"The lower court's refusal to follow Citizens United is such an obvious, blatant disregard of its duty to follow this court's decisions that summary reversal is proper," Mr. Bopp wrote in the introduction to his 36-page stay application in American Tradition Partnership Inc. v. Bullock.
"The lower court's refusal to follow Citizens United is such an obvious, blatant disregard of its duty to follow this Court's decisions that summary reversal" - that is, upending the lower court's judgment without full briefing and oral argument, and sometimes without an opinion - "is proper".
"It was obvious and blatant they were trying to foul me so I wouldn't get a 3-point play".
Is it difficult to maintain impartiality when you see obvious and blatant injustices?First of all, I have two different roles.
Here the production, a most striking one, beats the play, which is a curiosity - at once, obvious, obscure, blatant and convoluted.
Some of those familiar with the deliberations behind this rule said they expect it to be applied mostly in open-field situations in which the lowering of the head is obvious and blatant.
Mr. Prince also begins a more obvious and blatant use of appropriated photographs with "Twins" (1976), a collage in which he pairs photographs of real-life twins, in different clothes, with different hairstyles, with two reproductions, one of Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" and the other one a reproduction of a poorly painted copy of the "Mona Lisa".
"There's a huge, obvious and blatant double standard" when it comes to the looks and age of male and female broadcasters, concurs Klein, who once represented a pair of CNN female anchors in a suit similar to Midkiff's.
"[It's] such an obvious and blatant violation of the most basic human rights, they said.
The first, which got little media attention, was that cadets were sent an email telling them that if they did not say these words their commissioning oath would not be legal, an obvious and blatant violation of the "no religious test" clause found in Article 6 of the Constitution.
Manny received such a stiff penalty because his transgression was so obvious, so blatant, and also so stupid as it followed all the controversy surrounding Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez (who likely did not tell the truth even in his public confessions), and of course Mark McGuire.
