The three artists want to take the head of the first dismantled Lenin monument, dip it in gold, attach it to a Cuban-link chain, and hang the entire artwork on the largest remaining Lenin statute.
Meanwhile, in the 35 remaining states, the anti-cruelty statutes often can be used to prosecute anyone who leaves an animal in a car to suffer or die.
Only three clauses of Magna Carta still remain on statute in England and Wales.
Right of publicity statutes were first adopted in the 1950s as an outgrowth of privacy laws, and currently 35 states have publicity laws (11 other states have case law on publicity but no statutes, while the remaining four states have no statutes or common law).
It is unsurprising that this law has been ignored since the 19th century, despite it remaining on the statute books.
In the remaining states prosecutions for common-law offenses not specified in statutes do sometimes occur.
Such statutes remain on the books in Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming in addition to Pennsylvania, said Sarah Barringer Gordon, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania who is an expert on blasphemy statutes.
Abortion rights advocates say that even though the Roe decision supersedes state law, some doctors are hesitant to perform late-term abortions when a woman's health is at risk because the criminal statutes remain on the books.
The two proctors' registers, which dated from 1407 and 1477, were in better arrangement, but repealed statutes remained next to ones that were current.
In the past, Christians also have used the law to punish irreverence, and blasphemy statutes remain on the books in some U.S. states (though they wouldn't survive a 1st Amendment challenge).
