Both men were being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a statute written in the 1980s which has come under fire for being too broad.
They need access to information about legal rights (different from case law and statute), written without legalease, plus guidance about legal process (complete with warnings as to costs).
Tracy Brooking Kennesaw, Ga., Aug. 7, 2008 To the Editor: Has anyone asked what would have happened to the careers of the Army officers comprising the jury if they had found Salim Ahmed Hamdan not guilty of a statute written expressly for him well after he was captured?
The federal criminal defamation statute, written in 1917, was a unique tool for the politically powerful to imprison journalists for writing anything that damaged their reputations, even if what was said was true.
The court in Washington said it could not tell if the ruling had been based on the Florida Constitution or on statutes written by the Florida Legislature.
"It is not our role nor within our province to opine upon or adjudicate the constitutionality of duly enacted statutes," wrote Lynn H. Gibson, the general counsel of the accountability office.
The new opinion, in a 6-to-1 vote, stated that the Florida Supreme Court was simply interpreting two conflicting election statutes written by the Legislature, not making new law or basing its opinion on the State Constitution.
The CRA came to be under legislation pushed by then-Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga).. Lawmakers wanted an easier way to undo regulations, even though agencies can only issue them according to statutes written by Congress. .
Implicit in Wydra and Berman's argument is that the current law is a complex web of statutes, written and rewritten over time by different lawmaking bodies that worked hard to create an immigration system that is functioning -- more or less -- the way they envisioned it.
