Still others have involved the Congressional Review Act, a law that allows legislators to overturn recently finalized regulations with a simple majority vote in the Senate.
The real Republican agenda includes overturning recently passed reforms that rein in credit card companies and the health insurance industry, privatizing Social Security and raising the retirement age to 70; massive cuts in health and education funding; and ongoing deficit-blowing tax cuts for the rich.
Dealing a potentially severe blow to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's highest court on Tuesday overturned a recently enacted law that had shielded him from criminal prosecution while in office.
Nonetheless, a spokesman for Arnoldo Alemán, a former president whose 20-year sentence on corruption charges was overturned last year, recently claimed that the United States was backing his new bid for office, while Mr. Gadea said an invitation to a recent dinner with embassy officials was an American stamp of approval on his campaign.
The battle for same-sex marriage rights in Australia has been tumultuous, with the country's High Court overturning recently instated marriage equality laws in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in December, thereby invalidating the 20 or so marriages that were performed during the brief window.
On Monday, Vilma again asked a federal judge to overturn his recently reissued suspension in the N.F.L.'s bounty probe of the Saints, and the N.F.L. Players Association made a similar request on behalf of three other players.
The lawsuit seeks to overturn two recently passed measures — known as the "living wage" and "prevailing wage" laws — that would increase pay for janitors, security guards and other service workers at some companies that receive government subsidies or lease space to a city agency.
Save Our Children, Inc. was a political coalition formed in 1977 in Miami, Florida to overturn a recently legislated county ordinance that banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on sexual orientation.
His immunity from prosecution was recently overturned.
Some UK towns have only recently overturned the cinema ban.
