But the long-term effects of Roberts' ruling are less clear, and the burgeoning feeling on the left is that the chief justice may have found a way to preserve the court's non-partisan facade while setting a new precedent whose implications are the more powerful for being less visible.
Forbes.com sat down with Knowling the day before the ruling to learn how a favorable line-sharing ruling would affect Covad; and what the long-term implications of such a ruling would be on Covads business strategy.
A news analysis article in Business Day yesterday about the implications of a tax ruling against Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, referred incorrectly to the lawyers who prosecuted the case.
The decision yesterday striking down New York's system of financing education was welcomed in many school districts across the state, though some suburban residents expressed concern about the ruling's long-term implications.
Arsène Wenger is confident he will be able to sign the Bordeaux forward Marouane Chamakh, a long-term target, under the Bosman ruling in the summer and could rely upon Bendtner to lead the line in the absence of the injured Robin van Persie in the interim.
By the afternoon, however, Cuccinelli seemed to embrace a more favorable view of the of the ruling's long-term impact, saying, "On the health care policy side today, our side mostly lost.
For two years, Hungary's news media council, which hands out radio frequencies and is stacked with Mr. Orban's supporters, refused to renew Klubradio's long-term frequency, despite three court rulings in the station's favor.
Their July legislative blitzkrieg, which aimed to completely overhaul the judiciary system, including the forced retirement of Supreme Court justices, was an essential part of the ruling party's long-term strategy of dismantling democratic checks and balances and introducing de facto one-party rule.
But the new Chinese warmth, Chinese and Western experts say, reflects basic perceptions among the leaders here of their long-term interests and those of the ruling Communist Party.
Vape on!" Thirty-year-old me thinks, "I know that secondhand vaporizer smoke has yet to be shown harmful, but without an F.D.A. ruling and proper long-term studies, I'm nervous to be anywhere near it".
