Sentence examples for brief refers to from inspiring English sources

Thus, for evidence to support the Board's statement on this score its brief refers to an American Bankers Association survey introduced in the 1971 proceeding.

Although the brief refers to the specific instance of California and the wording of Prop 8, it is difficult to see how this reasoning could be restricted to California alone.Why?

His brief refers to a 1991 Supreme Court decision in which the justices interpreted another federal law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to bar employers' "fetal protection" policies that kept women, whether pregnant or with the potential to become pregnant, from jobs that might endanger a developing fetus.

That request must, however, be accompanied by a brief referring to anything in the record that might arguably support the appeal.

Mr. Cuomo's position drew a supporting brief from the other 49 states that was harshly critical of the comptroller's office, which the brief referred to by its initials.

"As amended by S.B. 5, Texas's voter ID law both guarantees to Texas voters the opportunity to cast an in-person ballot and protects the integrity of Texas's elections," the Justice Department lawyers write in the brief, referring to the bill number of the new voter ID law.

Adams also noted that the plaintiffs in their briefs referred to "abortion-inducing products," not drugs.

"I think that this could still fail," the officer said at the briefing, referring to the American enterprise in Iraq.

"Would they take the case?" Mr. Phillips mused at the same briefing, referring to one along the lines of Bush v. Gore.

"They have to be held responsible," Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y ., the incoming chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, saiD-N.Y . the brincomingreferring to Mohammed and Saudi King Salman, though he did not bachairmancific means of holding them responsible.

"America needs a raise," Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif). said at the briefing, referring to a raise in pay, not interest rates.