Sentence examples for decided on grounds from inspiring English sources

Given that, he said, the case should be decided on grounds so narrow that the decision would have almost no precedential effect.

And yet the judge still accepted the use of that "political question doctrine," which basically holds that courts should not take on questions that need to be decided on grounds that have nothing to do with the law.

The scientists published their first papers last year in two leading journals, Science and Nature, after agreeing to a voluntary moratorium on further research until governments and research organizations could decide on ground rules to protect the public.

Thus, if a case may be decided on multiple grounds, judges should prefer one that allows them to avoid a constitutional issue.

Both cases have been decided on narrow grounds that speak to past Kennedy decisions.

Top jobs in the huge state sector are decided on political grounds as well as competence.

But issues other than partisan gerrymandering are involved in the Georgia case, and it could be decided on different grounds.

Hay decided on these grounds that there should also be a gay nation; he took the name Mattachine from Renaissance bands of dancers dressed as fools.

While still hard to predict, the general consensus among legal commentators is that the Proposition 8 case is likely to be decided on procedural grounds.

It is not unusual for the court to defer or avoid constitutional questions in cases that can be decided on narrower grounds.

The case concerning California's ban on same-sex marriage, enacted in a ballot initiative known as Proposition 8, was decided on technical grounds, with the majority saying that it was not properly before the court.