It says courts, administrative agencies and state tribunals cannot base rulings on any foreign law or legal system that would not grant the same rights guaranteed by the state and federal constitutions.
Abu Hanifa extended the rigid principle of basing rulings on the Qur'an and Sunnah to incorporate opinion and exercise of free thought by jurists.
This ruling supplanted the common-law test of Frye v. United States, which based rulings on local practice customs.
Mr. Apari also questioned the court's decision to base its ruling on doubts surrounding information about Ms. Berenson's address.
"The Saudi government's very rigid interpretation of Islam also leaves the possibility for these judges to base their ruling in religious texts with very weak sources, which are considered invalid in other Islamic interpretations".
Anti-patenting campaigners argue that the idea of claiming a patent over the shared genetic heritage of the human race is absurd, immoral or both.But the court is unlikely to base its ruling on such airy ethical principles.
Under Egyptian law, the judge can base his ruling not just on evidence, but on the circumstances of the crime - meaning he could convict Mubarak in view of his political responsibility.
Curiously, though, the court did not base its ruling on the "no religious test" clause, which comes in Article VI, but determined that the First Amendment was enough to decide the matter conclusively.
Magistrate Robert Larsen based his ruling on testimony from witnesses who said they were threatened by Piggie.
There are no known cases in which a Kansas judge has based a ruling on Islamic law.
tests, Judge Garaufis said he based his ruling on the opinions of the clinicians who administered the tests.
