Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not rebuttable; incapable of being rebutted or repelled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being rebutted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
rebuttable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In State v. McCarty 434 N. W.2d 67 (S.D. 1988), the court ruled that a statutory declaration that the partition ratio is 2100: 1 did not create an unconstitutional irrebuttable presumption.
Problems with New Impaired Driving Legislation : Law is Cool 2008
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Therefore, there was no irrebuttable presumption of guilt by the state.
Problems with New Impaired Driving Legislation : Law is Cool 2008
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On volokh.com, slippery slope arguments are not only not fallacious, but also carry is an irrebuttable presumption oftruth.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Is the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Unconstitutional?” 2009
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The problem with taking the current standard “negative every conceivable justification” too literally is that doing so amounts to transforming the rebuttable presumption of constitutionality into an irrebuttable one.
The Volokh Conspiracy » IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: Wrapping Up 2009
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The key is that this presumption cannot be irrebuttable or the functional equivalent for example, requiring a plaintiff literally “to negative every conceivable basis” for a law.
The Volokh Conspiracy » IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: Judical Engagement, Not Activism 2009
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I realize this is all very legalful and constitutionally and all, with its irrebuttable “presumptions” and hypothetical “rational bases” and myriad whatnot.
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For the life of me, I cannot fathom your continued application of the irrebuttable presumption that any individual held and interrogated by the admin is necessarily a murderer or an aider of a murderer.
Balkinization 2007
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For example, he repeatedly says the government never opposed a habeas hearing in Hamdi, but only at the end says that it should have been (and maybe still is?) ok for the government's evidence to be irrebuttable.
Balkinization 2004
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For example, he repeatedly says the government never opposed a habeas hearing in Hamdi, but only at the end says that it should have been (and maybe still is?) ok for the government's evidence to be irrebuttable.
Balkinization 2004
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For example, he repeatedly says the government never opposed a habeas hearing in Hamdi, but only at the end says that it should have been (and maybe still is?) ok for the government's evidence to be irrebuttable.
Balkinization 2004
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