But the question of who has final say over whether CPR should be attempted on a gravely ill patient — the doctor, the patient or the patient's representative — is live and unsettled in law and medicine.
130 More commonly, however, the courts have found that the issue of unilateral withholding and withdrawal is unsettled in law.
"The question of the extent of Congress's power to control the jurisdiction of the federal courts is one of the most contested and unsettled in constitutional law," said Vicki C. Jackson, a law professor at Harvard.
In a sometimes contentious hearing without the jury present, Mr. Thomas said that although campaign spending remained an unsettled area of law, Mr. Edwards had no legal obligation to claim the money as a contribution.
They enjoy redistricting cases, and voter identification cases, because they have politics and unsettled questions of law.
The question has come up in the past, and while most experts say they think the Constitution allows his candidacy, it's still an unsettled area of law.
While this is disappointing to couples eager to marry, issuance of a stay is normal procedure for a court ruling on a controversial issue in an unsettled area of law.
Apparently out of caution, given the unsettled state of the law, prosecutors obtained a warrant allowing the police to place a tracking device on Mr. Jones's Jeep Grand Cherokee.
"It's a tangled mess because the law is unsettled," Professor Chesney said.
And the unsettled state of obscenity law made things even more uncertain.
