Mr. Simpson also noted with particular frustration a February ruling in which the Supreme Court ruled that vaccine makers are protected from lawsuits by parents who believe shots harmed their children.
In its ruling, announced yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a 1998 ruling in which a federal judge ruled that the tribe could not annex land outside its reservation's boundaries.
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued its "separate but equal" ruling in, which stipulated that segregation was permissible (in practice, separate was emphasized rather than equal).
It was the second recent ruling in which an appeals court called for consideration of tougher sentencing in a terrorism-related case.
Anti-abortion forces have been trying to take advantage of the 2007 ruling in which the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on a particular method of abortion.
Two months before the Richardson meeting, bin Laden had issued a fatwa, a religious ruling, in which he called on Muslims to kill Americans — civilians and military.
That was a clear reference to a recent ruling in which a paper-thin majority of the judges ordered the state to set up an independent anticorruption unit.
Montoy resulted in a 2005 ruling in which lawmakers raised the base state funding to $4,492 per student (from about $3,900), and the court approved it.
The court has said recently that it will seek a review of the Croatian appeals ruling, in which two of the five judges wrote unusually sharp dissenting opinions.
India on Tuesday described the court ruling, in which the judges said there was insufficient evidence to continue holding Mr. Saeed, as "regrettable".
Two months before the Richardson meeting, bin Laden had issued a fatwa, a religious ruling, in which he called on Muslims to kill Americans civilians and military.
