Yet his respect for precedent and the authority of the state could often trump his liberal instincts.
The strike was the biggest challenge to the authority of the state since Juan Manuel Santos became Colombia's president in August 2010.
The Schwab California AMT Tax- Free Money-Fund, with a tempting 3% yield (net of a 0.45% expense ratio), contains, according to the latest published portfolio, a significant chunk of revenue bonds--meaning bonds not backed by the taxing authority of a state or local government.
As the third and independent authority of the State, the Egyptian Judiciary is comprised of secular and religious courts, administrative, non-administrative courts and a Supreme Constitutional Court, and penal courts, civil and commercial courts, personal status and family courts, national security courts, labour courts, military courts, as well as other specialized courts or circuits.
"If there is one principle of planning law more firmly settled than any other, it is that matters of planning judgment are within the exclusive province of the local planning authority or the Secretary of State, " the judge added.
You mentioned before use of executive authority in the context of the State of the Union speech next week.
In Mali and throughout much of West Africa, the lack of state authority is nirvana to extremist and criminal groups.
Only three justices--Chief Justice William Rehnquist , Justice Antonin Scalia , and Justice Clarence Thomas --concluded that the recount order itself violated the Article II of the Constitution, which grants authority to state legislatures, or other provisions of federal law.
The bank has said it has received requests for information related to government inquiries and investigations by Congress, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.K. Financial Services Authority, the state of Massachusetts and others.
"We can learn lessons from this economic Crisis, " says Anan Itchayapruks, assistant governor in charge of human resource development at the state-owned Petroleum Authority of Thailand, No. 144 in this year's Asiaweek 1000 ranking of the region's largest companies.
And foreign investors have responded coolly to offers of shares in a state gas company, Gas Authority of India (they bought only 15% of the shares on offer), and in the telecoms monopoly, Videsh Sanchar Nigam.
Instead of holding state-wide authority, the chief information security officer was often in the position of coordinating cross-agency resources.
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Mr Scott testified in a hearing before Wyoming's water authority, the state board of control, that he had been irrigating all along.
In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called on Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to match his promises of a cease-fire with "action on the ground" and exert greater control over militant Palestinian factions.
At a conference in London, the new Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), was assured by Britain's Tony Blair, the American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and other leaders that his Palestinian Authority would be given masses of help to improve the fledgling state's economy, institutions and security.
In practice they usually don't, because states lack the legal authority to compel out-of-state retailers to collect the tax.
Yet in his present role, which he has held since 2005, he has repeatedly demonstrated a concern for preserving the Supreme Court's credibility in the delicate role it plays policing the boundaries of federal and state authority.
Mr. SEAN REILLY (executive director, Louisiana Recovery Authority): That stick is the state legislature, at the urging of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, has already passed a new statewide building code.
But the problem for the new Archbishop is that on this sort of non-spiritual, fiduciary issue, his authority is rather less than that of the officers of the state.
In Pittsburgh, the cradle of the American energy industry in the 19th century, banned new drilling projects within city limits in 2010, but the state is challenging the authority of cities to issue such bans.
But the process has been delayed for several months, especially because the state-run Airports Authority of India has asked for clearance of its own dues with Kingfisher before the planes could be taken back by the lessors.
The rural poor are more at home with traditional forms of authority, such as village chiefs, than with the bureaucratic paraphernalia of a modern state.
They then abolished the system of grant-maintained schools, whereby state schools were allowed to opt out of local-authority control.
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It would hand state legislatures drilling authority and half of any federal royalties or revenues from drilling.
The Police Authority for Northern Ireland has welcomed the secretary of state's comments.
Earlier this year the board applied to the secretary of state for transport for the authority to introduce private capital.
Mr Pervez said the Labour-led council had received regular payments in recent months, but he said the authority was trying to clarify the current state of the club's finances.
If the tax goes unpaid, the IRS and the State tax authority will issue notices of tax lien against husband and wife and record them in the local register of deeds office.
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Ms. Quinn also stripped Council Member Ruben Wills of that authority after he invoked his right against self-incrimination during a probe into the misuse of state funds.
Authority for that decision falls to the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Army Corps.
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