In short, the justices must maintain the nation's faith that their decisions are grounded in legal principle rather than partisan politics.
The international legal principle of "non-refoulement" protects victims of persecution from being returned to places where their lives or freedoms may be at threat.
And the preamble has a language that, to a certain extent, replicates a legal principle of the unchangeability of circumstances that were basis for the treaty.
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The rationale behind the legal principle is that publishers can research, review and edit the content they publish whereas distributors often cannot easily do so for the content they distribute.
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But, essentially, they are either in agreement with the legal principle (like a scholar at al Azhar, a Salafist or a Muslim Brother) or have a general but acute awareness of the law's existence.
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The teenagers were originally charged with murder under joint enterprise, a legal principle which allows people to be prosecuted for being party to an offence that they could have foreseen because of their common criminal intentions.
Mr. VITALI CHURKIN (Russian Ambassador to the U.N.): We were trying to make sure that this resolution does reflect what is a basic international, legal principle, and that is that what is not prohibited is permitted.
The Justice Department also argues that the court doesn't have the right to determine the constitutionality of the law in this case because of " sovereign immunity, " a long-standing legal principle that exempts the government from lawsuits unless the government consents.
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In the contemporary international legal order, the "principle of legality" assumes this function.
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The Patriot Act's notification provision is no different in principle from the legal notice that was previously required to be given to persons intercepted in a court-ordered wiretap.
The first-sale doctrine, which the Court upheld in its decision, is a principle that the legal purchaser of a copyright-protected item may dispose of that property anyway he or she sees fit.
Accessibility to justice is an indispensable principle of the Egyptian legal system.
Chris Huhne, for the Liberal Democrats, argued that the plans put at risk the "cornerstone" of England and Wales's legal system, "the principle of being innocent until proven guilty".
Rather they are particular legal concepts manifesting the more general principle that society, having the power to punish dangerous behavior, cannot be powerless against those who work to bring about that behavior.
As has been thoroughly documented by Lawrence Kogan of the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development, the marine environmental protection requirements emanating from LOST are rooted in the European-derived "precautionary principle, " a legal tenet requiring assurance that a proposed action will cause no harm to the environment before proceeding.
But the court relied on a basic principle of most established legal systems, that what is not specifically prohibited should be allowed, and ruled that the trademark law did not prohibit lawyers from acting as agents and that, moreover, a 1997 law governing lawyers said that they could provide any legal service, and that filing trademarks was certainly a legal service.
They said they are "not opposed in principle" to people contributing towards their criminal legal aid.
The Scottish Parliament justice committee, which has scrutinised the bill, said it was "not opposed in principle" to people contributing towards their criminal legal aid.
The statement that any prosecution would fail is, the paper believes, a typical piece of legal caution that flies in the face of common sense and principle.
MSPs on the committee backed in principle the proposals in the Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill.
However, the police authority stressed that approval was in principle only, and implementation could be cancelled if financial and legal problems arose.
That assertion ran into a core principle of the judiciary that courts don't sit to issue advisory legal opinions.
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As the House prosecutors have argued, the principle of 'Equal Justice Under Law' is at the very heart of our legal system.
This just a matter of principle, because I have had no chance to make myself heard and such a legal action I will never find a job as a graduate engineer.
This legislation would uphold the principle that the federal government should not deny gay and lesbian couples the same rights and legal protections as straight couples.
No judicial decision or applicable treaty contradicts this principle, and the U.S. Supreme Court has established that works of international legal scholars can be acceptable as evidence of the law.
The principle and the practice of his big-drink ban fly in the face of too much legal theory to survive another minute before another judge.
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"While legal issues involving copyright law are always complex, we believe the project is wholly consistent with the core principle of copyright law, " says James Hilton, the head librarian at the University of Michigan.
Here was a man who had refused, as if on principle, to swing at a bad pitch, and then applied that same steely resolve to his legal situation, at some cost to his dignity.
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