Ultimately, the CARE act is about who should make decisions regarding alcohol regulation (elected state legislators rather than unelected federal judges in distant courts), not what those decisions should be.
The final argument is the most absurd: "it has been the longstanding view of the UK Government that the most effective way to ensure that there is no impunity for human rights abuses" is "by seeking international consensus and co-operation through treaties rather than by recourse to private civil litigation in distant courts".
Fewer than two dozen people watched the match, played on distant Court 17.
In 2005, the Supreme Court of Nepal deemed the practice illegal, but the distant court decision has had little impact on the daily lives of women in Achham.
After their seventh or eighth beer, they have rediscovered the boyish joy of repeatedly shouting a four-letter word toward the distant court.
"Alaska's interests and America's interests in developing North Slope oil and gas are being put in the deep freeze and, once again, Alaska's future is left to be decided in a distant court".
The news rattled vote counters around the state, many of whom had finished elaborate plans to begin the counting when word of a distant court order scrambled their day.
The move will reignite the debate about a perceived slight of the five-time champion in SW19, who in previous championships has been scheduled on the distant Court No 2; it's unlikely that Roger Federer, for instance, would be treated in the same way.
I refer to that day in 1995 when, during a doubles match way out on a distant court at Wimbledon, he angrily lashed at a ball which accidentally struck a ball girl on the head and was kicked out of the tournament.
Adding a bit of levity to the somber proceedings, Judge Ellis said that when he was a lawyer and was seeking distant court dates, a judge would always ask him, "How many lawyers in your firm?" He thought such questioning unfair then, he said, but "my perspective is different now".
At times, the local government might own the factory that's producing pirated products– and paying the local officials that might be enforcing (or not) judgments issued by a distant court, Howson says, though that type of scenario is fading from the scene as China modernizes.
