How to Use case law in a Sentence

case law

noun
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  • Case law says that a person has a right to privacy.
  • Creating a will is based on state laws and decades of case law.
    — Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Reyes said case law puts the burden for asking the right questions on the defense.
    — Steve Karnowski, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • At the heart of this argument is a piece of case law known as the dormant commerce clause.
    — Time, 12 Oct. 2022
  • What Sasser has found here is a kind of case law — and the rudiments of a justice system.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
  • That and case law also supports the view that the president can switch chairs at will.
    — Brady Dale, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • There's plenty of case law on the subject, Caplan said.
    — CBS News, 29 July 2020
  • But case law isn’t exactly in the victim’s favor with the statute.
    — Ingrid Burrington, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • First, the court’s case law has grown exponentially in the past few decades.
    — Filiz Kahraman, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • Both writings pointed to some of the same case law examples.
    — Alexandra Berzon, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • The memo is devoid of discussion of the way case law has been developing in this area for the last few years.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Avianca pointed out the bogus case law in a March filing.
    — Larry Neumeister, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • Those phrases are backed by hundreds of years of case law and legal custom.
    — Dallas News, 5 June 2022
  • The bigger issue may be that case law hasn’t defined what should be public.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Both sides point to the city’s municipal code, public records and case law to bolster their claims.
    — Daily Pilot, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Almost no case law exists on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
    — Jed Rubenfeld, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
  • CBS Denver reported that lawyers for the 26-year-old said there is case law that would allow for a sentence of 20 years.
    — Fox News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • With total recall of case law, an LLM could include dozens of cases.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Harvey, charmed that Mike can recite case law by heart and unperturbed by the fact that Mike's suitcase pops open, spilling weed on the floor, hires him.
    — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Since Green is the first SRC member to seek political office, there is no case law on the question.
    — Chris Brennan, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Roy said even the park service’s own attorneys couldn’t keep up with Hendricks’ knowledge of case law.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The state Board of Education is looking into the statute and case law on naming and pronouns.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The Supreme Court said Magers in his appeal failed to comply with Rule 28, which requires an appeal to argue the case with citations to case law and statutes.
    — al, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Nine of those states have no set minimum age, the group says, relying instead on case law or a judge's ruling.
    — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The absence of a clear statute — or much relevant case law — challenges the courts in situations when two people claim the same pet.
    — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2024
  • According to case law, an agency that does not have the power to regulate does not have the power to preempt.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
  • There’s a history of case law nationally and in states.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Surely there is such case law in the form of the common law of joint and several liability.
    — Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • If the parliamentarian plays the role of judge in matters of procedure, the precedents are akin to case law.
    — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • The family also cites case law in the suit, claiming that the force used was excessive because there is no record of attempts by deputies to negotiate with Shea and officers used deadly force within 17 minutes of arriving at the scene.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024

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