Sentence examples for test the constitutionality from inspiring English sources

The federal government then sought an expedited hearing in the High Court to test the constitutionality of the law.

Strictly speaking, the habeas process is not an appeal, but rather a new civil case brought by a prisoner to test the constitutionality of a sentence.

Mr. Monserrate's lawsuit seeks to test the constitutionality of a law that gives the Legislature the authority to remove its own members.

Various groups say they are poised to contest any penalties through the court system, in part to test the constitutionality of the new law.

South Africa's courts have the opportunity to review the JSC's deliberations and to test the constitutionality of the new bill regulating lawyers.

Nothing in the background of Judge John E. Jones III, the judge presiding over Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the first case to test the constitutionality of intelligent design in public schools, suggested he would deviate from this pattern.

This past January, David Popenoe was invoked in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the California suit testing the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the 2008 Marriage Protection Act.

Today, in the oral arguments for United States v. Windsor, the case that tests the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), those predictions started to make sense.

One case tests the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act, a 1998 law that makes it a crime to transmit, for commercial purposes, material over the Internet that is "harmful to minors".

Bradwell v. State of Illinois, (1872), U.S. legal case that tested the constitutionality of the Illinois Supreme Court's denial of a license to practice law to reform activist Myra Bradwell because she was a woman.

In another disturbing move against openness, in January the Supreme Court's conservative majority barred the planned video-streaming of the San Francisco trial testing the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative in California outlawing same-sex marriage.