Sentence examples for challenges to statutes from inspiring English sources
In particular, she said, the Court's precedents showed not only that "facial challenges to statutes authorizing warrantless searches can be brought, but also that they can succeed".
"Constitutional challenges to statutes are routinely found moot when a statute is amended, or unripe when proposed regulatory amendments are pending".
"Constitutional challenges to statutes are routinely found moot when a statute is amended, or unripe when proposed regulatory amendments are pending," Judge Nevas said in his ruling.
The Roberts court has looked askance at some facial challenges to statutes, and the tenor of the argument suggested that it will take a similar attitude here.
Lucas Guttentag, a law professor teaching at Stanford who was the top immigrants' rights lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has participated in challenges to statutes in Arizona and other states, said that "in many respects, this is a defining moment for the court on whether a historic line will be breached".
Because of the subjective nature of what constitutes a cruel or unusual punishment and the clear, direct, and tangible losses of liberty and even life associated with it, challenges to statutes on Eighth Amendment grounds are plentiful, and the ideological complexion of the Supreme Court has influenced what it will or will not permit.
We declined to apply strict scrutiny and rejected equal protection challenges to the statutes.
Most cases examined were challenges to state statutes that barred recognition of same-sex couples and questions on family law such as adoptions, according to the report.
To set the record straight, we set forth here a short history of Supremacy Clause challenges to takeover statutes and to the poison pill.
Gorsuch, if confirmed, may very well have the opportunity to hear legal challenges to those statutes if they arrive at the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit is considering two challenges to Ohio statutes, one limiting early voting and the other regarding the counting of provisional ballots.
