This landmark ruling is grounded in a belief that the majority of Americans continue to hold today -- that every person should have the right to make private medical decisions without the interference of politicians.
In a separate court filing, the states of Washington and Minnesota said the 9th Circuit panel ruling "is firmly grounded in precedent".
The firmly grounded ruling said that everyone has a basic right "to establish a legally recognized family with the person of one's choice," and found California's strong domestic partnership statute to be inadequate.
As for Roe v. Wade, Ms. Greenhouse and Ms. Siegel persuasively conclude that the political polarization around abortion owes more to political realignment and the vehemence and perseverance of abortion opponents than general public anger at the court's ruling, which was grounded in a constitutional right to privacy that flowed naturally from a line of previous decisions.
British aviation authorities, following their French counterparts, this week ordered the supersonic plane grounded, effectively ruling it unfit to fly.
Judge Mishler found a middle ground, ruling that the beating was comparable to voluntary manslaughter.
"We hold that the commissioner properly exercised his broad discretion under the collective bargaining agreement and that his procedural rulings were properly grounded in that agreement and did not deprive Brady of fundamental fairness," the court ruled.
In fact, the Court avoided one, ruling on procedural grounds that the party appealing the case lacked the legal standing to pursue it.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost ground in the elections for the upper house this summer, partly by forcing through benefit cuts and higher premiums on pensions.
But an appellate court struck down that decision, ruling on procedural grounds that Disability Advocates, the nonprofit organization that brought the lawsuit, never had legal standing to sue.
