One of those bills was Virginia's informed consent statute, of which I was the chief patron in the House of Delegates, finally seeing its passage in 2001.
Justice Stephen Breyer, reportedly steeled in his resolve by an ethics opinion he privately commissioned, sat on the principal cases that challenged the constitutionality of the federal sentencing statute of which he was a principal draftsman.
In the 111th Congress, which met from 2009 to 2010, members passed 383 statutes, 70 of which named post offices.
As state attorney general, he made his only appearance before the United States Supreme Court, arguing a set of 1979 Missouri statutes, one of which required all second-trimester abortions to be performed in a hospital.
Scholars have gleefully dissected India's 51 central and 170 state labour statutes, some of which pre-date independence, to demonstrate how they make it hard for firms with more than a handful of staff to fire people and allow disputes to become legal endurance tests.
The fights concern proposals to loosen statutes of limitations, which impose deadlines on when victims can bring civil suits or prosecutors can press charges.
But statutes of limitations, which limit criminal cases, in effect, to events that happened 15 or fewer years previously, have saved most of the accused men from facing criminal charges.
But few of the accused priests have been prosecuted in the criminal justice system because most of the cases are beyond the statutes of limitations, which require abuse to be reported within a few years after it occurred even though many abuse victims take years to come to grips with what happened to them or are afraid to report it.
A team set up to study the causes of wrongful convictions and to devise ways of preventing them is to report to the governor no later than 2011.Prosecutors can use their state's statutes of limitations (which set time limits for the introduction of new evidence after sentencing) to decline prisoners' requests for DNA testing.
Some alumni have speculated that the school has been reluctant to set up its own fund because it does not want to admit wrongdoing and expose itself to liability, though most legal experts say that because of New York's statutes of limitations, which require lawsuits be brought before a victim turns 23, any suit would be hard to win.
