Critics of capital punishment maintained even during legislative debates about the law in 1995 that the deadlock provision, which the Court of Appeals said was unique among the nation's capital punishment laws, coerced jurors to vote for death, but some critics say such legal arguments gained little traction in a Legislature convinced that the public strongly favored capital punishment.
But the court will consider other questions, too: whether the law coerces states to expand Medicaid; whether the rest of the law can stand if the mandate is struck down; and even whether the whole case should be postponed until the mandate takes effect in 2014.
And that is the view, no doubt, of many readers here, some of whom will be delighted at the prospect of the law coercing religious organisations into changing their understanding of marriage and will rejoice at the expulsion of more conscience-stricken Christian or Muslim teachers.
A1 Doctors Sue 3 Big Insurers The California Medical Association accused WellPoint Health Networks; the HealthNet unit of Foundation Health Systems and PacifiCare Health Systemss of violating federal racketeering laws by coercing doctors and interfering with physician-patient relationships for financial reasons.
Adding to the barrage of lawsuits attacking managed care, the California Medical Association yesterday accused three big insurance companies of violating federal antiracketeering laws by coercing doctors and interfering with physician-patient relationships for financial reasons.
Law can coerce, it can make rules, it can adjudicate, but one can only go so far with these tools (Fuller 1978).
If the key phrase was sprinkled into the law to coerce states into setting up their own marketplaces, it failed on all counts.
Some of the judges appeared interested in a defense claim that a provision of the 1995 death penalty law improperly coerces jurors to vote for death.
There is already a well-recognized trend of law enforcement coercing confessions from the young and vulnerable - siphoning them into the criminal justice system.
The Republican-controlled states argue that the law unconstitutionally "coerces" them to cover more people and that the penalty for failing to — allegedly losing all their Medicaid funding — leaves no choice but to capitulate.
