The threadbare patchwork of international law means that this is one of the few methods by which it is possible to bring cases against multinationals – and even this is almost never successful.
"The result is a patchwork of criminal law where something is illegal in one town but not in the next, or in one street but not the next.
"The current patchwork of local law enforcement agencies across the country inevitably leaves gaps in security, as we saw at LAX," Cox said in a statement.
Everyone agrees that some kind of legislation is needed to make sense of the existing patchwork of laws and court cases on electronic surveillance.
The telecommunications providers will be subject to a motley patchwork of federal privacy law.
But without a director, industries outside the financial mainstream remain subject only to an inconsistent patchwork of state laws.
Far from a cohesive system, little was known about how the fragmented patchwork of "law and order" actually worked.
Georgia will be a patchwork of alcohol laws.
Over 30 states have created a patchwork of shield laws.
The grocers association supported the bill, partly because the patchwork of local laws has been irritating for grocers and customers.
