Word: overbroadness
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...been charged with breaking a 1784 state law—prohibiting lewd conduct that shocks and alarms an unsuspecting or unwilling public—which the Cambridge District Court then declared unconstitutional on the basis that the law was overbroad...
...last week the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court disagreed that the 1784 law was overbroad...
More troubling, however, is how the bill undermines fundamental constitutional rights of Americans by using vague and overbroad definitions of “terrorism” and “terrorist organization”—terms capriciously defined by the Attorney General. Under PATRIOT II, native-born Americans are at risk of having their citizenship stripped if they provide “material support” to so-labeled “terrorist” organizations, regardless if the citizen is involved only in lawful activities. There is no governmental check set up to oversee such decisions either...
...best evidence of unlawfulness and intent of malice is the overbroad scope,” said Wendy J. Murphy, an attorney for SNAP and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School...
...laws passed by nine states allowing marijuana for medical use. Thomas' opinion skirted the states'-rights issue at the heart of the case--does California have the right to legalize medipot?--and a concurring opinion from three liberal Justices, led by John Paul Stevens, chided the conservative majority for "overbroad language...given the importance of showing respect for sovereign states." Stevens also suggested that while medical necessity can't be invoked by a mass distributor, it might still be a defense against prosecution of an individual--"a seriously ill patient for whom there is no other means of avoiding starvation...