Sentence examples for governmental interests from inspiring English sources

The state manual recount provision therefore serves important governmental interests.

"Spending limits are an effective response to certain compelling governmental interests not addressed in Buckley".

Where was the line, they asked, between religious and governmental interests in definitions of marriage?

The Supreme Court has found three categories of "governmental interests sufficiently important to outweigh the possibility of infringement".

"The F.T.C.'s justifications of preventing abusive and coercive sales practices and protecting privacy are substantial governmental interests".

Without the benefit of "more precise guidance from the founding era," Mr Roberts explained, the court must weigh individual privacy against "the promotion of legitimate governmental interests".

But there is "one legitimate governmental interest for restricting campaign finances," he explained: "preventing corruption or the appearance of corruption".

"It is 'obvious and unarguable' that no governmental interest is more compelling than the security of the Nation".

"There is no public or governmental interest served by having JN at the mansion," Justice Gische wrote.

Chief Judge Karen Schreier ruled Wednesday that even if state officials had asserted a compelling governmental interest, they did not prove that the ban was the least restrictive means available to further that governmental interest.

In legal parlance, they are the ones who seek to establish a "governmental interest" that justifies discriminating against gay couples.