Sentence examples for expressly overruled from inspiring English sources

He then expressly overruled the doctrine of "separate but equal rights" that has been cited since the Plessy v Ferguson decision of 1896 to justify the segregation.

The decision in Evans v. Gore was eviscerated in the 1939 U.S. Supreme Court decision of O'Malley v. Woodrough, and was expressly overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court itself in 2001, in the case of United States v. Hatter.

Though the Court upheld a law prohibiting the forgery, mutilation, or destruction of draft cards in United States v. O'Brien (1968), fearing that burning draft cards would interfere with the "smooth and efficient functioning" of the draft system, the next year, the court handed down its decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), expressly overruling Whitney v. California.

The legislature overruled him.

The objection is overruled.

He overruled them.

It was overruled.

Both objections were overruled.

JUDGE KLEIN (quickly): Overruled.

(They were overruled).

Mr. Stowell was overruled.