abuse of discretion in a sentence
Examples
- District courts'decisions about the propriety of hearing declaratory judgment actions should be reviewed for abuse of discretion, not de novo.
- Hence, this petition was filed alleging that the respondent judge acted with grave abuse of discretion in dismissing the case.
- The chief justice said that deference by an appellate court was " the hallmark of abuse of discretion review ."
- This reversed a previous decision by Richard A . Jones, who was removed as trial judge for abuse of discretion.
- But there really is no clear way of figuring out what abuse of discretion is in a case like this.
- The Court of Appeals reversed, finding an abuse of discretion, and ordered the District Court to proceed to the merits.
- It is a paradigmatic abuse of discretion for a court to base its judgment on an erroneous view of the law.
- The standard of review applied to appeals from decisions involving the exercise of judicial discretion is " abuse of discretion ."
- Because government officials must routinely make subjective decisions, courts have been vague in their descriptions of what constitutes an abuse of discretion.
- The appeals court said the appointment was " either a clear abuse of discretion or an exercise of wholly nonexistent discretion ."