statutory

Her dad got mad at him one night, called the cops, and had him arrested for statutory rape.

The quote is in response to a statutory argument.

There's a constitutional dimension to that case, but also a statutory dimension.

Then went to put criminal penalties on it. And ridiculous statutory penalties.

Quoting the maximum statutory penalty is the standard in news releases, but tells you exactly zero about the negotiations in attorney conferences.

Decisions that involve "judgment calls" about the sufficiency of evidence are given much more latitude than decisions that involve say an interpretation of statutory language.

US attorneys don't write the press releases, those are done by the most junior lawyers and quote the statutory maximum because it's factual without giving anything away about the government's courtroom strategy.

For example, make filing a false notice costly for the filer: provide a civil cause of action to the speaker whose speech is squelched, with statutory damages of, say, US$3000.• Legalize noncommercial copyright infringement completely, as long as proper credit is given.

In this context, under applicable law, Oracle may elect to get statutory damages of $150K for each of the infringements or it may elect to go after what are known as "infringer's profits" - meaning that it would ask the jury to award it damages measured by profits made by Google on account of the infringing acts.

By any reasonable reading of the FDA regulations adopted under statutory authority from Congress, the product and service combination on offer from 23andMe falls within the scope of FDA's regulatory authority, and the company's consumer-facing product claims are extraordinary claims for which the company has not provided evidence.