Silvio Berlusconi is busy sorting out his divorce – an ironic twist of fate for a man who long ago overturned the barriers between private and public life, using the family as a weapon of political propaganda and reducing parliamentary debate to the level of a bedroom farce in a celebrity news magazine.
Two people are believed to have fallen overboard in Jamaica Bay on Thursday morning when a 10-foot-long boat overturned near the eastern end of Far Rockaway, Queens, the authorities said.
This display, which Curtis promises will stay in place for a long time (overturning another Tate tradition, the regular rehang) abounds in masterpieces, curiosities and discoveries.
How is it that now, despite the fact that this case was long since implicitly overturned, this country is still run by people who believe that womanhood is inextricable from motherhood?
Roe v. Wade would have been overturned long ago, and laws criminalizing abortions would have gone into effect in many states.
It has overturned long-standing antitrust restrictions.
Environmentalists have threatened legal action to halt what is set to be Australia's largest coalmine, claiming the federal government has overturned long-standing conservation principles by approving it.
July 22, 1939 Virginia May 2, 2008 Virginia Mildred Loving Mildred Delores Jeterr), (born July 22, 1939, Virginia died May 2, 2008, Central Point, Va ., American civil rights activist who was one of the plaintiffs in the landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, in which the court overturned long-standing miscegenation laws that had prohibited interracial marriages.
It has overturned long-established constitutional rulings and principles pertaining to campaign finance law, the constitutional status of corporations, voting rights, the powers of the federal government, federalism, affirmative action, and abortion rights, to name but a few areas.
But, because of flawed Supreme Court decisions long before Citizens United, they would still be allowed to spend every cent of that money even if Citizens United is overturned, as long as they spend it themselves instead of by contributing to a political committee.
The report, "Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises," collates a mass of geological evidence showing that the earth's climate system is a jumpy beast: long, dormant spells are overturned suddenly by drastic events.
