Whether Bakke's exclusion from consideration in UC Davis Medical School special admissions program for minorities because he was white was unconstitutional and a violation of section VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; and 2. if it was unconstitutional, should UC Davis Medical School be required to admit him.

Whether Wentworth influenced Rockingham's decision is uncertain, but New Hampshire's other agent, Barlow Trecothick, drafted with Rockingham a position paper on the matter, and Wentworth was clearly sympathetic to colonial opposition to the Stamp Act.

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.

In the United States, variances in the insanity defense between states, and in the federal court system, are attributable to differences with respect to three key issues: ( 1 ) Whether to provide the insanity defense, ( 2 ) how to define " insanity ," and ( 3 ) the burden of proof.

Concluding quickly that since a writ of mandamus, by definition, was the correct judicial means to order an official of the United States ( in this case, the Secretary of State ) to do something required of him ( in this case, deliver a commission ), Marshall devotes the remainder of his inquiry at the second part of the question: " Whether it writ can issue from this court.

After Chinese radio broadcasts claimed to quote him admitting to participating in germ warfare, United Nations commander Gen. Mark W. Clark denounced said: " Whether these statements ever passed the lips of these unfortunate men is doubtful.

In December 1991, Powell claimed that " Whether Yugoslavia dissolves into two states or half a dozen states or does not dissolve at all makes no difference to the safety and well being of the United Kingdom ".

Whether MAD was the officially accepted doctrine of the United States military during the Cold War is largely a matter of interpretation.

Whether or not it did, it has come to symbolize all of the bells throughout the United States which proclaimed Independence.

Whether or not assault weapons should be legally restricted more than other firearms and the definition and value of the " assault weapon " classification is part of gun politics in the United States.

Whether the site is currently used for this purpose is unknown, as great secrecy surrounds the United States ’ siting of nuclear arms bases ; but on December 12, 1999, U. S. Under Secretary for Defense Policy Walter Slocombe told The New York Times, “ Our position is that there have been no violations of our obligations under the security treaty and related arrangements .”

803, a Resolution Authorizing and Directing the Committee on the Judiciary to Investigate Whether Sufficient Grounds Exist for the House of Representatives to Exercise its Constitutional Power to Impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America, Book VIII, Internal Revenue Service, May-June 1974 via The Internet Archive

* Whether or not they were inspired by the radio show, there are numerous bars across the United States today that call themselves Duffy's Tavern — from Wickford, Rhode Island, to Monterey, California.

* Whether certain United States Navy surface ships, such as destroyers, carry nuclear weapons.

Whether or not the Hero successfully kills Goto for him, he obliterates Japan with his " Hammer of Thor " ( a barrage of ICBMs ) to further the cause of the Thousand Year Kingdom.

Whether the collective body of the Parliament can be impeached of high treason?

Whether any person, acting by authority of Parliament, can ( so long as he acting by that authority ) commit treason?

Whether the new house, the Third Dáil / Provisional Parliament, was a republican parliament or crown assembly became an issue for some Anti-Treaty Irish republicans.

Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.

Whether a relation of an object is one of its properties may complicate such an argument.

Whether this similarity was intentional or accidental, it may explain why the plainer fashion of placing the stars in three parallel rows was preferred by many Americans over the quincuncial style.

Whether there is any truth to the accusation may never be known with any certainty.

Whether to insert an intercalary month in a given year may be determined using regular cycles such as the 19-year Metonic cycle ( Hebrew calendar and in the determination of Easter ) or using calculations of lunar phases ( Hindu lunisolar and Chinese calendars ).

Whether they were actually lovers is unknown, but their destruction of their letters to each other may point to something beyond mere privacy.

Whether the horti Maecenatiani bought by Fronto actually were the former gardens of Maecenas is unknown, and the domus Frontoniana mentioned in the twelfth century by Magister Gregorius may also refer to the gardens of Maecenas.

Whether objects heavier than the Planck mass ( about the weight of a large bacterium ) have a de Broglie wavelength is theoretically unclear and experimentally unreachable ; above the Planck mass a particle's Compton wavelength would be smaller than the Planck length and its own Schwarzschild radius, a scale at which current theories of physics may break down or need to be replaced by more general ones.

Whether a landform is called a mountain may depend on usage among the local people.

Whether or not the settlement must be completely deserted, or may contain a small population, is also a matter for debate.

Whether this was done at the behest of Anno II, or whether it may have made by Richeza, isn't clarified.

Whether this further revision of continuity has an in-universe rationale is as yet unknown, but it may stem from continuity changes wrought by the reality-fracturing conclusion of Infinite Crisis.

Whether commissioned officer, mercenary, or both, Standish apparently came to Holland around 1603 and may, according to historian Tudor Jenks, have seen service during the Siege of Ostend in which Vere's English troops were involved.

Whether or not it was considered as the national capital may never be known.

Whether a given star is circumpolar at the observer's latitude ( θ ) may be calculated in terms of the star's declination ( δ ).

Whether or not Napoléon and his generals had in advance the consideration of securing the town in order to provide the soldiers with a shelter for the freezing night, the soldiers may have taken action on their own initiative to secure such a shelter.

Whether this invasion was directed against Amlaíb, or perhaps intended to support him by plundering only northern Northumbria which may have been outwith his control, is uncertain.

Whether it truly became extinct in England is unknown ; it has been speculated that it may have survived wild long enough for trees used in cultivation in England to derive from native ( rather than imported ) sources.

Whether a particular disability is " visible " or " invisible " can vary on both individual and contextual bases ; a wheelchair user may only use the wheelchair under certain circumstances and move apparently normally under others, a prosthetic limb may or may not be apparent, depending on clothing.

Whether cane-like ( with many joints ) or spherical ( with one or few joints ), they are all produced from a long lived creeping stem called a rhizome which may itself be climbing or pendulous.

Whether or not I act in conformity with a propagating evaluation, I may decide to spread the news to others.

* Whether to count only those who expressly self-identify with a particular denomination

Whether you run Microsoft Windows in the precise evaluated configuration or not, you should apply Microsoft's security patches for the vulnerabilities in Windows as they continue to appear.

Whether in a studio or on-location setup, the scene's environmental factors and camera placement are known beforehand, allowing the director of photography to determine the proper camera / lens setup and apply any necessary environmental adjustments, such as lighting.

Whether treated as mimicry or not, Müllerian convergences certainly break many of the assumptions that normally apply to mimicry complexes, and are quite the opposite of Batesian mimicry.