"In our judgment, when the legal interpretations of public statutes that are kept secret from the American public, the government is effectively relying on secret law," they wrote.
Richard Peters, ed., Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, vol. 2, (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845), 45. 11.
The couple filed a suit against her studio, the New Mexico Human Rights Commission concluded that it violated the state's public accommodation statute, and the New Mexico Supreme Court agreed.
The federal appeals court referred the interpretation of state law to the New York State Court of Appeals, requesting that it clarify the public nudity statute.
We ourselves relied extensively on Bowers when we concluded, in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc.,, that Indiana's public indecency statute furthered "a substantial government interest in protecting order and morality".
The American Association of University Professors sent a letter to the UVA president arguing that the Virginia public documents statute exempts scholarly data of a proprietary nature that has not yet been publicly released, published, copyrighted or patented - in other words, Mann's emails.
But Zimbabwe's attorney general, Bharat Patel, said the only charges the men faced were violating firearms, immigration and public order statutes.
In the past, supervisors' aides routinely disclosed the terms of severance packages for department heads, citing their obligations under state open meetings and public records statutes.
After the 2010 elections, state legislatures sought to repeal public financing statutes for judicial races in the states that have them, change retention elections to competitive races and end merit selection of justices.
Pro-sex-worker activists argue for the repeal of anti-prostitution laws, including measures that elliptically target sex workers through the criminalization of patrons, and "public nuisance" statutes that allow police to preemptively crack down on suspected prostitutes on the street.
