Using these reports, the secretary of state may issue advisory opinions.

The article also gives a general treatment of how the advisory opinion process works.

A court can request an advisory opinion during a trial, but an individual cannot.

At that point, he said his agency would be asked to issue an advisory opinion on the track.

Might you not possibly go to a committee itself and see what advisory opinions it has given?

But there had been no explicit confirmation until the new advisory opinion.

"So's to have an advisory opinion, in the presence of the first parties, without advertising it to the whole community."

It also includes two forms of jurisdiction to issue advisory opinions.

Election commissions are not judges, however, they can issue advisory opinion on the matter.

Advisory opinions usually address questions that require clarification of the law.

The Court does not give advisory opinions; rather, its function is limited only to deciding specific cases.

Palestinian officials immediately hailed the advisory opinion as a major legal victory.

The parties must not be seeking an advisory opinion.

Under state law, the elections division is required to issue advisory opinions to political parties when they request one.

They do not hold public hearings or make their advisory opinions public.

Judgments in the form of an advisory opinion are not legally binding on the national court.

Didn't we just teach you on the legislative veto that we're not in the business of giving advisory opinions?

Several tax experts said yesterday that they agreed with the lawyer's advisory opinion - though not all were confident how long it would stand.

The group's briefs were filed in response to the Governor's request for an advisory opinion.

He cited an advisory opinion by Massachusetts' highest court that the bill was unconstitutional.

Ms. Holtzman could herself ask the conflicts board for an advisory opinion.

The state's Board of Elections issued an advisory opinion on the very question in 1989.

The panel issues an advisory opinion that a player has potential to be picked:

On the other hand, advisory opinions are, by definition, non-binding.

The jury, which under Florida law gives an advisory opinion on the sentence, recommended life imprisonment.