Signed by President Bill Clinton, Doma has already been ruled unconstitutional by several lower courts.
The lawsuit was sent back to the lower courts Thursday, with those rulings reversed.
Lower courts had told Oncale he had no case if his complaint was against another man.
Similar laws are under challenge in lower courts in Georgia, Alabama, Utah and South Carolina.
The patent office and lower courts must now try to make sense of the ruling.
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Mr Bush appointed plenty of conservative judges to lower courts during his first term.
This followed a complex legal process that included the Supreme Court, lower courts and plea-bargaining.
Civil-rights lawyers say that they are losing a lot more cases in the lower courts than before.
The lower courts have completely surrendered to extremists' pressure because of the state's inability to protect them.
The justices are likely to throw the case back to the lower courts, in light of Thursday's ruling.
Lower courts subsequently ruled that denial unconstitutional and the federal government has appealed.
Lower courts agreed with Wilson's contention that the 4th Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures should protect him.
Lower courts have issued conflicting decisions on whether warrantless GPS monitoring violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches.
Each week, the Court receives about 130 petitions for review, decisions by lower courts appealed to the high Court.
First, two lower courts had already ruled in favor of Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta.
But the arid legal hairsplitting that dominates that chamber poses fewer policy problems than the messier lower courts do.
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Mr. Chaudhry has sought to "repay society" for supporting him, an aide said, by speeding up justice in lower courts.
Lower courts had ruled in his favour, and the Supreme Court eventually agreed that he should be given a place.
Even some reformers believe that tying the hands of the lower courts flies in the face of Brazil's legal traditions.
Nonetheless, some lower courts, declining to evaluate the strength of a patent, have let Big Pharma get away with these deals.
The ruling was not the final word on the dispute, it merely threw it back to the lower courts to resolve.
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The Supreme People's Court - the highest in China - has told lower courts to suspend death sentences for two years.
Four years ago the Supreme People's Court took back the right to review every death sentence handed out by lower courts.
One of these reforms allowed the court to create binding precedents that must be followed by lower courts in similar cases.
These merits, moreover, have been compounded by the subsequent refusal of lower courts to uphold Mr Clinton's claims of executive privilege.
But the lower courts and the prosecuting authorities say they are under a duty to use metric in line with European regulations.
Kapoor of Constantine Cannon said lower courts have already been whittling away at the looser standards the justices cited in their dissent.
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The schools filed the legal challenge and won in the lower courts.
Neither of the lower courts that heard the case bought StoneRidge's argument.
It took many years more for lower courts to enforce its provisions.
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