SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Some of the world's biggest Internet companies on Monday increased efforts to disclose more about their forced cooperation with U.S. spy agencies, and Google Inc asked a court to hold what would be unprecedented public oral arguments.
The court rejected what it called the "unprecedented breadth" of the argument put forward by Mr. Rumsfeld and other defendants — that no government or military employee could ever be sued by American civilians for torture or even murder in a war zone.
Judge Timothy Workman turned aside defense arguments that "unprecedented and wholly prejudicial levels of publicity" in the United States would deny the suspect, Amar Makhlulif, 37, a fair trial there.
The individual mandate is that part of the law that was most seriously contested in three unprecedented days of oral arguments.
This is an unprecedented decision, and strong arguments were adduced for it, namely that Mrs Haidar's life would be endangered.
His argument is not unprecedented, and it will not make or break the multibillion-dollar supplement industry, said Anthony L. Almada, a nutritional biochemist and entrepreneur.
The opposition and trade unions said the unpublished Treasury forecasts backed up their argument that the unprecedented scale of the cuts in public spending would hamper Britain's recovery from the deepest and longest recession since the Great Depression.
The argument isn't unprecedented in environmental cases: anti-nuclear protesters have been invoking it since at least the nineteen-seventies, for example, and in 2009 the climate activist Tim DeChristopher attempted the necessity defense after interrupting an oil-and-drilling lease auction by bidding up prices with no intention to pay.
Analogical reason in Islam is the process of legal deduction according to which the jurist, confronted with an unprecedented case, bases his or her argument on the logic used in the Qur'an and Sunnah.
This is an unprecedented demand, and legal experts said the argument had little chance of standing before the courts.
