Still, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack "has asked the Office of General Counsel to review this provision to determine if it is enforceable," said Courtney Rowe, a USDA spokeswoman.
"It's enforceable only if reasonable in scope and duration," said Alan Hyde, a professor at Rutgers Law School.
I don't think it's enforceable".
Having an autonomous No. 2 official, if it were to be enforceable or backed up by anything more than a handshake, would require a change in state law, to say that Ms. Black "is something less than the chancellor," said Joseph P. Viteritti, a public policy professor at Hunter College who has advised many chancellors.
If protected conduct is made criminal and the law which does so remains unexamined for its substantive validity, its stigma might remain even if it were not enforceable as drawn for equal protection reasons.
If it were privately enforceable, the Verizon-INCOMPAS agreement would likely be deemed anticompetitive under antitrust law.
"If it is not enforceable, then will anyone in their right mind agree to be a surrogate?" said Mr. Skoloff, the Sterns' lawyer.
"If it was not enforceable by some kind of civil law, then I think the industry could and should do a great deal more to ensure that rogue publishers are given no access to the benefit enjoyed by everybody else," he said.
"If it's not enforceable, not binding, then it's just what we have today: We have statements".
Even if the crackdown were enforceable, it would be too late to extinguish the cynicism about party and government that is smouldering in Vietnam, as in China.That cynicism is fuelled by the perception that party leaders are less interested in the national good than in protecting their own power from attacks by envious rivals.
