But Ginsburg knew that Congress, not the Court, framed the meaning of any federal law.
From the lobby you enter a court framed on four sides by the original museum's classical arcades.
Mr. Brugmann's legal team worked the local angle in court, framing the case as independent, local business vs. voracious, out-of-town chain.
The lawyer, who didn't want to be identified, noted that all the talk of the potential impact of a ruling on other start-ups seems to have influenced how the Court framed its decision.
After delving into a brief history of gun control legislation at the federal level and in the two states -- which have imposed restrictions on automatic and semiautomatic firearms since at least the 1990s -- the court framed the ruling in the tragic events in Newtown.
But, the Court framed the opinion as a straightforward application of the existing caselaw; in other words, it broke no new ground and merely restated the due process principles that have long existed but long failed to reign in the sort of prosecutorial excesses and misconduct on display in Smith.
Yet the court found framed copies of the Ten Commandments installed in two Kentucky courthouses unconstitutional.
It would reach out to people considering using the court by framing the problem in words they understand, using iconography and colors.
Instead of his portrait, the court had framed the battered corduroy jacket the lawyer had always worn while arguing cases, a humble monument to the grand ideal of public justice for everyone.
On November 25, an Anti-Terrorism Court finally framed the charges against the seven defendants, allowing the court proceedings, which are being held in camera, to move to the trial phase.
