As a lower-court judge for 17 years, she said, she has faithfully upheld the law and precedents.
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Monday's decision upholds the lower-court order giving California two years to cut its prison population to 137.5% of capacity.
Justice Ralph Gants in a Supreme Judicial Court upheld an earlier ruling from a lower-court that also found the foreclosures invalid.
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Lawyers and lower-court judges claim that precedent would smother judicial conscience, but the government backs it (reluctantly), and so may Congress.
Oddly, the court declined to rule on a lower-court decision allowing the same school to hold student-led prayers at graduation ceremonies.
The federal statute governing judicial conflicts of interest covers only lower-court judges.
In an order issued this afternoon, five judges on the Fifth Circuit dismissed an appeal of a lower-court decision throwing out the case.
As for whether Thomas should recuse himself regarding health care under the standards that prevail for lower-court judges, that appears to be a close question.
As a lower-court judge, she was bound by Supreme Court precedent.
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They say the lower-court ruling, if allowed to stand, could expose other companies to staggering liability by allowing unrelated discrimination claims to proceed as class action suits.
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For years a divided court has struggled to untangle a wave of conflicting lower-court rulings and to make some consistent sense of how the laws should be applied.
The lower-court Complaint alleged that defendants Matrixx Initiatives, Inc.
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The Obama administration has refused to enforce the law, so there is a legal question whether having won a lower-court ruling declaring DOMA unconstitutional, it has standing to pursue an appeal.
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The judges overturned a lower-court ruling that none of the errors justified setting aside the foreclosure, saying New Jersey law requires the name of the lender to be on the initial filing.
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If the justices decide that neither the Obama administration nor the House had reason to bring the federal marriage case before the high court, that would keep in place two lower-court rulings nullifying the law.
The U.S. Supreme Court once again confounded critics who accuse it of a pro-business bias, unanimously rejecting a lower-court decision that would have made it harder to pursue securities class actions based on falling stock prices.
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Some appellate courts have upheld lawyers' rights to research jurors online, including one in New Jersey that ruled last year that a lower-court judge erred by prohibiting a plaintiffs' attorney from using the Internet in the courtroom.
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Even with those cases pending, Windsor said last fall -- when the lower court decided in her favor, three years after Spyer's death -- that she felt she could finally breathe and celebrate.
And again, people who tried to do this when they were looking at lower court cases -- lower courts who heard the Affordable Care Act -- there were a couple of judges, who were conservative judges, who were appointed by Republican Presidents who asked very difficult, tough questions of Department of Justice lawyers.
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He pleaded guilty - before US District Judge William Pauley in a federal court in lower Manhattan - to a count of wire fraud, and said he was "truly sorry".
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The judges - in a 2-1 verdict - overturned a lower court ruling that dismissed a case against the pledge brought by the father of a schoolgirl.
For one thing, the high court didn't rule against the investor groups--it only ruled that the lower court's interpretation of the law was wrong.
The seven justices said they leaned against stepping aside from any case because -- unlike lower courts where replacement judges can easily be found -- the high court has only nine Justices.
On Friday, the Canadian Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling made in late-May that the sale of BCE (nyse: BCE - news - people ) to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and its minority U.S. partners didn't adequately consider bondholders' interests.
This followed a complex legal process that included the Supreme Court, lower courts and plea-bargaining.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, also names various lower-level Justice Department and FBI officials.
On Aug. 4 they filed a 44-page complaint with the Civil Chamber of the lower court of Dusseldorf, a wealthy city in western Germany.
They won in the lower courts, but today the Supreme Court, by a 6-to-3 vote, ruled that the federal government was within its rights to prosecute them and other medical marijuana users.
Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel that ruled in February 2008 to uphold a lower court decision supporting New Haven's move to throw out the results.
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