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state law
[ steyt law ]
noun
- in the United States or any country comprising quasi-autonomous states, a law or body of laws passed by the legislature of a state: Compare federal law ( def ), provincial law ( def ).
Evidence that would be admissible in court under the federal constitution might be inadmissible under state law.
Example Sentences
State law allows parents to skip immunizations for children who are enrolled in independent study programs and do not receive classroom-based instruction.
Writing to state legislators in 2011, Milliken defended a state law that was under attack for giving undocumented students in-state tuition.
In 2019, a new state law halted willful defiance suspensions in public schools for the fourth and fifth grade, and banned them in sixth through eighth grade for a half-decade.
Unified said that it would 鈥渃ontinue to follow state law and District policy regarding student discipline, which includes due process for all students regardless of protected category. Race is not a consideration in the application of student discipline policies at the District.鈥
He was part of a team that successfully sued the Baldwin Park Police Department for violating the Trust Act, a 2013 state law that prohibits police and sheriff鈥檚 officials from detaining people for possible deportation unless they had been charged with or convicted of a serious offense.
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