Germany, where the issue remains potent, has also said it does not intend to make the decrees and issue.
He said he made the decree giving himself power over the courts as a way of protecting the national sovereignty.
Having said that, the highly unusual procedures that were utilized by the district court in formulating relief, and the extreme and punitive nature of the relief awarded, make the decree unsustainable, even if the district court's liability determinations were affirmed in their entirety.
In 2005, the Indonesian supreme court issued a decree making the attorney general responsible for supervising the former leader's medical care, but the charges were dropped a year later.
At a midnight Mass in Cairo attended by President Hosni Mubarak's son, the Coptic Christian patriarch, Pope Shenouda III, thanked Mr. Mubarak for his "wise and tolerant decision" to issue a presidential decree making the day a national holiday.
But just a few paragraphs later the Koran makes the opposite decree: "There shall be no compulsion in religion".
The position of the Eastern churches was made clear by the decrees of the Quinisext Council in 692: bishops must be celibate, but ordained priests, deacons, and subdeacons could continue in existing marriages.
With Spain hampered by a 21 percent jobless rate — twice the European average — the government chose to make the ruling by decree after four months of negotiations between the biggest labor unions and the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations, known as C.E.O.E., broke down last week.
It took me some four hours to make the poem Fatwo (the Decree).
"Once we hear that 170,000 have paid, then we will make the festival free," Farr decrees at one point, illustrating that he knows nothing at all about game theory.
