Justice Moreno explains that revisions to the Constitution may be structural, but are not limited to structural changes and may also include amendments that, "substantially alter the substance and integrity of the state Constitution as a document of independent force and effect".
The judges in the majority noted that the amendment would substantially change the distribution of power between the executive and the judiciary but the ballot language says nothing about how the amendment would change the governor's power.
In 2009, Bates wrote, the court found that its approval of a government interpretation of section 215 of the Patriot Act to justify the bulk collection of all Americans' phone records – a different authority than section 702 of the Fisa Amendments Act – was substantially flawed.
While few pieces of GOP legislation garner dozens of Democratic yeas, the vote was far closer than other deregulation bills that Waters had decided not to fight on the floor -- either because the CFTC had already adopted their key terms, or because she'd secured amendments in committee substantially weakening them.
A Senate amendment that differs substantially from a bipartisan version passed overwhelmingly by the House two weeks ago, faces a difficult hurdle.
A number of states have passed multiple laws with HIV-specific criminal content (including amendments to previous statutes that substantially modified the text of a law in a way that changed its overall characteristics).
Independently, however, the public has a substantially similar First Amendment right to attend.
"Once again, they have offered an amendment that, if passed, would have substantially delayed this important legislation which is designed to protect the American people by proposing language already provided in the bill".
"Overruling Abood now would substantially disrupt established First Amendment doctrine and labor management systems in nearly half the country," warned David Frederick, the lawyer for the California teachers unions defending the agency fee arrangements.
However, the incidence of hyponatraemia declined substantially after a protocol amendment was introduced to exclude patients with sodium ⩽135 mmol l−1 at enrolment.
