The Holy See is the supreme government of the Roman Catholic Church, which operates from the independent territory of the Vatican City State in Rome.
Mr. Gilani lashed out at the army in December, warning of a conspiracy to bring down the government, after the army backed a Supreme Court investigation into allegations his government had tried last year to enlist the support of the U.S. to strengthen civilian government in Pakistan.
Where there's a conflict between state and federal law, the federal government is supreme.
Venezuela's Supreme Court backed the government's position, ruling that Chavez begins a new term on Thursday and can be sworn in later before the court.
Venezuela's Supreme Court backed the government's position, ruling that Chavez began a new term on Thursday and can be sworn in later before the court.
On March 12, during the submission of the CBI's report in the Supreme Court, the government's lawyer told the court that the report wasn't shared with the government.
On Wednesday, Venezuela's Supreme Court backed the government's position, ruling that Chavez begins a new term on Thursday and can be sworn in later before the court.
But the real confrontation between the Supreme Court and the government of Mr. Uribe began when the Court started to investigate the ties between politicians and the paramilitary groups.
The justices seemed troubled by a long and confusing line of decisions where the Supreme Court allowed the government to waive application of the AIA in certain cases and not in others.
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Aguilar, an opinion written by Mr. Chief Justice Rehnquist and quoted by the House managers, the Supreme Court addressed the government's requirement to show that the defendant knew his actions were likely to affect a judicial proceeding.
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Most recently, the Supreme Court found against the government in United States v.
The Supreme Court ruled that the government could not withhold information in cases like these.
The Supreme Court said that the government should have been held to a higher standard of proof.
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Moreover, about four-fifths of the appeals clogging the Supreme Court are made by government agencies such as the federal banks.
The Supreme Court ruled that the government could threaten broadcasters with fines over even a single swear-word on live television.
The government warned the Supreme Court in its appeal that if Jefferson prevailed, ongoing and future public corruption investigations would be seriously hamstrung.
The lawfulness of the first bill passed by the assembly under its new law-making powers was challenged in the Supreme Court by the UK government.
Now and then, the country's Supreme Court rules against the government.
The government asked the Supreme Court not to take the case, arguing that the IRS and Treasury were about to issue regulations that would help clear up the confusion.
Under a Supreme Court ruling, the government is required to place the bill before the people and have it approved by a referendum after it is passed in Parliament.
Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has tossed out government fines against CBS Inc. and its affiliates for airing the infamous shot of brief nudity involving singer Janet Jackson during the 2004 Super Bowl.
In a 1948 case dealing with the World War II era Emergency Price Control Act, the Supreme Court held that the government can require individuals engaged regulated activity to maintain and produce certain types of records.
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In the Maryland case that Reno argued, the government wants the Supreme Court to extend that to include ordering passengers to get out of the vehicle as well, and to detain them at the scene as long as necessary, even when there is no reason to suspect the passengers have done anything wrong.
And the Supreme Court ruled that the US government could classify Hamdi as an enemy combatant.
The Supreme Court has also chided the government for not doing enough to unearth illicit money.
And I think the Supreme Court would say that the government's need to protect the country is going to outweigh the need of any particular civil litigant.
The law did not mention Batasuna by name but allowed the government to ask the Supreme Court to outlaw parties that actively support terrorism or are apologists for it.
Last year the Supreme Court ruled in the Welsh government's favour when the UK government claimed a piece of legislation to reform local bylaws went beyond the assembly's powers.
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Responding to a petition from the film's Toronto-based director, Deepa Mehta, to prevent a slide into "complete anarchy, " the Supreme Court has upbraided the federal government for not preventing the assaults.
In several of these cases, federal legislation has preempted state jurisdiction through either actions by Congress or rulings by the Supreme Court, but the federal government is not the only source of regulations.
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