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PRINCETON – In contrasting decisions last month, a United States Court of Appeals struck down a US Food and Drug Administration requirement that cigarettes be sold in packs with graphic health warnings, while Australia’s highest court upheld a law that goes much further.
The court accepted that the government may require factually accurate health warnings, but the majority, in a split decision, said that it could not go as far as requiring images.
An even blacker irony is that America and Iraq were two of the seven governments that voted against its establishment in Rome in 1998 when the treaty for the court was adopted.
And it acts de facto (if not de jure) as a constitutional court.
But affected third parties, much less the general public, do not have any avenue to inform the court of their knowledge, perspectives, or interests, or to demonstrate how a decision would affect them or their communities and societies.
Without information and insights from those affected, a court cannot effectively balance all relevant interests and assess all potential implications.
A court is typically not required to discuss the contents of an amicus brief, let alone be guided by it.
The only way to achieve that is to establish channels for EU citizens to share their knowledge and insights with the court.
But the EEA also has its own court, whose judgments are binding on EEA member states.
There were also sound political motivations for establishing the court: a portion of the Awami League’s support comes from the Bengali intelligentsia, in particular the Hindu minority, which suffered terribly in the 1971 war.
Jamaat-e-Islami and its even more radical ally, Hefazat-e-Islam, a fundamentalist madrasa-based group that has campaigned to ban women’s right to work, attempted to block the ICT’s work physically – and even to destroy its international credibility on the grounds that the court reserved the right to impose the death penalty.
The general-prosecutor is murder-friendly,” a friend, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, told me as we watched former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial in the Police Academy’s criminal court.
A general during the Croatian War, a Croat court sentenced Perisic, in absentia, for war crimes.
Because Milosevic is obviously guilty and can defend himself in open court, they fail to look for imperfections.
Paid to FailCAMBRIDGE – In a report just filed with the United States court that is overseeing the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, a court-appointed examiner described how Lehman’s executives made deliberate decisions to pursue an aggressive investment strategy, take on greater risks, and substantially increase leverage.
They also want an independent court system that upholds property rights.
On the key factors for firms, London’s nationality-blind regulatory system is not likely to change; nor is the court system.
Though the ban has now been invalidated by France’s highest court, it is still enforced in several seaside resorts.
When a political party seeks to advance a broad ideological agenda and there exists a Supreme Court, the smart political strategy obviously is to appoint people to that court – the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in this case – who will implement the party’s program.
Then, after reiterating that the UK had made a legitimate and democratic decision to leave the EU, she concluded that the ball is the EU’s court.
If the UK can tolerate giving jurisdiction in this area to a European high court, as May’s Munich speech seems to suggest, why not in other areas?
The judgment by the German court is the less spectacular of the two, but it addresses the heart of the ECB’s interpretation of the Maastricht Treaty.
There are two reasons why the court is likely to impose conditions on the Bundesbank’s participation in the OMT program.
The Bundesbank is said to have consulted the court already regarding the ECB’s program of quantitative easing, and the court is reported to have called for the effective exclusion of joint liability of central banks for government-bond purchases under that program.
If the court follows this line of reasoning and rules against the Bundesbank’s participation in the OMT program, the decision would cause the interest-rate spread between healthy and crisis-hit economies to widen, reflecting the true risk to investors.
Even the Russians may be willing to accept this framing, because it avoids finger-pointing against particular actors and affirms that a court of law – not a series of media statements – will determine what occurred and who is responsible.
A Dutch or Malaysian court, or even a special tribunal under the auspices of the United Nations (like the one that prosecuted the 1988 Pan Am Lockerbie bombing), will ultimately determine who bears legal responsibility for the downing of MH17.
A federal appeals court justice struck down a North Carolina law of this sort, because it suppressed African-American turnout with “almost surgical precision.”
Yushchenko sought to circumvent parliament by way of a national referendum, but Ukraine’s Constitutional court has ruled that only parliament may determine how constitutional reform is to occur.
Any opposition to his orders, such as court rulings against his partial ban on Muslims entering the country, or exposés of potential wrongdoing, such as his former national security adviser’s secret conversations with the Russian ambassador, is met with quick condemnation.
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