Indeed, as already noted, the Court proceeded on the assumption that the executives involved in the dealings between Du Pont and General Motors acted `` honorably and fairly '' and exercised their business judgment only to serve what they deemed the best interests of their own companies.

In the early 20th century, Louis Brandeis, later appointed to the United States Supreme Court, became noted for his use of policy-driving facts and economics in his briefs, and extensive appendices presenting facts that lead a judge to the advocate's conclusion.

He was a noted advocate and served as Lord President of the Court of Session and as Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

In that same ruling, the Court noted " We have never held that the Constitution mandates an insanity defense, nor have we held that the Constitution does not so require.

* John Robert Brown ( judge ) ( 1909 – 1993 ), member of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights

In IceTV v Nine Network, for example, the High Court of Australia noted that the title of the Statute " echoed explicitly the emphasis on the practical or utilitarian importance that certain seventeenth century philosophers attached to knowledge and its encouragement in the scheme of human progress ".

It should be noted that neither the National Assembly nor the Supreme Court has actually defined what the term " existing national boundaries ," as stated in the constitution, actually means.

As noted in Dillon, the Supreme Court has upheld the power of Congress to set such deadlines on ratification.

The Court noted that this analysis was " unsound in principle and unworkable in practice ", and rejected it without providing a replacement.

The Rehnquist Court ( 1986 – 2005 ) was noted for its revival of judicial enforcement of federalism, emphasizing the limits of the Constitution's affirmative grants of power ( United States v. Lopez ) and the force of its restrictions on those powers ( Seminole Tribe v. Florida, City of Boerne v. Flores ).

Third Court is also noted for its display of irises in May and June, a gift to the college in 1946.

Justice Kennedy's opinion for the majority also noted that since the First Amendment ( and the Court ) do not distinguish between media and other corporations, these restrictions would allow Congress to suppress political speech in newspapers, books, television and blogs.

The Court's judge in respect of Russia, Anatoly Kovler, explaining his frequent dissenting opinions, noted that " I dislike when the Court evaluates non-European values as reactionary ( Refah v. Turkey )".

The Laws in Wales Acts created an anomaly in that, although Monmouthshire was noted as being in the ' Country or Dominion of Wales ', it was made directly responsible to the courts of Westminster rather than falling under the Court of Great Sessions in Wales.

The Court noted that regulating commerce among the states includes regulation of streams and that controlling floods is required for keeping streams navigable.

" Moreover, the Louisiana Court of Appeals has explicitly noted that jurisprudence constante is merely a secondary source of law, which cannot be authoritative and does not rise to the level of stare decisis.

Law Council of Australia, in its submission, had noted as providing a useful model of the structure and functioning of an integrated Family Court.

" However, some opponents of same-sex marriage view the matter differently ; Randy Thomasson, Executive Director of the Campaign for California Families, calls civil unions “ homosexual marriage by another name ” and contends that civil unions provide same-sex couples “ all the rights of marriage available under state law .” The California Supreme Court, in the In Re Marriage Cases decision, noted nine differences in state law.

" Goldstone noted that Arab citizens of Israel are allowed to vote, have political parties, and hold seats in the Knesset and other positions, including one on the Israeli Supreme Court.

On November 9, 1974, the Court noted that although by now Calley had been " paroled " from confinement by the Army, that did not moot the habeas corpus proceedings.

Popular English language experts such as Richard Lederer and Barbara Wallraff have noted sniglets in their books, The Miracle of Language and Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done respectively.

Wayne County Court HouseRichmond is noted for its rich stock of historic architecture.

" To which the Court noted:

Marshall County, named in honor of the young nation's strong first Supreme Court Chief Justice and noted American jurist, John Marshall, was established by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly in 1836.

Nicholson, state senator, U. S. Senator, and Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court ; Sterling Marlin, NASCAR driver ; Dr. Marion Dorsett, inventor of the serum to control hog cholera ; Fran McKee, first female line officer to hold the rank of rear admiral in the U. S. Navy ; Lyman T Johnson, civil rights movement ; and Raphael Benjamin West former Nashville mayor and Civil Rights ally, noted architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. and John Harlan Willis, United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor — for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Batson v. Kentucky,, was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor's use of peremptory challenge — the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so — may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.

Batson continued his appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit doubted that Batson covered sexual orientation but that even if it did the prosecution in this case had " offered legitimate nondiscriminatory reasons for striking the panel member ".

When the Supreme Court reversed his conviction, James Kirkland Batson was serving a 20 year sentence from the case.

* Batson v. Kentucky ( 1986 ), United States Supreme Court case

Furthermore, in 2009 the United States Supreme Court found in a unanimous opinion in Rivera v. Illinois that " there is no freestanding constitutional right to peremptory challenges ," even when a court was mistaken in applying Batson.

There, he wrote a Supreme Court amicus brief that helped win a nationwide ban on race discrimination in jury selection ( Batson v. Kentucky ).

In 1857 the Supreme Court ’ s Dred Scott decision ended the Congressional compromise for Popular Sovereignty in Kansas.

Crimes conducted by Patassé ’ s militias and Congolese soldiers during this period are now being investigated by the International Criminal Court, who wrote that " sexual violence appears to have been a central feature of the conflict ", having identified more than 600 rape victims.

In May 2010, the Washington State Supreme Court provided an opinion after it was asked to certify a question referred by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington: “ Whether a public library, consistent with Article I, § 5 of the Washington Constitution, may filter Internet access for all patrons without disabling Web sites containing constitutionally-protected speech upon the request of an adult library patron .” The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that NCRL ’ s internet filtering policy did not violate Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution.

The Court said: “ It appears to us that NCRL ’ s filtering policy is reasonable and accords with its mission and these policies and is viewpoint neutral.

It is Eleanor ’ s court in Poitiers that some believe to have been the ‘ Court of Love ’, where Eleanor and her daughter Marie meshed and encouraged the ideas of troubadours, chivalry, and courtly love into a single court.

When he refused, Tammany went to the New York Supreme Court and successfully sued to keep Kelly ’ s name off the ballot.

In addition to Greek Foreign Ministry meetings with Turkish officials, Greece ’ s Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes launched an emergency inquiry on 27 December, ordering the investigations into the mid-1990s wildfires blamed on arson to be reopened with regard to the initial claims reportedly made by Yılmaz.

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 government sidestepped the ruling, however, saying " The government construes this Court ’ s Order as applying only as to the named plaintiffs in this suit.

Keith Johnstone ’ s work at the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1950s is seen as an important framework for contemporary improvisational theatre today.

In 1909, well before the Securities Exchange Act was passed, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a corporate director who bought that company ’ s stock when he knew it was about to jump up in price committed fraud by buying while not disclosing his inside information.

The Court specifically recognized that a corporation ’ s information is its property:

By 1997, the phrase had entered the legal lexicon as seen in an opinion by Supreme Court of the United States Justice John Paul Stevens, ' An example of " junk science " that should be excluded under the Daubert standard as too unreliable would be the testimony of a phrenologist who would purport to prove a defendant ’ s future dangerousness based on the contours of the defendant ’ s skull.

Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik was sworn in as President of the Maldives on 7 February 2012, in connection to the resignation of President Nasheed amidst weeks of protests and demonstrations led by local police dissidents who opposed Nasheed ’ s 16 January order for the military to arrest Abdulla Mohamed, the Chief Justice of the Criminal Court.

Nigeria is also seeking a rail link with Cameroon, but discussions are more contentious in the aftermath of the International Court of Justice ’ s October 2002 verdict in favor of Cameroon on the issue of control of the Bakasi Peninsula.

This letter, addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, reads as follows: “ In acknowledging the decision of the International Court of Justice on the independence of Kosovo, the Government of the Sultanate of Oman will welcome Kosovo ’ s membership to the United Nations, as well as to other international and regional organizations it wishes to join ”.

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 ).

Morse painted portraits of Francis Brown — the college ’ s president — and Judge Woodward ( 1817 ), who was involved in bringing the Dartmouth case before the U. S. Supreme Court.

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.

The gaol in Rupert ’ s Bay was destroyed and the Castle and Supreme Court were reconstructed in 1867.

On 5 May 2003 Bockarie was killed in Liberia, allegedly on orders from President Charles Taylor, who feared Bockarie ’ s testimony before the Special Court.

* Appeals of summary conviction offences go first to the highest trial court within the jurisdiction ( e. g. provincial superior court in Alberta is the Court of Queen ’ s Bench ).