Sentence examples for violated states from inspiring English sources

The law violated states' rights, the majority said.

Mr. Byrd also opposed the 1965 Voting Rights Act and its renewal in 1970, again arguing that they violated states' rights.

In 2012, Republican opponents of the Affordable Care Act based their challenge, at the Supreme Court, on the ground that it violated states' rights.

Representative Margaret Dayton, an Orem Republican who was the bill's sponsor, argued to the White House and Education Department officials who visited Utah last week that the federal law violated states' rights, federal and state officials who sat in on the meetings said.

And critics of the "one man-one vote" decisions said the rulings violated states' rights.

The Justices found it violated states' "residuary and inviolable sovereignty that is reflected throughout the Constitution's text".

The investigation is also reported to be looking into whether Exxon violated state consumer protection laws.

Earlier this year, the commission's investigation determined that the district had violated state human rights law.

Mr. Spitzer's office said that the operation or promotion of online casinos violated state law.

It said that some pension-fund officials, Mr. Holbein and Hicks, Muse had all violated state ethics laws.

In so doing, Mers violated state laws that strictly regulate foreclosure procedures.