Oregon hoped to get unanimous state backing for the 2021 event – the crown jewels of athletics, typically awarded to world capitals such as Moscow or Beijing rather than a modest city synonymous with Nike – but have failed.
In a unanimous decision, the state's highest court reversed a trend established in New York courts outside New York City in which landlords could be held liable only if a tenant proved that the landlord had actual knowledge of the existence of lead-based paint in the tenant's apartment.
In a unanimous ruling, the state Appellate Division gave a green light to a proposed Sanitation Department facility, including a salt-storage shed at Spring Street and the West Side Highway, despite opposition from the community and stars like James Gandolfini, REM frontman Michael Stipe, Jennifer Connelly, John Slattery and Kirsten Dunst.
In its McDonnell v. United States decision, a unanimous Supreme Court affirmed states' right to regulate "the permissible scope of interactions between state officials and their constituents".
The resolution, which passed the Assembly by a unanimous vote Monday, stated that the governor's new sewer regulations, aimed at furthering the state's master plan for fighting sprawl preserving open space, violated state water pollution and water quality laws.
(It was a unanimous ruling by the state's seven justices).
Sixty years ago this Saturday, on May 17 , 1954 a unanimous Supreme Court held that state segregation of black schoolchildren was unconstitutional.
The court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that state lawmakers were wrong to change provisions of a voter-approved proposition in 1996 that allowed patients with a doctor's recommendation to possess an unspecified amount of marijuana.
In early 2009, Iowa became the third state (and the first and only one in the Midwest) to grant marriage licenses to gay couples, thanks to a unanimous ruling by the state supreme court.
