In practical terms, the court's decision — whichever way the justices decide — will set the stage for health care to once again become a dominant political issue in the presidential campaign and in the many Congressional contests around the country.
As a practical matter, the court ruling will not have any immediate impact on Internet users, since Comcast and other large Internet providers are not currently restricting specific types of Web content and have no plans to do so.
Thursday's proceedings were important for Bush administration officials, who are frustrated at the pace of the Guantánamo war crimes cases, which have repeatedly been halted by practical difficulties and court rulings.
In practical terms, the court's ruling unsnarled a legal traffic jam that had tied up the Texas maps for Congressional and legislative districts as well as the state's voter ID law, which requires people to carry photographic proof that they are who they say they are before they are allowed to vote.
Not surprisingly, almost all these hearings have resulted in continued detention: only 38 of the more than 500 detainees were found not to be enemy combatants Whatever their practical shortcomings, the court's decisions regarding Hamdi and the Guantánamo detainees still registered as a limitation on the unbridled presidential power that the administration asserted.
To deploy such skills, individuals must develop a spectrum of sensory intelligence and use that intelligence about their body to execute skillful, practical shots on court.
Most scholars understand the delay as motivated by practical concerns: The court is generally unwilling to flip a majority of states on a major social issue.
Sowards acknowledges that granting standing to inanimate objects or wildlife communities poses practical problems in court; it may be, moreover, that the existing grants of standing to environmental groups to represent nature may be enough.
For all practical purposes, Northern courts and politicians rejected Scott v. Sandford as binding.
This, in turn, threatens enormous practical difficulties for courts considering the appropriate measure of relief".
