Sentences with phrase «several justices questioned»

During oral arguments, several justices questioned whether the federal anti-corruption law — also used in the Skelos case — was too vague and being interpreted too broadly.

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So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

Of special interest are statements by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore on Catholic understandings of the American constitutional order, and several documents from the hand of Bishop («Dagger John») Hughes of New York on sundry questions, including an illuminating exchange with Bishop Patrick Lynch of Charleston on the justice of the Union cause in the Civil War.

While the number of calls from David to JCOPE is not overwhelming, the timing of several calls made 16 months ago raises questions about the frequency of contact between the governor's office and the state's independent ethics panel, especially at a time when former aides and supporters of Cuomo were in the crosshairs of a U.S. Justice Department investigation.

That court referred the case to the European Court of Justice, asking it to decide several questions, including what the E.U. law means when it refers to «human embryos,» and whether the ban also covers patents that don't involve embryos directly but where the use of embryos «is a necessary precondition» for the covered process or product.

Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states» attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the climate change agenda under fraud and racketeering laws.

Those are among several questions that appear to seek information on whether there was any obstruction of justice, according to the New York Times, which obtained the list of more than 40 questions.

Justice Fish mentioned several times that the complainant had in fact consented to the sexual activity in question and had not revoked her consent (see e.g. paras. 97, 104, 108, 112).

In the Court of Appeal, the arguments became wider than in the tribunal or EAT, because of the intervention of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, questioning the compatibility of the EAT decision with EC law and also focusing more clearly on the changes introduced in 2003 into the Equal Pay Act (s 2ZA) in the light of the ruling of the European Court of Justice in Preston v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust [2000] IRLR 506 to cover the case of several contracts forming part of a «stable employment relationship».

But Enrich did face several skeptical policy - related questions from Justices Antonin Scalia, who asked whether taxes are political issues that should be decided by legislators, not courts, and David Souter, who questioned whether tax incentives such as Ohio's are truly discriminatory.

Justice Brown reframed the question to counsel several times before finally hearing that TWU was seeking recognition of the «collective rights» of the Trinity Western religious community, balanced against equality «interests,» not rights, of LGBTQ2 students.