Writing for the majority in both cases, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that "ease of administration and the interest in promoting the finality of judgments" argued against letting inmates make "an end run around statutes of limitations and other procedural barriers" to reopening judgments that had become final years earlier.
It was all splendid public relations for King Abdullah, as he prepares to welcome the World Economic Forum this weekend, dispelling the sniping that he has come to enjoy playing the despot.Since he dissolved parliament two years ago, Abdullah has governed his kingdom by decree, promulgating 160 laws, which will remain on the statute books until parliament gets around to debating them.
It has also proved notoriously difficult to stop because of the bank secrecy statutes in tax havens around the world.
For those who say the bans are the only way to preserve some peace and quiet around town, the statutes are sacrosanct.
In 1991 John Coffee, a professor at Columbia University, estimated the number of regulatory statutes carrying criminal penalties at around 300,000; this number continues to be widely cited, although if it was accurate at the time it will certainly be an underestimate today.
That expanded bill, passed with little debate by the Legislature and signed in December by Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, is the newest of more than two dozen so-called Stand Your Ground statutes that have been enacted around the country in recent years.
At the very least, I would expect that an appellate court determined to uphold the decision to strike down the statutes as unconstitutional would tinker around the edges--looking for ways to weaken the precedential import of the decision.
To achieve that, it uses a formidable weapon used by stores around the nation: civil recovery statutes.
Courts around the nation have upheld violent-predator statutes since Washington State enacted the first in 1990, but have expressed concerns.
Therefore, to fulfil the statutes of the Act, it is necessary that a buffer strip around the 3 meters wide FAH must be left.
