And shame on the Illinois legislature for not having the courage to repeal this ugly, blatantly unconstitutional law.
They were accused of violating an arcane and certainly unconstitutional law that imposes restrictions on who can circulate petitions in the state.
"North Dakota's governor today effectively banned abortion in the state, with an outrageous and unconstitutional law that will not stand, " said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
The California Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a law requiring minors to obtain parental consent or court approval to have an abortion.
The Supreme Court found a similar Texas law unconstitutional in 1982, and a comparable California law, Proposition 187, was passed in 1994 but got tangled up in the courts.
In Florida, Judge Roger Vinson found not just the mandate but the entire law unconstitutional.
It is, after all, one thing to find a specific law unconstitutional.
The court found the law unconstitutional because it forced producers to make involuntary statements when there was no material reason to do so.
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That portion of the bill was challenged, and in 1997, by a vote of five-to-four, the Supreme Court found the temporary part of the law unconstitutional.
IMS. In that decision the court held unconstitutional a Vermont law that prohibited pharmacies from disclosing prescribing data to drug manufacturers, while allowing it to other groups.
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However, the Supreme Court ruled part of that law unconstitutional, and the lower courts are split on whether the rest of the provisions that affect the compounding pharmacies remain in effect.
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But I think that if it's just, you know, 100 people, 150 people, I think the court would say the way to handle that is individually case by case, and it doesn't make the law unconstitutional as a whole.
Mr Morial, knowing that a tax on commuters has been ruled unconstitutional under state law, suggests a 1% rebate of Louisiana's income tax, of which half would go to the taxpayer's area of residence and half to his area of employment.
Professor RICHARD PILDES (Law, New York University): But I think that if it's just, you know, 100 people, 150 people, I think the court would say the way to handle that is individually, case-by-case, and it doesn't make the law unconstitutional as a whole.
In its ruling Thursday, the nation's highest court could rule the whole law constitutional or unconstitutional, or strike down certain portions of the law while letting other provisions stand.
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And they argued that if that provision is unconstitutional, the entire law must go.
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And they argue that if that provision is unconstitutional, the entire law must go.
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Opposition politicians say that the law is unconstitutional and that they will try to get it overturned.
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The Supreme Court agrees with them, diagnosing the law as unconstitutional and prescribing a healthy dose of free speech.
And the specific question presented before the Court right now is whether Prop 8 and the California law is unconstitutional.
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In another case from 2000, Alito agreed with other judges who found unconstitutional a New Jersey law banning late-term abortions.
Peterson's attorneys have said they might appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court on grounds Illinois' hearsay law is unconstitutional.
Mississippi AG Hood, according to the AP, claims the law is unconstitutional and has threatened to sue over limits to his power.
The board contends the livery cab law is unconstitutional because it affects a single municipality without a vote from the City Council endorsing the plan.
Cigarette manufacturers have also claimed that the law is unconstitutional and infringes on their intellectual property rights by banning the use of brands and trademarks.
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That was a first for Congress: in the four cases regarding income tax brought before the Court, not one had ever struck down a law as unconstitutional.
He did not suggest -- did not mean and did not suggest that the Court -- it would be unprecedented for the Court to rule that a law was unconstitutional.
And former President Bill Clinton, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week saying he now believes the law is unconstitutional.
Just last week, a state appeals court ruled that the First Amendment provides a right of access to court records in divorce proceedings, and that the recently enacted state law is unconstitutional.
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