Modern courts familiar with the principle that only a clear congressional statement can create a strict liability offense, see Morissette, supra, understand this fundamental limitation.
Fundamental was the recognition that laws are nothing without judges and courts familiar with the issues, with the power to enforce them, and able to provide accessible justice to individuals and representative agencies.
The reasons for the adoption of the Amendments were elaborately considered by a court familiar with the times in which the necessity for the Amendments arose and with the circumstances which impelled their adoption.
Furthermore, the court of appeals must defer to the district court's legal conclusions in Rule 11 proceedings, since those conclusions are rooted in factual determinations rather than purely legal inquiries, and the district court, familiar with the issues and litigants, is better situated to marshal the pertinent facts and apply the necessary fact-dependent legal standard.
His father Ronnie was a conman, in and out of jail and the bankruptcy courts, as familiar with Wormwood Scrubs as the Savoy Grill.
The author of the footnote, Jeffrey R. Learned, a Michigan lawyer who was the lead lawyer in the case, has accepted a public reprimand and agreed not to appear in the Indiana courts, lawyers familiar with the matter said.
The Court from that draws the inference which the courts below, familiar, we presume, with the local conditions, refused to draw, viz., that to be seen loading liquor into a truck where it is lawful is proof that defendant is unlawfully trafficking in liquor some distance away.
All who observe the work of courts are familiar with what Judge Cardozo described as 'the tendency of a principle to expand itself to the limit of its logic.'1 A military commander may overstep the bounds of constitutionality, and it is an incident.
Even though courts have familiar limitations with respect to policymaking, scholars often argue that the PTO is more likely to be captured.
Most airports have tiny food courts with familiar restaurants like McDonald's or Taco Bell.
Then they watched as Lin raced up and down the court with familiar effect, scoring 22 points in the Rockets' comfortable 109-96 victory.
