Sentence examples for outdated statute from inspiring English sources

Today and over the next few days the paper is running a number of articles advocating republicanism, despite another outdated statute, the Treason Felony Act 1848, which threatens anyone doing so with deportation "for the term of his or her natural life".

This decision puts the focus where it belongs, on Congress passing a law for the future rather than litigation about an outdated statute from the past," Smith said in a statement.

The laws should be changed, but it is not the courts' job to intervene in every poorly crafted or outdated statute.

Critics of the prosecutions say they are being bought by over-zealous prosecutors using outdated and flawed statutes.

"The harder question is how to update those outdated rules and the statute in light of new and changing technologies while maintaining protections for privacy and adequately providing for public safety and other law enforcement imperatives".

Yet legal protections for children were scattered among many statutes, and many laws were outdated, having been derived from the colonial era.

The majority decided that Congress was relying on outdated data, a rather unusual ground for striking down a statute.

The federal statute books are full of laws based on outdated or discredited premises, and Supreme Court justices don't typically roam the countryside taking a scythe to them.

Not before time, the act sweeps away the last remaining statute from the Beveridge blueprint for the welfare state, the long outdated National Assistance Act, and brings a welcome clarity to legislation for professionals who have until now had to wrestle with perhaps half a dozen – sometimes even more – separate laws, directions and sets of statutory guidance when dealing with individual cases.

"We are extremely disappointed with this decision, which misinterprets the relevant statutes, understates the privacy implications of the government's surveillance and misapplies a narrow and outdated precedent to read away core constitutional protections," said Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director.

"We are extremely disappointed with this decision, which misinterprets the relevant statutes, understates the privacy implications of the government's surveillance and misapplies a narrow and outdated precedent to read away core constitutional protections," said the civil rights organisation's deputy legal director, Jameel Jaffer.