The general's own political missteps have not helped, including his attempt in March to oust Pakistan's chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a move overturned by the Supreme Court.
The move overturns a June decision by the ITC which found in favour of Samsung in an increasingly bitter spat between the two tech firms over patent rights.
Both moves were overturned in federal courts until the Supreme Court agreed in June to review the ban this October.
She suspended him from the party in May but the move was overturned when he went to court to challenge the decision.
The government tried something similar in the 19th century, defining charity as more strictly tied with alms-giving, but the move was overturned in the courts.
The rebels there aim to hold a referendum on May 11 on secession from Ukraine, similar to one staged in March in Ukraine's Crimea region, which was seized and annexed by Russia in a move that overturned the post-Cold War diplomatic order.
Pro-hunt campaigners began legal moves to overturn Parliament's decision to outlaw hunting with dogs beginning in February.
On these issues and others, Republicans in Congress have made tentative moves toward overturning the rules, even as they wait for the White House to make its position clear.
The move overturns a decision on 11 March by the Italian foreign ministry that the marines would not go back because the decision to try them in India violated their rights.
A few months later, as the legislature moved to overturn his decision, Perry dug in.
