But since the pardons have only symbolic value, maybe it hardly matters if they end up restricted to the gloriously talented dead, the fashionable dead, dead subjects of successful biopics and those dead recently enough to benefit from concerned descendants.
Clarkson can accept the Lakers' one year qualifying offer for what is likely $2.8 million but he'd end up restricted once again in 2017 -- although the Arenas rule would no longer be applicable.
(The government's brief uses bullet points to patiently explain how specific provisions would go limp if the court ends up restricting which users merit tax subsidies).
Then it was the legacy of Clement Attlee's postwar government, which believed in massive state provision of housing, but which ended up restricting freedoms and too often creating homes people didn't like.
More than a year ago, I wrote a Bucks post about a provision of the Credit CARD Act of 2009, which was created to protect consumers but also ended up restricting access to credit for stay-at-home wives and husbands.
Greg Miller, who is in charge of a nonprofit called Dance Parade that aims to promote dance as an art form, says the law ends up restricting those who don't have the financial resources to secure the proper permit.
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