Sentence examples for overrule a state from inspiring English sources

These concerns both favor Washington State, given that a federal appeals court has used the federal Constitution to overrule a state law backed by the State Constitution.

In particular, Mr. Lawsky wrote, the comptroller is trying to use an overly broad definition to determine whether it can overrule a state law and ignoring a mandate to review state consumer laws on a case-by-case basis.

He acknowledged that he regarded Judge White as "pro-criminal" and said that he had blocked the nomination because federal judges have enormous power and can even overrule a state supreme court.

There is no federal authority to come in and overrule a state".

He and his lawyers say they are after a new interpretation of the Constitution, one that overrules all state laws that prevent citizens from voting on local issues in more than one place.

The three-judge panel in the Appellate Division of State Superior Court unanimously overruled a March decision by a state judge that ordered the Hudson County and Passaic County jails to turn over the names of detainees housed under a contract with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

In October 1979 the Publications Appeal Board, on the recommendation of a panel of literary experts and a state security specialist, overruled the banning of Burger's Daughter.

Hildabrand argued that Kansas' new statute should survive a constitutional challenge that a state cannot overrule the federal government, because it only covers guns that stay in Kansas and therefore, he said, are not covered by the Constitution's commerce clause.

But a state Court of Appeals overruled the judge, saying that "mere confusion does not amount to an impediment to the voters' free choice," if they have an opportunity to ask for help in the polling place.

Legislators returned to the state house to overrule a local ordinance in Charlotte banning discrimination against LGBT people.

As predicted virtually everywhere, except perhaps Federalist Society meeting halls, the effort to overrule the state Supreme Court by two of our most distinguished trial lawyers failed because a basic point of justiciability was absent.