Sentence examples for statute claiming from inspiring English sources

In 1995, Sergeant Guslavage sued the department under the state's whistle-blower statute, claiming that the department had shut down a drug investigation to protect members of the force, including Family members.

In contrast, Congress has passed a statute claiming that it alone has the power to authorize war.

State legislators insist that the status quo benefits consumers: the relevant Florida statute claims to be "providing consumer protection and fair trade".

The ability to bring Alien Tort Statute claims against such corporations is our best chance at maintaining the rule of law in an age of outsourced war.

With wonderfully ironic timing – the American Associations of Law Libraries meets in Portland in July – the Legislative Counsel Committee of the State of Oregon sent a cease-and-desist letter to Justia, a free online resource for judicial decisions and statutes, claiming that Justia's posting of the Oregon Revised Statutes violates its copyright.

The opposing Fellows, led by Edmunds, appealed to the first set of statutes, claiming the Crown as Visitor, making Gibson's decisions invalid; Provost Carter, supported by Bishop Gibson, appealed to the second set, claiming the Bishop of Lincoln as Visitor.

For a start, FIFA's own statutes claim that it must be completely free of political interference.

She previously worked on international criminal law and transitional justice issues, Alien Tort Statute claims, and immigration cases.

The district judge rejected plaintiffs' Alien Tort Statute claim, on the grounds that the statute presumptively doesn't apply to conduct outside the United States and that this presumption wasn't rebutted here.

However, he said, he planned to circumvent that statute by claiming that the school had engaged in fraud.

This court is not bound by the decision of a state court as to the existence and terms of a contract, the obligation of which is asserted to be impaired, but where a statute is claimed to create a contractual right we give weight to the construction of the statute by the courts of the state.