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The decision could also set precedents concerning the applicability of copyright laws to computer chips.

"One would have thought nothing," Justice O'Connor said, unless the court was willing to extend precedents concerning anonymous tips.

"The court is poised to reverse longstanding precedents concerning the rights of corporations to participate in politics," said Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Columbia.

Mr. Verrilli said the Seventh Circuit's ruling was correct under precedents concerning public employees' unions, and he urged the Supreme Court not to hear the case.

The Court bolstered this view by citation to its own and other precedents concerning offer and acceptance in contract law.

In support of this argument, the Court cited several of its own precedents concerning negotiable instrument law, as well as cases from the House of Lords and the courts of New York and Massachusetts.

There are no Supreme Court precedents concerned with terminal treatment, with the only representative cases having been decided by regional courts.

Justice Elena Kagan, writing for herself and six other justices, said the federal judge's ruling was at odds with the Supreme Court's central precedent concerning retroactivity, its 1989 decision in Teague v. Lane.

(b) The Court rejects the Government's argument that the Act fits within the Court's line of precedent concerning "public welfare" or "regulatory" offenses and thus that the presumption favoring mens rea does not apply in this case.

Dabney also argued Holmes Group, Inc. v. Vornado Air Circulation Systems, Inc., 535 U.S. 826 (2002), which overturned case law of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concerning its appellate jurisdiction, and KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007), which overturned Federal Circuit precedent concerning the non-obvious subject matter condition for patentability.

His city avoided a costly and crippling strike in the middle of the Christmas season, and yesterday's deal may establish a precedent concerning one of the city's most coveted goals: raises for its unionized work force only in exchange for productivity gains, a bargaining goal that has eluded the city for nearly a decade.