Sentence examples for statutory principles from inspiring English sources

Time and again the high court has limited executive discretion by reference to statutory principles of interpretation and the principle of legality.

Attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, Maureen Sanders, countered that same-sex marriage was protected under constitutional and statutory principles barring discrimination.

Indeed, the Commission defines "merit" – one of the statutory recruitment principles – as meaning that "the best available person" must be offered the job.

His concerns was supported by Rymer, who said that she agreed with statutory reporting in principle, but that most cases encountered by gynaecologists and obstetricians involved pregnant women in their 20s who had been cut 16 or so years before.

"Few principles of statutory construction are more compelling than the proposition that Congress does not intend sub silentio to enact statutory language that it has earlier discarded in favor of other language". INS v. Cardoza Fonseca, 480 U. S., at 442-443 (citatiomittedtted).

But this case can and should be decided based on long-accepted principles of statutory interpretation.

And giving each phrase its own meaning would be consistent with established principles of statutory interpretation.

This argument runs up against two well-settled principles of statutory interpretation.

To begin with, he asks this court to review a state-law claim involving garden variety principles of statutory interpretation.

As serious as the Court's disregard for history is its disregard for well-established principles of statutory construction.

But even the most basic general principles of statutory construction must yield to clear contrary evidence of legislative intent.