Sentence examples for statutory defense from inspiring English sources

As to the § 271 claim, I choose not to decide whether International's technical statutory defense has merit.

Some organisations, like Britain's Campaign Against Censorship, have called for the creation of a statutory defense of "artistic merit", which artists could rely on if accused of obscenity.

A third provision would have created a "statutory defense" for agents who conducted surveillance under "lawful authorization" from the president or attorney general, meaning they could not be prosecuted for violating federal law, according to the draft.

1065 (1976), cannot be challenged as lacking secondary meaning, although it is subject to seven statutory defenses.

2541, 2561, 180 L.Ed.201174 (2011) (holding that "a class cannot be certified on the premise that [a defendant] will not be entitled to litigate its statutory defenses to individual claims").

To assert standard or statutory self-defense, he must offer some evidence beyond the mere assertion.

Statutory criminal defenses (e.g. duress, entrapment) are not available for DUI, and in State v. Hammond, the state Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a person who drove after unknowingly having his drink spiked with alcohol.

Even Florida's broad self-defense statutory scheme follows traditional self-defense limitations by prohibiting "initial aggressors" from using force provoked by their own conduct.

The statutory formulation of the defense of fair use in the Copyright Act reflects the intent of Congress to codify the common law doctrine.

"Although a 1985 Deficit Control Act created the statutory authority for emergency defense spending, the prevalence of its use is primarily post-9/11, and within that timeframe, an Obama creation.

The present case is a perfect example, for here there is no real dispute that the trial judge's ruling was based on a nonexistent statutory "element". As noted, defense counsel conceded on appeal that the judge had "wrongly added an extraneous element to the statute" under which his client was charged.