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Recent Examples of jurisprudenceThe ruling in Tape v. Hurley affirmed birthright citizenship for children of Chinese immigrants, decades before Plessy v. Ferguson or Brown v. Board of Education would reshape American jurisprudence.—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025 Immigration law, broadly speaking, is a complex and often contentious area of American jurisprudence.—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Aug. 2025 Alongside its January decision on TikTok, the ruling marks a new era in the court’s online First Amendment jurisprudence: the justices are increasingly willing to uphold government suppression of free speech for policy reasons.—Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 5 July 2025 Like his longtime collaborator and friend Jelly Roll, Nashville native Struggle Jennings overcoming troubles with jurisprudence and incarceration has been reflected in the unique connective ties that define his artistry.—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for jurisprudence
The grants were allocated under President Joe Biden's signature Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, an anti-gun violence law signed after the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
Aside from his signature 2021 criminal justice bill, Cooper signed legislation into law in 2020, allowing judges to reduce mandatory minimum sentences mandated by law for drug offenders.
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Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Sep. 2025
The hammer blow was last week's dismissal by the Constitutional Court of Thaksin's daughter and protege Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the sixth prime minister from or backed by the Shinawatra family to be removed by the military or judiciary.
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Panarat Thepgumpanat,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
Curt Hartman, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the resident, told The Enquirer the public has a right to view the court records and that the public serves as a check on the judiciary.
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