statutes

The fact that the statutes were quickly changed to make his actions illegal could be considered evidence it was generally thought that the previous statutes did apply.

The law isn't just statutes, but also law created by judges over all of US and even English history.

Yes, there are statutes in various legal systems throughout history preventing the government from limiting expression.

The statutes at issue were intended to make that sort of conduct illegal.

I'm not going to research specific statutes for you, if that's what you are asking.

The way the statutes are written, it is a federal crime to possess or use a firearm (even for sporting purposes) and be a consumer of cannabis.

There was essentially a loophole in one of the statutes that if read narrowly suggested the trade secret had to be about a product put into commerce.

Can you point me to some example statutes?

The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket.

I'm still waiting for an actual reason to rename the operation be forced to edit a few thousand statutes and negotiate or renegotiate a bunch of international agreements.

Laws that do define protected classes may derive their authority from the 14th amendment, but that doesn't mean that equal protection arguments can only be made using the protected classes that Congress has singled out as needing more explicit statutes about.

The other 27 states that have or once had automobile guest statutes that prohibited passengers from suing their driver over negligence had, by 1996, either repealed them or limited them to cases where the passenger and driver were relatives.

SHX violated statutes with criminal penalties, though it appears they were charged civilly as a "slap on the wrist".

> So is sodomy Well, on the face of the statutes, yes, but unlike statutes criminalizing adultery, those criminalizing consensual sodomy have been pretty clearly struck down as unconstitutional, so the fact that they remain "on the books" does not actually mean that they are criminal, since the law purporting to make them so is itself invalid.

And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Isaiah 24:5 (ESV): The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.