Sentence examples for illegal legislation from inspiring English sources

So, often they try to strong arm journalists, co-opt local officials, or pass (likely illegal) legislation designed to protect them from the free press' gaze.

Other fire services around the country have also warned of the dangers of storing petrol in homes, which is illegal under legislation dating back to the 1920s.

In yesterday's ruling, the judge addressed only the issue of local control, and a claim, which he rejected, that because the voucher plan would have required the participation of only 11 districts in the state it was illegal "special legislation".

Mr. Schundler, meanwhile, argued in his lawsuit that by allowing Mr. Franks to start his campaign spending tally from zero -- while Mr. Schundler has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars toward the spending cap -- the law that let Mr. Franks enter the race was blatantly unfair and amounted to illegal "special legislation" intended to help one individual.

Another piece of "but for this you would be an illegal immigrant" legislation has the catchy title of the "StartUp Visa Act of 2011".

While pressure increases on the Obama administration for a long-anticipated and much-promised overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, Arizona is moving ahead with anti-illegal-immigrant legislation widely considered among the most stringent in the states.

"There would have to be another imminent threat or federal anti-illegal immigration legislation," said Chris Zepeda-Millán, a political scientist in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

Mr. Schneiderman, the national co-chairman of Legislators Against Illegal Guns, sponsored legislation this year to equip handguns sold in New York with so-called microstamping technology to help police officers trace the guns from which bullets are fired at crime scenes.

It is blasphemous and it is illegal under the legislation.

To prevent a job applicant from using fraudulent credentials — as often occurs with illegal immigrants — the legislation mandates the expansion of a photo-based confirmation system.

Had the court ruled the legislation illegal, Mr. Einhorn might then have been able to seek a reversal of the extradition order.