Sentence examples for intent of the statute from inspiring English sources

The amicus brief that Ms. Kagan signed challenging Solomon advanced an argument so contrary to the history and intent of the statute that the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion went out of its way to refute it.

Certainly there is a rule saying that a motive to avoid taxes is permissible, wrote Justice George Sutherland, but that was irrelevant because the strategy used by the taxpayer "upon its face lies outside the plain intent of the statute.

But a letter from the Senate sponsors of the law, John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, and their House allies said that raising soft money for a recount would "contravene both the letter and intent of the statute".

Therefore, since the intent of the statute and the background check was to keep guns from getting into the wrong hands, the defendant's transfer of the gun to his uncle didn't violate the law at all.

Mr. Blumenthal said the game was geared, "either purposefully or inadvertently, to entice young children into gambling, and violates the letter and intent of the state gambling statute".

JM: One could draw that conclusion, that it's the opposite of the intent of that statute, yes.

That, she said, violates the intent of the economic development statute, adding: "There is no express prohibition of what they're doing, but the legislative intent is to grow jobs, to grow business.

Nor are petitioners correct in asserting that the failure of the Florida Supreme Court to specify in detail the precise manner in which the "intent of the voter," Florida Statute Section 101.5614( 5) is to be determined rises to the level of a constitutional violation.

"It moves away from the real intent of the hate crime statute," she said.

A loophole is defined as "an ambiguity or omission in the text through which the intent of a statute... may be evaded," the 1996 Board of Elections opinion is more accurately called the LLC hatchet job).

The FEC's problem is two weird rules that thwart the pro-disclosure intent of the federal election statutes (FECA and BCRA) which require disclosure of underlying donors, and yet oddly the FEC rules do not require this transparency.