Sentence examples for jurisdictional that from inspiring English sources

The judge told them they had 17 days when the federal rule actually allowed only 14. Ordinarily, deadlines of this sort in federal court are "jurisdictional" – that is, a missed deadline is fatal, depriving the court of jurisdiction to consider the case.

The legislation creating MEJA acknowledged that there had been a longstanding "jurisdictional gap" that had allowed crimes by battlefield contractors to go unpunished.

Write a jurisdictional statement that tells the court what authority confers jurisdiction on the court to hear the case.

Interviewees noted that during the outbreak, tension existed between responding parties over jurisdictional issues that largely remained unresolved.

It is a jurisdictional statute that does not by itself convey any substantive rights.

Approved last June, they relieved the court of the obligation to rule on hundreds of arcane jurisdictional disputes that had clogged its agenda.

Review of the shooting incident, of the jurisdictional hurdles that had to be cleared before Girard could be brought to trial in Japan; about the trial.

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus is a jurisdictional vehicle that brings a prisoner before a judge to contest the validity of his confinement.

They are an archipelago of jurisdictional complexity that is unique to the area, and they are home to a unique community.

The task is made doubly difficult by jurisdictional disputes that lead to four police forces withholding evidence from each other, by false leads provided by impostors and Zodiac's own disinformation.

While Belgium will be losing a splendid piece of nature that juts into the Meuse River dividing the two nations, it will also unburden itself of a jurisdictional nightmare that developed over time as the river meandered to turn the portion of land belonging to Belgium  — about 15 soccer fields worth — into a peninsula linked only to the Netherlands.