"In the past," Mr. Coffee said, "the cases have gotten settled or the courts have avoided deciding them".
In Jackson v. Hudson (N.Y. 1808) held that the nature of Indian title was an undecided question in New York, and avoided deciding the issue because neither party claimed its chain of title traced to Indians.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, acknowledged that the court's approach stretched the statutory text, but he said the court should avoid deciding hard constitutional questions when it could.
But there did not seem to be a consensus on the bench to avoid deciding the constitutionality of the law.
Having said all of that, and acknowledging that the court's alternative ruling had stretched the text of the statute, Chief Justice Roberts said the court should avoid deciding hard constitutional questions when it could.
Everyone has a different way of deciding which jobs to apply for; mine was to avoid deciding.
Some senior police officers are bringing back targets to try to avoid deciding crime-fighting policies, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.
There is no way now for the court to avoid deciding, and will likely order her to accept what county election officials say is the most accurate tabulation of the vote.
In this way, the user avoids deciding in advance which genes to include.
As the number of possible choices increases rapidly for different labels, potentially leading to a huge number of different restrictions, we avoid deciding which copies of a label to remove as follows.
