Sentence examples for existing doctrine from inspiring English sources

And, although I would oppose such a program, existing doctrine would allow Congress to impose a "single payer" tax-and-spending scheme like Medicare on everyone.

"Under existing doctrine by the Supreme Court," said Geoffrey R. Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago and an expert on free speech issues, "it's a perfectly reasonable decision".

As a matter of existing doctrine, he asked the right question, but when applied to the government, the standard he used could turn our lives into the proverbial open book, and soon.

The tone of the report is mostly self-congratulatory. "Operating considerably beyond existing doctrine," it begins, "the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) proved that a lethal, flexible and disciplined mechanized force could conduct continuous offensive operations over extended distances for 21 days".

Shinano was designed to load and fuel her aircraft on deck where it was safer for the ship; experiences in the Battles of Midway and the Coral Sea had demonstrated that the existing doctrine of fueling and arming their aircraft below decks was a real danger to the carriers if they were attacked while doing so.

We explore these concerns and explain that while government officials are entitled to rely on existing Supreme Court doctrine in formulating policy, the existing doctrine does not fully answer whether the Section 215 telephone records program is constitutionally sound.

But abortion rights groups and many legal experts, including some in the anti-abortion movement, say the law so deeply contradicts existing constitutional doctrine that it may quickly be voided.

Command of the air over Germany was seized only when American squadrons arrived to augment the Royal Air Force, upend the existing British doctrine of restricting attacks to nighttime and demand pinpoint bombing of specifically identified German military and industrial targets.

My testimony exclusively concerned why the individual mandate was outside existing Supreme Court doctrine, which limits Congress's power under the commerce clause and the necessary and proper clause to regulating or prohibiting economic activity.

The passages the phrase "Poor Joshua!" is taken from are worth reading at length: Like the antebellum judges who denied relief to fugitive slaves, see id. at 119-121, the Court today claims that its decision, however harsh, is compelled by existing legal doctrine.

It should be emphasised that such a conclusion depends upon and is relative to the context provided by existing legal doctrine.