Sentence examples for statute amendment from inspiring English sources

"These 25 bills, things like levies in the agricultural sector and the statute amendment bill, may well be worthy but I'm not sure you'd trumpet them as the centre of your agenda," she told Radio National.

If the judges decided that the statute needs amendment, Black's convictions could be overturned or referred back to lower courts for re-examination.

Martin's father, Tracy Martin, served as the meeting's guest of honor and made an impassioned plea for a statute or amendment named for his son that would circumvent future incidences of racial profiling.

Fifty years from now when I'm dead and gone, I would like to see that Trayvon Martin's name is attached to some type of statute or amendment that says you can't simply profile our children, shoot them in the heart, kill them and say that you were defending yourself," Martin said.

"Constitutional challenges to statutes are routinely found moot when a statute is amended, or unripe when proposed regulatory amendments are pending".

"Constitutional challenges to statutes are routinely found moot when a statute is amended, or unripe when proposed regulatory amendments are pending," Judge Nevas said in his ruling.

The court ruled that the statute violated Fifth Amendment protections against the public taking of private property without compensation.

But over-complex language is only one worry in a process where every statute and constitutional amendment interacts with every other to shape policy in this huge state.

That has left New Mexico as the only state in the country that has no statute or constitutional amendment explicitly barring same-sex couples from marrying, but also no law saying they can.

Hardly anyone imagines that Idaho and conservative places like it — voters in 30 states have banned same-sex marriage by statute or constitutional amendment — are likely to be moved anytime soon to a full embrace of gay life.

While that proviso was eliminated by recent amendments, critics like Mr. Lobert say so many loopholes remain in the statute that the amendments are almost meaningless.