on the grounds that
idiom
: for the reason that : because
Many critics have objected to the proposal on the grounds that it would be too costly.
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As of January 2024, a Los Angeles judge denied Nick's bid to dismiss Schuman's lawsuit on the grounds that the claim actually belongs in Las Vegas, where his defamation suit is ongoing.
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Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 27 May 2024
But Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa, joined by the American Water Works Association and another water industry group, challenged the instructions in court on the grounds that EPA didn’t have the authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
—Michael Phillis, Fortune, 21 May 2024
But Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa, joined by the American Water Works Association and another water industry group, challenged the instructions in court on the grounds that EPA didn't have the authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
—CBS News, 20 May 2024
Kraft rejected a plea deal and entered a not-guilty plea, but the charges were ultimately dropped in the fall of 2020 on the grounds that the surveillance footage used to prosecute him was illegally obtained.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2024
Judge Alex Allman rejected a motion brought by lawyers representing the school board to dismiss the case on the grounds that Maryland’s Child Victims Act is unconstitutional.
—Ben Terzi, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
Families of the victims of the Indonesia and Ethiopia crashes in 2018 and 2019 pressure the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute Boeing on the grounds that the company violated the terms of its 2021 deferred prosecution agreement.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
Near the end of 2022, after a federal judge broadly rejected that argument on the grounds that the 2nd Amendment did not extend to the manufacturing of firearms without a license, the company agreed to drop its lawsuit.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
This law was overturned by the Florida Supreme Court in 1989 in a landmark case, In Re: T.W., on the grounds that the law violated the state’s explicit constitutional right to privacy.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 27 May 2024
But Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa, joined by the American Water Works Association and another water industry group, challenged the instructions in court on the grounds that EPA didn’t have the authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
—Michael Phillis, Fortune, 21 May 2024
But Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa, joined by the American Water Works Association and another water industry group, challenged the instructions in court on the grounds that EPA didn't have the authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
—CBS News, 20 May 2024
Kraft rejected a plea deal and entered a not-guilty plea, but the charges were ultimately dropped in the fall of 2020 on the grounds that the surveillance footage used to prosecute him was illegally obtained.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2024
Judge Alex Allman rejected a motion brought by lawyers representing the school board to dismiss the case on the grounds that Maryland’s Child Victims Act is unconstitutional.
—Ben Terzi, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
Families of the victims of the Indonesia and Ethiopia crashes in 2018 and 2019 pressure the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute Boeing on the grounds that the company violated the terms of its 2021 deferred prosecution agreement.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
Near the end of 2022, after a federal judge broadly rejected that argument on the grounds that the 2nd Amendment did not extend to the manufacturing of firearms without a license, the company agreed to drop its lawsuit.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
This law was overturned by the Florida Supreme Court in 1989 in a landmark case, In Re: T.W., on the grounds that the law violated the state’s explicit constitutional right to privacy.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
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