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n. 法院；球场；朝廷；奉承
vt. 招致（失败、危险等）；向…献殷勤；设法获得
vi. 求爱
n. (Court)人名；(英)考特；(法)库尔

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While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

This case gives the court an opportunity to rein in the growing use of patents to protect genetically engineered crops and other life forms―but the court may well use it to give this trend a powerful new endorsement.

Have we really gotten to the point that planting a seed can lead to a high-stakes Supreme Court patent lawsuit?

Rather than pay up or work out a settlement, Bowman decided to appeal—all the way to the Supreme Court

But this is a real-life argument before a Supreme Court that has a well-earned reputation for looking out for the interests of large corporations.

What are Monsanto's critics hoping the Supreme Court will do

The Supreme Court will try to change its reputation for supporting large corporations.

The Supreme Court is likely to persuade the parties concerned to work out a settlement

It is by no means certain that the settlement will be enacted (执行) – it is the subject of afairness hearing in the US courts.

Many people are seriously concerned by this - and the company is likely to face challenges in other courts around the world

The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice overtime.

On the occasions when hunting has been tried, local animal rights people have worked to secure court orders against the hunts.

Legislation and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity

The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really committed the crimes.

This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station, the court and the hospital.

All of the incentive is really on winning and not losing on the field or on the court.

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

So, while there may be insights to be gained from matching behavior to brain activity, those insights will I not necessarily lead to justice in a court of law.

The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.

There will probably be months of legal confrontation, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.

To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language, and projecting her voice so it could be heard from the judge's bench to the back door.

Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.

Her little work experience in court.

If a student has kept a cat in his room for a week since the warning, he will face the student court.

If, one week from the date of written notice, the pet is not removed, the student is referred to the student court.

She is a famous judge in court.

With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four kings and one queen.

The judges on the Federal circuit are “reacting to the anti-patient trend at the supreme court” ,says Harole C.

The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

Similarly, some Wall Street investment films armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.

The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Aministration.

Justice Anthony Kennedy,joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court's liberals,ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.

The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.

The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice.

The court has ruled that police don’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they sift through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.

Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.

The court’s ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.

The court’s ruling is a step forward in the struggle against both corruption and official favoritism.

The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is “distasteful” and “nasty.

The basic compact underlying representative government, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the court,” assumes that public officials will hear from their constituents and act on their concerns.

In a rare unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court has overturned the corruption conviction of a former Virginia governor, Robert McDonnell.

He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament.

But the ruling reinforces the need for citizens and their elected representatives, not the courts, to ensure equality of access to government.

Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St.

Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.

Court, school organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and no boy who went a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.

A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.

At the very least, the court should make itself subject to the code of conduct that applies to the rest of the federal judiciary.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents, despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.

similarly, some Wall Street investment firms armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.

States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.

The case may yet reach the Supreme Court.

The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer's purchase to a state where the business didn't have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn't have to collect sales tax for the state.

The court cannot maintain its legitimacy as guardian of the rule of law when justices behave like politicians.

The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is "distasteful" and "nasty".

The court has ruled that police don't violate the Fourth Amendment when they go through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.

The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California's advice.

The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an important issue recently.

The Federal circuit's action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an "important" policy interest, Because the California law applies to all boards, even where there is no history of prior discrimination, courts are likely to rul

Their success may be determined by a suit related to this issue, brought by the Mayo Clinic, which the Supreme Court will hear in its next term.

This and other similar cases raise the question of whether there is still a line between the court and politics.

When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it shapes is inescapably political-which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily dismissed as unjust.