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Overruling

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Overruling meaning

present participle and gerund of overrule

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Despite its false and inaccurate information, the bill passed onto the full Senate by a 3-2 vote with Democrats overruling all pro-life testimony.

Netanyahu was forced to fire Deri, but criticised judges for overruling the will of voters.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is gearing up to challenge credit graders by overruling ratings on certain assets bought by insurance companies.

The protest was in response to a judge overruling City Hall’s decision to deny the General Iron permit.

Justice Alito himself declared the importance of judicial objectivity in his opinion for the majority in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overruling Roe v. Wade — a bit of self-praise that now rings especially hollow.

The rankings represent an attempt at overruling the consensus of the age.

But Berger’s Republicans enjoyed a veto-proof supermajority in the Senate, while his House counterparts needed a handful of Democrats to join them in overruling Perdue.

And respect for precedent is one of the few things, if not the only thing, that stands between the conservative Roberts court and overruling Roe v. Wade.

A career in marketing and production management gave Hohle many challenging opportunities when the limits of time needed overruling: “You’ve heard that work expands to fill the time available?” said Hohle.

His final departing gift to his staff was to tell them to let common sense be the overruling power, not outdated guidelines.

Now Attorney General Jeff Sessions is considering overruling the judges.

Overruling many of his military and civilian advisers, President Trump has the withdrawal of 2,000 American troops from Syria, bringing a sudden end to a military campaign that largely defeated the Islamic State.

A state court decision overruling Gore was reversed by the Florida Supreme Court, which ordered a recount of over 70,000 ballots previously rejected by machine counters.

At least within the academy, conventional wisdom now maintains that a purported demonstration of error is not enough to justify overruling a past decision.

From William D. Andrews, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School: In 1913 the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, overruling Pollock, and the Congress then levied an income tax on both corporate and individual incomes.

If that judgment goes to appeal, the appellate court will have the opportunity to review both the precedent and the case under appeal, perhaps overruling the previous case law by setting a new precedent of higher authority.

New Deal legislation is another example of expanding federal regulation overruling the state legislatures promoting their local state interests in coal, oil, corn and cotton.

The Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship, overruling the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which had held that Americans descended from African slaves could not be citizens of the United States.

The constitution should be amended to allow for an income tax, thus overruling decisions of the Supreme Court striking such a tax down.

The Middle Ages, with their vivid sense of an overruling fate, found in Boethius an interpretation of life closely akin to the spirit of Christianity.