The equal protection clause does not prohibit legislative classification and the imposition of statutory restraints on one class which are not imposed on another.
Ofcom is considering "the imposition of statutory sanction" over the "serious breaches", which could include a fine.
"It is open to the individual state, to make statutory provision for the imposition of a whole life minimum term, and in an appropriate case, as a matter of judicial discretion, for the court to make such an order," he said.
Since, in the Court of Appeal's view, there was no statutory or constitutional obstacle to imposition [p831] of the access condition, the Superior Court erred in granting the writ of mandamus.
But this Court has said that not every legislative discrimination between foreign and domestic corporations is permissible merely because they differ, and that with respect to some subjects of legislation the differences between them may afford no reasonable basis for the imposition of a statutory restriction upon foreign corporations, not applied to domestic corporations.
In the circumstances presented here, so too may Congress delegate authority to the President to define the aggravating factors that permit imposition of a statutory penalty, with the regulations providing the narrowing of the death eligible class that the Eighth Amendment requires.
The point here, however, is that it is far from clear that Congress in 1934 would have decided that the statutory purposes would be furthered by the imposition of private aider and abettor liability.
"As parliamentarians, we believe in free speech and are opposed to the imposition of any form of statutory control even if it is dressed up as underpinning," the group of 86 legislators, who were from the three main parties and both houses of Parliament, said in a letter published in The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.
John Whittingdale, the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture committee, and David Blunkett, the Labour former home secretary, both signed the letter saying that they were "opposed to the imposition of any form of statutory control even if it is dressed up as underpinning".
Whereas the statutory requirements of systematic quality work were considered as a time-consuming imposition, the professional need to work with evidence-based medicine and to follow up one's own actions was regarded as the natural way to promote development.
