Writer called him up last week to talk about the Supreme Court's decision in June that had the right, under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, to exclusive domain for purposes of public identification & promotion, over the word "Olympics"....He vastly strengthened our impression that the Amateur Sports Act & the Supreme Court decision upholding its constitutionality amounted to a linguistic theft.
The extended debate over its constitutionality contributed significantly to the evolution of pro- and antibank factions into the first American political parties the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, respectively.
A trial on its constitutionality is scheduled to begin Aug. 28 and many critics of the current system are optimistic that the United States District Court judge hearing the case will order it to be changed.
Could the Supreme Court undo this act of mandatory corruption, if a case challenging its Constitutionality were brought to them?
After consideration in committee and making amendments to the bill, the Senate recommended that the bill not be proceeded with until such time as the Supreme Court of Canada had ruled with respect to its constitutionality, which had not occurred prior to dissolution.
Since the ACA was signed into law in 2010, it has miraculously managed to withstand "Hitler death panel" comparisons, state by state efforts to block its implementation, a US supreme court challenge to its constitutionality and, most recently, a defunding effort that led to the federal government shutdown.
WASHINGTON -- Three years after Democrats began crafting health care reform, nearly 18 months after the president signed it into law, and eight months since the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to its constitutionality, proponents of the Affordable Care Act can finally exhale.
This is significant because the court has held that ambiguities in an immigration statute should be interpreted so as to avoid serious doubt as to its constitutionality.
Over three years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law and one victorious Supreme Court case affirming its constitutionality, opponents are down to the wire and ready to hold the government hostage as open enrollment begins.
Federal judges were divided even as to its constitutionality, with some believing that the statute penalized the freedom to associate, and others believing that the statute's failure to require that a defendant know that the organization had been designated a terrorist organization was a fatal due process flaw.
