Sentence examples for statutes use from inspiring English sources

Citing its earlier decision in Naim v. Naim (1965), the appeals court ruled that, despite the statutes' use of racial classifications to define the criminal offenses in question, neither statute violated the guarantee of equal protection of the laws because the penalities they imposed applied equally to both "white" and "colored" persons.

After Mr. Aleynikov was convicted and spent a year in prison, a federal appeals court overturned his conviction and dismissed the charges, finding that the federal statutes used in the case did not cover his actions.

In Lawrence, the court struck down state sodomy statutes using equal protection principles of due process.

Macmillan argued that the wording of the General Council's voting statutes used the word persons throughout, and that she and the other female graduates were indeed persons.

In the decision, Campbell said immigrant advocates seeking the injunction likely would prevail in their U.S. District Court lawsuit claiming that the raids are unconstitutional and that two state statutes used to back them are trumped by federal law.

If it's a legal issue, look up the pertinent statutes using your favorite search engine and print them out.

"I have never in 18 years as a prosecutor seen the statute used that way.

Another sentenced four Sri Lankan bank robbers to beheading, invoking a Muslim statute used against bandits.

All we're doing here is using the same words in the state statute that the federal statute uses".

"There are all these proposals now to gut 17200," he said of the California statute used by Trevor.

He argued that the country's racism statute, used mostly to protect blacks, did not apply to Jews because they are not a race.