Sentence examples for held in violation from inspiring English sources

elections were held in violation of the 15th Amendment.

She did not mention the fact that no delegates were awarded from the Florida contest because it was held in violation of national Democratic party rules.

In January, PETA filed suit against the zoo, claiming that Joe, now 29, was being held in violation of the Endangered Species Act.

In an unexpected blow to Britain's tough immigration policy, the High Court declared today that four Kurdish asylum seekers sent to a government detention center had been held in violation of their human rights.

The inaction in Michigan followed a similar collapse of her effort to seek another matchup with Mr. Obama in Florida, where, as in Michigan, she won an earlier primary held in violation of party rules.

Donnelly ordered the government to provide a list of all people being held in violation of the order at US airports or in flights, to protests from the government lawyers.

In a release sent to HuffPost, Rodriguez's office said he and other protesters were being held "in clear violation of their right to counsel".

The petitioner, in his application, proceeds upon the ground that he is held in custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States.

Congress expanded the writ following the Civil War, allowing for habeas relief to state prisoners if they were held in custody in violation of federal law.

We cannot suppose that congress intended to compel those courts, by such means, to draw to themselves, in the first instance, the control of all criminal prosecutions commenced in state courts exercising authority within the same territorial limits, where the accused claims that he is held in custody in violation of the constitution of the United States.

In these cases, lawyers for death row inmates can ask a state court judge for a review or ask a federal judge to grant a writ of habeas corpus, a legal judgment that a defendant is held in custody in violation of the Constitution.