Sentence examples for ambiguous courts from inspiring English sources

The question was whether, when the underlying statute is ambiguous, courts should defer to an administrative agency's interpretation of its own jurisdiction.

Because the statute is ambiguous, courts have by and large agreed with environmentalists, and are now ordering the Fish and Wildlife Service to undertake these mapping projects all over the country on strict deadlines.

Many observers had assumed that if the A.C.A. was upheld, it would be under the so-called Chevron doctrine, which says that when a statute's meaning is ambiguous, courts should defer to the administrative agency's interpretation of it, as long as that interpretation is reasonable.

Now, in his 15-page opinion for the court, Chief Judge David Sentelle notes that the court's earlier ruling relied on a legal principle known as Chevron that says that if a statute is ambiguous, courts must defer to the agency's interpretation.

This doctrine requires that when a law is ambiguous, courts must defer to an agency's reasonable construction of the statute.

Also, in cases where text is ambiguous, courts traditionally defer to the interpretation of executive branch agencies.

One has to keep in mind the UAE's multi-layered and ambiguous court systems.

But in this case, which turned on such terms as "visitorial powers," he stated that even though the term was "somewhat ambiguous," the court could discern "the outer limits" of the term, "even through the clouded lens of history".

But the rules of copyright are so ambiguous, and the courts so slow, that the judicial system serves largely to implement the law of the jungle.

This formulation, often left ambiguous by the courts, could then be set at the state level permitting greater variation in the evidence provided by the individual's treating physician, which was generally thought to increase the likelihood of acceptance.

The court finds that Delaware's staggered board statute is ambiguous; so the court looks to see what Airgas's certificate of incorporation states.