Remember, the courts still have the power to throw out laws on constitutional grounds.
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The bounty hunter patent law provision has been challenged on constitutional grounds previously.
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However, the Senate proposal is held up on constitutional grounds, because legislation that increases revenue must originate in the House.
Bakke, the seminal affirmative action ruling issued in 1978, five justices struck down a quota system on statutory and constitutional grounds.
Yet it is highly improbable that the enabling legislation could deviate from the Basic Law without being subject to challenge on constitutional grounds.
But it seems odd to criticise Mr Brown on quasi-constitutional grounds.
In a 4-to-3 decision, the state Court of Appeals ruled against an Albany-area strip club, Nite Moves, which had challenged the state's sales-tax policy on constitutional grounds.
Some of Mr Clinton's allies thought this subpoena could be challenged on constitutional grounds, arguing that the judicial branch (unlike Congress) lacks the authority to compel evidence from the executive.
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He sued to overturn the law on a variety of constitutional grounds, including that violated his equal-protection rights and it was a bill of attainder singling his business out for legislative punishment.
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Musharraf placed the country under a six-week state of emergency late last year, during which he ousted most of the Supreme Court justices who had been expected to nullify his recent election victory on constitutional grounds.
Davis specifically rejected the employer mandate along conventional constitutional grounds, finding that even employers who operate within a single state can be subjected to federal regulations, much as civil-rights laws apply even to local diners and motels.
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But such talk failed even to reassure Arizona's own legislators, who moved last Friday--less than two weeks after the law was passed--to amend the law's more draconian provisions after civil rights groups threatened to sue on constitutional grounds.
But it rested that conclusion on statutory, not constitutional, grounds--that is, it found that Congress had conferred this right on the detainees.
And tellingly, he declared that the court was obligated to uphold a law as constitutional if there were reasonable grounds to do so, even if there were alternative grounds to strike it down.
The Supreme Court then accepted an appeal against the Constitutional Court's decision, on procedural grounds.
Mr. Murray is challenging on constitutional separation of church-and-state grounds the practice of a U.S. government-owned company, the insurance conglomerate AIG, promoting Shariah-compliant products.
But it does not accept him as president of Yugoslavia, on the grounds that the voting was contaminated by the constitutional amendments.
The French constitutional court ruled against the supertax the other day on technical grounds.
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