The Commission said it was satisfied with the court's decision, which was in line with the agreed method of salary adjustment.

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In 1997, the International Association of Arson Investigators filed a legal brief arguing that arson sleuths should not be bound by a 1993 Supreme Court decision requiring experts who testified at trials to adhere to the scientific method.

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There is nothing that says, because the Constitution allows us to govern ourselves, if we as a nation were overwhelmingly opposed to a decision of, say, the United States Supreme Court, we as a nation have a method to fix that.

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