fact-intensive

First Amendment litigation therefore tends to be what lawyers call "fact-intensive," hence uncertain and expensive as well as risky to a core liberty.

NYDN Rss Robert Hockett 2011

"However, these cases are fact-intensive and as such each case stands on its own specific fact pattern," it said.

Out-of-State Owners Could Face Tax Bill Craig Karmin 2011

The problem is that the court made this fact-intensive determination in deciding a motion to dismiss.

Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

The result was to give Ms. Smith two bites at the apple: once in the Texas court, where her claims would have to face a fact-intensive jury trial, and again in the bankruptcy court, where they would face far less scrutiny.

Lanny Davis: The Anna Nicole Smith Supreme Court Case: Uniting Liberals and Conservatives Lanny Davis 2011

It looked at who gets mandatory sentences, the length of sentences imposed, whether some ethnic groups are impacted disproportionately, and how these one-size-fits-all penalties operate in relation to the more fact-intensive sentencing guidelines.

Julie Stewart: New Government Report Criticizes Mandatory Minimums Julie Stewart 2011

Admittedly, that just shifts the question to whether this constitutes a scheme to defraud ... which is a fact-intensive, not policy/principle intensive, inquiry.

Ghostbusting and the First Amendment Rebecca Tushnet 2009

On the whole, however, what this shows is that the D.C. Court of Appeals, true to form, is not as fact-intensive as many other courts, including the Maryland and Delaware courts cited in the opinion.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Procedural Constraints on Discovering the Identity of Anonymous Sources, Even Outside Claims Based on Public Speech? 2009

From the set of cases you mentioned, it sounds like Stevens feels that determining reasonableness is sufficiently “fact-intensive”, since it depends in detail on the precise facts of each case, that judging it more resembles a question of fact than a question of law.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Michigan v. Fisher 2009

I am not persuaded that he did, but even if we make that assumption, it is hard to see how the Court is justified in micromanaging the day-to-day business of state tribunals making fact-intensive decisions of this kind.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Michigan v. Fisher 2009

The Center's analysts will create detailed policy products, from fact sheets and backgrounders to critiques of proposed legislation, which will be fact-intensive and professionally crafted to ensure accuracy.

In Private Memo, RNC Chief Concedes That GOP Is Bereft Of Ideas, Vows Change Of Direction 2009