Sentence examples for judicial declarations from inspiring English sources

In 1973, a judge ordered the city to hire one black firefighter for every three white ones; that effort foundered on what Judge Garaufis called "34 years of intransigence and deliberate indifference, bookended by identical judicial declarations that the city's hiring policies are illegal".

But as legal officials observe the anniversary of what is widely considered one of the most significant judicial declarations of equality under law, many say that the promise inherent in the Gideon ruling remains unfulfilled because so many legal needs still go unmet.

An annulment is a judicial declaration that a marriage never legally existed.

Although an authoritative judicial declaration authorizing borrowing above the debt ceiling might alleviate investors' fears, obtaining such a declaration is no easy task.

Moreover, that same day a Palm Beach circuit judge issued the first judicial declaration by a trial court to address standards for manual recounts.

A Maine jury ruled in his favor but awarded him no damages, leaving him with only a judicial declaration that his employer had violated the law.

To reverse the trial judge's decision allowing Mr. Marri's detention to continue "because he was not captured on a foreign battlefield or foreign soil," Judge Wilkinson wrote, "is akin to a judicial declaration that Congress and the executive may fight only the last war".

Mr. Yoo's harshest critics — including lawyers for Jose Padilla, the convicted Qaeda operative who is suing Mr. Yoo for $1 and a judicial declaration that he authorized illegal detention and interrogation practices — note that Nazi lawyers and judges were tried for war crimes at Nuremberg.

Earlier this month, we broke the news that funny blog Lamebook was seeking judicial declaration that the operation and maintenance of its website and the use of the name 'lamebook' do not infringe or dilute the trademark rights of Facebook.

She hired attorney Martin Gang to seek a judicial declaration that the "tack on" provision of the suspension clause was invalid under California law.

The delegation, concerned primarily with the release of the imprisoned Jews of Damascus, decided to accept their liberation without any judicial declaration of their innocence or formal denunciation of the blood libel.