Sentences with phrase «federal common law because»

In 2011's AEP vs. Connecticut, the Supreme Court ruled that individuals may not file nuisance lawsuits regarding carbon emissions under federal common law because carbon emissions are already regulated by the Clean Air Act.

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Putting aside the fact that the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Test is not a true mastery exam because it does not measure «grade - appropriate skills in reading, writing...,» the actual truth is that there is absolutely no federal or state law, regulation or policy that allows the state or local school district to punish a child (or parent) who opts their children out of the Common Core SBAC exam.

«Dismissal is also warranted because the relief Plaintiffs seek is not available under federal common law.

Commercial truck drivers must follow more laws than drivers of common passenger vehicles because there are many federal and state regulations that govern commercial transportation.

The holding that bitcoins were money was needed in that particular case because the definition of «investment contract» in the US federal securities law required an investment of money (in a common enterprise with an expectation of profit — the common enterprise does not need to involve money as its object).

For example, because model codes of evidence had been used as the foundation for decades of American law school evidence courses, and judges» and lawyers» comparative analyses, the «codification versus common law» issue played only a very small part in the debates preceding the enacting of the U.S. Federal Rules of Evidence.

Justice Olney and all the members of the Federal Court found that the common law could not recognise an exclusive native title right to control access because this would conflict with the public right of navigation and Australia's international obligation to permit innocent passage of ships through Australia's territorial seas.