Sentence examples for heightened review from inspiring English sources

But Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford University who was involved in the original case and who is representing the plaintiffs in the appeal, argued this morning before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the case "merits heightened review".

By October 2010, a batch of 40 cases were under heightened review, 18 of them with "Tea Party" in the group names.

However, the judge also held that any benefits given by the corporation to a stockholder to compromise a proxy contest would likely be subject to heightened review for "entire fairness" and good faith, a determination that would likely need to be made at a trial.

Back then, laws discriminating against women didn't even trigger any form of heightened review.

Many of them reason only that if consensual same-sex sodomy may be criminalized under Bowers v. Hardwick, then it follows that no heightened review is appropriate - a line of reasoning that does not survive the overruling of Bowers in Lawrence v. Texas, 538 U.S. 558 (2003).

As we wrote about at Prop8TrialTracker.com, the Department of Justice announced in February 2011 its determination that sexual orientation was a classification meriting heightened scrutiny review.

Those who challenge the constitutionality of laws denying same-sex couples the freedom to marry maintain that such laws implicate the fundamental right to marry and that they therefore must pass heightened scrutiny review, a test that pretty much everyone agrees cannot be satisfied.

The heightened state reviews could slow future utility deals and may push companies to consider spinning off their regulated businesses, bankers said.

In some states there are heightened standards of review for inequitable actions by majority shareholders in small, privately held corporations – the action is called oppression.

In the case before the court, the federal appeals court in New York used a more robust standard of review, "heightened scrutiny," which requires a showing that the challenged law is "substantially related to an important government objective".

Gay rights advocates are hoping that the Supreme Court will embrace a more robust standard of review, "heightened scrutiny," which requires a showing that the challenged law is "substantially related to an important government objective".