presumptively

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Philadelphia National Bank External link, which said that mergers between rivals that create a firm with more than a 30% market share are presumptively illegal under the Clayton Act, Section 7 External link.

From Barron's • Dec. 8, 2025

For presumptively immune official acts, the government may rebut the presumption by showing that prosecution would pose “no ‘dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch.’

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2024

McQuade noted that “the Supreme Court said that communications between the president and vice president are presumptively official conduct, subject to a rebuttable presumption by the prosecution.”

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2024

He wrote that a second “trash pull” last month yielded another plastic bag that tested presumptively positive.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023

The second question, in more definite terms, is whether freedom of speech and press occupies a "preferred position" in the constitutional hierarchy of values so that legislation restrictive of it is presumptively unconstitutional.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel