"There is moral ambiguity in the shield law itself," Mr. Lurie said, referring to statutes that offer reporters protection from efforts to make them reveal their sources.
Republican state lawmakers here are homing in on an obscure, never used federal statute that, they contend, could offer them a decisive hand in choosing Florida's precious 25 electors if the normal voting process somehow leaves the outcome unclear.
With limited exceptions such as provisions about wellness plans, it left in place the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the federal statute that governs benefits that employers offer their employees.
They filed their original complaint in May 2009, under a California statute known as the Unfair Competition Law that offers equitable relief, such as injunctions and restitutions.
Amnesty International asserts that the FAA and FISA authorizes the mass surveillance that Amnesty International and other organizations seek to protect against and that the executive branch has not offered any reading of the statute that would indicate otherwise.
The Supreme Court has held, for example, that Social Security offers only a hope backed by a statute that Congress can change retroactively.
This was a statute that worked.
That cannot be the statute that Congress intended.
"The statute that we have is such an unworkable, unenforceable statute," Gill told HuffPost on Tuesday.
In 1837 a statute regarding local self-government was enacted that offered training for grassroots politicians.
The commission, which is the executive body of the 15-nation European Union, proposed a reading of the statute broader than that of the Bush administration but narrower than that offered on the human rights side.
