his requesting, and often getting, higher wages, better working conditions, better schools -- changes that were slowly emerging even before the Supreme Court decision of 1954.

He beat 13 other applicants and obtained a post as cellist with the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra, where he played until 1914, often under Gustav Mahler.

The Permanent Court of International Justice, often called the World Court, was an international court attached to the League of Nations.

Court dances required the dancers to be trained and were often for display and entertainment, whereas country dances could be attempted by anyone.

At Court, the formal entertainment would often be followed by many hours of country dances which all present could join in.

When local courts were often clogged or mismanaged, the Court of Star Chamber became a site of remittance for common people against the excesses of the nobility.

" The Court has affirmed it often, with majority, but not unanimous, support.

In that case, the Court unanimously ruled that while the First Amendment may allow private property owners to prohibit trespass by political speakers and petition-gatherers, California was permitted to restrict property owners whose property is equivalent to a traditional public forum ( often shopping malls and grocery stores ) from enforcing their private property rights to exclude such individuals.

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.

The controversial tiered concrete New Court ( often dubbed " the Typewriter ") was designed in the Modernist style by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1966-70, and was described as " superb " in Lasdun's obituary in the Guardian.

Despite Elizabeth ’ s volatile, often violent reactions in regards to her appearance, the Empress was ebullient in most other matters particularly when it came to Court entertainment.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

Another set of names often used for anonymous parties, particularly plaintiffs, are Richard Roe for males and Jane Roe for females ( as in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court abortion decision Roe v. Wade ).

James visited Anne only three times during her last illness, though Prince Charles often slept in the adjoining bedroom at Hampton Court Palace and was at her bedside during her last hours, when she had lost her sight.

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.

It is often assumed that it was written for performance at the Inns of Court, whose students would have been most likely to appreciate its style.

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ( often referred to as the International Criminal Court Statute or the Rome Statute ) is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court ( ICC ).

The Court of Appeal, when considering an application for appeal, may decide based on the paper documents or refer the case to an oral hearing, something often done when it is apparent that a refusal of the written case will lead the applicant to send a second, oral application.

During this time, the Tennessee Supreme Court ( including then-Judge Andrew Jackson ) often met in Sparta, and the town was even considered by the Legislature as a potential site for the state capital, narrowly losing to Nashville.

The decision of the court is often criticized as being obiter dictum because the Court went on to conclude that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories and that, because slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court.

During oral argument, the members of the Court often use the formal address " General.

At a time when civil rights protesters were routinely chased with dogs and clubbed, he often appeared before the Supreme Court in support of their cause.

More drastically, as the Clause was interpreted by the Supreme Court in Heath v. Alabama ( 1985 ), a conviction in Washington state court would not bar a prosecution in federal or Louisiana state court, even for an identical offense.

The Court of Requests, the jurisdiction of which had been drastically reduced in the intervening years, was abolished.

However, after a Historic and Landmark Judgment by the Hon ' ble Supreme Court of India in the S. R. Bommai ( Ex-Chief Minister of Karnataka ) Case, such misuse has reduced drastically.

Passage of the post-Watergate Federal Election Campaign Act ( FECA ) amendments, and the subsequent 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo, drastically altered the rules by which Presidential and Congressional contests were waged.

Holding the final corporation entitled to sue on the claim, the Court cited the Seaboard, Novo Trading, and Roomberg cases for the proposition that `` transfers by operation of law or in conjunction with changes of corporate structure are not assignments prohibited by the statute ''.

The hotel became the Harwich Town Hall, which included the Magistrates Court, and following changes in local government was sold and divided into apartments.

A new Constitution was established with notable changes ; maintaining the presidential system but limiting to a single 7 year term, strengthening the authority of the National Assembly, and conferring the responsibilities of appointing judiciary to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Recent constitutional changes saw a new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom come into being in October 2009 that took on the appeal functions of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.

The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the original crown charter provided the authority for the corporation's Board of Visitors to make changes including the reorganization.

The process of condemnation of a captured vessel and its cargo and men was given to the High Court of the Admiralty and this was the process which remained in force with minor changes throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

In case of controversial and substantial changes, Philippines jurisprudence requires full-blown court lawsuit, that must include the local civil registrar in the petition, since RA 9048 and Rule 108 ( Cancellation or correction of entries in the Civil Registry ) of the Rules of Court, do not allow the change of gender in a birth certificate.

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 ).

The subsequent Court of Appeal ruling agreed that the 1949 Act itself was valid, but left open the question of whether the Commons could use the Parliament Act to make significant changes to the constitution ( for example, repealing the Parliament Act's provision prohibiting the Act from being used to extend the lifespan of Parliament ).

Some years earlier in Crotty v. An Taoiseach, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that changes to the " essential scope or objectives " of then European Communities required such an amendment but it is not entirely clear how it was thought the Nice treaty did so.

A second set of changes on appeals took place with the report of the Evershed Committee on High Court Procedure in 1953, which recognised the high cost to the litigants of an additional set of appeals, particularly since the loser in a civil case paid the victor's legal bills.

* The Probate Court handles estates, adoptions, legal guardianships, name changes, mental illnesses, approves minor personal injury settlement claims, approves wrongful death settlements, and issues marriage licenses.

Following many changes which the kibbutzim over went through the years and following the appeal made to Israeli High Court of Justice by the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition in 2001 in which the state was required to redefine the exact definition of a kibbutz in order to define the rightful benefits which the kibbutzim members should be granted by law.

According to the Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Ballin ( 1892 ), changes to Senate rules could be achieved by a simple majority, but only on the 1st day of the session in January or March.

The Commons did succeed in making some changes to the Court's procedure, however ; in 1394 the King assented to their request that victorious defendants in the Court have their costs recompensed from the other side, and in 1341 the King, on their application, allowed the Lord Chancellor to send cases directly to the common law courts, to avoid the common law judges having to waste time travelling.

Horowitz writes that despite these changes, one of the academic certainties is that the problems which had dogged the court for the last two centuries persisted ; Observations on the Dilatory and Expensive Proceedings in the Court of Chancery, written in 1701, listed 25 different procedures, areas and situations which contributed to the problems of high fees and slow processes.

1489 ), which would ( 1 ) amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to add prohibitions on FDIC insured bank affiliations instead of reenacting the affiliation restrictions in Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32, ( 2 ) direct federal banking regulators and courts to interpret these affiliation provisions and Glass-Steagall Sections 16 and 21 in accordance with the Supreme Court decision in Camp, and ( 3 ) repeal various GLBA changes to the Bank Holding Company Act.

Miller v. California, was a Landmark United States Supreme Court case that changes the precedence involving what constitutes unprotected obscenity for First Amendment purposes.

Shortly after coming into office, Kirchner made changes to the Argentine Supreme Court.

Stringfellow criticised the Policing and Crime Act 2009, saying the licensing changes with regards to lap-dancing clubs were " unnecessary " and he would be appealing to the European Court of Human Rights if his current licences were not renewed.

Retroactive changes of the civil law have also been found to violate the constitution when they would have resulted in the loss in a right to damages before the courts, the Irish Supreme Court having found that such a right is a constitutionally protected property right.

No further changes are planned for the working dress of judges in the criminal courts, save possibly for the Divisional Court.

At the time, the creation of the Supreme Court and the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council were controversial constitutional changes in New Zealand.