Sentence examples for a constitutional standard from inspiring English sources

"We have a constitutional standard.

But that is not a constitutional standard, and is no guarantee the technology will not be broadly abused in the future.

In the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court not only rejected a major piece of legislation but created a constitutional standard that makes any meaningful campaign-finance legislation next to impossible to pass.

8 case will be the more important one, but a majority opinion in the DOMA case setting forth a new constitutional standard would trump a Prop.

Hewett noted that in a post-Washington decision in 1973, the Court applied a "case-specific" decision rather than a "general constitutional standard".

The amendment prohibits "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" and refers indirectly to an American constitutional standard that prohibits conduct which "shocks the conscience".

A federal appeals court rejected the city's argument that because the checkpoints served a "special need" of protecting health and safety, they should not be held to the same constitutional standard as a typical law enforcement program, which would require the police to have a reason to suspect wrongdoing before stopping a car.

Further, the agreement between the United States and Iran is a treaty by any plausible constitutional standard or tradition.

Despite this, the Court did not rule specifically on whether the preclusion sanction was appropriate, instead applying the constitutional standard for an absolutist state law.

For non-lawyers, "probable cause" is the constitutional standard of proof needed for a search warrant, not an indictment.

Justice Samuel Alito thought Guerriero's proposed constitutional standard "would be really a great change from the way trials are now conducted".