Sentence examples for us jurisprudence from inspiring English sources

His case is singularly controversial as he has been found by multiple medical experts to be intellectually disabled – a developmental condition still known in US jurisprudence as "mental retardation" that renders him constitutionally barred from execution.

Hill's legal team had appealed to the nine justices to intervene on the grounds that the same court prohibited executions for "mentally retarded" prisoners – as called in US jurisprudence – in 2002.

No one's ever tested this approach in court, and I can't say whether a judge would be able to distinguish between "not revealing a secret order" and "failing to note the absence of a secret order", but in US jurisprudence, compelling someone to speak a lie is generally more fraught with constitutional issues than compelled silence about the truth.

Of particular importance to the development of US jurisprudence, its offerings were expanded to include economics courses for federal judges.

In a round-about way, the Cuban iguana's status under the US Endangered Species Act made its way into US jurisprudence.

He continues to campaign in the case of Warren Hill, a Georgia death row inmate who has been declared intellectually disabled (or "mentally retarded" in US jurisprudence) by all the psychiatrists who have examined him, yet still faces execution despite a US supreme court ban on executing intellectually disabled people.

Regarding the law enforcement and national security part, the WP 29 has questions relating in particular to the latest developments of US law and jurisprudence in the field of privacy.

It may be a sign of the illiberal nature of these laws that the plaintiffs have heavily relied upon decidedly libertarian US supreme court jurisprudence in these proceedings.

Many important areas of our jurisprudence leave us at the mercy of precisely the kind of coercive power that the Constitution was designed to protect us against.

If our First Amendment jurisprudence has taught us anything, it has taught us the importance of recognizing the value of symbolic dissent, even when unpopular, as a key mediating tool in integrating the marketplaces of prohibited and protected expression.

The laws that defined and circumscribed life in the Jim Crow South were warped, but it was also the law — farsighted, fair-minded jurisprudence — that gave us the tools to dismantle segregation, piece by rotten piece.