In December France's constitutional council struck down the new 75% tax rate introduced by Mr Hollande.
France's Constitutional Council, a top legal authority, has rejected a plea from animal rights campaigners to ban bullfighting.
The controversial taxing of capital gains at the same rates as income was upheld by the same Constitutional Council.
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It came a day after the nation's top court, the Constitutional Council, ruled that the bill adheres to the constitution.
Indeed, the controversial taxing of capital gains at the same rates as income was upheld by the same Constitutional Council.
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Moreover, following a ruling last year by the Constitutional Council, a French president is immune from all legal inquiry while in office.
Indeed, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the government would reintroduce a revised version taking into account the criticisms of the Constitutional Council.
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But the opposition Socialist Party has dismissed the law as ineffective and says it will appeal to the Constitutional Council - France's legislative guarantor.
The court, or Constitutional Council as it is formally known, reached its decision through a panel of eight judges, six men and two women.
President JACQUES CHIRAC (France): (Through translator) The parliament and the country's elected officials voted on this law and the Constitutional Council has just upheld it.
It will take into account the criticisms of the Constitutional Council.
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It was rejected by the Constitutional Council on Saturday because, unlike other forms of income tax, it was to be applied to individuals rather than households.
But, as president, only if accused of treason can he be made to answer to the courts as the Constitutional Council, headed by one Roland Dumas, once affirmed.
In the past, the appointments were made by the president but on the recommendation of a 10-member multi-party constitutional council that spanned political parties and ethnic groups.
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But the pressure on him is growing to resign as president of the Constitutional Council - a post that makes him the fifth-ranking figure in the land.
Even more striking were Mrs Joly's accusations against Roland Dumas, for seven years foreign minister under Mitterrand and now chairman (albeit in reluctant absentia) of France's Constitutional Council.
Zerhouni said police interrogations of GSPC members arrested in the wake of the April attack revealed that Algeria's Constitutional Council and Supreme Court were on a list of GSPC targets.
After Tuesday's lower house vote, a group of senators filed a legal challenge with the country's Constitutional Council, according to a statement published on the UMP conservative opposition party's senate website.
The country's Constitutional Council, the equivalent of America's Supreme Court, has just ruled against a key part of his plan to devolve legislative power to the perpetually troubled island of Corsica.
Given that President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, it is perhaps convenient that Mr Dumas's Constitutional Council has ruled that a sitting president cannot be investigated.
The expected foreign monitors have not materialised, and a constitutional council has clumsily disqualified four presidential contenders, including Mahfoud Nahnah, an Islamist who had been allowed to stand in the 1995 presidential poll.
The only problem is that just one month ago France's Constitutional Council, acting on complaints by the conservative opposition, ruled that the proposed reduction in the social charges, by favouring some taxpayers and not others, would be illegal.
Most of those killed in the coordinated attacks were victims of the first suspected car bombing near the Constitutional Council -- which oversees elections -- and Supreme Court in the Algiers neighborhood of Ben Aknoun, according to the state-run Algeria Press Agency.
But he hinted that the rate would be lower than 75 per cent, pointing out that the constitutional council had indicated that a total tax burden above that level, including other levies, "could be judged as a confiscatory rate" by the council.
IR Your argument for bestowing the power of constitutional oversight on a Council of Nations rather than the Court of Justice is strong.
Under an interim constitutional declaration, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament elected.
Under an interim constitutional declaration, the military council said it retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament is elected.
He also named Mahmoud Mekki as his vice president, and he reversed a June constitutional decree by the Supreme Council that claimed to retain legislative authority until a new parliament could be sworn in near the end of the year, Ali said.
"The Security Council calls for the restoration of constitutional order, and the holding of elections as previously scheduled, " read a presidential statement from the council, issued Monday.
Some participants in the Tahrir Square rally felt their celebrations were overshadowed by the interim constitutional declaration made by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
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