Since its appearance, nearly every state has used its provisions as guides in reforming at least some aspects of its criminal law, and the code has been cited in thousands of court decisions.
The Justice Department has used this provision in cases involving police officers who physically attacked suspects, with one of the most famous prosecutions involving police officers who beat Rodney King.
But every stock sale in the secondary market has to be blessed by Facebook: it has the right of first refusal to buy the shares itself, and has used that provision to prevent shares from getting in the wrong hands, according to a person briefed on one such transaction.
Mr. Brown acknowledged in a Boston Globe article that he has used a provision of President Obama's health care law to cover his 23-year-old daughter, even though he voted against the bill shortly after winning the 2010 special election for the Senate.
France has attempted to block access to five websites, the first time the government has used a provision of legislation passed in November 2014 that authorizes officials to ban — without obtaining a court order — sites that promote terrorism.
The Swiss government has used a constitutional provision to block stolen funds.
Since the mid-1990s Kellogg has used an obscure provision in the tax code to shield hundreds of millions of dollars of investment earnings from taxes.
During the transition period, India has used the public health provisions of TRIPS, as agreed in the Doha Round, to maintain export of generic ARVs.
Trump has used a "national security" provision to impose a 25percentt steel tariff and 10percentt aluminum tariff on Canada, Mexico and the European Union.
The Supreme Court has already held, in the 2011 case called American Electric Power v. Connecticut, that EPA is authorized to curb power plants' carbon pollution under Section 111 d) of the Clean Air Act, the very provision EPA has used here.
