The new assembly was due to appoint several supreme-court justices to replace those due to retire.
The constitution stipulates that no public employee can earn more than a supreme-court judge, whose salary is currently 26, 700 reais a month.
Scandal hit Chile's judiciary after a former Supreme-Court president won a court order to seize a book revealing links between judges and the Pinochet regime.
But with their appeasement agenda reigning supreme - as appeasement agendas always do - instead of fighting to win, Olmert and Livni sued for a cease-fire.
Javier Solana, the so-called "High Representative" of the EU -- in effect its foreign policy supreme -- is working on the command structure and seeking to ease the worries of countries like Turkey, currently in NATO but not in the EU, that they will be squeezed out of future decisions on European security.
Along the way, we appointed two more women on the Supreme Court -- (applause) --including the first Latina on the Supreme Court.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at the Women's Leadership Forum
David Boies, supreme private-sector litigator, takes on New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, consummate prosecutor and politician.
Mr George's lawyers indicated they would seek to appeal to the Supreme Court - a so-called "leapfrog" appeal.
But on Tuesday, a U.S. Supreme Court-appointed special master recommended that most of Ellis Island be given to the state of New Jersey.
And Quinnell - whose influence proved supreme all afternoon - quickly broke through a number of tackles to set up Llanelli's second try.
If the dispute is not settled at the UTT, it is possible that it may go all the way to the Supreme Court - a process that could take years.
One option to amend the law to allow Mr Netanyahu to run as a private citizen could be challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court - leading to an American-style political and legal crisis.
Perhaps not coincidentally, it also is the type of argument that might sway swing votes on the Supreme Court -- as well as swing voters -- to support this extension of individual civil rights.
And we can control that by standing up for, and putting in place, and preparing an advocate to defend the constitutionality of the law before the Supreme Court -- that's something the Justice Department has done.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest
Business leaders should hail President George W. Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court--if they like to honor their contracts and pay their bills on time.
His faction, the Supreme Council - which is an allied Shiite faction - the Kurds, and a few other factions, they want the United States there because in their view, the United States is defending them.
There is a precedent of sorts set by the Supreme Court-approved Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, under which schools that don't provide disabled students with an "appropriate" education are required to pay their tuition in private schools.
Netanyahu's decision to torpedo a proposed law that would have prevented the implementation of the Supreme Court-ordered destruction of the Givat Haulpana neighborhood in Beit El has made these Likud members perceive themselves as isolated and in danger.
But Toronto's major sports teams draw the bulk of the fans. (The Raptors, incidentally, will miss the playoffs for the fifth straight year.) Although the Leafs remain supreme interest-wise, the city was captivated by the Jays' off-season bonanza, which included adding Reyes and pitchers R.
Frustrated with the opposition to his Supreme Court-packing plan, which would have increased the number of justices so that he could appoint people more sympathetic to his policies, FDR campaigned against several conservative Democratic lawmakers, including Walter George of Georgia and Ellison Smith of South Carolina.
John Kerry, political consultant Joe Trippi, White House Counsel Greg Craig--even Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer--all worked for Kennedy at some point.
There is now a possibility that she may refuse to quit, as Sri Lanka's highest courts - the Supreme Court and the Appeal Court - last month quashed the impeachment process as irregular and illegal, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports.
The 11-10 favourite, ridden by Paul Townend, beat Arbor Supreme (20-1) and Oscar Time (9-2) in the prestigious trial for the Aintree showpiece.
House leaders have said in the press caucus that they are ready to -- if the Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional -- they would push for a single-payer method.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme from Nato's headquarters in Belgium, Sir Richard - the deputy supreme allied commander in Europe - said green-on-blue attacks were "an issue that we have to come to grips with".
This led Subramanian Swamy, a politician with India's small opposition Janata Party, to file a public-interest petition to the Supreme Court seeking contempt-of-court proceedings against the Italian ambassador.
The point of the matter is, is as a matter of Supreme Court precedent, they have -- the Supreme Court has deferred to the legislature in matters dealing with the national economy.
The ruling military - the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) - headed by Field Marshal Tantawi, has been under pressure to bring forward the election date to May.
As these data show, most punitive-damages awards meet the Supreme Court's single-digit guideline already.
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