Sentence examples for dispositive event from inspiring English sources

In addition, the Innovation Act limits discovery until the issuance of a "claim construction" order defining the patent(s) at issue (which is often a dispositive event in patent litigation), while the PATENT Act precludes any discovery until the resolution of certain preliminary motions.

To my mind that is infinitely better than honestly giving them dispositive effect.

Iowa, despite record hype, won't be dispositive; the major campaign event this week is the president's State of the Union address.

But though I regard these decisions * as taking a view destructive of the guarantees of the Fourth Amendment, they are in any event clearly not dispositive of the present case.

1502, 4 L.Ed.2d 1307 19600), was dispositive of the issue of the constitutionality of the Act.

It is the third branch of the O'Brien test (here italicized) that is dispositive of this case.

Breyer noted Lara's other arguments, but as the double jeopardy issue was dispositive, he declined to address those issues.

I admit that it is no more dispositive than Shiller's case, but at least it's some circumstantial evidence.

"The president proposes, but Congress disposes," goes the adage, but the presidential proposals get blown away by events, and Congressional disposal is never dispositive.

In the event of disputes, parties need to be able to definitively identify a dispositive, authoritative version of a statute, regulation, or other legal document.

None of this is dispositive.