Kennedy proved the key swing vote in striking down the Louisville and Seattle plans.
However, prior art from any country is valid as a method of striking down a patent.
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Kennedy seems to be giving serious consideration to striking down DOMA's Section 3 based on the federalism argument alone.
Evans ruling, striking down a Colorado constitutional amendment that forbid local communities from passing laws banning discrimination against gays.
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But he's hoping the court action striking down the ban doesn't distract attention from the big picture of eating healthy.
In the partial abortion case, he wanted to preserve the previous case striking down state bans on partial birth abortions.
This is reflected in its vetoes -- together with Russia -- striking down resolutions against Syria on the United Nations Security Council.
Justice Stephen Breyer also dissented, saying the majority went too far in striking down a law aimed at protecting children from inappropriate content.
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By striking down the practice just a month after the Council of Mines report, the Cantabria Partido Popular has decided that it is not.
The Supreme Court has enforced the Commerce Clause aggressively in that context, striking down state laws that discriminate against out-of-state wineries, for example.
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The law was a direct response to a June 2006 Supreme Court ruling striking down the Bush administration's plan to try detainees before military commissions.
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Another -- just this week in the Ten Commandments case -- she was the key vote in striking down the Ten Commandments display at the Kentucky courthouses.
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court cited First Amendment free-speech rights in striking down a law that made it a federal crime to falsely claim to have been awarded military medals.
Her concurring opinions have established legal boundaries on several major issues, such as striking down a state-mandated "moment of silence" in schools and reducing obstacles to capital punishment.
The court could historically alter how the law treats marriage, striking down laws across the country banning same-sex marriage and matching an apparent cultural shift toward acceptance of same-sex couples.
Mr. Chilton said the agency will likely appeal later this month a federal judge's ruling striking down a high-profile Dodd-Frank rule designed to curb speculative trading, according to Mr. Chilton.
Striking down the nation's gun bans is radical enough.
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That raises the possibility that he will write a middling decision striking down preferences in the case at hand but leave open the possibility that they would pass muster under other circumstances.
Such an arrangement makes inevitable judicial decisions striking down prohibitions on overt sexual activity like holding hands and other public displays of affection that would be denied to homosexuals but permitted for heterosexuals.
Roberts' reasoning for either upholding or striking down the mandate may not command a majority, meaning at least five justices agree on the outcome but not the constitutional basis on which the decision sits.
The court should vacate the decision striking down Proposition 8, leaving in place the original district-court order that prompted the case by allowing two same-sex couples to marry, but depriving Hollingsworth of precedential effect.
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The narrowest ruling might be to uphold the lower courts -- striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 -- by deciding that the parties defending each do not have standing in the cases.
He said the ruling striking down the budget's suspension of holiday bonuses for public sector workers and pensioners - about 7% of their annual income - meant it must find alternative savings or seek a second bailout.
The U.S. Supreme Court in recent years has wrestled with federalism, striking down laws that it found to be too far removed from Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, while upholding a law criminalizing the use of medicinal marijuana.
Consumer advocates and some industry analysts contend that the agency long courted big banks to choose the OCC as their regulator by offering a lax approach to supervision and taking the side of banks in striking down state consumer-protection laws.
In light of this constitutional command, Chief Justice John Roberts said the administration was making an unprecedented bid to invoke Supreme Court jurisdiction, given that it and Ms. Windsor both believed lower courts were correct in striking down the law.
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Justice Samuel Alito wrote the dissent, on behalf of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, arguing that by striking down the law the court was shielding lies and breaking from precedents that regarded false statements as not protected by free-speech rights.
The decision has ramifications beyond striking down a plan to put street-hail cars in boroughs outside Manhattan's central business district, where people looking for a ride usually must call a livery cab to pick them up or hope that a yellow taxi passes by.
That led to a pair of Supreme Court decisions in 2003, striking down the school's undergraduate admissions formula, which gave an automatic boost to minority applicants, while upholding its law-school admissions criteria, which administrators said used race as a flexible "plus factor" for certain candidates.
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