Sentence examples for statute from the from inspiring English sources

In California, companies are generally prohibited from enforcing noncompete agreements because of a worker-friendly statute from the 19th century.

Those cases involved admissions of violating the federal wire fraud statute from the submission of false information designed to manipulate Libor, not a violation of the antitrust laws.

A clear majority, 60percentt, voted to remove the miscegenation statute from the state constitution, but 40percentt of Alabamans -- nearly 526,000 people -- voted to keep it.

Instead, in an apparent attempt to show how neutral the statute is, the state's lawyers unmoored the statute from the history cited by Justice Thomas.

"We are gearing up for the effective date of the statute from the enforcement standpoint," said Brian Huseman, a F.T.C. staff lawyer who works on spam litigation.

Rather than wins, any discussion about Newton thus far turns into a discussion of yards, the anachronistic measurement defined legally in a British statute from the 13th century as equaling three feet.

But officials said he could draw on a range of treaties and statutes, from the Geneva Conventions to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

You laugh about funny case names, read obscure legal statutes from the 17th century and spend ages translating Latin phrases, which you forget a minute later.

As a precaution, authorities in Palmyra had removed hundreds of statutes from the archaeological complex for safekeeping.

The Federal District Court in Maine, ruling in a challenge brought by the industry, blocked the statute from taking effect on the ground that it was not authorized by the federal Medicaid law.

Jameel Jaffer, a lawyer with the A.C.L.U., said the decision "insulates the statute from meaningful judicial review and leaves Americans' privacy rights to the mercy of the political branches".