Unlike many other states, advocates say, Massachusetts' governance system designates state education officials as sole authorizers of independently run charter schools, overruling local mayors and unions.
The front page of Sunday's New York Times featured an article about American judges discovering to their surprise that international tribunals are second-guessing and in some cases overruling their decisions.
On January 25th the five conservative members ruled that sampling could not be used to apportion seats in the House of Representatives, thereby overruling their four more liberal colleagues, who said it could.