Sentence examples for unworkable decisions from inspiring English sources

But he added that adherence to precedent was not an "inexorable command" and that unworkable decisions may be revisited.

Nevertheless, we always have treated stare decisis as a "principle of policy," Helvering v. Hallock, 309 U.S. 106, 119 (1940), and not as an "inexorable command," Payne, 501 U.S. at 828. "[W]hen governing decisions are unworkable or are badly reasoned, 'this Court has never felt constrained to follow precedent.'" Id. at 827 (quoting Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649, 665 (1944)).

The Article concludes that reasonable citizens of North Carolina have no choice but to recognize that the Court's "activist" decisions have rendered unworkable the provisions of their state constitution governing the election of judges, even while demonstrating the case for a political system holding high court judges accountable for their political decisions.

Niemeyer called the decision unprecedented and unworkable.

But groups opposing campaign regulations on First Amendment grounds said Monday's decision created an unworkable standard.

That is an unworkable standard and the Ninth Circuit decision shows why.

I am glad to see support for this deeply flawed piece of legislation dissipating, but let us be clear: ENDA is not suddenly unworkable because of the Hobby Lobby decision.

A recent report by a committee of the House of Lords called the decision "misguided in principle and unworkable in practice".

"That approach is complex enough as a sovereign decision, and it could be unworkable if we try to do it with a universal UN rule," he says.

The decision, they said, "is already proving unworkable".

She said precedents should be overturned only if they have proved unworkable over time or have been eroded by other decisions or if important factual circumstances change.