If a police officer makes a mistake based on a faulty interpretation of an unambiguous law, Justices Kagan and Ginsburg state, the evidence collected during his traffic stop cannot, under the Fourth Amendment, be the basis of a prosecution.
An infection had been compensable before the amendment on the basis of criteria similar to those for a treatment injury, i.e. on the basis of preventability.
The D.C. Council crafted the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act on the basis of a growing consensus that juvenile criminals, whose brains aren't fully mature, should not receive adult sentences of decades in prison.
The E.R.A., as it came to be called, aimed to go a step further than the 19th Amendment, making discrimination on the basis of gender unconstitutional.
In Plyler v. Doe (1982) the Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute denying free public education to illegal immigrants as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because discrimination on the basis of illegal immigration status did not further a substantial state interest.
After rejecting more sweeping versions of a suffrage amendment, Congress proposed a compromise amendment banning franchise restrictions on the basis of race, color, or previous servitude on February 26 , 1869
Selling the amendments to voters on the basis of encouraging voter participation also masks the fact that the terms of some officials who wrote the measures would be extended 18 months to accommodate the change in the elections schedule.
Both the diary and the questionnaire were tested in a pilot study with 12 soldiers in another military camp in Norway (Lutvann), and small amendments were made on the basis of the results and comments from this group.
Their petitions, which began circulating in January, would put to the voters in November a proposed state constitutional amendment prohibiting "preferential treatment" on the basis of "race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin".
The opinion made clear, however, that the First Amendment had prevailed only on the basis of factual findings about the media's innocent receipt of the tapes and about the public significance -- and not simply the newsworthiness -- of the information they contained.
