Sentence examples for ruling to apply from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court struck down Texas's sodomy law in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas, and most people understood that ruling to apply to the 12 other states, including Virginia, that still had sodomy laws on their books.

In 1992 the court extended this ruling to apply to defense counsel as well.

Judge Granade expanded her ruling to apply to every probate judge in the state.

But judges predicted that few situations would involve conflicts serious enough for the new ruling to apply.

Professor Marci A. Hamilton at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, said she was relieved the court had limited its ruling to apply narrowly to discrimination suits, in effect rejecting claims by some churches that they enjoy complete autonomy in hiring and firing, even in cases of alleged sexual abuse by clergy.

He expects the ruling to apply to all 23 of his clients.

The ruling is expected to apply to an estimated 50,000 pending lawsuits.

The right to be forgotten ruling allows Europeans to apply to remove outdated information about them from search engine listings.

Alito, dissenting in Wednesday's DOMA decision, lambasted Walker's ruling and how to apply it moving forward.

But American courts have been quite reluctant to apply rulings of international tribunals.

Moreover, the ruling applied to all gene patents, not just those on human DNA.