Much of this law was, and had always been, judge-made. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
But it's more important that we not allow judge-made law. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2009] Reference
ShelbyC says: zuch: The Miranda rule is a judge-made rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
Old case law contains a judge-made exception for probate cases. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
It is now judge-made law that cops owe no duty of care to anyone. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Man Arrested for Calling 911 Over Botched McDonald’s Order:] Reference
But the reader must not assume that all English law was judge-made. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
If it's judge-made, why not if it needs to be changed, change it yourself?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Howell Heflin, July 9, 1974. Interview A-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And with it the crippling accusations about judge-made law would flap out the window. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas von Hoffman: You May Not Want to Hear This, But . . .] Reference
Today, in my experience, “common law” tends to bear the first meaning judge-made law. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Originalism and Linguistic Questions] Reference
Today, in my experience, “common law” tends to bear the first meaning (judge-made law). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Originalism and Linguistic Questions] Reference
"The controversy that is before us is basically, so far, a judge-made controversy," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Thompson Confuses Civil Unions with Soviet Unions] Reference
A long line of judge-made law since the Supreme Court's New Deal era decision in Wickard v. Filburn. From Wordnik.com. [Big Government] Reference
Or creating exceptions to the exclusionary rule, which they think is a judge-made rule wrt the fourth. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
You do exercise restraint as to legislative matters, but so much of the law is common law, is judge-made. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Howell Heflin, July 9, 1974. Interview A-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The obvious interpretation is that fiduciary obligation exists under statutory or judge-made corporate law. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Capitalism] Reference
In doing so, it elevated a "judge-made" right, the right of a person's privacy, above the god-given right to life. From Wordnik.com. [Statement To Feminists For Life Of America] Reference
His dissent, to me, hints of an attempt to broaden Lopez (a judge-made restriction on the Congress and Executive). From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Alito’s Colleagues on Alito: “Radical,” “Unwise,” “Ignores Precedent”] Reference
It really depends on how you define judge-made, most rules of law are judge-made in the sense that Miranda or SDP is. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
What makes the question all the more intriguing is that the extent of the current presumption is entirely judge-made. From Wordnik.com. [Revisiting the Presumption of Validity] Reference
The problem is that a lot of "state regulation" takes the form of judge-made tort law, which can intrude in many areas. From Wordnik.com. [Chemerinsky's idea of "Enhancing Government."] Reference
Now you can see it beginning where if it's a matter that was made by judge-made law, why can't you change judge-made law?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Howell Heflin, July 9, 1974. Interview A-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Calling it “judge-made law” that no one should be punished without a trial and conviction seems to me a bit of a stretch. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
No, if you want to argue originalism, you must also throw out all the judge-made law of the last half of the 19th century, too. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Did Thomas Jefferson Think Corporations Were People?] Reference
The canon made some sense; otherwise, retroactive, judge-made criminal law could be brought in through the back door, so to speak. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
Now what faces the Court in Citizens United v. the FEC is an effort to complete the judge-made revolution that begin in Santa Clara. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Did Thomas Jefferson Think Corporations Were People?] Reference
The public policies of states are reflected in their laws and in the judge-made legal tests in their precedent related to those laws. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on that Tenth Circuit adoption decision:] Reference
That is unacceptable when it comes as the consequence of judge-made rules created to fill supposed “gaps” in positive federal law. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting SCOTUS Line-Up] Reference
Still, this book marks the important point in legal history when the dominance of statutory over judge-made law could no longer be denied. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
As for compelling private parties, the authority and countervailing prohibition is found in a combination of statutory and judge-made law. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Possible Way to Get a Supreme Court Ruling on the Constitutionality of FISA:] Reference
In some ways, our legal system is like a boat, originally built by the people, but modified over the centuries through judge-made law to advantage giant corporations. From Wordnik.com. [J.S. McDougall: Alaskan Fisherwoman, Dr. Riki Ott Responds to the Supreme Court] Reference
How else can the court work its will on such issues as flag-burning and school prayer, where the political branches so clearly believe judge-made constitutional law is flat wrong?. From Wordnik.com. [An Uncomfortable Seat] Reference
And curiously enough we are dealing most extensively in judge-made law even today. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
First, the Employee Liberation Act will undo the judge-made rule known as the permanent-replacement doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
One fruitful source of all these evils was the 'judge-made' law, which Bentham henceforth never ceased to denounce. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
(It of course isn't quite that simple, but we needn't discuss the common law and other judge-made law in this context). From Wordnik.com. [Donklephant] Reference
The problem of judge-made law trumping We the People's contract with our government is as old as the Supreme Court's rulings in. From Wordnik.com. [RedState] Reference
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