Sentences with phrase «very important precedent»

«In addition to the victory in this case, the judge's ruling will serve as a very important precedent for us to use against any future infringement of our red - over-white-over-blue bar design,» says Re / Max senior vice-president and chief legal officer Geoff Lewis.

«I am really pleased about the successful outcome to this case, which sets a very important precedent in education law terms and will in particular benefit disabled children and their families all over the county.

It unravels slowly and has very important precedents.

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The take away from this is that alcohol takes precedent over the other macronutrients that you consumed throughout the day (if they haven't been metabolized) and drinking too much sets the body in flight mode neglecting some very important functions.

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).