Sentence examples for establishing the privilege from inspiring English sources

While the clergy-penitent privilege would make the information inadmissible in court, and while the woman "understandably resents the disclosure of intimate information," the Court of Appeals said, she could not seek damages under the state law establishing the privilege.

26 As early as 1650, remembrance of the horror of Star Chamber procedings a decade before had firmly established the privilege in the common law of England.

That ruling established the privilege and then said that Mr. Nixon could not shield evidence in a criminal case from the special prosecutor pursuing the Watergate investigation.

They argue that it dates to 1653, when the Dutch West India Company granted a charter to New Amsterdam establishing the corporate privileges of self-government.

The case went to the Supreme Court, which supported the government, establishing the "state secrets" privilege against disclosure of national security information in litigation.

The court established the secrets privilege in 1953, in United States v. Reynolds.

After his coronation in the year 800, he did not establish the imperial privilege concerning the use of this colour.

The exceptional Codex Argenteus was made for the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great, who had re-established the imperial privilege on purple dyes [16, 17].

This dovetails with the government's larger aims of whitening the black economy, establishing the rule of law and abolishing unwarranted privilege.

Decisions establishing that privilege based on sovereign prerogatives may be evoked only by such agents, e.g., The Anne, 3 Wheat.

Related concepts include "heteronormativity" (Warner 1991) and "compulsory heterosexuality" (Rich 1986), which establish the normalization and privileging of heterosexuality.