invoked
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In May the Justice Ministry invoked its new anti-extraterritorial-jurisdiction rules for the first time, forbidding Chinese entities from cooperating with the European Commission’s investigation, under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, into Chinese security-equipment maker Nuctech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
At a civil deposition in 2022, he invoked the Fifth more than 440 times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
In the two decades since, Purcell has become one of election law’s most invoked doctrines.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
The DOJ invoked the presumption of regularity and argued his arrest was part of an anti-terrorism dragnet, which the judge threw out.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
And then, no matter how much Ranee objected, how many tears she cried, how she begged and invoked her husband's memory, the disaster came.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
