Sentence examples for cases pit from inspiring English sources

These cases pit the First Amendment and a religious liberty law against the central domestic policy of the Obama administration, likely affecting many tens of thousands of employees.

But the two privacy cases pit against each other two very different conceptions of what it means to be a supreme court in the first place – and what it means to do constitutional law in the 21st century.

That's because criminal cases pit an accused person not against the victim, but against a prosecutor acting on behalf of the state.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide two cases pitting parents against public schools.

Her biggest cases pitted her against Mr. Macedo's military justice system.

There have been several other legal cases pitting HMRC against the film industry.

Of the 19 decided cases pitting corporations or business entities against individuals or government agencies — regardless of whether the chamber filed a brief — the court ruled in favor of business 14 times, or 74percentt of the time.

The former Clinton antidrug official said that as the United States has expanded its law enforcement presence overseas, there have been a number of problem cases pitting American law enforcement officials against diplomats.

In a sign that the British cases pitted authorities against one another, the Treasury Department raised concerns last year that New York's banking regulator acted against Standard Chartered without sufficiently notifying federal authorities, the documents show.

By that is meant that in cases pitting environmental protection against corporate or property rights, he tilts the scales of justice against the environment.

In federalism cases, pitting the powers of the federal government against those of the states, Scalia has often taken the states' positions.