case because the police violated the owners ' Fourth Amendment rights, without reaching the question of whether the film was obscene.