Fiat justitia ruat caelum was used in the case that was decided in what year?
Fiat justitia ruat caelum Fiat justitia ruat cælum is a Latin legal phrase, meaning ""Let justice be done though the heavens fall."" The maxim signifies the belief that justice must be realized regardless of consequences. According to the 19th-century abolitionist politician Charles Sumner, it does not come from any classical source. It has also been ascribed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, see . It was used in the landmark judgment, "Somerset v Stewart", where slavery was held to be unlawful at common law.
Siemens v Manitoba (AG) Siemens v Manitoba (AG), [2003] 1 S.C.R. 6, 2003 SCC 3 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on whether provincial plebiscite, used to determine if video lottery terminals (VLTs) should be banned from individual communities, are constitutional. The Court held that the plebiscites were a valid exercises of the province's power to legislate on matters "of a local nature" under section 92(16) of the Constitution Act, 1867, and that the plebiscite did not violate the rights of the VLT owners under sections 2(b), 7 and 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.