Sentence examples for impermissible effect from inspiring English sources

But in a 1979 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that instructions creating such a presumption of malice have the constitutionally impermissible effect of shifting the burden of proof to a defendant.

The court will be hearing Ohio's appeal of a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which found that the program was unconstitutional, ruling that it had the "impermissible effect of promoting sectarian schools".

He argued both that the law had the impermissible effect of criminalizing most second trimester abortions, and that a law aimed explicitly only at the dilation and extraction procedure would be unconstitutional as well.

Based in large part on that outcome, the federal appeals court in Cincinnati declared in December 2000 that the program had the "impermissible effect of promoting sectarian schools" and thus violated the First Amendment's prohibition against the "establishment" of religion.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, ruled late last year that Ohio's Pilot Project Scholarship Program "clearly has the impermissible effect of promoting sectarian schools" and was therefore unconstitutional.

In 1999 Ohio's Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the programme; but in late 2000 a federal court struck it down by a 2-1 vone, on the grounds that it had the "impermissible effect of promoting sectarian schools".

Judge Gonzalez Ramos, of Corpus Christi, found that the law "creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans, and was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose".

In the words of the trial judge, the law "creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans, and was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose".

Thursday's ruling from Texas, issued after a two-week trial in Corpus Christi, found that the state's voter ID law "creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans, and was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose," Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos wrote.

Finally, more important voting rights news last night was the decision from the Texas trial court to strike down the state's voter ID law because it "creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans, and was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose".

If, at the end of 20 years, the building is, for example, converted into a chapel or otherwise used to promote religious interests, the original federal grant will, in part, have the [constitutionally impermissible] effect of advancing religion.