But the court also upheld a plan by Mr Samaras to replace ERT with a smaller broadcaster.
In the ruling, Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise of Federal District Court in Newark upheld a plan that was developed after a 10-member legislative commission, made up of five Democrats and five Republicans, could not agree on reapportionment.
There, an appeals court last week upheld a plan to make state workers take two furlough days by June 30, the end of the fiscal year, and 12 more in the next fiscal year.
WASHINGTON — The nation's second-most powerful court grappled Tuesday with the intractable and potentially catastrophic problem of climate change, weighing whether constitutional questions surrounding President Obama's climate change regulations should trump the moral obligations of upholding a plan to curb global warming.
Pickles has upheld a planning inspector's recommendation that permission be refused, finding "the proposal to demolish important parts of significant market buildings, to the great detriment to the surrounding area, to be wholly unacceptable".
Beginning with word of a decision not to try to overturn President Bill Clinton's declaration of nearly two dozen national monuments, the new administration has gone on to uphold a Clinton-backed plan to rein in diesel emissions and signaled support for a plan to begin regulating carbon dioxide emissions to combat global warming -- steps seen as anathema by oil and mining interests.
The State Supreme Court ruled that the attorney general, Thurbert E. Baker, a Democrat, may continue to press an appeal meant to uphold a voter redistricting plan.
So soldiers like Specialist Mendoza return home to find themselves in a financially and emotionally draining limbo, asking the courts to uphold a family care plan that is formulated, but not enforced, by the armed services.
And in at least one case, in 1991, a federal appeals court in New Orleans upheld a health plan that had singled out AIDS for special restrictions on coverage.
In a Supreme Court decision in June upholding a health plan's right to give doctors a financial incentive to hold down costs, Justice David H. Souter used blunt words to describe the fundamental principle behind H.M.O.'s: "treatment rationing".
The ruling upheld a federal plan sharply restricting the pollution that drifts eastward from power plants in the Midwest and border states and causes unacceptable levels of smog in the Northeast.
