The court held that they were "unlawful combatants" who had entered the country secretly like spies.
There, the court held that you could patent a strategy for managing a mutual fund with a computer.
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The Court held that 45 state and 7, 600 local sales tax systems were too complicated for a retailer to follow.
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The Court held that the regulatory authority resided in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments passed in the first Bush Administration.
So the court held that recess appointments not requiring Senate confirmation can only be made during the Recess between the two sessions.
In 1992, the Court held that there was no due process problem with a state imposing sales tax collection obligations on an active seller.
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Randolph, the court held that parties can invalidate an arbitration agreement if they can prove the costs of complying with it would be prohibitive.
Also, in the violent video game case, the Court held that children have full First Amendment rights, except in narrowly defined areas, primarily sexual expression.
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The court held that Congress must make the Medicaid expansion optional.
In that case, the court held that the Commerce Clause permitted the government to legislate the mandate and stopped the pending case dead in its tracks.
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Charles, the court held that a pro-life doctor did not have standing to defend an antiabortion law in court when the state attorney general refused to do so.
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The Court held that students in a free society could not be compelled to engage in an act that amounted to a rejection of their most deeply held beliefs.
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The Court held that this, too, was permissible.
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The court held that the suit was unmeritorious in the absence of detailed allegations demonstrating that the Cephalon board consciously chose to do nothing about illegal activity it knew (or should have known) to exist.
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The court held that banks would never find suitable places in crowded downtown business districts unless they could have the right to rent out surplus space acquired in a good-faith effort to house their operations.
The Supreme Court at least since the 1920s has asserted a parental right to control the upbringing of their children. (Scalia, naturally, dissents.) And in 1979 the court held that right to control includes decisions over medical care.
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The Court held that while all "primary actors"--those who were directly part of a scheme (the emphasis is mine) to defraud investors--can be sued for federal securities fraud, the "secondary actors" who aided and abetted the fraud cannot be sued.
Regarding Napster's claim that its users were not infringing copyright because sharing copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings via the Napster service is protected by the "fair use" doctrine, the court held that the four fair use factors in the Copyright Act tip the balance in the record companies' favour.
The Court held that even though at trial the plaintiff would need to present circumstantial evidence to support the discrimination claim, it was sufficient for Rule 8 purposes for the plaintiff to alleged that he had been employed by the defendant and that he believed that he was fired for racially discriminatory reasons.
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Finally, the court held that Ultimate Holdings was used to perpetrate a wrong on its creditors, since it was little more than a part of the scheme to inflate the GENI stock, cash it out while at an artificially high value, and let the losses go to the brokerage firms who had extended margin credit to Ultimate Holdings.
But in Hamdan, the high court held that the 2005 act did not apply retroactively, so that habeas proceedings already under way could continue.
In Kelo, the Supreme Court held that held that the Constitution allows governments to seize private property and transfer it from one private land owner to another in the name of economic development.
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Separately, in a 1976 case, the Supreme Court held that while the Fifth Amendment does not protect the contents of incriminatory documents, it bars the government from proving that the defendant produced such documents in response to a subpoena.
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Despite a sovereign immunity defense from the IRS, the Bankruptcy Court held that the debtor corporation could recover the extra funds on fraudulent transfer grounds.
The appeals court held that the agency had misinterpreted both the law governing patent term length and a clause barring the double-counting of overlapping prosecution delays.
In reaching its conclusion to deny the deduction, the Tax Court held that the transfer of the home was not the transfer of an undivided interest in the property.
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 a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court held that all regulations issued after an opportunity for public notice and comment are entitled to the same high level of deference by the courts.
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Once the Tax Court held that his tax shelters were shams, Bryen was aware he owed back taxes to the IRS. While he did not know the specific amount of the tax deficiency until 2001, he was aware that it would be substantial.
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The Nevada district court held that the charging order divested the Debtor of both his membership and management rights in the two LLCs, and thus concluded that the other (non-Debtor) partner was the sole manager of those companies.
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