"It may be the most important ruling the Court of Appeals has come down with in a couple of years," said William E. Hellerstein, a professor at Brooklyn Law School.
That would be a huge reversal for the Fair Housing Act, which was passed soon after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy wasn't a staunch liberal on environmental issues (probably because he isn't a liberal), but he still joined the majority in the most important ruling the court has issued on climate change.
In another important ruling, the justices clarified the 76-year-old federal arbitration law and ruled 5-4 that employers can enforce binding arbitration agreements to keep workplace disputes out of court.
Yesterday, the European Court of Justice has issued an important ruling on vaccine manufacturers liability.
This is probably the most important ruling of the entire regime's experience thus far.
In September, the company lost an important ruling, effectively ending this year's drilling efforts.
In another important ruling yesterday, the court invalidated California's "blanket" primary.
Jim Harra, HMRC's director general for business tax, described it as "an important ruling against a marketed avoidance scheme".
But a threshold question, about whether the challengers have legal standing to sue, could give rise to an important ruling.
One important ruling here and another there, and without anyone fully realizing it, a new intellectual-property reality had evolved by the end of the 1980's.
The case, to be argued Wednesday, could produce the most important ruling in years on the constitutional contours of commercial speech.
