And virtually every statute reflects a bundle of political deals.
The legislative history, which contains debate over a rejected amendment that would have eliminated the words "knowingly and willfully" from the statute, reflects that the word "willfully" was included in order to avoid criminalizing behavior carried out with innocent intent (e.g. mailing to a friend, for informational purposes, a newspaper article containing a threat to the President).
They also have to register as hosts with the city, promising under penalty of perjury that they meet those conditions.The fact that cities are revisiting statutes reflects the growing influence of Airbnb.
Both statutes reflect the recognition that a prohibition based on a "bright line" standard, like the exchange of money for a political favor or for the purchase of terrorist weapons, would be too easily evaded by sophisticated politicians, businessmen or terrorists.
Others have suggested that a patient's long- established right to refuse medical care, state statutes reflecting this right, and the small number of cases finding providers liable for following DNR orders contribute to limited risk for liability involving DNR orders during the perioperative period [ 21].
They extensively, and yet further, amend the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 ("the Act"), the increasingly ragged patchwork of a statute which reflects the ravages wrought over the last decade on UK copyright law by the harmonisation programme of the European Commission in this area.
"While we appreciate your desire to revise the statute to reflect your expansive vision of it, the fact is that we must work with the actual language of the statute, not the aspirational version" that the F.B.I. had provided.
The law was enacted over a decade ago; the F.T.C. recently proposed changes to the statute, to reflect advances in smartphone and geolocation technology.
One State's Experience Lawmakers in Virginia, the scene of Mr. Cho's rampage, were among the first to respond to the federal legislation by amending the state's existing restoration statute to reflect the new law.
Last month, the author of a proposed European data protection law, which would update a 1995 statute to reflect the realities of the digital age, cited Mr. Schrems's case as an example of why European lawmakers should adopt tightened controls over Web businesses.
The report specifically mentioned Louisiana's Crime Against Nature law, calling it "a statute whose history reflects anti-LGBT sentiment".
