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The US supreme court upheld the use of the firing squad in 1879, but as tastes have changed in the country since then, Dieter said it's possible a modern court could rule the practice violates an inmate's protection from cruel and unusual punishment.

In Hong Kong, which maintains a separate legal system more than 13 years after its return to Chinese rule, the practice has maintained a steady following.

Under the per se rule, the practice is deemed so manifestly anticompetitive in nature that it is deemed illegal, without regard to its actual market impact.

" A federal judge, Shira Scheindlin, ruled the practice unconstitutional in August.

In January, the federal district-court judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled the practice unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, but the city has appealed, which allows it to continue the practice undeterred for now.

Consider: In Horry County, N.C., last week, local officials opened their council meeting with a prayer to Jesus, despite the fact that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit had ruled the practice unconstitutional.

It was for this reason that, little more than a year after data retention became part of European law in 2008, the German constitutional court ruled the practice unconstitutional.

A committee of MPs has condemned police for continuing to upload custody photographs, including of people never charged, to a face recognition database, despite a high court judgement that ruled the practice was unlawful.

Three courts have ruled the practice is legal, while another said it could violate the DMCA.

Just last year, California's Court of Appeals ruled the practice of double-dipping unconstitutional.

Stop and frisk reached its peak in 2011 with 685,724 stops, but it's been in steep decline since 2013, when a district court judge ruled the practice unconstitutional.