However, on the basis of the oral amendment, as rapporteur I can accept the overall amendment.
A group of inmates and family members brought a class-action lawsuit that challenged the regulations on the basis of the First Amendment right to freedom of association and the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
The Court found in his favor on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law, while not discussing his Fifteenth Amendment claim.
The District Court, having enjoined the Act and the Order on the basis of the First Amendment, had no occasion to address these other grounds.
Their demurrer and motion to quash made clear their position that that issue should be withheld from the jury on the basis of the First Amendment.
In another case in August, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan also refused to dismiss a case against Moody's and S.& P. on the basis of the First Amendment's protections.
In "To Keep and Bear Arms," an essay published in The New York Review of Books five months after Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Federal Building, Garry Wills called Levinson's essay, which had been embraced by the N.R.A., "frivolous," and reported that he found "a vast outpouring of articles justifying individual gun ownership on the basis of the Second Amendment" to be muddled and tendentious.
Clearly, some American defence lawyers have cottoned on, and, wary of its power, have challenged this "newfangled" information on the basis of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits search without warrant.
Some campuses accepted on the basis of the First Amendment, even though they could just as well have refused.
The Courts, for the first time in American history, struck down a law on the basis of the 2nd amendment.
