Sentence examples for of established law from inspiring English sources

But since the Roberts hearings, the umpire metaphor has become synonymous, at least in public debate, with judicial restraint, the idea that judges are merely arbiters, that their job is not to set aside precedent and create law but to decide cases on the basis of established law.

At least since 2002, President Bush, Attorney General Gonzales and possibly others including the Vice President knew that torture and detainee mistreatment entailed criminal liability, which they sought to defuse with novel legal theories and retroactive suspensions of established law.

Predictably, the ruling outraged critics of organized labor, with Angelo Amador, vice president of labor and workforce policy for the National Restaurant Association, telling the New York Times that the decision "overturns 30 years of established law regarding the franchise model in the United States".

"When a federal agency takes such unilateral action in an attempt to change the meaning of established law, it leaves state and local authorities with no other option than to pursue legal clarity in federal court," Nebraska's attorney general, Doug Peterson, a Republican, said in a statement.

In a finding that overturns large swaths of established law and judicial precedent, the court shows that it is fully comfortable legislating from the bench, so long as such legislation supports a conservative political agenda.

But a lawyer for Chevron, Randy M. Mastro, said that those criticizing the subpoena were on the wrong side of established law concerning what kinds of materials can be obtained — and that whatever "Crude" is, it should not be considered journalism.

Consistent with theoretical expectations about the difficulty of establishing laws that provide collective benefits,[ 35] amendments to proposed legislation uniformly proposed weakening bills.

The state court's application of clearly established law must be objectively unreasonable.

Levenbook 1984 contends that it is a necessary condition for a judicial decision to be legally justified that it coheres with some part of the established law.

Support is growing for formal recognition of the obligation of governments to establish laws and policies to promote access to fully adequate pain management [ 87].

Mr. Van Doren questioned whether state lawmakers have the nuanced knowledge of the complex economics of electricity to establish laws creating viable markets.