"This is really a groundbreaking decision," said Stephen Rapp, the lead prosecutor.
More importantly, three of the four federal judges who have ruled against Doma, including the judge who handed down this week's groundbreaking decision, have been Republican appointees.
But three months and one potentially groundbreaking decision later, Childress is living in a three-bedroom apartment in the fashionable Athens suburb of Glyfada.
It was a groundbreaking decision, which has spared countless older and disabled people from selling their homes to pay for nursing care.
The groundbreaking decision overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from many positions in the infantry and artillery, even though in reality women have found themselves in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more than 20,000 have served.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has decided to lift the military's ban on women in combat, a groundbreaking decision that overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from artillery, armor, infantry and other such roles.
In the end, he fought all the way to the United States Supreme Court, where his formidable skills helped win a groundbreaking decision, Moore v. Dempsey, that set the stage for his clients' eventual release.
WASHINGTON — In a badly fractured 5-to-4 decision in which no rationale commanded a majority, the Supreme Court on Monday seemed to retreat from a groundbreaking decision in 2009 that said crime lab reports may not be used in criminal trials unless the analysts responsible for creating them provide live testimony.
As the Supreme Court prepares to release its potentially groundbreaking decision on a California law that intends to regulate the sale of video games (an announcement is expected any week now, and potentially as early as Monday), it may bear remembering that Justice Potter Stewart found it impossible to reduce obscenity to a definition, declaring, "I know it when I see it".
The groundbreaking decision overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from artillery, armor, infantry and other such combat roles, even though in reality women have frequently found themselves in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan; according to the Pentagon, hundreds of thousands of women have deployed in those conflicts.
