Sentences with phrase «judicial precedent from»

In addition to the way the term is used above, «common law» can be used within a Common Law jurisdiction to distinguish that part of the law which arises from judicial precedent from that part which arises from legislative statute or administrative regulation.

But judicial precedent from Carl McCall's 1993 selection as comptroller suggests that attempt would be unlikely to succeed.

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While I find the majority opinion in Brown disappointing and even more so the fact that its author was Scalia, in the end there is something for conservatives to take away from the case: a strong judicial precedent that new categories may not be added to the type of content not afforded full First Amendment protection.

Common Law is the system of jurisprudence originating from England, and is based on judicial precedent, rather than legislative enactments.

Examining both real - life stories and precedent - setting legal cases, director Kamala Lopez uncovers how outdated and discriminatory attitudes inform and influence seemingly disparate issues, from workplace harassment to domestic violence, rape and sexual assault to the foster care system, and the healthcare conglomerate to the judicial system.

A strict reading of the state's education code and judicial precedents on home schooling from the 1950s and»60s clearly supported the ruling.

Leaving aside the perplexing charge that class action lawyers routinely pad their dockets, Justice Belobaba's approach to contingency fees is remarkable for its departure from well - established statutory authority and judicial precedent.

Many times, courts will lift string - cites and parentheticals from other judicial opinions, with a notation such as «cited in...» Is that plagiarism — or precedent?

Professor Elizabeth Judge explains in «Precedent and the Individual Opinion: Judges Judging Judgments and the Creation of the Law Canon», the act of «authorizing precedent... deflect [s] attention away from the judicial acts of authoring the individual opinioPrecedent and the Individual Opinion: Judges Judging Judgments and the Creation of the Law Canon», the act of «authorizing precedent... deflect [s] attention away from the judicial acts of authoring the individual opinioprecedent... deflect [s] attention away from the judicial acts of authoring the individual opinion».

The laws governing taxation, trade and commerce, labor relations, and governmental operations, as well as the principle of judicial precedent, are all derived from American laws and traditions.

a Singapore company in obtaining, from the New Zealand courts, an order of subpoena in favour of a London LCIA tribunal, creating new judicial precedent

«Yet some lower courts have continually sought to invent new ways around this body of precedent intended to keep plaintiffs» lawyers from dragging corporate defendants across the country and forcing them to defend themselves in what ATRA calls «Judicial Hellholes.