He is right to challenge the idea of statutory regulation of the press, and right that the printed press would wither if subjected to the kind of political impartiality rules upheld in British broadcasting.
Although the zoning rules upheld on Thursday would authorize the same increase in building size, the rules had been modified as part of the earlier ruling in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Richard M. Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, must repay $47.8 million in bonuses he wrongly received during a financial fraud at the company, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled, upholding a lower court ruling.
The gods lived among men on their great estates (the temples), ruled, upheld law and order for humans, and fought their wars.
Corie Wright, policy counsel for Free Press, a nonprofit group that has generally opposed media consolidation, including the Comcast-NBC merger, pointed out that the F.C.C. rule upheld on Friday was scheduled to expire in two years.
Women will be allowed to work as bartenders in New Delhi, India's Supreme Court ruled, upholding a lower court's decision that an earlier ban was unconstitutional, local television reports said.
The air agency estimates that under the rule upheld today, 22,000 electric cars would have to be sold in California in 2003, 10 times more than the 2,300 now on the road.
On the climate, for example, three Supreme Court decisions established that federal climate action is required by the Clean Air Act's broad language; and the E.P.A. then, via another rule upheld by the judiciary, documented substantial climate risks.
After 60 years of military rule upholding secular values, Egypt has elected the first civilian president in its history, and its first Islamist president, too.
