Sentence examples for federal procedures from inspiring English sources

Dr. Woodcock said it did not take unusually long to get the rule approved given federal procedures.

The judge, Henry H. Kennedy Jr. of Federal District Court in the District of Columbia, said taking such a step would bypass federal procedures for overturning regulations.

Under federal procedures, agency heads who are unhappy with the conduct of their inspectors general have at least two places to file complaints.

The confusion stems from federal procedures that prevent the agency from directly screening passengers in advance because of privacy concerns when airlines provide passenger information to the government.

It said the S.E.C. had violated federal procedures in failing to adopt a rule that was pending for more than four years.

The law exempts contributions to federal candidates, because the United States Department of Transportation said such a ban might conflict with federal procedures and force the state to forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in highway aid.

Like Ginsburg (and almost no one else), Stevens had a deep fascination with the mysteries of federal procedure.

In violation of the rules of federal procedure, they were going to withhold these documents from the court".

Federal procedure is followed, but state rules on vital matters, such as statutes of limitations, are enforced.

Samuel Bagenstos, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, who clerked for Ginsburg before the Ledbetter case, said, "Everyone talks about how the case is about sex discrimination, which is at the heart of her career, but it's also a case about statutes of limitations — federal procedure — and she cares about that almost as much".

"The Supreme Court has altered federal procedure in dramatic ways, one step at a time, to favor the business community," he said, by, among other things, "increased grants of summary judgment, tightening scientific evidence, rejecting class actions, heightening the pleading barrier and wholesale diversions into arbitration".