In the Senate, Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, took seriously the job of updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in light of technological changes and court decisions.
After a series of unsuccessful attempts in Britain's Parliament to change the succession rules in recent years, the Cameron government, in office 18 months, put its weight fully behind the changes, and court officials said Queen Elizabeth was strongly supportive.
The major shift toward treating physician testimony and subjective evidence of pain was thus introduced by various legislative changes and court rulings in 1984, and continued through 1996.
Backed by regulatory changes and court victories, the carriers started piling on charges and taking back their lines.
The tax-driven nature of investment in the sector made it vulnerable to policy changes and court rulings interpreting tax law.
As public tastes changed and courts loosened definitions of obscenity, the numbers of cases, always sparse, dropped.
Messages included in his guidance are that the legal test for adoption has not changed, and courts must be given expert, high-quality, evidence-based analysis of all realistic options for a child and the arguments for and against each of these.
Brown triggered a notorious backlash, in both the South and the North, and its impact was blunted by demographic changes and later court rulings, leading to what the education scholar Gary A. Orfield has called the "resegregation" of American schooling.
A new crop of mega-philanthropists — from Soros to Gates to Koch — eclipses old guard, changes the rules and courts controversy.
But if treaties must be changed (and the court said that the clarification must be binding in international law), this could take time.It is also unclear how the ECB's plan to buy bonds of crisis countries in the secondary market might affect the constitutionality of the ESM.
