Sentence examples for asserting jurisdiction over from inspiring English sources

The majority opinion, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and joined by the court's most conservative members, held that Congress had "clearly precluded" the F.D.A. from asserting jurisdiction over tobacco products.

But the agency and the corps seemed to raise doubts about those standards as well, saying in their new guidance today that "field staff should seek formal project-specific HQ approval prior to asserting jurisdiction over isolated non-navigable intrastate waters based on other types of interstate commerce links".

In conjunction with the original E.P.A. notice that the extent of protected wetlands might be curbed, the agency's Washington headquarters sent a notice to staff members and Army Corps of Engineers offices around the country to check with the central office before asserting jurisdiction over a wetland.

In the meantime, until any new rules are made final, the corps and the E.P.A. issued new guidance to their field offices discouraging them from asserting jurisdiction over wetlands unless they lie adjacent to traditional navigable rivers, streams and their tributaries.

As the NCAA and conference maintain substantial control over individual teams, the Board held that asserting jurisdiction over a single team would not promote stability in labor relations across the league".

US patent law, they say, has expanded into "a more expansive set of rules asserting jurisdiction over any event that may harm patent holders in the United States regardless of where the infringement is taking place".

Ms. Spaulding said some countries had asserted jurisdiction over war crimes committed anywhere in the world.

With its new bankruptcy law, China has asserted jurisdiction over who, in the last analysis, controls company assets.

For instance, after Kessler asserted jurisdiction over tobacco, Philip Morris and the other companies quickly filed their lawsuit to block him.

The F.D.A. asserted jurisdiction over tobacco and sought to crack down on cigarette sales to minors in 1996, but the Supreme Court last year ruled the agency needed Congressional approval.

Thomas O'Brien, the United States attorney here, asserted jurisdiction over a matter that local prosecutors in Missouri chose not to pursue — successfully arguing that he had jurisdiction because MySpace is based in Los Angeles, where its servers are housed.