"[W]hen Congress addresses a question previously governed by a decision rested on federal common law," the Court has explained, "the need for such an unusual exercise of law-making by federal courts disappears". Milwaukee II, 451 U. S., at 314 (holding that amendments to the Clean Water Act displaced the nuisance claim recognized in Milwaukee I).
Since disparate impact claims are recognized under Title VIII, not just disparate treatment, a statistical showing of a racial impact provides the foundational proof of a Title VIII violation.
Only after Native land claims were recognized in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act did the pipeline progress.
Penetration of the area was begun in 1884 by German commercial agents, and German claims were recognized by the other European powers in the period 1885 94.
The claims were recognized almost universally at the Berlin West Africa Conference of 1884 85, at which the major European powers met to decide questions relating to the Congo basin.
Finally, given a consensus on a claim among recognized experts, we nonexperts have no basis for rejecting the truth of the claim.
Israel argues that all of Jerusalem is its undivided capital, a claim not recognized by the United States and most of the world.
This claim is recognized in the treaty concluded with the said Illinois tribes at St . Louis August 24, 1816, but as the Millewakee and Manetoowalk bands are not represented at this council, it cannot now be definitely adjusted.
Police a few days later arrested a young woman named Jacqueline Belardo -- an admitted crack addict -- who claimed she recognized the gunman from her window 400 feet from the shooting despite the darkness, and identified Fleming as the shooter.
The Australian EEZ is enormous and Australia's seabed increased by 2.5 million km2 in 2008, when its claim was recognized under the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
