He had planned to run for mayor in 2009, but opted not to when Mayor Michael Bloomberg successfully overturned the term-limits law and sought a third term.
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The appeals court held that the agency had misinterpreted both the law governing patent term length and a clause barring the double-counting of overlapping prosecution delays.
"What was clear to me was that he hadn't decided that case before he heard it" at oral arguments, recalled Peter Rubin, one of Souter's law clerks that term.
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Mr. Bloomberg, who successfully overturned the city's term-limit law to win a third four-year term, said he wasn't finished making changes to the city he has run for 11 years.
Two-term Gov. Pete Wilson is barred by law from seeking a third term, leaving candidates in both parties scrambling to become the next governor.
In another case from 2000, Alito agreed with other judges who found unconstitutional a New Jersey law banning late-term abortions.
And more Republicans are joining Jeb Bush's support for comprehensive immigration reform that provides a pathway to citizenship for long-term, law-abiding residents.
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That interest, however, hasn't been brought about by the presidential contests, but rather by the race to succeed popular Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, who is barred by state law from serving another term.
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"A president appointing a younger Justice can hope to influence the politics of the Court for a longer period, " said Paul Carrington, a Duke University law professor who backs term limits for the court.
In October 2008, Bloomberg shoved a bill through the New York City Council to change the term limits law in New York City to three terms from two so that he could remain mayor until 2013.
He had planned to run in 2009 before Michael Bloomberg had the term-limits law changed.
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She is barred by law from seeking a third term as governor in 2001.
Many employers won't even interview a graduate who hasn't been licensed, Mr. Hasl says, adding that he advises prospective students to consider the law degree a long-term investment.
After deciding instead to try to overturn the city's term-limit law and seek reelection as mayor, he sought a waiver from the city's Republican leaders so he could run on the party's line.
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Born in Soviet Georgia in 1937, he received his first prison sentence in 1957 for resisting arrest and, during his third in the 1960s, became a "thief in law", a Russian term comparable to a Mafia "godfather".
The resulting scandal caused Lula to lose interest in difficult tax and labour-law reforms in his second term and to forge an alliance with the PMDB, an agglomeration of regional barons with a voracious appetite for patronage and pork.
Given the political cycle and strong differences on both sides of the aisle in Washington, we do not anticipate any material tax law changes over the near term that would prompt material overseas cash repatriation, whether in the form of a 2004-style Homeland Investment Act of more fundamental long-term tax reform.
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Under Cuban law, involuntary manslaughter carries a term of between one and 10 years.
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SHARIA, the Islamic code of behaviour and law, has become an electric term in the language of politics.
Giuliani is barred by law from serving a third consecutive term as mayor.
Under the plea agreement, Transocean was also sentenced to five years of probation, the maximum term of probation under law, the Justice Department said.
But to get to binding arbitration, the parties need to reach impasse, a term that in labor law means deadlock, with no hope of resolution.
David Bernd, chief executive of Sentara Health System in Virginia, believes the health law will offer a long-term financial gain by vastly expanding health coverage.
In May Roth and the penny stock company he was working for were indicted by the federal government for violating an export control law that carries a maximum jail term of ten years.
But even if Employee Free Choice becomes law, it is unlikely on its own to indicate any long-term reversal in the decline of unionism, reckons Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago who opposes the bill.
But the real concern about this case is the long-term implications for world trade law.
Another 15% were said to be in full-time, long-term jobs in which a law degree is preferred but not required.
They are expensive, because the law protects workers from the long-term injury caused by vibrations, restricting the hours they can work.
But it saved the company further long-term damage and shows that law enforcers will consider genuine attempts at corporate change--even if change starts with the investigation itself.
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