The Vermont Supreme Court extended executive privilege to cover a governor's official papers in a 1990 ruling, so it has affected only three former governors.
For example, the supreme court ruling would not have affected the case of Majid Ahmed, an 18-year-old A-grade student from Bradford, who was barred from taking up a place at Imperial College to train as a doctor in 2008 because of a "spent" conviction.
In late July, the presiding judge, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan, reported that a preliminary ruling that could have affected the game's release would have been given on August 6, 2009, with Karlan tentatively ready to deny Activision's motion to delay the game.
Mistaken rulings by regular officials have affected final scores before, and the league has nimbly moved on.
But the court's majority said a ruling against the commission would have affected how elections are conducted in states beyond Arizona.
While Pena said she was surprised that the verdict reading did not mention the bribery accusations, or how testimonies from the allegedly tainted witnesses might have affected the ruling, she said the fact that another case has stemmed from it sends an important message to future prosecution teams.
In ruling on 15 habeas cases since mid-2010, the appellate court has made the standard of review toothless, and its views have affected lower court rulings.
"The court was unable to accept that the submission of a copy of the September 2004 decision could have affected Russia's national security," the ruling said.
The following articles, which often pre-date the May 2014 ruling, have been affected.
Far from the political debate that has dominated immigration, Monday's ruling has the potential to affect millions of undocumented immigrants across the country.
