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Examples of strike down in a Sentence
a law that was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional
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The vetoes struck down two of the six priority bills from the Democratic Women’s Caucus that passed the legislature.
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Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
University of Idaho student Bergen Kludt-Painter started school in August 2022, a few months after a U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down Roe v. Wade.
—Lillian Mongeau Hughes, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
State standards move forward Although the book rating portion of HB 900 was struck down, a different part of the bill requiring new statewide collection development standards of school districts will move forward.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024
What passed is legally toothless, thus sparing California litigation that has seen courts strike down such laws elsewhere.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
Previously, after the March 14 hearing in her courtroom, Cannon also rejected another dismissal motion by Trump’s lawyers, who argued that the Espionage Act was vague and should be struck down entirely.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
That language was struck down in court in September.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
According to the Durango Herald, the bill would re-issue a Trump-era rule that removed wolves in the Lower 48 from the endangered list before it was struck down by a federal judge in Oakland, California in 2022.
—Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 10 May 2024
Civil rights advocates, parents, and students had been pointing out the problem for years, including City College’s own Kenneth Clark, a sociologist whose research had been crucial to the Supreme Court’s Brown decision striking down school segregation in 1954.
—TIME, 9 May 2024
Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
University of Idaho student Bergen Kludt-Painter started school in August 2022, a few months after a U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down Roe v. Wade.
—Lillian Mongeau Hughes, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
State standards move forward Although the book rating portion of HB 900 was struck down, a different part of the bill requiring new statewide collection development standards of school districts will move forward.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024
What passed is legally toothless, thus sparing California litigation that has seen courts strike down such laws elsewhere.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
Previously, after the March 14 hearing in her courtroom, Cannon also rejected another dismissal motion by Trump’s lawyers, who argued that the Espionage Act was vague and should be struck down entirely.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
That language was struck down in court in September.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
According to the Durango Herald, the bill would re-issue a Trump-era rule that removed wolves in the Lower 48 from the endangered list before it was struck down by a federal judge in Oakland, California in 2022.
—Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 10 May 2024
Civil rights advocates, parents, and students had been pointing out the problem for years, including City College’s own Kenneth Clark, a sociologist whose research had been crucial to the Supreme Court’s Brown decision striking down school segregation in 1954.
—TIME, 9 May 2024
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“Strike down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strike%20down. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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