Disputes involving a question of medical judgment would go to state court.
Fifty-four yeago ago, in Colegrove v. Green, a case involving a question of allegedly inequitable Congressional apportionment in Illinois, Justice Felix Frankfurter coined a famous phrase.
But that decision involved a question of constitutional law, while Tuesday's decision in AT&T v. Federal Communications Commission, No. 09-1279, conlydered only the meaning of a statute.
But there have emerged some dominant theories on the progress of Puerto Ricans as a group, some involving a question of bad timing, others centering on the question of whether their American citizenship has been a mixed blessing in this country.
These cases were brought by victims of attacks and involved a question about whether the magazine published ads that were a "clear and present danger" to the public, and therefore unprotected by the First Amendment.
One aide noted that this case, like that of Henry Lee Lucas, involved a question of evidence, and the aide suggested that Mr. Bush found this sort of factor more relevant and compelling than emotional factors like those involved with the decision not to grant a reprieve to Karla Faye Tucker.
There is, you might say, a digital "yuck" factor involved: a question of what exactly people are and aren't comfortable with.
"Sexual harassment usually involves a question of a power imbalance," Urry says, noting that she was not talking about the Marcy case.
The unemployment item involves a question about whether the respondent was unemployed at the time of the survey, a binary variable indicating whether the respondent was unemployed or not.
The rare "en banc" review is allowed by procedural rules when the case involves a question of exceptional importance.
