Some legal experts noted, for example, that the unanimous court decision included sweeping language, such as its statement that "the right of suffrage is the pre-eminent right".
It said that to stop the counting violated the "pre-eminent" right to vote found in the state's constitution and that Harris was engaged in "hypertechnical reliance upon statutory provisions".+ The Florida court's action doesn't seem strange on its face.
But the opinion also referred to the Declaration of Rights in the Florida Constitution, in which, the Florida court said, the right to vote is "the pre-eminent right".
Because the right to vote is the pre-eminent right in the Declaration of Rights of the Florida Constitution, the circumstances under which the Secretary may exercise her authority to ignore a county's returns filed after the initial statutory date are limited.
The fund's directors, citing concerns about lawyer-client confidentiality, has been loath to grant access to the material even to eminent civil rights historians like Taylor Branch.
By Keith Gessen As the eminent human-rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and the charismatic defense attorney Murad Musaev debated a confounding case, the prosecution often seemed adrift.
Khan began his legal career working with eminent human rights lawyer Louise Christian as a trainee in 1994, when she was in partnership with Mike Fisher.
Tuckahoe, Maryland February 20 , 1895Washington, D.C., United States Frederick Douglass, original name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (born February 1818?, Tuckahoe, Maryland, U.S. died February 20 , 1895 Washington, D.C.) African American who was one of the most eminent human rights leaders of the 19th century.
Beautifully translated, with valuable commentary by two of the world's leading Kafka scholars and one of America's most eminent civil rights lawyers, the documents cast rich light on the man and the writer and offer new insights to lovers of Kafka's novels and stories.
His mother, Anna, moved to the house where he now lives, "bought with blood money," he said, when Bridgeport Hydraulic, a water company, acquired eminent domain rights in 1938 for a dam and reservoir that would flood an entire hamlet in the Valley Forge section of town.
