Sentence examples for legislative enactments from inspiring English sources
The notion that the executive can unilaterally "trump" legislative enactments is anathema to the Constitution.
Those criteria typically fix upon familiar sources of law such as legislative enactments or adjudicative rulings or administrative regulations or constitutional provisions.
In its ruling, the Florida court did not "make law" or establish any new legal standards that conflict with legislative enactments.
Certain legislative enactments substantially shut the capital market of the U.S. to foreign issuers; and other restraints were imposed on foreign lending by United States financial institutions and on direct foreign investment by United States corporations.
Since then, a hodgepodge of legislative enactments and judicial decisions has more or less legalized the medical use of marijuana; today Sparc is one of 24 licensed dispensaries in San Francisco.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, however, legislative enactments and judicial decisions in pursuit of narrowly conceived national interests gradually displaced in various countries the venerable and uniform law of the sea and gave rise to sharp conflicts of laws.
None of the state court's interpretations is unreasonable to the point of displacing the legislative enactment quoted.
Yes, because it would be a legislative enactment as opposed to a judicial interpretation of an existing law.
The next step, Mr. Rogowsky said, is to activate the citizens panel, already provided for in a previous legislative enactment, to review the raises.
Justice LaMarca wrote that the plaintiffs — Senate Republicans who brought legal action against Mr. Paterson and Mr. Ravitch — "have established a likelihood of success on the merits for their claim that neither the Constitution nor legislative enactment authorized the governor to make the appointment".
After a year in which we saw a number of high-profile gay-rights victories, including the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and the legislative enactment of same-sex marriage in New York, it's hard to imagine that more big news is on the immediate horizon.
