Word: overbroad
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...tell someone's age online. "Unless you make minors go around with an Internet ID that says 'I'm a kid' -- which would be great for pedophiles -- there's no way of verifying who you are," says McCullagh, who says the ACLU will challenge any such law as overbroad and vague. "Oxley and his allies may be saying it's reasonable, but their definition of reasonable is an unconstitutional...
...Death of the CDA The ill-conceived and overbroad Communications Decency Act got the early grave it deserved. The Supreme Court, in ruling the smut bill unconstitutional, gave the First Amendment a firm foothold in cyberspace. Antiporn activists were not deterred, however; a more narrowly focused cda II has already landed in the Senate...
President Nixon was fond of British history. So it is fitting to close by paraphrasing the famous comment about Robert Peel written by one of Nixon's favorite historians, Sir Norman Gash. The analogy is overbroad, but the sentiment is entirely accurate: he brought China into the modern world, and his political opponents herded him out of office. As America enters a new and dangerous phase in world affairs, we will miss President Nixon, perhaps now more than ever...
...court based its decision on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which, it said, protects potential jurors from unfair discrimination. Condoning race and gender-based peremptory challenges, it determined, risks perpetuating "invidious, archaic and overbroad stereotypes about the relative abilities" of the different genders and races...
...when Clyde Osborne, 66, was prosecuted for possessing sexually explicit photographs of young males, brought forth a stern dissent from Justice William Brennan. "Mr. Osborne's pictures may be distasteful, but the Constitution guarantees both his right to possess them privately and his right to avoid punishment under an overbroad...