In the currently relevant sense, a principle, e.g., that one is responsible for damage caused by one's carelessness, on some conception of due care, would be germane in case it identified the factor that was relevant to Doe's liability.
An interpretivist might further say that, in all cases, certain more specific moral principles control "the operation and effect" of all laws (as the Riggs v. Palmer court famously said, 115 NY 506 (1889)) Similar hypotheses would be germane to cases or institutional practice in general.
I write separately to explain why the Smith rule is not germane to this case, and to express my view that, in a case presenting the issue, the Court should reexamine the rule Smith declared.
According to the parameters set by the indictment, these narratives were not strictly germane to the case.
The ruling also indicated that the prosecutor must show that the information sought is germane to the case and that it cannot be obtained by means other than piercing the confidentiality of internal White House discussions.
Though not necessarily germane to the case, the prosecution had a field day dragging out the details of Blacks alleged use of the company jet for a vacation to Bora Bora, his suspiciously low-priced Park Avenue apartment in New York, and his wifes $42,000 birthday dinner, for which he allegedly billed shareholders.
Much of the slang is too shameful to share, but one term is especially germane to a case such as the one above: circling the drain.
But the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States protects freedom of speech and association and also protects against the use of political affiliation as proof of a defendant's guilt if it is not germane to the case.
And gun control laws are probably even less germane in these cases.
The degree of knowledge of the assisting state as to the actions of the assisted state is highly germane in such cases.
We further suggested that cases of reciprocal causation are now known to be far more extensive than they appeared to be in 1961, such that the claim that ontogenetic processes are also relevant to evolutionary accounts is a general claim, rather than germane to special cases.
