A16 Vote Challenged, Then Ratified Congress officially ratified President Bush's election victory, but not before Democrats challenged the electoral votes from Ohio.
Just a few days after the 60,000-member Nevada Culinary Union endorsed Barack Obama, Clinton supporters in a teachers' union from the Silver State brought a suit to deny the Culinary Union's members the opportunity to vote at their places of business - an arrangement legally approved months ago, which Clinton supporters at the time didn't challenge and even ratified.
Using robust diplomatic language, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan challenged rich countries to ratify a second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol (KP), and pay what they had promised to developing countries before trying to negotiate a new deal.
Far from being chastened by another rebuke from the Justices, Bush used the Hamdan case to return to the subject of the September 11th attacks and to challenge Congress to ratify his aggressive approach.
There is no suggestion that China wants to use the Arctic to challenge UNCLOS, which it has ratified, as have all the Arctic Council's members apart from America.
On becoming prime minister in 2007, Mr Rudd, who had in opposition called climate change "the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time", ratified the Kyoto protocol (disdained by Mr Howard) as his first official act, and put a trading scheme for carbon emissions before parliament.
Mr. Cuomo signed a compact for that casino and submitted the agreement to the Legislature, which never ratified it, though no one has challenged that compact in the Court of Appeals.
Abu Qatada has 72 hours to formally lodge an appeal, but he has indicated he will not challenge his removal once the treaty has been fully ratified.
On June 1, after three months of legal challenges and disqualifications, Iraq's highest court ratified the results of the election.
And it created "another useful link with China and India, which have ratified Kyoto, but whose energy needs pose challenges for the future which go far beyond the current scope of the protocol".
