Sentence examples for substantive rule from inspiring English sources

An endorsement of the "rule by law" or the "law and order" model — rather than the real, substantive rule of law — does not merely fall short of its objective.

"The U.S. Supreme Court has said that the burden of proof is a substantive rule," said Howard Jacobs, a lawyer who has represented athletes in previous cases involving the anti-doping agency.

The three dissenting judges said that the Ring decision should not apply retroactively because it announced neither a new substantive rule nor a fundamental alteration of a procedural one.

It was a criterion by which this court evaluated the voluntariness of the confession, so you are suggesting that what Miranda is is not a substantive rule governing police conduct, but simply a rule that the court has adopted for all federal courts as to how federal courts will procedurally determine, for purposes of admitting evidence, whether the confession was voluntary.

For example, she writes: In a challenge to the Obama administration's executive action on immigration, a Texas district court repeatedly invoked presidential statements when reaching the conclusion that the challenged program likely represented a substantive rule change for which notice-and-comment rulemaking was required.

Playing flag football (instead of tackle) until the age of 14 is the most immediate and substantive rule we can implement to make the game safer.

New substantive rules announced by the Supreme Court generally apply retroactively.

"I strongly suspect that nearly all of the world's 70-odd competition laws, accounting for nearly all important trading nations, would likely meet the requirements of any minimum substantive rules the WTO could adopt," he says.

For more than 20 years I have endeavoured...along with the majority of this court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavour.

Perhaps it is the constitution, the foundational document of a legal system, which establishes a legislature entitled to enact procedural and substantive rules governing court decisions and specifies who can exercise the power of a judge and under what circumstances.

European law, or European Union law, often affects and even replaces the substantive rules of the civil law, although it does not necessarily use traditional civil-law juridical constructs or respect traditional dogmatic civil-law categories.