Word: overbroadness
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...District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity said the original order was "overbroad," in a short, three-page opinion issued last week. Garrity said complaints from students and academic personnel were not related to Walters lawsuit...
...decision filled many lawyers -and other U.S. citizens-with misgivings. "Nobody likes Agee very much," said Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. "But in its haste to punish Agee, the court wrote an overbroad and ill-conceived opinion." Added American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Mark Lynch: "There's nothing in the opinion that limits the ruling to former CIA agents. Spock, Coffin, Fonda, Hayden, Ramsey Clark-all these critics speaking around the world could have had their passports taken away...
...motion also contends that the state obscenity statues are "overbroad" and accuses the district attorney prosecuting the case of "improper conduct" before the grand jury...
...teaches-as does Mao-that unjust laws should be opposed and so Jeanne Rasche, a slender blonde with no legal background, sued for the reinstatement of her loan. After two years, a panel of federal judges has finally ruled 2 to 1 that the law was unconstitutionally vague and "overbroad...
...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...