Sentence examples for declare statutes from inspiring English sources

Although all German courts are empowered to review the constitutionality of governmental action within their jurisdiction, the Federal Constitutional Court is the only court that may declare statutes unconstitutional under the Basic Law; the Länder (states) have their own constitutional courts.

Thomas noted that, when courts declare state statutes unconstitutional, the Supreme Court's "ordinary practice" is to let the laws stand during the appellate process.

What they have the power to do is declare federal statutes unconstitutional and issue orders prohibiting their enforcement.

"We are not without misgivings about the paltriness of the $20,000 cap, especially in light of the decline in the value of the dollar since 1971," it said, "but we cannot correctly declare the statute to be unconstitutional.

John S. Trinsey Jr., a voter and potential candidate, asked the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to declare the statute unconstitutional as a violation on the Fourteenth and Seventeenth amendments, because the lack of a primary removed his right to properly vote for candidates and delegated that power to political parties.

A U.S. District Court judge in Pittsburgh threw out the ten-count indictment in January, declaring obscenity statutes unconstitutional because they don't let people view porn in the privacy of their own homes.

Or the nine courageous California students in Vergara v. California who seek effective teachers in every classroom or the parent-led Davids v. New York lawsuit that declares certain statutes in New York Education Law to be unconstitutional.

The legal objections in the four-page document say that the prize's own statutes declare that the donor of the prize must be named.

But in 1892, the Supreme Court declared this statute unconstitutional.

"It is unnecessary in this cause to decide the question, whether, as such, he holds his office during good behaviour...."... Cranch stopped short of declaring the statute unconstitutional.

Will the judge who declares the statute unconstitutional be described as Judge Walker was by Rush Limbaugh as "a political activist wearing a black robe"?