Sentence examples for statutory reading from inspiring English sources

This isn't the first time that the supreme court has undermined an important workplace protection through an absurd statutory reading.

Statutory reading and numeracy tests for pupils in years two to nine were introduced last May.

He mainly attacked the method of the majority's statutory reading and its failure to look at the statute "as a whole".

Meanwhile, Justice Scalia, ever the nihilist, bet the farm on reading the magic four words in a completely literalist way, rejecting the relevance of the rest of the statute, despite every major canon of statutory construction that calls for contextual understanding and other statements he has himself made in favor of a comprehensive statutory reading. 5.

First, tobacco products (including cigarettes) fall within the scope of this statutory definition, read literally.

"I strongly align myself with the majority's quotation from Justice Frankfurter about the best tool of statutory interpretation: 1) Read the statute.

One rather notorious passage which preaches against the statutory rape law, reads "age of consent should be the age at which a woman can safely have sex, and not a random number chosen by our ZioMarxist oppressors".

Written by Justice Clarence Thomas and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy, the 5-to-4 decision disregarded legal precedent, longstanding practice and the plain reading of statutory language.

"Statutory context supports this reading".

Sure, this operated in the true-world dynamics of the 80s which prevented the weird love between a 40-year-old and 15-year-old from reading like statutory rape.

Fourth, related statutory provisions must be read as a cohesive whole.