Sentence examples for law proposition from inspiring English sources

Both a federal appeals court and the California Supreme Court have rebuffed earlier challenges to the law, Proposition 209.

The judge, Lawrence K. Karlton of Federal District Court, said there was nothing in the law, Proposition 83, that specified its provisions were to be applied retroactively.

State law allows collectives to cultivate medical marijuana, but the law is less clear when it comes to selling the product, said William Panzer, a lawyer who helped write California's seminal medical marijuana law, Proposition 215.

In 2004, Arizona passed a law, Proposition 200, that directly conflicted with the federal law in an effort to combat voting by undocumented immigrants, though there is scant evidence that there was much fraud to combat.

The two men at the heart of the battle over the Kern County ordinance have similar backgrounds — both with years of law enforcement experience — but very different attitudes about California's landmark medical marijuana law, Proposition 215, which was passed by voters in 1996.

The new law, Proposition 36, puts California at the forefront of a national movement to change drug laws; it will send first- and second-time nonviolent drug offenders into treatment, reducing the prison population by as many as 36,000 inmates a year, according to the state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.

He added that under state law, propositions that pass cannot be changed — not even a comma — except through another election.

Consumer Watchdog has spent $72,500 to fight the initiative to change auto insurance laws, Proposition 33, which is being bankrolled almost single-handedly by Mr. Joseph, the insurance executive.

Initiatives are supposed to be more authentic expressions of popular will than parliamentary laws: Proposition 13, the tax-cutting initiative passed 25 years ago which started the current bonanza, was a classic case of grass-roots volunteerism.

We structured a project around the proposed new laws (propositions) system in California, integrating it with literary analysis of core texts themed around challenging government including Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

"However firmly and honestly" opponents of same-sex marriage feel about their positions, the brief says, there is no basis for "a discriminatory law like Proposition 8".