Sentence examples for harassment statute from inspiring English sources

Mr. Goldstein said yesterday that he actually hoped to be convicted so that he could challenge New York's harassment statute, which he says is unconstitutionally broad.

Throughout the trial, Mr. Goldstein had maintained, in loud, colorful and unprintable language, that the state's harassment statute was "overly broad," undercutting his right under the First Amendment to say whatever he desired about his former employee.

One of them, Charles C. DeStefano, said: "If I want to call my girl up and use profane language to tell her we're breaking up because she's cheating, I can't do that under the harassment statute.

Stephen Gillers, a professor of law at New York University, said Tuesday that the aggravated harassment statute had been criticized by some civil libertarians because it seemed to say that "you can't tell people you love them even if they don't want to hear it, and the answer is yes, you can".

In September 2013, the group said "the speech must constitute a true threat or violate another otherwise lawful criminal law, such as stalking or harassment statute, in order to be made illegal".

Some offered a measure of protection under existing harassment statutes, whereas others codified new laws to protect victims of stalking.

Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. noted in the decision that previous courts had ruled that harassment statutes were not violated by epithets that injured someone's feelings, or mere "discourtesy and rudeness".

This, in turn, causes the good guys to ride into town and institute banking regulation, gun control, sexual harassment statutes, building-code provisions for safety glass installation in commercial establishments, USDA livestock inspections and federally mandated hay wagon flammability standards.

But rather than having the Legislature pass another law to address what is largely a local problem for a small group of people on Los Angeles' Westside, police and prosecutors should enforce the anti-harassment statute that's already on the books.

In your favorite web browser, type your state, the kind of lawsuit you are bringing (e.g., trespass, breach of contract, harassment), and then "statute of limitations".. Statutes of limitations begin running from the moment the alleged injury occurs.

He was charged with two counts of second-degree harassment, under a statute originally intended for use against stalkers.