Sentence examples for substantive rights from inspiring English sources

It is likely to involve questions of the journalist's substantive rights.

It is a jurisdictional statute that does not by itself convey any substantive rights.

Like many other early legal systems, it did not originally consist of substantive rights but rather of procedural remedies.

The measure left intact, she said, the substantive rights that the court had granted same-sex couples.

In the EU countries guaranteeing as a matter of course substantive rights to all workers, this is a positive move.

Brennan was a strong believer in the importance of an independent judiciary and of the impact of procedure upon substantive rights.

"Our position is that parents share in the substantive right to a 'free appropriate public education' under the act," Mr. Salmons said.

The majority, he wrote, "read an ambiguous constitutional provision as creating a substantive right that the Court had never acknowledged in the more than two hundred years since the amendment's enactment.

"This court has not had recent occasion to consider the nature of the substantive right safeguarded by the Second Amendment," he said, and added: "Perhaps, at some future date, the court will have the opportunity".

The judge suggested that the "motivation to allow the return of the [intervening] indictment was considerably more a matter of political expediency than of concern for the substantive right of [the] defendants".

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit, a conservative, encapsulated the case against Heller when he wrote that the majority "read an ambiguous constitutional provision as creating a substantive right that the Court had never acknowledged in the more than two hundred years since the amendment's enactment.