Sentence examples for apportionment decisions from inspiring English sources

At the confirmation hearings, Alito rebuffed suggestions by Democrats that this statement meant that he opposed the principle of "one man, one vote," which was at the heart of the Warren-era apportionment decisions.

My half cheer is reserved for Mr. Bickel's tour d'horizon in Chapter 3, entitled "The Web of Subjectivity"., He deals there with a variety of issues— obscenity, free speech, prayer in schools, the death penalty, criminal procedure — none of which he treats with anything like the depth that he reserves for the desegregation and re apportionment decisions.

While no court has rejected their exact argument, the Supreme Court came close in a pair of 1990s apportionment decisions.

Instead, the parties agree to a general allocation of control rights (which govern the apportionment of decision-making power over the firm) and cash-flow rights (which govern the apportionment of firm-generated value).

In 1999, the court ruled that sampling in its conventional form was barred by statute for apportionment purposes, a decision that avoided the need to address the constitutional question.

Society's interest in minimizing erroneous decisions in equitable apportionment cases requires that hard facts, not suppositions or opinions, be the basis for interstate diversions.

The Supreme Court reversed that decision, saying that apportionment of liability is appropriate so long as there is a reasonable basis for determining the contribution of each wrongdoer.

Thus, we conclude that the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding the Maryland legislative apportionment valid, and that the decision below must be reversed.

The Supreme Court of Japan began exercising judicial review of apportionment laws following the Kurokawa decision of 1976, invalidating an election in which one district in Hyōgo Prefecture received five times the representation of another district in Osaka Prefecture.

In a dissenting opinion of a 1964 Supreme Court case involving reapportionment in the Alabama state legislature, Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan II included Minor in a list of past decisions about voting and apportionment which were no longer being followed.

Mr. Lewis did more than cover the decision; an article on legislative apportionment that he had written for The Harvard Law Review was cited in the decision at Footnote 27.