But there are less obvious cases.
"The most obvious cases of this involves obesity and smoking".
But there may have been other issues troubling him; there often are in such seemingly obvious cases.
The court would act only if national authorities refused to prosecute in obvious cases of war crimes or civilian massacres.
Among the most obvious cases was the Roman Catholic church with nearly 200 diocesan tribunals whose main task was marriage annulments.
Advocates of a "no" vote say that if the hands of the police are tied, they will be unable to deal even with obvious cases of abuse.
The obvious cases are the kinds of things that you already get notifications for on your smartphone right now: new messages, fresh interactions on Twitter, breaking news, an alert that you were tagged in a terrible Facebook photo.
The two obvious cases are United Airlines, now struggling to bring down costs under Chapter 11 protection from creditors, and American Airlines, which barely avoided a bankruptcy filing in mid-April but is still foundering because of huge expenses.
Still, the challenge of distinguishing pyramid schemes from legitimate investments hasn't stopped prosecutors from going after obvious cases like Charles Ponzi, in the nineteen-twenties, or, more recently, Bernie Madoff.
In a letter to Mr. Nadler yesterday, Mr. Allbaugh encouraged him to forward to the agency "any specific cases that have not been approved but which appear, such as those mentioned in your letter, to be obvious cases for assistance".
NOM's Brown said that with the Hobby Lobby decision, it was encouraging to see that "the court get such patently obvious cases right", but said through laughter that his group is not interested in seeking religious exemptions.
