Sentence examples for unreasonable application of from inspiring English sources

The California court's holding was an unreasonable application of clearly established precedent.

Unfair discrimination requires the unreasonable application of this ability, which is clearly A Bad Thing.

First, the court interpreted a provision barring federal courts from setting aside a state court decision unless the state ruling was an "unreasonable" application of federal law.

State inmates seeking habeas corpus in federal court must now show that the state court decision "involved an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law".

That question was whether a failure to extend an established legal principle to a new context can ever be regarded as an "unreasonable application of clearly established federal law".

Under the 1996 law, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, a federal court can overturn only those state court judgments that are "contrary to" or an "unreasonable application of clearly established federal law".

The Ninth Circuit made an initial error in its "unreasonable application" analysis.

The "unreasonable application" clause requires the state court decision to be more than incorrect or erroneous.

The negative impact of corn ethanol on food prices can be reduced, if not eliminated, by reducing the unreasonable restrictions on the application of agricultural biotechnology on food crops especially in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Another question is how much the application of the "unreasonable burden" standard changes if the subject company has a business strategy that includes opposing government surveillance requests.

Morality, which was being so cleverly utilized by the United States government, would implicate the tortured as outside the realm of humanity and therefore state that the application of morality to them is unreasonable.