It has done exactly what it overruled the Florida state court for doing.
It took 17 years, but the court came around to his view when it overruled Bowers in Lawrence v. Texas.
It overruled the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, whose members found unanimously last year that the Broadwater project was needed and would have a limited, manageable environmental impact.
The Obama administration said it overruled the decision on Saturday partly because it feared essential patents, which holders agree to license on reasonable terms, were being used in ways that could hurt competition and consumers.
In so doing, it overruled no fewer than six federal courts; it also reversed an earlier Supreme Court decision, made in 2000, declaring Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortion unconstitutional.
In fact, despite the city's new ordinance, the Planning Commission was required to follow federal laws, which allow for cellphone antennas, when it overruled the concerns of the residents of 333 Baker Street, according to commission members.
It overruled the Fifth Circuit in a different case and blocked the implementation of a Louisiana law that would have forced all but one of the state's abortion clinics to close.
On Friday December 8th, the Florida Supreme Court stunned almost everyone when it overruled the lower court and decided, by a mere 4-3 majorito, to require manual recounts of contested ballots throughout the state, and not just in the counties where recounts had been disputed.
This alarming prediction comes at the same time as a separate, but connected, controversy over what should be the height of the reservoir behind the dam.Two months ago, 53 hydrology experts and government advisers sent a petition to China's top leaders, including President Jiang Zemin, saying they were concerned about a plan to speed up the filling of the reservoir and wanted it overruled.
