How to Use case law in a Sentence

case law

noun

• Case law says that a person has a right to privacy.
• Because post-nups have traditionally been rare, some states just don't have a lot of case law—the body of past decisions that governs how the law is interpreted and applied—on post-nups.
  — Jenna Sauers, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Mar. 2017
• The initiative sought to update TFEU for the first time since 2008 based on reviewing relevant case law.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• While colleges would cite case law from decades ago indicating workers’ comp law doesn’t apply, the precedential value of those decisions is highly suspect.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 17 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024