The 97-page ruling, which overturns a lower court decision, comes from the first high-level court in the regular judicial system to review the NSA program.
Thursday's ruling is the first time a higher-level court in the regular judicial system has reviewed the N.S.A. phone records program.
His first assignment is to a low-level court; thereafter he works his way up the judicial ladder as far as he can until his retirement with a government pension.
Britain's magistrates' courts, the lowest level court where defendants often first appear, have filled in recent days with accused rioters from London and several other British cities.
At the second level is the provincial court, which consists of a three-judge panel that hears all cases and that functions as a court of appeal for the tribunals and for the administrative jurisdictions of the first instance.
There is also a second level of appeal, the Court for Arbitration in Sport.
State Supreme Court justices, in the highest trial level court, for example, earn $136,700, less than some first-year lawyers at large law firms, who can earn $160,000.
condo; entry hall, living room with fireplace, eat-in kitchen, h/w floors on first level, pools and tennis courts; common charge $575; taxes $9,844; Broker: Prudential Holmes & Kennedy.
Lavin watched the game from a ninth-level suite high above the court.
Unlike suburban shopping malls, it has no movie theaters, live music, special events or places to hang out, apart from a food court on the seventh level.
"Basically, the big change has been that with El Corazon and Saddle Ranch, they took away the concept of small tenants like shopping malls have". What was once a food court on the second level above ground with lots of small food and dessert shops will be transformed into a plaza with a handful of sit-down restaurants.
