Eight justices, all but Justice Clarence Thomas, said the two-year-long detention of an American citizen, Yaser Esam Hamdi, had either been invalid from the beginning or had become so, for constitutional or statutory reasons.
What really matters to a lot of people is their comfort – a bare legal minimum may be good for statutory reasons but a workplace needs to be conducive to work.
In the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, the American-born Saudi taken from the battlefield in Afghanistan and held since 2002 in a military prison, Chief Justice Rehnquist was among the eight justices who found the open-ended detention improper for either constitutional or statutory reasons.
EPA's current stated policy prioritizes only pesticide active ingredients and high production volume (HPV) pesticidal inerts not because of scientific criteria (hazard- or exposure-related), but for statutory reasons; Congress specifically mandated testing of these compounds [ 2, 17].
But invoking an amalgam of statutory and constitutional reasons, all nine also found invalid the core of a sweeping tobacco advertising ban that was adopted two years ago in Massachusetts and was the most far-reaching of any state.
In New Zealand, for example, there is a statutory requirement to give reasons for refusal to grant leave, with these reasons often running to over a page.
At the same time, different Members of Parliament may approve of a statutory provision for different reasons.
That is the reason why the statutory amendments were created and if you look through the statute, and taking respectful exception to the position of the attorney general, wherever you see tabulation, they're basically referring to machine or electromagnetic or however it's phrased kinds of review of returns, and not actual counting, which is referred to differently.
The core idea is that subjects are instructed to treat the proffered reason (say, a statutory provision, or a judicial order), in their deliberations towards choice and action, as a reason which does not simply add to the reasons they already have for acting one way rather another, but rather excludes and takes the place of some of those reasons.
