Sentence examples for courts about whether from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sessions has since made a point of grilling the president's nominees for lower courts about whether they agree with Mr. Obama or with Justice Sotomayor.

But there is definitely a big dispute, taking place in the city's courts, about whether billboard trucks should be on the streets at all.

Law enforcement officials can already get this type of location information from cellphone companies, Mr. O'Reilly said; there are, however, conflicting rulings in federal courts about whether they need a search warrant.

Mr. Picard's brief identifies conflicting decisions by other federal courts about whether a trustee can be subrogated to the claims of investors, which is one ground for the Supreme Court to step in to reconcile differing legal interpretations.

Unless Corbyn agrees to step aside, there is likely to be a battle inside the party – and potentially through the courts – about whether his name would automatically have to be included on any ballot paper.

Given the chief justice's expressed interest in tightening up the rules for standing, along with general confusion in the courts about whether sponsors of a referendum can assert the interests of a state unwilling to defend it, it's possible that the standing issue is what drove this case from the beginning.

For the first time in a generation, lawyers and judges argued today in New York's highest court about whether a convicted killer should be put to death.

Lawyers for the two men argued Wednesday before Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. of United States District Court about whether the lawsuit should be permitted to continue and whether it belonged in New York.

The detective noted that if they do get a DNA sample, they could be called to testify in court about whether they followed the protocol, and any admission that they did not could prove damaging to a case.

Though the unsigned opinion was unanimous, it seemed to reflect divisions on the court about whether the Florida court had overreached its authority and had curtailed the powers of the State Legislature in contravention of the federal Constitution.

In this morning's ruling Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, notes that "there is disagreement" on the Court about whether Grutter was correctly decided, and indeed Antonin Scalia wrote a separate one-paragraph concurrence saying that the only reason he was joining the majority was because the plaintiff "did not ask us to overrule Grutter's holding" that diversity permits the use of race.