21.   Also last month, a federal appeals court reversed a lower court decision and said Starr could proceed with a second case against Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker.

22.   Although she lost in the lower courts, the Supreme Court has now reinstated her suit.

23.   Although the cleanup may lead to more professional conduct and swifter records processing, the lower courts are likely to remain awash in political cronyism.

24.   Although the revised district is more compact and now has a majority of white voters, a lower court nonetheless ruled it invalid.

25.   Amirault collapsed in the courtroom when Judge Joseph Nolan revoked a stay of sentence granted by a lower court and ordered her to prison.

26.   And a series of lower courts have hewed to that line, ruling against the immigrants or refusing to hear their cases.

27.   And both raise questions that have received considerable attention in the lower courts but that the Justices, until now, were content to sidestep.

28.   And unlike the DeBoers, who lost every court decision to the biological parents, the Illinois adoptive parents had won two lower court rulings.

29.   Another lower court has said that each time an installment payment is due, it resets the six-year time limit.

30.   Another lower court has said that each time an installment payment is not made, it resets the six-year time limit.