Patents on human genes are controversial, and the U.S. Supreme Court may well make them illegal in a decision expected later this year.
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Even so, it is not exactly unheard-of for political considerations to influence a decision on illegal state-aid.
Fay won a subsequent court ruling that Conner's catamaran defense was illegal, but the decision was overturned on appeal.
In the case of an illegal act, the decision to address the issue and properly report the results through whatever mechanisms are necessary is the prudent and good one, although good PR sensibilities should also come into play.
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It said new rules that could be applied retrospectively were "illegal", hence the decision to file for a judicial review.
Clinton's campaign said on Monday that the arrest and allegations that Hsu engaged in an illegal investment scheme aided the decision to return the funds.
The city said a 2011 court decision made the protections illegal, but the bus workers' union said the ruling didn't apply to the routes under dispute.
It concluded, because the Golf had allegedly been involved in what could have been illegal activities, the officers' decision to pursue it when it failed to stop was "proportionate".
Last Friday, Ukraine's appeals court upheld an earlier decision that the privatization was illegal.
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Northern Ireland's Health Minister Michael McGimpsey welcomed the decision to make the drug illegal.
According to the programme Gen Ashkenazi considered such an attack on Iran, "a strategic mistake" because of the risk of a war, while Mr Dagan deemed it "illegal", saying a full cabinet decision was needed.
The Supreme Court in 1984 reversed the federal court decision finding that the VCR was an illegal product.
And, the specific case that found capping salaries to be illegal: the 1998 U.S. Court of Appeals decision, Law v.
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But a spokeswoman for the registration service, Galina Fokina, said the movement's decision to call itself a union was both misleading and illegal.
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Merely temporarily reversing the decision of the Librarian of Congress and keeping the underlying technology still illegal, and the personal exception subject to periodic new approval would put us back in this boat every three years.
They condemn Mr Bush's decision to endorse an Israeli plan to retain some settlements in the West Bank as an illegal and one-sided step - and criticise Mr Blair's public support for the move.
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The decision is followed by a surge in canceled and delayed flights, which American blames on an illegal work slowdown by pilots.
Another court decision Thursday was to cancel the leases of 49 Karnataka mines facing the most serious charges of illegal mining and land degradation.
It could be again after the decision by the country's Supreme Court to declare Pervez Musharraf's former state of emergency illegal.
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