Bryan pointed to last year's landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court over President Barack Obama's federal health care law.
This landmark decision has buried the dogma that public financing of health care must mean that it is also publicly provided.
In Israel the situation has destabilised beyond belief, in Northern Ireland the opposite has happened with the IRA's landmark decision to start decommissioning.
In the most publicized case, a 5-4 landmark decision, the court ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants and are thus subject to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Mohammed Ayub, of Chambers solicitors, Bradford, who was acting for AE, described the ruling as a landmark decision and a "very important step in AE's claim for damages".
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It emerged this month that more than 800 prosecutions have been dropped or put on hold in the three months following the landmark decision, known as the Cadder judgment.
The Justice Department action follows a landmark decision by a New York Federal Court holding that investors who were harmed by phony ratings could sue the rating agencies for damages.
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In a landmark decision, the Federal Court has found that executives and directors of troubled property group Centro breached the Corporations Act by signing off on financial reports that failed to disclose billions of dollars of short-term debt.
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"I think this is a landmark decision in terms of providing women and girls in the United States access to a safe and effective form of birth control, " said attorney Andrea Costello with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
Interestingly, the Obama Administration chose not to challenge the effort by Liberty to get the case before the 4th Circuit, noting that the issues raised by the university had not been adjudicated by the Supreme Court in its landmark decision.
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But Hugh Lanning, chairman of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said it was a "landmark" decision.
Firstly, in Europe, reports say that an EU committee has finally ruled that Microsoft did not comply with a landmark antitrust decision by the European Commission in 2004.
John Caffrey, Brown's attorney, said a landmark 1998 decision by the state's highest court established that recreational use can be considered in deciding whether a waterway is open to the public under common law.
School busing for integration became widespread in the 1970s after years of unsuccessful challenges to the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision, Brown v Board of Education, which ruled that separate and unequal school systems were unconstitutional.
Firstly, in Europe, reports say that an EU committee has finally ruled that Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) did not comply with a landmark antitrust decision by the European Commission in 2004.
Not to mention the fact that she also pointed out that the landmark civil rights decision Brown v.
His acclaimed 1964 book, "Gideon's Trumpet, " told the story of a petty thief whose fight for legal representation led to a landmark Supreme Court decision.
Civil liberties groups are calling the decision a landmark event.
This is a huge decision, a landmark move, that many are unable to make.
The decision is being seen as a landmark win for animal conservation.
He alluded to language in a landmark 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the test police officers must meet to stop and search someone.
He has not reacted yet to news of the landmark vote, although he previously described the Senate's decision to debate the charges as "a political game".
In the end, the Supreme Court's decision in a case concerning investor lawsuits was not the landmark ruling many thought it would be.
Fisher has won several landmark cases before the Supreme Court including important rulings on criminal sentencing and a decision upholding financial damages stemming from the Exxon Valdez accident.
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The Supreme Court will hear a landmark case about the video game industry today and will eventually rule with a decision that could likely affect gaming greatly in the future.
On Tuesday afternoon, administration officials applauded the decision by Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, who had just announced his support for the landmark trade agreement, which opens up Chinese agriculture, technology and manufacturing markets to U.S. goods.
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