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".
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.
"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.
"We hold that the [NFL] 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 three-judge panel wrote.
His ruling would undoubtedly be grounded in originalism and of such logical purity that no one could suggest that it had sprung from a personal ideological or political bent.
Her reluctance, Judge Kollar-Kotelly noted, was grounded in the appeals court's ruling of June 2001.
"It's much more grounded in the specifics of the California ruling," she said.
While Citizens United may have been a terrible ruling, the idea that corporations have a First Amendment right to free speech was grounded in decades of legal precedent.
In his ruling, Judge Mukasey said that the use of the law in grand jury investigations was solidly grounded in case law, legal practice and legislative history.
