The companies said they were considering court challenges to the two new statutes, asserting that the state had no authority to supersede federal law and, in the process, disrupt two major industries by imposing a different standard than is used in most of the rest of the nation.
Separate statutes assert that the original brand name manufacturer cannot be held liable for damages sought by users of generics.
Among them, Virginia has made a direct claim that the federal law conflicts with its own 2010 statute, which asserts that residents of the commonwealth cannot be compelled to obtain health insurance.
The list is nonetheless long and diverse and embraces declarations, principles, guidelines, standard rules, and recommendations which, according to the OHCHR, "have no binding legal effect," as well as covenants, statutes, protocols, and conventions that, it asserts, "are legally-binding".
In its suit, filed Thursday morning in Federal District Court in Seattle, Microsoft's home turf, the company asserts that the gag order statute in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 — as employed today by federal prosecutors and the courts — is unconstitutional.
If Congress does not go along, then the department will change its policy on workers' compensation claims brought against it, telling its contractors to drop opposition in cases that met its new, relaxed criteria, and not asserting the statute of limitations as a defense.
The federal suit asserts that Bank of New York Mellon violated the mail and wire fraud statutes, while the New York action alleges breaches of the Martin Act, the state's broad securities fraud statute.
asserts Lawrence Aggleton.
Tis only conscience Hamlet asserts.
He just asserts them, repeatedly.
