Sentence examples for statutory ruling from inspiring English sources

"The statutory ruling is an improbable one," said Ellen D. Katz, a law professor at the University of Michigan.

These were tensions that underlay the challenge to the Voting Rights Act that the justices deflected with a narrow statutory ruling last week.

The statutory ruling did not stop Chief Justice Roberts from commenting on the progress the nation had made in helping African-Americans secure the right to vote and suggesting that the need for the most intrusive forms of federal supervision of state and local election practices might be over.

Because the independent source doctrine does not circumvent or avoid the statutory exclusionary rule's requirement that evidence obtained in violation of the law be suppressed, we conclude that the court of appeals erred by rejecting that doctrine as a basis for upholding the trial court's suppression ruling.

And others seemed to be tuning out because they were confused by the legal volleyball game of state and federal court rulings, statutory interpretations of arcane state laws and squabbling over how dimpled a ballot must be to count.

While the case could be resolved on statutory grounds, a constitutional ruling that directly rejects this "cumulative effects" test would further restrict Congress's discretion beyond the context of this dispute.

The court's ruling is statutory, not constitutional so it could be overruled by a Congressional enactment.

In addition, some of the court's most important rulings were statutory: the invalidation of the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of tobacco and a decision keeping many medical malpractice cases against health maintenance organizations out of federal court.

Coast and Country had applied for statutory review of the land court ruling upholding approval of an environmental authority for GVK Hancock.

The administration argues that the 2004 decision, Rasul v. Bush, is no longer relevant because its jurisdictional ruling was a matter of statutory interpretation and Congress has subsequently amended the habeas corpus statute to remove jurisdiction.

He would also encounter a deal of muttering from BBC executives who don't like the idea of a statutory regulator with no programme-making experience ruling the Portland Place roost.