The court's amendment of the statute reads out of the provision the congressional decision that dangerousness alone is a sufficient basis for detention, and reads out as well any meaningful structure for supervised release...
They should ask the White House to make a clear declaration of support for the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act and the intention of the president to veto any bill that includes a revocation or amendment of the statute.
This undesirable situation was eventually remedied by amendments of the statutes, by which the qualifications of candidates for membership were defined and which also prescribed the conditions under which non-members may be admitted to the meetings.
Most statutes, apart from amending Acts and certain Acts such as Supply Acts, are assigned chapter numbers (the word "chapter" is usually abbreviated "Cap").. Revised editions (abbreviated "Rev. Ed"). of statutes that consolidate all amendments to statutes within certain periods of time are published regularly.
They argued that the decision violated various federal statutes, the fourth amendment of the United States constitution and in any event should have been subject to a consultation ("notice and comment") before being adopted.
Though the amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States, factors such as Black Codes, white supremacist violence, and selective enforcement of statutes continued to subject some black Americans to involuntary labor, particularly in the South.
The good news for Bosnia-Herzegovina is that the first battle is won, and after an amendment to the statutes of their football federation's constitution, their Euro 2012 qualifier in Bucharest on Saturday will go ahead as scheduled.
In the 2008 decision, the court held that the Medical Devices Amendments of 1976 — the statute that created a classification system under which the F.D.A. reviews medical devices — specifically pre-empted product liability lawsuits against so-called Class III devices.
The Florida Supreme Court's decision was an interpretation of, not an amendment to, Florida statutes enacted prior to Election Day.
Fifty years from now when I'm dead and gone, I would like to see that Trayvon Martin's name is attached to some type of statute or amendment that says you can't simply profile our children, shoot them in the heart, kill them and say that you were defending yourself," Martin said.
