Sentence examples for courts spurred from inspiring English sources

Before the new law, the courts spurred the work.

A Department of Justice report highlighted how Ferguson's mostly white City Council and its courts spurred on explicitly racist policing, in part to harvest fines from black residents.

Similar cases brought by couples in Virginia, Oklahoma and Nevada are also working through district courts, spurred by the supreme court's June 2013 decision that the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) was unconstitutional.

The most obvious alternative would be that it was done by the F.B.I., in response to a court order spurred by genuine suspicion of grave wrongdoing.

That court decision spurred legislation in California later that year to bar discrimination in jury selection.

For example, before a 1991 court case spurred by ACT UP and other activists forced New York to legalize needle exchange, more than half of all IV drug users here were already infected with HIV.

After the 2010 Citizens United ruling and a subsequent lower court decision spurred the creation of super PACs, the FEC ruled that candidates could solicit contributions for a super PAC -- so long as they limited those direct solicitations to the $5,000 individual contribution limit.

On the court, Spurs players, team officials and family members celebrated.

His inconsistent results and off-the-court distractions have spurred questions about his development.

Although these court decisions have spurred significant interest in board-adopted bylaws aimed at reducing incentives for the plaintiffs' bar to file claims, caution is advised.

But James Plastiras, a spokesman for the division in Albany, said that while the court ruling had spurred it to define the term, state officials still felt obligated to provide clarification for both tenants and owners.