All Sotomayor did was interpret then-existing precedent.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Haven firefighter blasts Sotomayor for ruling 'along racial lines'] Reference

CIT noted that its payments "were consistent with then-existing legal standards.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street Exhales After Sidestepping Pay Czar's Wrath] Reference

Those guidelines allowed research on a small number of then-existing stem-cell lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Refuses to Stay Stem-Cell Ruling] Reference

The then-existing Windows Mobile OS and its development tools suddenly looked "antiquated," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Microsoft sustain Windows Phone momentum?] Reference

Wal-Mart maintains that it is only taking advantage of a lawful deduction afforded by then-existing tax law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Norman: Wal-Mart's Self-Dealing Income Tax Scam North Carolina Court Tosses Out $33.5 Million Case] Reference

Still, it probably did in some measure alter the then-existing understanding of the Just Compensation Clause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Amendments of the Bill of Rights:] Reference

I further believe that during that campaign, Alexander systematically hid those pieces at the five then-existing Wonders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

In 1950 there were both fewer techniques and there likely would have been fewer data points using the then-existing techniques.    From Wordnik.com.  [YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit] Reference

However, SG was required to sell ISPI service parts, including patches and fixes, for its then-existing customer base at list price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

McCane that the good faith exception excused the exclusionary rule when the search is made in reliance on then-existing circuit precedent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: A Brief History] Reference

Thomas P. McNulty, a lawyer for Mr. Mayer, said his client believed his advice was within then-existing law and that he "acted in good faith.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In BDO Case, 7 Charged With Fraud] Reference

Strictly speaking, this is true, but nearly forty years ago, the Supreme Court struck down all then-existing death penalty statutes in Furman v.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrea Lyon: Silence as Assent] Reference

The debt ceiling has since been raised countless times, sometimes multiple times in a single year, and always in response to hitting the then-existing ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Cut You, Don't Cut Me, Cut the Fellow Over There] Reference

This same technology was deployed in massive military establishments, which dumped hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the then-existing oceans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sojourner Truth Uncovers Truth] Reference

I would say, for example, that we had 22.3 percent illiteracy between the ages of 10 and 49, if the then-existing figures and statistics could be called reliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO ADDRESSES GRADUATING PRIMARY TEACHERS] Reference

The 4th Circuit held that acts performed in the invited presence of others are not private and the then-existing privacy exception for married couples did not apply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Obscenity Conviction for Adult-to-Adult Noncommercial E-mail About (Fantasy) Sex With Children:] Reference

As a result, Gant violations routinely led appellate courts to overturn convictions based on pre–Gant searches incident to arrest made in reliance on then-existing law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: A Brief History] Reference

As a result, Gant violations routinely led appellate courts to overturn convictions based on pre – Gant searches incident to arrest made in reliance on then-existing law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: A Brief History] Reference

This ruling, which had no basis in the text of the Constitution and only a tenuous connection to then-existing precedents, was supposed to settle the matter once and for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underwhelmingly Iraqi] Reference

The reason for the choice of the April date was because the presence on duty of a certain night-warder, a Sergeant Vermeulen, was vital to the success of the then-existing plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10 - First Escape Date] Reference

The problems between the two companies go back to at least February 2007, when Starcom and Donovan were in negotiations to modify some provisions of their then-existing contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ad Heavyweights Battle Over Software] Reference

Olekminsk, which appeared in 1895 in the organ of the then-existing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Saints and Seers] Reference

The guidelines note that systematic re-evaluations should be made of then-existing federal dams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monitor :] Reference

It therefore makes sense to follow the then-existing meaning of the words included in those rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference

Microsoft could easily have incorporated the then-existing version of Windows Live Sync into Office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Computerworld] Reference

This term could be construed in terms of then-existing or current international law regarding war crimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [JIMMY AKIN.ORG] Reference

Page 5 that they in their then-existing state of affairs were incapable of self-government - I will endeavor to show.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Should the Office of Chief Magistrate Be Awarded to One Distinguished for His Military Services Rather Than to One Distinguished for His Civil Services?" Debate Speech of Leonard Henderson Taylor for the Dialectic Society, June 22, 1836] Reference

Executive Council, and, under the then-existing state of things, were official but irresponsible advisers of the Crown's representative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference

Although at another time Mr Swiveller might have looked upon this as a doubtful compliment, he felt it, under the then-existing circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

It was in 2006 that Interior Minister Sarkozy abrogated the then-existing law that granted automatic amnesty only after 10 years of residency in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [GalliaWatch] Reference

In the future, our board of directors may change our dividend policy, including the frequency or amount of any dividend, in light of then-existing conditions.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The States-General were to be convened within three months; the royal marriages were to be deferred until the close of the Assembly; and the then-existing household of his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2] Reference

(M68) Isaeus (145) describes the working of the then-existing (c.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay] Reference

Supreme Court both tossed out Gant’s conviction even though the search of his car had been lawful based on then-existing law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: A Brief History] Reference