Sentence examples for restrictive statute from inspiring English sources

New York's restrictive statute of limitations laws are likely to hamstring any effort to hold the school accountable, lawyers have said, and many of those accused of abuse have died.

A lawyer for the victims in the Portland case, Paul Mones, said the documents were not likely to lead to criminal prosecutions or many civil actions because of restrictive statute of limitations laws around the country.

As former students and prosecutors turn to the courts to deal with reports of widespread sexual abuse at the Horace Mann School, lawyers have begun to conclude that New York's current restrictive statute of limitations laws are likely to block any effort to hold the prestigious private school legally accountable for the allegations, some of which are decades old.

Faced with expensive and inconsistent obligations, service providers with any significant national reach will continue to feel race-to-the-bottom pressure to conform their services to comply with the most restrictive statute or perhaps the one with the highest potential criminal sentence, even if the conduct is legal elsewhere.

But due to the restrictive statute of limitations, no criminal trial is possible to bring evidence or discovery that might unveil what happened so many years ago.

Its restrictive statute holds that pregnancies must be carried to term, regardless if a woman has been raped, if her health or life is at risk, or if the fetus is deformed.

New York has one of the nation's most restrictive statutes of limitations for child sexual abuse, requiring victims to sue within five years of turning 18, whether or not they have recognized the psychological harm caused to them by their abuse.

A Maryland judge halted enforcement today of what is believed to be the nation's most restrictive antismoking statute.

North Dakota's law is the most far-reaching among scores of restrictive abortion statutes, many of them under court challenge, that have been passed by state governments in recent years.

The landmark ruling struck down the law not only in Texas, but in the remaining 13 states with similar statutes, and overturned the Court's 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision, which upheld Georgia's restrictive anti-sodomy statute.

"I think they made some errors in trying to be too restrictive in that statute," Scheck said.