Sentences with phrase «held unconstitutional the law»

The French constitutional court has held unconstitutional the law passed in January of this year (that's a fast decision by our standards) that made it illegal to dispute any genocide recognized by law.

Not exact matches

That the law was held to be unconstitutional was less shocking than that the Court was unable to articulate a coherent rationale for its conclusion.

Because of Christians, there are still laws in several states (though they're unconstitutional) that deny atheists from holding elected office.

The non-portability of interracial marriage in the US was a problem that was eventually resolved (as was the more complex problem of interstate divorce), but a-marriage-is-a-marriage-is-a-marriage for purposes of foreign immigration law outside the US (not in the US because of the Defense of Marriage Act, which has recently been held unconstitutional).

The bill is apparently an attempt to repair the old law for minor party ballot access, because the old law was held unconstitutional in 2006.

As reported previously, in September 2010 the old law was held unconstitutional.

That's why this law is unconstitutional and why all the weddings held the last few days will have to be annulled.

Many of these laws should have long ago been held unconstitutional, but the federal judges in the First Circuit seem markedly biased against minor parties.

On February 3, the U.S. District Court had held the state's ballot access law for minor parties to be unconstitutional.

Oral arguments were held before Judge Eugene Devine this morning, with the attorney for the nine Senate Republicans involved involved in the suit arguing that a law requiring prisoners to be counted at their last - known address rather than where they are incarcerated is unconstitutional.

They were on the ballot in 2010, and 2008, because the old ballot access law had been held unconstitutional in 2006, and the legislature had not passed a new law.

We agree with the findings of Judge William Overton that the Arkansas creationism law represents an unconstitutional intrusion of religion doctrine into the public schools, that «creation science» is not science, and that its advocates have followed the unscientific procedure of starting from a dogmatically held conclusion and looking only for evidence to support that conclusion.

The majority held that under this century - old definition, the charter school law did not subject those schools to enough «local control,» and therefore is unconstitutional.

Madison — A Dane County judge declined Monday to put on hold his ruling that found unconstitutional a Wisconsin law barring unions and businesses from reaching labor deals requiring workers to pay union fees.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

According to the article, six federal courts have previously found the law unconstitutional and in violation of the Supreme Court's holding six years ago in Stenberg v. Carhart.

The New York Times reports that based on the Lawrence case, which held that state sodomy laws were unconstitutional intrusions on adults» «intimate conduct,» Turley and the Browns will seek protection for the «intimate conduct» of polygamists.

As discussed at Sentencing Law Blog, Stallings was sentenced to 188 months of imprisonment just prior to the Booker decision holding mandatory sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, and a few months after the 7th Circuit's ruling reaching the same conclusion.

Sometimes government officials enforce laws that have been held unconstitutional, either because they aren't aware of the relevant court decisions, or because they think that their facts are distinguishable from those under which the law was held unconstitutional (which sometimes happens on an «as applied» basis rather than on a «facial» basis that applies to all cases), or because they think the judge before them might rule differently despite the precedent.

In response to each tale of «crisis» Illinois adopted new laws restricting patients» rights and each time the Illinois Supreme Court held those laws unconstitutional.

It is therefore apparent that the FSC holds the view that such restrictions, whether imposed by local or Federal law, will be held to be unconstitutional.

In a widely expected ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court has upheld a Cook County state court ruling holding that a state law, Public Act 98 - 641, reducing annuity benefits for employees and retirees of the City of Chicago, in exchange for increased contributions to certain pension funds, was unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court ruled against part of Canada's anti-prostitution laws in the Bedford ruling at the close of 2013, and held that a section of the Abolition of Early Parole Act was unconstitutional.

The Ferguson case totally repudiated the old reasonableness - due process test, the doctrine that judges have the power to hold laws unconstitutional upon the belief of judges that they «shock the conscience,» or that they are

A New Hampshire law setting a $ 250,000 limit on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases was held unconstitutional in Carson v. Maurer, 424 A. 2d 825 (N.H. 1980).

«An offence created by [an unconstitutional law],» the Court has held, «is not a crime.»