The incident shut down portions of portions of Mission Street in the city, but the disruption caused no accidents or other problems, the police said.
The justices accepted appeals filed by the Bush administration and the cable industry from an appeals court decision that struck down portions of an order by the Federal Communications Commission.
In the name of states' rights, it has struck down portions of one law barring age discrimination in employment and another allowing rape victims to sue their attackers.
The Supreme Court's ruling this week striking down portions of the Violence Against Women Act is the unfortunate consequence of a series of political decisions harking back to Reconstruction.
Last term the court struck down portions of one law barring age discrimination in employment and another allowing rape victims to sue their attackers.
Spain's Constitutional Court struck down portions of this autonomy statute in 2010, ruling that Catalans constituted a "nationality" but that Catalonia was not, itself, a "nation".
Other families must have had similar early morning epiphanies because they began tearing down portions of their sombre kitchens and hammering up American-style "breakfast bars", complete with portable tellies to watch Anne Diamond and Nick Owen on Good Morning Britain.
Suvir Saran, the owner and a co-executive chef of Devi, an Indian restaurant in the Flatiron district, said he was weighing whether to pare down portions, because he did not think he could raise prices.
Last term, the court lengthened its string of regrettable 5-to-4 decisions trimming federal authority by striking down portions of the Violence Against Women Act and the federal law barring age discrimination in employment.
The Japanese government, meanwhile, ordered reactor operators on Saturday to bring in additional emergency diesel generators, as the aftershock again demonstrated the potential for such events to shut down portions of the power grid.
The storms have knocked down portions of the ritual boundary known as an eruv in Jewish communities in Silver Spring, Md., Center City Philadelphia, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Monsey in suburban New York, and Teaneck and Passaic in New Jersey.
