Sentence examples for law limitation from inspiring English sources

The company appealed to the United States Supreme Court, arguing that the effect of the class-action ruling was to discriminate against arbitrations in violation of the Federal Arbitration Act, which generally overrides state laws unfavorable to arbitration and requires courts to enforce arbitration agreements unless a given state law limitation applies to all kinds of contracts.

Optimal design and analysis require a thorough understanding of their second law limitations.

Transocean touched off a furor when it invoked another law, the Limitation of Liability Act, to try to limit claims against it arising out of the Deepwater Horizon incident to $26.7 million.

Before the passing of the 1963 Act, the only exceptions to the normal statute of limitations (three years after the events that caused the injury, as established by the Law Reform (Limitation of Actions, etc).

Under the law, the limitation of liability is removed if the vessel owner acted negligently.

In the remaining six stories, Lodge applies his law of limitation to the relations between men and women.

For its part, Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, has sought the protection of an 1851 maritime law, the Limitation of Liability Act, asking that its own liability in the accident be held to just $26.7 million.

But Blunkett said the law's limitations were quickly exposed because technology moved so fast.

They also find creative ways to get around the law's limitations.

Mugabe Signs Restraint on Press By The New York Times HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 15 -- President Mugabe today signed into law sharp limitations on local and international news organizations operating in Zimbabwe.

But the law sets limitations on his powers to ensure that the new senator is a member of the same political party as the person who vacated the seat.