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The fact that there may be buried in the record a nonconstitutional ground for decision is not by itself enough to invoke this rule."

The possibility of a nonconstitutional outcome is likely."

It is a nonconstitutional organ that seeks to restore the authority of the Soviet Constitution.

Eliminate all nonconstitutional forms as practiced currently.

"I was a little unnerved by the comment that 'Well, maybe we don't have to pass the second bill, the nonconstitutional bill, this year.'

Tucker sharply contrasted constitutional and nonconstitutional states, especially their respective political cultures and leadership prerogatives:

The post, for which there is nonconstitutional provision, was a result of the agreement between the Government and PML-Q leadership.

The parties deliberately did not brief or argue the "weighty" nonconstitutional issues because, according to the dissent, they wanted a ruling on the Establishment Clause question.

On the one hand, the Court's power to craft nonconstitutional supervisory rules over the federal courts exists only in the absence of a specific statute passed by Congress.

However, the power to judicially create and enforce nonconstitutional rules of procedure and evidence for the federal courts exists only in the absence of a relevant act of Congress.

Today, if a federal court were presented with a case identical to Pullman and the parties chose not to press the nonconstitutional claims, the court, relying on Zobrest, could reach the equal protection claim.

But the judges disagreed about whether evolving legal standards reflected in lower court decisions and state statutes might provide a separate, nonconstitutional basis for protection to reporters in some circumstances, under a so-called common law privilege.

In United States constitutional law, the doctrine of constitutional avoidance dictates that a federal court should refuse to rule on a constitutional issue if the case can be resolved on a nonconstitutional basis.

Brandeis described how the Court had developed "prudential" rules - meaning nonconstitutional, self-imposed restraints - by which to avoid "passing upon a large part of all the constitutional questions" presented to it, despite having jurisdiction to hear them.

In 1994, Edgars, whose department stores anchor many malls in South Africa, went all the way to the highest court that considers nonconstitutional issues to establish that it owned the name Victoria's Secret here.

"We cannot allow these thugs to come out of the hills, or even an opposition to simply rise up and say 'we want you to leave' in an undemocratic, nonconstitutional manner," Secretary Powell said on Feb. 19.

Judges who have confidence in their own ability to fashion public policy are less hesitant to change the law than those of us who are inclined to give wide latitude to the views of the voters' representatives on nonconstitutional matters."

While some lawmakers said that they were confident that they could override the nonconstitutional vetoes he issued, they said that they were taken aback by his claim that he was free to ignore the laws he deemed illegal.

Until the Panamanian leader arrived here, they contended, he was in a "nonconstitutional relationship" with the American lawyers he hired after he was first indicted in February 1988, and therefore not entitled to lawyer-client secrecy and other rights guaranteed to Americans charged with crimes.

As evidence of the fact that the Miranda rule was constitutional in nature, the Court pointed out that many of its subsequent decisions applying and limiting the requirement arose in decisions from state courts, over which the Court lacked the power to impose supervisory nonconstitutional rules.

In the Zobrest litigation, however, the Court found it significant that only the First Amendment questions - rather than nonconstitutional grounds - were "pressed" before the Ninth Circuit and that, even before the district court, "the parties chose to litigate the case on the federal constitutional issues alone."

A Federal appeals panel in San Francisco issued a similar ruling in 1988, but the full United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California ultimately narrowed the basis for re-instating the soldier, Perry Watkins, to the Army on other, nonconstitutional grounds.

"I suppose there would be a possibility for this court to remand for clarification," she said during a fast-moving debate over whether in ordering the certification deadline extended for 12 days, the Florida court had invoked the state constitution or had simply engaged in the ordinary, nonconstitutional process of interpreting state law.