A supreme court holds public proceedings, called oral arguments, in which the attorneys for the parties are given a short amount of time to advocate their positions and answer questions from members of the court. The justices, who have been briefed on the case prior to the oral arguments, ...
In the infamous Ireland's Case, 7 How.St.Tr. 79 (1678), five defendants were accused of high treason. The court permitted the jury to deliberate as to three defendants, but instructed the jury that the evidence against Whitebread and Fenwick was not sufficient to convict, even though "so...
This is what happened to the Supreme Court in the immediate aftermath of its Bush v. Gore decision, supra note 43. Justice Kennedy, one of the five justices who, in effect, decided the 2000 U.S. presidential election defended the Court's decision by emphasizing that they had not sought ...
the supreme court would reverse the decision. if the justices decline the case, the maryland decision becomes law. the national district attorneys association is urging the supreme court to overturn the maryland decision, saying dna sampling " serves an important public and governmental interest ." ...
One is the ideology of the Justices, the other is their strategic incentives. Irish parties display small ideological differences, but deep partisan ones. We could expect partisan heritage to have an impact on judicial decisions. We test this expectation on Ireland, a common-law country with, ...
The United States supreme court has ruled a travel ban proposed by president Donald Trump on visitors from six mainly Muslim countries can go into full effect.
federal law that recognized lawful marriages as only between between a man and a woman. in a separate case, the justices cleared the way for same-sex nuptials to resume in california. american university students sharon burk, left, and molly wagner embrace outside the supreme court today. ...
Lady Hayle, President of the Supreme Court, said Tuesday that she and the other 10 justices had reached a unanimous decision that Johnson's move to send the lawmakers home before such a monumental change in the nation's trajectory was unlawful. Parliament, she sa...
Not many marches, then, are beyond the realm of expressive parades, and the South Boston celebration is not one of them. Spectators line the streets; people march in costumes and uniforms, carrying flags and banners with all sorts of messages (e. g., "England get out of Ireland," "Say...
The Microsoft customer whose emails were sought told the company he was based in Ireland when he signed up for his account. Other companies including IBM Corp (IBM.N) , Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) , Apple Inc (AAPL.O) , Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) ...