Sentence examples for statute imposes from inspiring English sources

The stigma this criminal statute imposes, moreover, is not trivial.

That federal statute imposes a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of life for a felon who commits a crime with a gun after three prior convictions for violent felonies.

The court ruled that this violated the Constitution's equal protection clause, saying that the statute "imposes a lifetime hardship on a discrete class of children not accountable" for their immigration status.

But the court pointed out that numerous unresolved issues could reduce the amount of money the owners may have to repay, and said that "if the statute imposes unacceptable burdens, defendants' remedy is to seek legislative relief".

In fact, the Lithuanian "jailtime-for-disagreeing-with-the-government-about-history law", though in the works for over a year, was only enacted right after the new rightwing government in Hungary enacted a similar law (the Hungarian statute imposes a maximum sentence of three years in jail).

As the legal analysis in the report points out, the Class Act statute imposed certain requirements that were at odds with some solutions the actuaries contemplated.

In 1997, the United States Supreme Court reviewed a Kansas law that was modeled on the Washington law, concluding in a 5-to-4 decision, Kansas v. Hendricks, that what the statute imposed was civil confinement and not punishment.

The Court in Merchants' Loan was specifically interpreting a 1916 statute imposing income taxes on individuals and estates (among other kinds of entities), and not the 1909 corporate tax statute.

While some forms of discrimination are prohibited by the Constitution, these federal statutes impose additional duties of enforcement and spell out penalties for not complying.

Beyond that, one of the rulings highlighted the longstanding injustice of federal guidelines and statutes imposing much longer sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine, which is most often found in impoverished communities, than for offenses involving the chemically identical powdered cocaine, which is popular among more affluent users.

Upon new anti-Cossack limitations and sejm statutes imposing serfdom on most Cossacks, the Cossacks rose up again in 1638 under Jakiv Ostryanin and Dmytro Hunia.