U.S. states, while they may have some justifications for asserting extraterritorial jurisdiction, almost exclusively limit criminal jurisdiction to the territorial basis.
We will turn our attention to this aspect next, focusing on regulatory law, rather than judicial aggregation, by outlining a quantitative approach to how to aggregate experts' opinions that allows a formal justification for any asserted consensus or, more precisely, aggregate opinions because it makes them transparent.
The District Court quite properly rejected this asserted justification, for [p524] "[t]he saving of welfare costs cannot justify an otherwise invidious classification". Shapiro v. Thompson, supra, at 633.
Respondents' asserted justification for the law school's use of race in the admissions process is "obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body".
The Court's asserted justification for invalidating the New York law is the public interest discerned by the Court to underlie the First Amendment in the free flow of commercial information.
Moreover, no matter what one might think of the initial vote, there's certainly no justification for the ad to assert that "on illegal immigration, Pryor never takes your side" — given that he voted three out of four times against undocumented immigrants on this issue.
The Department of Transportation's asserted justification for opposing state pay-to-play reform efforts is that banning pay-to-play practices might potentially prevent some businesses from bidding, and that such a restriction on competitive bidding might potentially drive up the cost of projects.
It's worse, because the very diversity of the elite is asserted as justification for the non-discriminatory nature of capitalism.
The chancellor used the Gershon review as his "evidence-based" justification for the cuts which, he asserted, would transfer resources to the frontline.
These revealed weaknesses provide justification for political decision makers to assert that they have a right to engage in interpreting science, especially in areas that are controversial.
