Sentences with phrase «meaning of the statute»

In its opinion the Court stated, «The plain meaning of the statute forbids (the) City from regulating... dogs by breed....

As a result, re-codification is most often done only as part of an overall omnibus reform of an area of law on the merits where the interest in being able to track prior interpretive caselaw and determine the original meaning of a statute enacted long ago is at its lowest.

During the administration of President George W. Bush, there was a controversy over the President's use of signing statements, which critics charged was unusually extensive and modified the meaning of statutes.

Every time you change a title or section number, you impair the ability of people doing legal research (both judges and lawyers) to find previous case law interpreting the meaning of the statute.

Librarians and lawyers have diverged on the meaning of the language and about whether certain formats are actually «obsolete» within the meaning of the statute.

The meaning of the statute at the time it was passed by Congress, an application of the contemporanea expositio maxim of statutory interpretation, would not support this type of application.

Wife argued the trial court did not err in granting the motion to dismiss because the respondent was not an «innocent party» within the meaning of the statute.

Linda Klein: No one has told us that we're looking at the plain meaning of the statute,, the regulations, everything that has been put together to date, that's the opinion of the American Bar Association and the lawyers at Ropes & Gray that all of these lawyers are qualified.

[T] he meaning of a statute is given by the intention of the Parliament which enacts it.

To suggest that a court would be changing the meaning of a statute by reading into it a requirement to act proportionately rather than a requirement to act Wednesbury reasonably merely begs the question: What was (or what are we to take to have been) Parliament's intention in this respect?

And statutory compensation schemes — think workers» comp or motor vehicle accident accident benefits — where the Athey material contribution to injury test (understood as a method of establishing factual causation on the balance of probability) was adopted as the meaning of the causation terminology in the statute were wrong in justifying their decisions based on Athey, even if decision on the meaning of the statute was correct?

The Criminal Code, as a really, really, long statute, abides by the rules of statutory interpretation, which guides us on the application and meaning of this statute.

In a rare unanimous decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court construed the meaning of the statute on grandparents» visitation rights after a divorce.

You can often find cases where the court analyzes the meaning of a statute.

When the meaning of a statute is unclear, the court will look at the language of the statute, the history, the subject matter, the objective, and other information which helps shed light on the statute's intended purpose.

The plain meaning of a statute can only be circumvented in two very narrow situations, neither of which applied here.