Sentences with phrase «blanket prohibition against»

The LoC has the power to exempt certain classes of copyrighted works from the statute's blanket prohibition against circumventing technological measures that control access to (i.e. lock up) those copyrighted works.

In Commonwealth v. Ora, the SJC reversed the trial court judge, who found that the criminal statute's «blanket prohibition against public nudity» (pun intended?)

In 1908, the ABA adopted as part of its Canons of Professional Ethics a blanket prohibition against advertising and solicitation.

«Intro 800 [the bill] would authorize new lawsuits that could result in a blanket prohibition against the use of stop, question and frisk in New York City — and potentially many other strategies and tactics used by the police to address and prevent crime,» Best wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.

«While there is no restriction on buying or selling commodities including cryptocurrency per se, there is a blanket prohibition against transacting in futures and swaps,» wrote Davis.

Not exact matches

In a recent judgment, Justice Lynne Smith of the British Columbia Supreme Court identified grounds upon which to reopen the question of the constitutionality of the criminal prohibition against physician - assisted dying, claiming, in effect, that while the Supreme Court had at the time of the Rodriguez been correct in stating that a blanket prohibition on physician - assisted dying would be rationally connected to the goal of protecting the most vulnerable people in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effects.

This findings contradicts the finding in Rodriguez that «societal concern with preserving life and protecting the vulnerable [against abuse] rendered the blanket prohibition preferable to a law that might not adequately prevent abuse».