The failure of the three pathologists to all agree on the cause of Mr Tomlinson's death led to the director of public prosecutions ruling that the policeman in question would not face any charges.
Widespread corruption and the lavish lifestyles of officials who often drive luxury cars, own multiple villas and send their children to elite foreign universities have become the biggest sources of public anger at the ruling Communist Party.
In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster: 82 percent of Ohioans oppose using eminent domain to take property for economic development, 91 percent of Minnesotans, 92 percent of Kansans, 95 percent of Coloradans, and 86 percent of Missourians.
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Just what is the positive outcome that these judges, or the public, expect with this ruling, and more like it to come?
Under a 1984 Supreme Court ruling, a public-safety exception allows investigators to question suspects for an unspecified period without giving them a Miranda warning.
So on the face of it the impact of the ruling, made public on January 27th but unlikely to be enforced until next year, hardly looks drastic.
Yet to a public long used to a ruling party that spent to keep itself in power, the PDR's sudden wealth and Golkar's flush treasury raised concerns about the impact vote-buying had on the election.
But Grutter's longevity has been in doubt since its author, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was succeeded by Justice Samuel Alito, who joined the court's four other conservatives in a 2007 ruling that forbade public-school districts from promoting diversity through race-conscious pupil-assignment plans.
And such criticism reflects an unprecedented public airing of a rift among ruling conservatives.
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The appellate court expressly sidestepped these public policy issues, but its ruling nicely advances those interests.
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These developments mark an extraordinary rebuke to Ahmadinejad, and a rare public airing of the rift among ruling conservatives.
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Teacher Teresa Meredith, the main plaintiff in the lawsuit and vice president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, called the ruling a setback for public education.
Stanton Glantz, a longtime anti-tobacco advocate and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, said the RICO ruling is what the public health community should use in its fight against the tobacco industry.
Again, he says, huge kickbacks went from the gangs to the ruling LDP--common public-works practice.
The reshuffle comes with polls expected in coming months and the ruling DPJ hit by low public support.
True, Welfare's willingness to let civil servants wear head-scarves in public offices contravenes a high-court ruling on the subject.
This is an untenable method of selection for judges who will be ruling on issues of great public and political interest.
While the Supreme Court justices may not consult Facebook as they consider the case before them, they will make their ruling on a rapidly changing public landscape.
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Allowing low-ranking members of Hussein's ruling party to return to public jobs was among the benchmarks toward national reconciliation that Bush laid out a year ago when he ordered an additional 30, 000 U.S. troops to Iraq.
This ruling set off the chain of public disclosures that led the accuser to drop out.
Several big bail-outs in recent months, of businessmen close to Mr Daim and the ruling party, have drawn ferocious public criticism.
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Earlier this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanded that al-Sadr disband the Mehdi Army or see his supporters -- who hold seats in Iraq's parliament and once backed the prime minister's ruling coalition -- barred from public office.
Ultimately, the ruling will likely be more of a public relations disaster than a financial one.
But a considerable portion of British public opinion abhorred the notion of a self-ruling Catholic Ireland.
That satisfied global-warming sceptics in the ruling party but failed to address rising public concern over the environment and climate change.
The U.S. Supreme Court held in a 2003 ruling that sex offender registration is a public safety tool not intended to punish offenders.
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This astounding figure, however, reflects less the country's public opinion than it does a ploy by the ruling military leadership to remain in power.
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