These supposed arbiters of law and order engaged in a series of brutal street battles with members of the "Russians" gang in the early 1950s.
Institutions, these scholars argue, are not just impartial arbiters of laws and rules but reflect the morality of the state by mobilizing values and judgments.
The municipal court does not act as a neutral arbiter of the law or a check on unlawful police conduct.
As Justice Department investigators discovered, it did not "act as a neutral arbiter of the law or a check on unlawful police conduct".
The courts will still be the ultimate arbiter of the law, but it is vital that the administration dropped its commitment to press wrongheaded defenses.
The Republicans, fearing an army of shrill, litigious Democrats, see her as their defender, the voice of reason and arbiter of Florida law.
Before taking over the leadership of Al Azhar, Mr. Tantawi served for 10 years as Egypt's grand mufti, leading the House of Fatwa as the nation's chief arbiter of religious law.
But even since the strike, officials have been willing to give only a brief summary of the government's reasoning, refusing to make public the classified written opinion of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, the authoritative arbiter of the law.
How can the treaties be revised for all, or for the UK by exception, so that our parliament can resume its rightful role as the ultimate arbiter of our law, budgets and taxes?
Over the dissent of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who warned that the decision undermined "our role under the Constitution as the final arbiter of federal law," the court ruled in favor of a Minnesota man convicted of sexually abusing a child in 1996.
