The Snowden revelations over the NSA's surveillance practices triggered unrest in Europe and provoked the Schrems' landmark challenge, which led to what Hogan described as the most important ruling of the ECJ in years that "transcended international law".
That essay framed a landmark challenge to the materialist view of the mind that was then prevailing and helped cement Mr. Nagel's reputation as one of the most incisive and imaginative of contemporary philosophers.
Last Monday, Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York, the subject of Jeffrey Toobin's piece in last week's issue, heard closing arguments in Floyd v. City of New York, a landmark challenge to the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policies.
By Rob Fischer May 23, 2013 Last Monday, Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York, the subject of Jeffrey Toobin's piece in last week's issue, heard closing arguments in Floyd v. City of New York, a landmark challenge to the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policies.
NAIROBI, Kenya — The landmark legal challenge to Kenya's presidential election wrapped up on Friday, and the last bits of evidence confirmed what many had suspected from the beginning: there were definitely voting irregularities, but were they big enough to change the outcome?
Supporters and opponents of Colorado's initiative agree that Wednesday is the start of a rather big deal: a landmark challenge to decades of "drug war" dogma which is expected to embolden other states to follow suit, potentially heralding a shift as radical as the end of alcohol prohibition in 1933.
That's why the most significant marital event of June 2010 is the one taking place in San Francisco this Wednesday, when a Federal District Court judge is scheduled to hear the closing arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the landmark case challenging Proposition 8, California's same-sex marriage ban.
What it does mean is that Lower Manhattan carries a new context; every side street and landmark challenges the imagination, pushing residents and visitors to remember what was, and to notice what is.
I participated in a conference call with the American Foundation for Equal Rights AFERR) just moments after their case Hollingsworth v. Perry, the landmark federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, was dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court on a lack of standing.
Charles Jencks was one of the first authors to try to depict the architects' reaction to genericness by calling for a "new genre" in the form of "expressive landmarks challenging the previous tradition of the architectural monument" (Jencks 2005, p. 7).
