1.   Our own convention about precedent convert any decision the highest court makes about Elmer, for example, into law for future murdering heirs.

2.   Although he said he had no hope of winning a reversal, Shushkevich said he planned to appeal the decision to the highest court.

3.   Attorneys for Jacobson were told this week that the case will now be heard by the highest court in the country.

4.   Because the Supreme Court rarely reviews patent cases, the Federal Circuit has become in essence the highest patent court in the land.

5.   A week ago, for example, the highest court in Massachusetts affirmed the power oF the state attorney general to impose safety requirements on gun manufacturers.

6.   But in a move to appease lenders, the highest Navajo court issued its first comprehensive guidance to tribal courts last spring on the way to handle foreclosures.

7.   But the second highest court in the Netherlands upheld a burglary conviction based solely on earprints, he said.

8.   Committee members need to ascertain whose interests Breyer would have at heart were he confirmed for the highest court.

9.   Decisions of the highest state courts can be challenged in the federal courts.

10.   For one thing, the paper lost a ruling at the highest court.