The police acted in accordance with rigorous court-ordered rules, known as the Handschu Guidelines, he claimed.
An earlier review of 57 "rigorous" drug court evaluations around the country, led by Steve Aos of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, found that recidivism was reduced on average by only 8percentt, but with wide variation.
By failing to take the appeal, the two justices said, the Supreme Court in effect blessed what they characterized as a slippage from the rigorous review required by court precedents.
Foremost, he said, were questions of whether the level of protection was rigorous enough, and which courts would have jurisdiction in cases of cross-border disputes.
Holder wrote to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, that Obama has concluded the Defense of Marriage Act fails to meet a rigorous standard under which courts view with suspicion any laws targeting minority groups who have suffered a history of discrimination.
The 1993 County Report on Human Rights Practices in Jamaica from the United States Department of State noted the denial of a "fair public trial" and alleged that Gun Court trials observe "less rigorous rules of evidence than in regular court proceedings".
"Most people assume there is an equally complex rigorous vetting process for international courts, but that is not the case".
"The courts aren't rigorous enough when it comes to figuring out the status of their employees," she said.
It's time for the courts to require rigorous criteria be applied to this diagnosis before allowing more specious psychiatric claims to be presented to juries.
