With the separation of production and exhibition forced by the U. S. Supreme Court, Paramount Pictures Inc. was split in two.

Political power in Zimbabwe is split between three branches, the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches, with President as the head of the executive branch, the Prime Minister the head of the legislative branch and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe the head of the judicial branch.

The Court was split between two warring factions.

The original county seat was located at Dale's Court House ( now the town of Daleville ), but when Coffee County split from Dale in 1841, the seat was moved to Newton.

" When the Assets Recovery Agency won a High Court order to seize luxury homes belonging to ex-policeman Colin Robert Armstrong and his partner Geraldine Mallon in 2005, Alan McQuillan said " We have further alleged Armstrong has had links with the UVF and then the LVF following the split between those organisations.

In the English legal system, solicitors traditionally dealt with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts although solicitors were required to engage a barrister as advocate in a High Court or above after the profession split in two.

The new legal structure had a single Court of Appeal, split into two divisions, hearing appeals from a unified High Court of Justice made up of the King's Bench, Chancery and Common Pleas Divisions.

In 2000, the trial court ordered Microsoft split in two to punish it, and prevent it from future misbehavior, however the Court of Appeals reversed the decision, removed the judge from the case for improperly discussing the case while it was still pending with the media.

The case went all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court which split 4 to 4 ( Justice Stevens recused himself ).

In 1810, a petition was made to the Northampton County Court to split the township into two portions ( at the time, the area now encompassed by Lehigh County was part of Northampton County ). The name Whitehall refers to a white hall that was built along the Jordan in the early 1700s as a hunting lodge.

The Supreme Court sometimes grants a writ of certiorari to resolve a " circuit split ", when the federal appeals courts in two ( or more ) federal judicial circuits have ruled differently in similar situations.

Academics estimate that the Court of Chancery formally split from and became independent of the curia regis in about 1345, at which time it consisted of the Lord Chancellor and his personal staff, the Chancery.

As a result a smaller curia was formed to deal with the regular business of the country, and this soon split into various courts ; first the exchequer of pleas, to deal with finance, and then the Court of Common Pleas, to deal with " common " cases.

Although the Justice Department under President Clinton had treated Miranda as valid, the Supreme Court was forced to grant certiorari to prevent a circuit split after the 4th Circuit ( on its own initiative ) took up Professor Cassell's suggestion and ruled that Congress had overruled Miranda with the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

Rockefeller served as the company's New York representative until 1911 when Standard Oil of New Jersey was split up by the United States Supreme Court.

On December 18, 1997, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Judith Kozloski ruled that the insurance benefits should be split equally between the two women, $ 1. 5 million each, and dismissed the other claims.

In contrast to other countries in which stare decisis gives the power of both final interpretation and adjudication to a supreme court, within the People's Republic of China constitutional and legal interpretation is considered to be a legislative activity rather than a judicial one, and the functions are split so that the NPCSC provides legal interpretations while the Supreme People's Court and the Courts of Final Appeal of Hong Kong and Macau actually decide cases.

The Court split 6 to 2 in ruling that Baker's case was justiciable, producing, in addition to the opinion of the Court by Justice William J. Brennan, three concurring opinions and two dissenting opinions.

During the same period, the Court was split over the legality of governmental loyalty tests.

The Council of State originates from the 13th century by which time the King's Court ( Curia regis ) had split into three sections, one of which was the King's Council ( Curia in consilium, later Conseil du roi ), which too broke up into three distinct parts: the Conseil secret ' Privy Council ', the Conseil privé ' Private Council ', and Conseil des finances ' Council of Finances '.

The Supreme Court split five to four in overturning the imposition of the death penalty in each of the consolidated cases.

* The Inanimae-a series of 6 kiths, five of which are based on the classical elements ( with earth split into rock and wood ) and one based on human creations ; their equivalent of the Court system is based on whether they are occur naturally or have been crafted somehow by humans.

Social democracy was pushed into the opposition in May 2001 after a split in the party, as the faction which was eventually recognized by the Supreme Court of Serbia as the legitimate name bearer, was not regarded as such by the DOS, which transferred all the positions held by the party members to the other faction's adherents.

* 2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.

In the 2011 court case AT & T Mobility v. Concepcion, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state laws that prohibit contracts from disallowing class action lawsuits, which will make it more difficult for consumers to file class action lawsuits.

In the United States, public school teacher unions, most notably the National Education Association ( the largest labor union in the USA ), argue against the idea of school vouchers for concern that it would erode educational standards and reduce funding, and that giving money to parents who choose to send their child to a religious or other school is unconstitutional ; however, the latter issue has been struck down by the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which upheld Ohio's voucher plan in a 5-4 ruling.

This was later reversed during 2002 in a landmark case before the US Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the divided court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the Ohio school voucher plan constitutional and removed any constitutional barriers to similar voucher plans in the future, with moderate justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O ' Connor and conservative justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas in the majority.

An arrestee's silence is not a waiver, but on June 1, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that police are allowed to interrogate suspects who have invoked or waived their rights ambiguously, and any statement given during questioning prior to invocation or waiving is admissible as evidence.

The Court ruled 5-4 to let the tax credit program stand In April 2011, a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found that a majority of American voters ( 60 %) felt that the tax credits support school choice for parents whereas 26 % felt as it the tax credits support religion.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of Furman for murder, as well as two other defendants for rape.

** The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 5-4 decision.

As Hughes desired a clear and strong 5-4 affirmation of the Washington Supreme Court judgment, rather than a 4-4 default affirmation, he convinced the other justices to wait until Stone's return before both deciding and announcing the case.

After the U. S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Lee's favor in United States v. Lee, deciding that Arlington had been confiscated without due process, Congress returned the estate to him.

On Monday, June 25, 2012, according to an online Catholic News Service ( CNS ) news brief posted that day, the Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision and with the majority opinion written by Associate Justice Elena Kagan, that life in prison without parole as an automatic sentence would be considered unconstitutional in all cases in the United States.

The Supreme Court decided 5-4 for the BSA on June 28, 2000.

Miranda v. Arizona,, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which passed 5-4.

In a 5-4 decision issued on April 14, 1873, by Justice Samuel Freeman Miller, the Court held to a narrow interpretation of the amendment and ruled that it did not restrict the police powers of the state.

However, Grier retired from the Court, and President Grant appointed two new Republicans, Strong and Bradley, who joined the three sitting Republicans, Swayne, Miller, and Davis, to reverse Hepburn, 5-4, in the 1871 cases Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis.

On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States, deciding Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission by a 5-4 majority, removed restrictions on some types of corporate spending in support of ( or in opposition to ) specific candidates.

Bowers v. Hardwick,, is a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld, in a 5-4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals.

In a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court ruled that the law was indeed a bill of attainder and an ex post facto law.

The Court ruled 5-4 that taxpayers do not have the right to challenge the constitutionality of expenditures in made by the executive branch.

In 1987, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled in favor of the USOC.

Finally, in 2007, the Roberts Court produced a contentious 5-4 ruling in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ( PICS ).

On April 18, 2007 the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, Gonzales v. Carhart, held that the statute does not violate the Constitution.

The Court, by a vote of 5-4, per Justice John Marshall Harlan II, overturned the appellate court's ruling.

However, the state of North Carolina had immediately appealed the Circuit Court's decision to the U. S. Supreme Court, and, at 7: 55 p. m. on 9 January, just six hours before the time of execution, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, lifted the stay and allowed the execution to continue.