What is "justiciable"

Usage examples of "justiciable".

If they abuse it they are justiciable by the people and punishable by God himself.

God, that the political sovereignty is vested in the people or the collective body, that the civil rulers hold from God through them and are responsible to Him through them, and justiciable by them, there is all the guaranty against the abuse of power by the, nation, the political or organic people, that the nature of the case admits.

First Cause of Action claiming his original and prevailing proprietary interest in the main character of the story by virtue of its depiction of his own grandfather, whom he had indeed known as a small child and some of whose papers and effects remain in his possession, was dismissed by the trial judge holding that such grounds even if justiciable could not survive the entry of the story itself into the public domain through turn of the century press clippings, subsequent publication in Western North Carolina Sketches and elsewhere.

Tennessee Valley Authority and its directors, their motives and desires, did not give rise to a justiciable controversy save as they had fruition in action of a definite and concrete character constituting an actual or threatened interference with the rights of the persons complaining.

The Court held that as to all the parties save the one who had violated the act there was no justiciable controversy.

Justice Black in a dissent supported by Justices Douglas and Murphy thought that the case was justiciable and would have invalidated the reapportionment, leaving the State free to elect all of its representatives from the State at large.

Court held that a declaration should have been issued by the district court, although it reiterated with the usual emphasis the necessity of adverse parties, a justiciable controversy and specific relief.

Supreme Court has refused to take jurisdiction of a number of suits brought by States because of the lack of a justiciable controversy.

States of waters of an interstate river where the demands of the users exceeds the supply is a matter of sufficient importance and dignity as to be justiciable in the Supreme Court.

The Court held that the provisions of the Reapportionment Act of 1929 did not reenact the requirements of the act of 1911 and that it was therefore unnecessary to determine whether the questions raised were justiciable.