Sentence examples for standard statutes from inspiring English sources

The proposed legislation includes standard statutes of limitation, limits on lawyers' contingency fees, limits on punitive damages, periodic payments for future medical expenses, and a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in states that do not already have one.

The Senator is concerned about provisions in S. 2520 that would codify a "foreseeable harm" standard in statute that may favor corporate wrongdoers.

Even if the amount of support received from the taxpayer leaves the household with income below the income eligibility standards, the statute under consideration would terminate benefits.

Netflix isn't lobbying for a mere amendment, they argue; it wants Congress to dismantle a gold standard among privacy statutes.

Twenty-seven other states already use some variation on the "reasonable" standard in their statutes surrounding police officers' use of deadly force.

This is another example of language that is not, on its face, a serious modification to the existing standard, since the statute already specifies that unoccupied areas only constitute critical habitat where they are "essential" for the species recovery – the plain meaning of which is "absolutely necessary" or "extremely important".

Moreover, files that you yourself store in the cloud never enjoy the protection of the warrant standard; under the statute, they are available to the government with a prosecutor's subpoena from the moment they are uploaded.

Cf. Sugarman, 413 U.S. at 642. "Our standard of review of statutes that treat aliens differently from citizens requires a greater degree of precision". Ibid.

(KD691.C73 2008) is a standard text on English statutes and statutory interpretation.

By any standard, the Alien Tort Statute leaves room for interpretation.

Acceptance in Latin American nation states of a multicultural citizenship which is inclusive of indigenous groups has become standard practice on the statute books.