Sentences with phrase «wrong as a matter of law»

The district court's reasoning that settlement relieved it of the need to perform the choice - of - law and predominance analyses was «wrong as a matter of law.»

the judge was wrong as a matter of law to find that the defendant bore any evidential burden of proof in these types of cases;

b) The attorney thinks the case is meritless and wrong as a matter of law.

The magistrates were wrong as a matter of law to admit the statement.

Not exact matches

«We disagree with this decision, which is wrong as a matter of constitutional law,» he said last week, according to CNN.

But if treaties do not matter, and if there is no such thing as Right and Wrong - in other words, if there is no Law of Nature - what is the difference between a fair treaty and an unfair one?

... «Superior Court» is to be construed historically, and that... it connotes a court having an inherent jurisdiction, in England, to administer justice according to the law, as and being a part of, or descended from, and as exercising part of the power of, the Aula Regia, established by William the First, which had universal jurisdiction in all matters of right and wrong throughout the kingdom, and over which, in its early days, the King presided in person.

AS: In terms of redress, that should be a matter of criminal law to enforce that, but for behaviour that is not criminal but wrong then redress has to apply to all.

Now the American Bar Association may or may not be in the right as a matter of law (spoiler: probably not), but it is very much wrong as an example for the profession.

Practice directions provide invaluable guidance to matters of practice in the civil courts, but in so far as they contain statements of the law which are wrong they carry no authority at all.»

In other words, appellants argue that the district court made the wrong decision as a matter of law.

I suppose as a principle of criminal law, it doesn't matter whether you think you are breaking the law or not, if it turns out that doing what you thought was wrong was not prohibited, on a «proper» interpretation of the relevant statute.

Accordingly, as a matter of law, the defendant's decision not to summon a jury was wrong and had to be quashed.

«Drone operators who believe FAA regulations do not apply to them are now, as a matter of law, wrong,» Forbes.com reports about the NTSB's ruling.