Sentence examples for defer to state from inspiring English sources

In Brooklyn, the arena process passed legal muster, as courts generally defer to state agencies.

In dissent, Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer said federal judges should not have to defer to state court decisions they regarded as incorrect, even if plausible.

The extraordinary setting of this case has obscured the ordinary principle that dictates its proper resolution: Federal courts defer to state high courts' interpretations of their state's own law.

The C.D.C. generally must defer to state officials to decide where to set the boundaries around an area of potential disease transmission and what travel warnings to issue, federal officials and health experts said.

Though we generally defer to state courts on the interpretation of state law, there are of course areas in which the Constitution requires this court to undertake an independent, if still deferential, analysis of state law.

By a 5-to-4 vote, the court read the 1996 law to mean that federal judges must defer to state court rulings that, even though wrong, are nonetheless not "unreasonable".

Freed of pressure from international capital markets, the Chinese authorities would defer to state-owned enterprises and local officials who prefer continued easy provision of liquidity and would rather see the banks simply roll over their loans.

"It's an effort to recognize the concept of concealed carry and to be able to defer to states and state authority," Mr. Paolino said.

Underpinning all of the objections to the ruling is the contention that the Court should defer to states--- the democratic procestates--- the the determination.

"[The passage of DOMA] was the first time in over 200 years of US history where the federal government had refused to defer to states in deciding who could get married," Kaplan states in the above video.

The bill defers to state regulators to implement the programs.