Sentences with phrase «of substantive arguments»

Judge Cote ruled this week (PDF) that the brief they already submitted — which «contains five pages of substantive arguments that do not address the question of whether leave to file amici curiae responses is appropriate, but rather oppose approval of the proposed Final Judgment» — will suffice as B&N and the ABA's only comment on the matter, and «no additional filings from the ABA and Barnes & Noble shall be permitted.»

Chuckles... I'm saying that your nitpicking over-emphasis on technicalities and semantics belies your lack of a substantive argument... as does your penchant for launching immature insults...

Pro tip: if you find yourself looking at an author's choice of hairstyle, birthdate or food preferences, you show the world you're bankrupt in terms of substantive argument

According to Bennett's post, Gibson charged $ 107,000 for an appeal with six pages of substantive argument.

Not exact matches

I recognize that, for Apel, the universal criterion of valid substantive prescriptions is simply that they can be redeemed by argument or in moral discourse.

In recent years, conservative Aristotelian - Thomists like Patrick Deneen and Alasdair MacIntyre have made the argument that a moral philosophy entailing a substantive account of human happiness or fulfillment is simply incompatible with the American liberal - democratic political order.

Instead, I will assume that the case for neoclassical metaphysics can otherwise be made and attempt programmatically to show that the comprehensive purpose it formulates grounds justice as compound, grounds a substantive principle of justice that consistently implies the formative human rights of communicative respect.7 Toward the conclusion of this argument, I will also seek to identify an inclusive human right that is substantive in character.

Your «nice try» comment is simply an attempt to deflect away from the substance of this argument, in trying to denigrate me as irrelevant... when in fact, all it does is reflect that you are trying to «get me to go away» because you have no substantive argument left to make.

Christians must not claim that Christian revelation makes Christianity superior to other religions, she believes: «What Christianity has going for it is its substantive proposal of a way of life — a way of life over which Christians argue in the effort to witness to and be disciples of Christ, and with which they enter into argument with others.»

Much of the controversy surrounding Weberian arguments about Puritanism has focused on substantive issues.

And in the same way, what had to be done in the cases of same - sex marriage was a serious effort to draw on the substantive arguments, made by Robert George, Ryan Anderson, Sherif Girgis (and others of us) to explain again why the marriage of a man and woman is the most defensible form of marriage.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

Before i touch on the substantive issues, let me quote one of Locke's arguments.

This argument does not rely on a too substantive and essentialist conception of «youth interests».

Adding to his stock denunciations of the plan, Cuomo at least alluded to a substantive argument against SALT deduction repeal on federalism grounds:

E.J.McMahon of The Empire Center, a conservative think tank, said that it is generally expected that there will be tension between a Comptroller and Governor and that it is unsurprising that Cuomo, who has a reputation for «ad hominem denunciation» over «the substantive argument,» is feuding with someone charged with monitoring him.

Whispers — and personal attacks — aside, it is worth responding to the more substantive arguments of our critics.

During 2011 — 12, the district focused on implementing Writing Anchor Standard 1 (W1), which states that students must be able to «write arguments to support claims in analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.»

Blair, pardon me if I seemed to be over-reactive, but if you follow the topic of climate change for more than a very short while you'll see that all too often the «argument» of people who disagree with results they don't like is to mount the ultimate personal attack: they try to substitute comments about an author's personal background for substantive comment about the author's work.

We both know that kim is being disingenuous, but the response that a bunch of non-researchers also believe in AGW is more of a political argument than a substantive one.

The more substantive problem with the argument, if we take it at face value, is it's own inability to understand the terms of the climate debate.

Nasty attacks that get personal, particularly in comments that do not have any kind of substantive scientific argument or reference, will be deleted

Since Jelbring explicitly states that he is waiting a very long time for relaxation to occur and did not inconsistently qualify his use of an ideal gas by asserting that it is non-conductive (and because there is no substantive difference between my vertically confined gas column and his vertically confined gas column, at this point we all agree that my arguments against EEJ are valid and the stated conclusion of his thought experiment is incorrect.

However neat these substantive arguments are, they do not capture the layers of discussions that actually take place.

All of these insults are mud slinging without being accompanied by any substantive argument.

But I suppose making an issue of it will waste more of my time, which means less time for substantive arguments.

If you want to have a substantive discussion about issue X, then stick to issue X. Making lists about stupid things that have been said somewhere by someone and thinking that is an argument is just a waste of everyone's time.

To put it simply, the choice of the correct substantive legal basis can not depend on the quality of the association between the EU and the third country, and if so, only as a supportive or secondary argument.

In purely substantive terms the arguments of the Court are, however, correct.

«I have mentioned a number of times in a number of places, my view that this argument makes no sense at all because a standard of review is not a substantive attack on legislation and because in this case once it was found that Congress had acted within its copyright powers, the jig was up.

As noted above, the European Commission's brief makes two basic arguments, the first substantive and the second procedural: (1) that the jurisdictional limits of the ATS should be defined by reference to international law, in particular that the US should allow universal civil jurisdiction only in cases where universal criminal jurisdiction would normally apply; and (2) that the US's exercise of universal civil jurisdiction must be constrained by the procedural limits imposed by international law, in particular by an exhaustion requirement.

Marion Boyd's argument is reflected in Omar's comments: if one does not hold out the possibility of enforcing a family arbitral award made under Islamic law, at least on some grounds (and she set out a number of conditions about procedural and substantive fairness), then those who go to arbitration under that law anyway have no protection in civil law, and the arbitrator has no incentive to conform to our general notions of fairness.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the moving parties» arguments and noted that Justice Newbould found that a pro rata allocation did not constitute a substantive consolidation of the Nortel debtors» estates.

When considering the substantive merits of the case, the judge began by dismissing Google's argument that the claim amounted to an abuse of process through being an attempt to circumvent the restrictions on defamation cases.

However, while acknowledging that full argument had not taken place, Rix J did consider the substantive issue, within the context of extensive oral and written submissions having been made by the Bar Council.

«[T] he final instance for determining the limits or the formal positioning of any legal order is not any institutional facts but substantive arguments that draw on principles of individual (and collective) morality.

But, without the substantive legal training, constant updating of legal precedents, and legal work experience dealing with dozens, hundreds or thousands of injury cases non-lawyers will miss important deadlines in the ICBC and tort claims or fail to make relevant arguments, or worse.

The first substantive ground of appeal was that the judge misapprehended the legal argument and basis upon which CIBC advanced its defence.

During oral argument, the Court clearly was concerned about the lack of a clear substantive definition on appeal for «reasonableness» in this context.

There are of course arguments in favour of that kind of direct media engagement, but there are also real risks associated with it, particularly in cases where the engagement relates to the substantive issues that were before the court.

That's why in my original post I stated that I have a «concern» about the «troubling» Ramirez ruling because the «panel seems to essentially abdicate its responsibility to assess the substantive reasonableness of a stat - max sentence when the defendant had viable arguments that his sentence was far greater than necessary in light of all the 3553 (a) consideration.»

An appellant's counsel need to be mindful of this and not simply assume that strong substantive legal arguments with good facts will carry the day on appeal.

And your substantive argument still isn't convincing: the Treaties rule out judicial review of the CFSP * by the CJEU *; that can't be taken to rule out other forms of judicial review by implication.

• No convincing argument or evidence demonstrates that any particular area of substantive law is indispensable for either students» intellectual formation or lawyers» professional functions.

Although it is not necessary for me to deal with the argument that the object of an estoppel is to avoid detriment and not to make good the assumption on which it is founded, it is convenient that I note my agreement with Mason C.J. that the substantive doctrine of estoppel permits a court to do what is required to avoid detriment and does not, in every case, require the making good of the assumption.

It appears there were no substantive differences in the legal / factual arguments in regards to anticipation and obviousness — the wording of the decision is identical in these 2 areas, notwithstanding the two generics had different experts.

The Government's arguments before the CERD Committee conceded that the standard of equality has broadened under international law to include «substantive equality».

Even though the High Court had rejected, in the Native Title Act Case, the argument that because native title has different characteristics from other forms of title and derives from a different source, native title holders can be deprived of their property rights, this argument was recouched as part of an international law notion of substantive equality.