Sentence examples for statutes were enacted from inspiring English sources

Geoffrey Kalmus, a lawyer for Pathmark, said the statutes were enacted in the interests of retail drug associations.

According to New Jersey lawyer and long-time advocate for mothers and children, Toby Kleinman, even after the earliest American domestic violence statutes were enacted, many American judges "came to it with prejudice.

"Although none of these statutes was enacted in order to prosecute official corruption, each has been interpreted to provide a means to do so".

And it made the provision retroactive: covering things that took place before the statute was enacted.

In 1932 the federal kidnapping statute was enacted, making unlawful the interstate transportation of a kidnapped person.

While about a dozen such cases have been brought since the statute was enacted, this is one of the few where the defendants have appeared in court.

There have been approximately 60 chemical-endangerment prosecutions of new mothers in Alabama since 2006, the year the statute was enacted.

Although the right to contest an election is created by statute, it has been a long-standing right since 1845 when the first election contest statute was enacted.

Hedge funds were hardly a blip on the radar when the statute was enacted, but they are now potential targets if the S.E.C. believes that they tolerated insider trading, regardless of whether managers knew of or participated in the violations.

Arizona's cold-blooded immigration statute was enacted in 2010 to bring about "attrition through enforcement" — to make life so harsh for undocumented immigrants that they would be driven out of the state.

Because the concerns that spurred the original bar remain as important today as when the statute was enacted, and because the statute is closely drawn to avoid unnecessary abridgment of associational freedoms, we reject the plaintiffs' challenge.