Historically, "the torch has passed" to a new generation when an energetic challenger faced a ruling generation that had simply lost its steam (although this spirited campaign has demonstrated Boomers still have plenty of steam) or one whose governing paradigm was repudiated by the voters as with Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 landslide rejecting the disastrous laissez-faire policies of that era.
And if Google does end up facing a stricter ruling in Europe than in the United States, the issue of whether successful companies in the United States get a fair hearing in Brussels is likely to emerge once again.
Amazon is facing a landmark court ruling in the US that could prise open its obscure tax structure in Luxembourg, after a high-stakes legal battle that has shed unprecedented light on the technology giant's labyrinthine tax affairs.
"From here on, we face a giant ruling party," she said after the vote.
While Apple was cleared by the DoJ to buy the patents ahead of the auction, Microsoft could face a similar ruling as the Novell situation since they already had a licensing agreement on the patents, just as they had on the Novell patents before they tried to buy them.
The Bridgeport Rescue Mission, the subject of the Supreme Court ruling, is facing a $300,000 tax bill.
So prospects for talks between India and Pakistan remain remote, as India's ruling coalition, facing a key election on December 12th in the state of Gujarat, seeks to avoid criticism for going "soft" itself.In Kashmir, however, there is despondency that there is no sign of a dialogue between India and even the moderate Kashmiri opposition.
California with about 10 million emergency room visits annually (McConville & Lee, 2008), is potentially facing a bigger challenge with the ruling of the US Supreme Court to reduce overcrowding in California prisons.
The latest setback the Chagossians faced was a ruling by the European court of human rights, which held that because their claims had been settled "definitively" in the British courts, they had effectively renounced further claims that their expulsion from their homes had been unlawful.
A former bus driver and foreign minister who narrowly won election in 2013 after Chavez died from cancer, Maduro may face a backlash in the ruling party and from grassroots supporters who think he has betrayed his predecessor's legacy.
