"If there is one principle of planning law more firmly settled than any other, it is that matters of planning judgment are within the exclusive province of the local planning authority or the Secretary of State, " the judge added.
The government playbook has also become pretty clear: by arresting traders like Martoma on a criminal complaint, rather than after an indictment, the prosecutor keeps control of the process, rather than giving up authority to the judge.
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Piaguaje had flown to New York to attend an oral argument before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, centering on whether Judge Kaplan had the authority to stop the plaintiffs from collecting on the Ecuadoran judgment anywhere in the world.
Further, the Bloomberg-appointed Board of Health went beyond its authority in approving the size limit, the judge said, agreeing with the critics that the matter should have been up to the elected City Council.
The NHS Litigation Authority, which had challenged the parents' claims, said the finding of the judge was both "important and complex" and noted the NHS had succeeded in winning two of the three lead cases and two of the three issues the court was called upon to decide.
"The test of the authority exercised on the ground by the Palestinian Authority is now, and we will have to judge what is happening on the ground, " said Larsen.
But so far, no scientific authority in a position to judge has seen more than a fraction of the objects.
"Lawyers and banks are moving to Dubai, " says Darshan Bijur, director of auditor KPMG's Islamic finance division, adding that even Brits are not immune to the emirate's tax-free charms: One of the directors of Dubai's Financial Services Authority is a former London-based financial regulator and judge, Michael Blair.
Shortly after intelligence officers arrested the judge on charges of corruption, aiding an evasion of justice, abuse of authority and conspiracy.
But council lawyers said the decision was "rational, made with great care and was based on a full appreciation of the obligation to act within the law" and the judge ruled in the authority's favour.
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who was among the first to challenge the constitutionality of the mandated health insurance provisions of the health care reform legislation, won a major round today as Judge Henry Hudson agreed that forcing Americans to purchase health care insurance exceeds the constitutional authority of Congress.
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In addition, the judge said the Bloomberg-appointed Board of Health intruded on the City Council's authority when it imposed the rule, citing in part a case from the 1980s which questioned whether a state public health council had the authority to regulate smoking in public places.
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