Sentence examples for primary petitioner from inspiring English sources

In 1999, ruling on a case in which Mr. Marshall was the primary petitioner, the Supreme Court affirmed the centuries-old treaty rights of the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to earn a living from hunting, fishing and gathering.

Petitioners acknowledge that the "primary purpose" of these roadblocks is to interdict illegal drugs, but this fact should not be controlling.

At all stages the documents must be approved by both the petitioner and the Chief Herald.

In the NRM range very little is known about the habitat selection patterns of fishers relative to forest age and species composition, yet ESA petitioners have repeatedly listed habitat loss and destruction as the primary threat to fisher persistence.

Petitioners propose several ways in which the narcotics-detection purpose of the instant checkpoint program may instead resemble the primary purposes of the checkpoints in [Michigan v.] Sitz (1990) and [United States v.] Martinez-Fuerte (1976).

the petitioner in the 1963 case.

Petitioner's claims -- under 3 U.S.C.

And China is no ordinary petitioner.

True, petitioner is neither Hispanic nor Native American.

His other fellow petitioner is dead.

The petition dies with the petitioner.