Q: relationship between bright-line rules and Rule 11?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

As always, it is a facts and circumstances test, not a bright-line test.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here a link, there a link, everywhere a link link] Reference

Reproducibility is a ‘bright-line’ standard understood by every scientist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another AGU Submission? « Climate Audit] Reference

I agree that we lack bright-line rules and are in the world of judgment calls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob T. Levy] Reference

In some of the bright-line stars which we have described, technically known as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

We just create a bright-line rule, as in Crawford, and apply it across the board.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Incorporation,” Originalism, and the Confrontation Clause:] Reference

When I became director, I established certain bright-line rules regarding conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2001] Reference

Like all bright-line rules, this one has the advantage of simplicity in application.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Law is A Ass - in Illinois, Anyway] Reference

Then tell them about a bright-line “X points for being black,” and see what happens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Attitudes on Abortion, by Sex:] Reference

So the legislature was well aware of the bright-line rule that had been set in Boardman.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Vote: Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Challenge to Absentee Ballots in Seminole County - December 7, 2000] Reference

CROWLEY: Well, I think it's another issue that adds to what is a very bright-line election.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008] Reference

Establishing a bright-line cut-off in the severity of punishment would create that incentive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Yet Another Reason Not To Sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child:] Reference

After all, it's hard to argue that "shocks the conscience" is a particularly bright-line test.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

There has to be some sort of bright-line rule that separates the misanthrope from the murderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melody Moezzi: Get to the Doctor, Dr. Ahmadinejad!] Reference

''The virtues of a bright-line rule surely cannot alone justify regulating constitutional speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men...] Reference

Everywhere, Helprin sets up bright-line distinctions, which in the digital economy are inoperable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: Should Internet Content Be Free? The Best Model to Save Newspapers, Books, and Music in the Digital Age] Reference

Generally, in matters of professional ethics, gray areas are slim and bright-line rules are common.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘You’re Fat And Won’t Get Laid!’ - Acceptible Medical Commentary?] Reference

Althouse: ''The virtues of a bright-line rule surely cannot alone justify regulating constitutional speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [''The virtues of a bright-line rule surely cannot alone justify regulating constitutional speech."] Reference

First of all, the answer to this question is not a bright-line test, but a facts and circumstances analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here a link, there a link, everywhere a link link] Reference

There is a very bright-line distinction between Sony, Nestle and Michelin versus the China Investment Corp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not All Foreign Investment Is Via Sovereign Wealth] Reference

As the article points out, the various state bars do not have any bright-line rules on the use of these tools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Ethics and Social Media] Reference

And why did the Court expressly disclaim precedential effect with respect to that indispensible bright-line rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Court Orders Recusal in Caperton v. Massey Coal:] Reference

Some circuits have a bright-line rule: the plaintiff has to be a competitor and has to allege competitive injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [McDonald's is lovin' it: Burger King franchisee lacks Lanham Act standing] Reference

Later litigation will determine if this indeed has become the new bright-line test for excessive punitive damages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Sense on Punitive Damages] Reference

It is clear that this spiral nebula is widely different from the bright-line or gaseous nebulae in physical condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

BLECKER: But when you draw a bright-line test, the problem is that, with law, like life -- I mean, life is a continuum.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2005] Reference

"Congress should avoid any bright-line exemption that runs the risk of creating the next regulatory loophole," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [CFTC Warns Against Exempting Energy Contracts] Reference

Although Grand Upright applied a bright-line test in a sampling case, we have not cited it as precedent for several reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

I guess my general thought was that we elect judges to make judgment calls, not to mechanically regurgitate bright-line rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Court Orders Recusal in Caperton v. Massey Coal:] Reference

But like all bright-line rules, it runs the risk of failing to encompass complex realities, and therefore leading to injustice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Law is A Ass - in Illinois, Anyway] Reference

Marital infidelity in politicians is and should be a similar bright-line rule: you cheat on your wife, the voters throw you out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Traditionalists Should Prefer Libertines to Hypocrites, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

That gets to the heart of this matter: Gambling is one of those activities often serving as a bright-line divide in a relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Gambles. She Doesn't. Place Your Bets...] Reference

How can bright-line protections of freedoms of choice and action be essential in one sphere of our lives but unimportant in others?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Regulation and Civil Liberties] Reference

Once you get some bright-line defined, you get a room full of lawyers trying to get their side on the “right side” of that line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laudan, demarcation and the vacuity of Intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Just like ID used a bunch of lawyers, and a search-and-replace function in a word-processor to jump around a bright-line court case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laudan, demarcation and the vacuity of Intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The case-by-case analysis resists bright-line determinations and the resulting decisions inevitably represent a sort of rough justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [MA GOP's lame ad and James Taylor's copyright: upon further analysis, it's still not "fair use"] Reference

Americans are going to have no shortage of disagreements in this election year, and are really going to have a very bright-line choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2004] Reference

What differences explain the varying approaches to fairness, to second-guessing state decisions, to extreme cases, to concerns about bright-line rules?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Court Orders Recusal in Caperton v. Massey Coal:] Reference