As he sat in the courtroom, his chin propped awkwardly on his fist, his predicament could be seen either as a state's admirably muscular response to the abusive treatment of a vulnerable young man or as an attempt to criminalize teen-age odiousness by using statutes aimed at people more easily recognizable as hate-mongers and perverts.
In looking at violations beyond the original focus of the inquiry, which centered on a rarely used statute that makes it a felony to disclose the identity of an undercover intelligence officer intentionally, prosecutors have widened the range of conduct under scrutiny and for the first time raised the possibility of bringing charges peripheral to the leak itself.
Through most of the Supreme Court's history, justices used statutes and legal precedents in their rulings, leaving out facts about the outside world.
We use statutes, regulations, guidelines, court opinions, and empirical research on EIA along with recent case examples of integrated health impact assessment (HIA)/EIA at both the state and federal level.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, for instance, has been using state statutes to bedevil ExxonMobil, investigating the company's sordid coverup of our climate peril.
In another high-profile case, prosecutors are using the statute to accuse a prominent New York defense lawyer, Lynne F. Stewart, of helping an imprisoned sheik pass messages to terrorist followers in Egypt.
The Bush administration's behavior was disturbing, and so is the Obama administration's forceful defense of this outrageous practice of using a statute intended for one purpose for something very different.
The anti-loitering law, passed in New York in 1964, was found to be in violation of the First Amendment three times by federal and state courts between 1983 and 1993 and yet, from 1983 to 2012, 22,000 people were still arrested using the statute.
"And he allowed us to use this statute to accomplish that result".
