Sentence examples for a legislative act from inspiring English sources

In United States v. Gillock (1980), a prosecution under the Hobbs Act and Travel Act, the Supreme Court declined to recognize a legislative act privilege for state legislators analogous in scope to the Speech or Debate Clause, either under the Tenth Amendment or Federal Rule of Evidence 501.

The prescribing of rates is a legislative act.

Just a recitation of a few of the considerations involved herein impels this Court to conclude that any extension of liability should be a legislative act.

ONGC was founded in 1956 by the government of India under the provisions of a legislative act to develop, produce and sell petroleum products within India.

Nominating anti-Roe Supreme Court Justices, one of the things Romney has said he'd do, is not, after all, a legislative act.

In Vermont, lawmakers overrode the governor's veto of a bill, making it the first state where gay marriage is made legal by a legislative act and not by a court decision.

for the proposition that legislators whose votes would have been sufficient to defeat (or enact) a specific legislative act have standing to sue if that legislative action goes into effect (or does not go into effect), on the ground that their votes have been completely nullified". Ante, at __.

It was a legitimate legislative act done for budget-saving reasons".

"In a single legislative act, it could undo two decades of state lawmaking to protect animals," said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States; let's hope the Senate-House conference committee will drop this amendment.

The church also benefited from a 1998 legislative act that allowed dioceses to register as their property churches and other buildings that they had long used but not officially owned.

"With this decision Europe is the first continent in the world whereby a parliamentary legislative act has been laid down for Internet access.