Howard Marshall II omitted credit for the reported comments of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justice Stephen G. Breyer and E. Pierce Marshall, a son involved in the lawsuit.
Gordon Dinnie, the chairman of the Rangers supporters trust, said: "We are delighted with the comments of Mr Justice Smith today.
More recently, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court endorsed the comments of Lord Justice Stephen Sedley who described those subject to the regime as being akin to "prisoners of the state".
"The comments of Chief Justice Roberts are an affront to the high ethical standards of our Founding Fathers and amount to a subversion of our laws," wrote conservative watchdog group Freedom Works in a motion submitted to the Court in January arguing for Kagan's dismissal from the health care cases.
If Justice Scalia were asked to comment on Justice Cataldo's ruling, on the other hand, he would lament the sacrifice of finality on the altar of innocence.
Today, Mr. Ashcroft repeated the comments of Justice Department officials who on Thursday evening said a review of the documents indicated that they would offer nothing to help Mr. McVeigh or Mr. Nichols or shed any new light on the events surrounding the deadly bombing.
The comments of the chief justice raise wider questions about the how the police deal with public scrutiny.
Consider the comments of Diana Bryant, Chief Justice of Australia's Family Court: If children's immutable rights are in issue we should say so, rather than attempting, as I think we have done, to quietly subsume human rights considerations under the rubric of 'best interests' [ 8].
Nor did the ministry of justice comment on the implications for amending the law.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, who served as a minister under Mr. Chirac, took note of his predecessor's conviction and said he would not comment on the verdict of justice.
On his microblog, Mr. Fang had commented on supposed miscarriages of justice many times before, but the reaction to his April post was swift.
