At the heart of the controversy were changes to marriage laws, including articles that set the legal minimum age for marriage at 18, recognize only civil marriages, allow joint property ownership, expand parental rights, and extend inheritance rights to girls.

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Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said that as conceived in the 18th century, the Fourth Amendment's protection of "persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" would extend to private property such as an automobile.

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"These people would redesign Microsoft products, confiscate Microsoft intellectual property and extend of the scope of the decree to markets not in this case or are in the infancy of innovation, " he said with more than a little emotion.

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Now it is the turn of estate agents to show their determination to extend their grip to internet property sales.

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