Sentence examples for using the statute from inspiring English sources

In another high-profile case, prosecutors are using the statute to accuse a prominent New York defense lawyer, Lynne F. Stewart, of helping an imprisoned sheik pass messages to terrorist followers in Egypt.

Edwin Chemerinsky, a law professor at the University of Southern California, said he spent Monday evening researching the matter and could find no other case in which a police department had been brought to trial using the statute, known as RICO -- the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law.

For six years, the Home Office had fought compensation claims, using the statute of limitations to avoid payment in a costly legal fight that went all the way to the House of Lords, and even suggesting that one victim was "genetically predisposed" to being abused.

Conversely, you may find yourself trying to use credits or refunds but running into the IRS using the statute of limitations as a bar.

The anti-loitering law, passed in New York in 1964, was found to be in violation of the First Amendment three times by federal and state courts between 1983 and 1993 and yet, from 1983 to 2012, 22,000 people were still arrested using the statute.

." The authors of the federal statute that used the Statute of Anne as a model were familiar with this history.

When the Medomsley victims first sought redress, the Home Office used the statute of limitations to avoid payment.

In recent years, however, lawyers have figured out how to use the statute in cases involving leased cars.

The document also says that the archdiocese will not use the statute of limitations or the special status of the church as a charity to limit the payments.

It was an attempt to use the statute book to excuse and legitimise an atrocity that could never withstand the scrutiny of a court".

The Justice Department is known to have used the statute at least 50 times since the Sept. 11 attacks, and civil liberties advocates said Monday that the Mayfield case demonstrated the potential for abuse.