Word: overbroadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to the government, Boudin said, "The co-conspirators consist of every person in the United States of draft age." Homans claimed that if the government was saying that every male of draft age in the country had been counselled to defy the law, then the indictment was clearly "overbroad...
...tide of the law is flowing, it is likely that local vagrancy and similar statutes will soon fall under the disapproving glare of the courts. The contention is that such laws are unconstitutionally vague and overbroad, violate the First and 14th Amendments, and lend themselves to misuse by law-enforcement officials. Last month, a three-judge U.S. District Court struck Kentucky's vagrancy laws a heavy blow. By so doing, it put similar laws in other states in jeopardy...