Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court's liberals, ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.

大法官安东尼·肯尼迪裁定，亚利桑纳州对联邦政府的挑战已经越界，首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨及法院的自由派大法官也赞同这一裁定。

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That is, ruled the Federal Circuit, the method 1 wasn't sufficiently tied to a machine and 2 failed to transform an article from one state to another.

即，联邦巡回上诉法院判决，该方法1未与一台机器有足够的联系，及2未能把一个物体从一种状态转换为另一种状态。

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The court ruled that the state had failed to prepare the soldiers properly or to protect them.

法庭裁定国家未能有效对士兵加以训练，并对他们提供保护。

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The push to amend state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage gained steam in May, after gay men and lesbians were granted the right to marry in Massachusetts, thanks to the state's Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled that laws restricting marriage to heterosexuals violated the state constitution.

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By a 5-to-2 decision the Sunshine State's highest tribunal ruled unconstitutional the state's Opportunity Scholarship school voucher program that allowed parents to pull their kids out of failing public schools and place them in alternative schools, including private ones.

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The state trial court and a state appeals court ruled for the state, and the Colorado Supreme Court refused to hear the case, at which point the protesters appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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