On November 10th the deputy prime minister, Belden Namah, and the attorney-general, Allan Marat, ordered the suspension of the chief justice, Sir Salamo Injia, who was due to hear the constitutional case, claiming he had mishandled the deeds to the estate of a deceased judge.
In 2008 the constitutional court threw the case out, albeit by a single vote.
While the procedural aspects are not relevant to this discussion, the statutory and constitutional parts of the case are.
They ordinarily approach their duties with the utmost seriousness and, we must hope, are exercising their very highest faculties of judgecraft and constitutional commitment in this case.
The new majority opinion transformed Citizens United into a vehicle for rewriting decades of constitutional law in a case where the lawyer had not even raised those issues.
To this, politicians responded: Gordon Brown's address to the convention has since been acclaimed as the most coherent case for constitutional reform ever advanced by a Labour politician.
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The prosecution's filing does not address other arguments being put forth by the defense that are far broader, largely uncharted territory in the courts and could eventually land in the U.S. Supreme Court, according to attorneys involved in the case and constitutional law professors contacted by The Associated Press.
The immunity law has been referred by the judge in his case to the Constitutional Court.
That is not good enough for the Left Party, which is taking its case to the constitutional court.
In another case upholding the constitutional right against forced decryption, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v.
The new law will mean there is no longer a case for the constitutional court to hear and hence no ruling to give.
Foreshadowing, perhaps, his later display of constitutional consistency in the Ghailani case, Kaplan stressed that these were not simply privileges due to white-collar defendants.
And so it went for an extraordinary 70 minutes that showed not just how wired this bench has become but also how important a test of constitutional principles it believes this case to be.
But we expect the brief to say the following: reiterate -- number one, reiterating that the courts should not decide the case or the constitutional question, due to the pending repeal, which should be effective in a matter of months.
Oneida-Herkimer, a case on the same constitutional issue, the Court determined laws that don't discriminate against private industry should also not be considered in violation of interstate commerce laws.
Then, in a clever bit of judgeship designed to avoid deciding the case on a broader constitutional basis than necessary, the court said since Prop. 8 only involved the use of a word and the state could have no compelling reason to deny one class of people the use of that word the voter initiative was invalid from the start.
The case in Armour involves the constitutional duty of local governments to treat taxpayers equally.
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Romer, a 1996 Supreme Court case throwing out a Colorado constitutional amendment that banned regulations prohibiting discrimination based on sexual identity.
But whatever the outcome of this exercise, which stirs less excitement than the Ocalan case, there is no constitutional way to postpone the local elections.
Joseph Grundfest, a Stanford law professor and former SEC commissioner, wrote a paper earlier this year warning the commission to drop the case against Netflix or risk constitutional challenges.
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In the case of Ecuador, a constitutional reform could have made sense in the framework of political reform aimed at increasing relations between constituencies and elected officials, changing the current system of party-rule (partidocracia) and ensuring that all sectors are properly represented within the system.
Despite these safeguards, Spain's Internet Users Association says it will take the case to the country's Constitutional Court, if necessary.
But the case may expose a conflict between constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion on the one hand and the criminal law on the other.
The men said they were "disappointed" but would now apply for a hearing at the US Supreme Court because the case "addresses issues of major constitutional importance for Americans".
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"When we say stop, question and frisk, we're not talking about a brief inconvenience on the way to work or school, " said Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the lead attorney on the case.
Dennis, who is black, is one of four named plaintiffs in the case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights that seeks to show that officers, in part because of mounting pressure to fill illegal quotas, have been wrongly targeting people because of their race.
Although the fight over the exemption has not been followed that closely by the media, I believe that the fallout from this case has the potential for creating a constitutional crisis.
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