No Answer 3. In which states were "breach notification laws" germane to the unauthorized access to your system?
I thought Isaac Asimov's three laws seemed particularly germane to both: protect humans, obey orders and preserve themselves, in that order.
Putting aside the fact that this is germane to regular soldiers and the law is hazy on its applicability to contractors and that it is an ethically deplorable rationale, there is at least a grain of truth in it, which it brings us back to Ms. Sparky's post.
And gun control laws are probably even less germane in these cases.
Although not strictly germane, in the United States many jurisdictions have disclosure laws concerning home sales, requiring the seller to volunteer important information, with an emphasis on things a potential buyer could not know.
He is an expert on property law, privacy law and traffic safety, and recently lectured on his germane new book, "Information and Exclusion" (Yale University Press).
But it hardly seemed germane to Saad Eddin's trial, since the law applied only to nongovernmental organizations and charitable groups, not to a research center, like Ibn Khaldun, that had long been registered (and paid taxes) as a civil company.
The state will argue that the law does not violate the single-subject rule, because all its parts are germane to abortion, Mr. Price said.
Mr. Bryant's lawyers are trying to prove that the woman's testimony about her sex life is so germane to Mr. Bryant's defense that the prohibitions against such questioning afforded rape victims under state law should be set aside.
An interpretivist might further say that, in all cases, certain more specific moral principles control "the operation and effect" of all laws (as the Riggs v. Palmer court famously said, 115 NY 506 (1889)) Similar hypotheses would be germane to cases or institutional practice in general.
