Sentence examples for support statutes from inspiring English sources
According to the challengers in the current cases, that is the problem with both the "honest services" and "material support" statutes.
The controversy surrounding post-majority educational support statutes implicates an important question underlying much of family law: to what are children entitled?
"Treasury not only shuts down charities in a secretive one-sided process, but then bars the charities from using any of their own money to defend themselves against the designation," according to Cole. 4. The criminal material support statutes should be amended to require proof that an individual supported a proscribed group with the intent to further its illegal activities.
Before 9/11, the "material support" statute was greeted rather rudely by the courts.
But Anthony S. Barkow, a former federal terrorism prosecutor, contended that the sentences were still substantial, and that "this case will not deter the government from enforcing the material support statute, even against people who don't have sinister motives".
The Supreme Court would serve the nation by giving a narrow and clear interpretation of the material support statute, and by telling Congress to start over on the honest services law.
Today, the court will hear a challenge to the so-called material support statute, passed in the wake of the first World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings and amended repeatedly after 9/11, that makes it a felony to provide "material support" to a terrorist organization.
On these grounds, the Supreme Court of Washington upheld a post-majority educational support statute.
Lower courts have six times held that the "material support" statute is unconstitutionally vague.
Under the material support statute, the critical element becomes whether his speech was coordinated with a designated foreign terrorist organization".
"Domestic terrorism groups," he noted, are not impacted by the "material support" statute -- a state affairs that "reflects our values".
