Sentence examples for statute violated from inspiring English sources

Thus, the court ruled that the statute violated the due process clause.

The Washington Supreme Court ruled that the statute violated the mother's protected right to autonomy in making child-rearing decisions.

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

Muller appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, claiming that the Oregon statute violated the "due process" clause of the 14th amendment.

The suit is based in part on the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which declared that Texas's sodomy statute violated the right to privacy.

Most of the sheets listed an array of details for each case: the statute violated, the sentence, the lawyers and the names of character witnesses.

The plaintiffs, who are individual government contractors, contend that this statute violates their First Amendment and equal protection rights.

Are you going to arrest the lady who cleans the sheik's cell?" Her lawyer, Michael E. Tigar, argued in motions that the antiterrorism statute violates the First Amendment.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, arguing that Illinois's statute violates the First Amendment and would keep the organization's members from monitoring citizen-police interactions, filed a lawsuit in 2010 challenging the law.

The head of the army spoke out against the statute and was fired, in the first instance of military dissent for a quarter of a century.Maria Dolores de Cospedal, the PP's general secretary, argues that some points in the new statute violate the constitution.

But the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center, based in Los Angeles, brought the class-action lawsuit claiming that the Utah statute violates federal civil rights and immigration law in "myriad ways," mainly by interfering with immigration enforcement that is generally reserved for federal authorities.