With polls showing most Americans' minds are made up on the health care law, experts also question whether an argument over an arcane point of law that confuses most people is a winning strategy or lost on most.
Such appeals could be made where a case is halted on a point of law.
Their appeals were heard together as they raised the same point of law centring on the correct interpretation of gambling legislation.
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At some point, law enforcement agents are able to seize the suspect.
The Supreme Court can reconsider Court of Appeal decisions if the justices are convinced there is a " point of law of general public importance".
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"We will certainly be applying for this court to certify a point of law of public importance and to grant leave, " he said.
We feel that the issue of whether APIs are copyrightable is sufficiently far-reaching that it should be addressed as a point of law in its own right.
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Opponents said ministers had vowed to continue allowing legal aid for appeals on a point of law against a decision by a tribunal, but had not done so.
Just last week we read at the Point of Law blog and elsewhere about a Third Circuit ruling which rejected an absurd cy presdistribution in an antitrust class action settlement.
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Firstly, and on a black-and-white point of law in places with stricter Information Privacy Law than the US, as soon as Facebook renders photos personally identifiable, they are deemed to have Collected Personal Information.
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"Referees, should they so wish, have the opportunity to conduct post-match media interviews, after 30 minutes' 'cool-down' time, to clarify any point of law, " said a spokesman for PGMO, the body responsible for top referees.
The review group said an appeal to the Supreme Court should be competent only where the High Court has granted a certificate showing that the case raises a point of law of "general public importance".
The Court of Appeal upheld the ruling last year and the Supreme Court has now refused permission for a further appeal because "the application does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance".
Former Labour minister Lord Bach said the government had failed to honour an earlier commitment by former Lord Chancellor Kenneth Clarke to allow support in "point of law" cases at the first-tier tribunal level - the first stage of the tribunal process.
Moreover, there is one minor constitutional sticking point: By law, tax legislation cannot originate in the Senate.
No offense to Lilly Ledbetter, but how many people can personally point to this law helping them make more money?
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Whether you or I think that this is small cost to pay for reductions in GHG emissions and energy independence is beside the point, the law is pretty explicit on this topic.
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The main sticking point is a law passed last year that the EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund believe jeopardizes the independence of Hungary's central bank, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank.
While a company set to be the next big thing can dramatically throw out these kinds of metrics because of its spectacular potential, there comes a point where the law of scale kicks in and promise must turn into reality.
Some champions of the law argue that this misses the point, because once the law's new subsidies are taken into account, the net price of insurance will be lower.
They get to enjoy the burdens of the massive and mostly-beside-the-point Dodd-Frank law and the beefed-up and also mostly-beside-the-point Basil III rules.
When he graduated from law school 35 years ago, he made a point of joining a Connecticut law firm that discouraged its associates from running for public office.
It's hard to believe, but the case law on this point is crystal clear, says Peter Henning, professor at Wayne State University Law School.
More to the point, New York law enforcement officers are at the cutting edge of policing terror.
Chief Justice Roberts then turned to another point, whether the law schools are being forced to associate themselves with the military's views.
At this point, under current law, it is generally up to the parties involved to identify and address all of these issues.
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The legal sticking point was that the law lacked a "health exception" for women who might suffer serious medical complications, something the justices have said in the past is necessary when considering abortion restrictions.
Brown, who speaks constantly about this bill in his neck-and-neck race for re-election against consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, said the whole point of passing the law was to demonstrate that members of Congress weren't held to a different standard.
This point has been tested in law and yes, they are legally opinions.
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