Sentences with phrase «laws against texting»

This week AAA announced it was asking members to push the 2012 Florida legislature to adopt stricter laws against texting and driving.

Many states have specific laws against texting and driving, but not all states have specific laws in place just for texting.

Several states have laws against texting or using a cell phone while driving, and you could be fined even if you don't cause an accident.

While cell phone use while driving laws differ from state to state, most states have laws against texting and driving, and prohibit the use of electronic devices for teenage and beginning drivers.

Former Michigan State Representative Paul Opsommer was quoted in an article in the Lansing State Journal, however, as saying that writing traffic tickets was not the main purpose of the law against texting and driving.

Not exact matches

These texts also cover the origin of law, whether religious laws governing prayer, religious tax, and fasting, or prohibitions against such acts as manslaughter or attacks on the chastity of a woman, and laws governing the use of property.

I've noticed that many Christians see the Bible as a book that's chock full of easy to follow laws and rules that tell you what to do (Paul said this so we must... they did this so we must...) and proof texts (it says here that Jesus said that who ever is not for him is against him so I forbid you to listen to Britney Spears).

Instead of telling people that their interpretation is wrong, you can remind them that other religious texts have been used in the past to justify atudes and laws that are recognized today as morally wrong and unjust — such as discrimination against women, people of color and religious minorities.

«We need to remind motorists to «just drive» when operating a motor vehicle and continue to educate the public that texting and driving is not only against the law, but it has both dangerous and costly consequences.»

«This law is a balanced text that comprehensively addresses energy questions without opposing energy sources against one another,» wrote Areva spokeswoman Katherine Berezowskyj.

Hence, the lack of supporting constitutional text, principles of federalism, and the doctrine of stare decisis (which lends stability to the law by encouraging courts to stand by their prior decisions) all militate against the creation of a federal constitutional right to education or to supposedly equal school funding.

Texting and driving is against the law period.

Original text from the Law Against Incandescents in Argentina (in Spanish) Greenpeace Announcement of the Measure (in Spanish)

It is also against the law to text or talk on the phone while driving a state vehicle.

Justice Moldaver then turns to what is described as practical considerations for law enforcement and the administration of justice, at paras. 183 - 6, suggesting that (a) the disclosure of text messages received by a complainant could be challenged by a sender who is alleged to have abused the complainant and thus exposes vulnerable complainants such as children, people with mental disabilities and the elderly (b) the increased need for warrants could strain police and judicial resources in an overburdened criminal justice system and (c) at the trial stage, these repercussions could complicate and prolong proceedings where defendants have standing to challenge searches conducted against collateral targets in large prosecutions.

Two years ago, Thomson West published a text by Toronto art lawyer, Bonnie Czegledi, entitled Crimes Against Art: International Art and Cultural Heritage Law.

Speeding is another major cause of auto accidents, as is cell phone use and texting while driving, which is against the law for drivers in Massachusetts.

It is against the law for any driver to text and drive in Kentucky.

Therefore, the CA state legislature made the language of the law more clear and now any talking, texting, or use of a cell phone or mobile device whether by voice commands or otherwise, is now against the law.

At the time of this writing, it is against the law in Wisconsin for any driver of any age or ability to be texting while driving.

Texting while driving is currently against the law in Georgia.

Texting while driving, emailing while driving and speaking on a phone while not using a headset are all against the law.

Many states in the U.S. have made it against the law to talk on a cell phone or text and drive.

Further, despite the fact talking and texting are against the law, a 2014 survey found that at least 75 percent of drivers admit to texting while driving, and even more talk on their cell phone.

As ThinkProgress previously explained, Carvin's legal theory misreads the Affordable Care Act by fixating on one line of the statute to the exclusion of other text that cuts against his claim that the law should be defunded.

Most law books I read, reviewed, or selected for our law library collections after law school were also mainly textual — words, words, words, on top of words, black text against a white background.

Neither the text of Title VII, the legislative history, nor the case law permits such a departure from Title VII's command that employers refrain from «discriminat [ing] against any individual... because of such individual's race.»

To apply this to constitutional rather than statutory texts, some minor adjustments are in order, notably to account for the fact that constitutions are not (primarily) enacted against a common law background, but the substance of this principle is still relevant in the constitutional context — all the more so since Canadian constitutional texts are, for the most part, statutes in form.

It is interesting to me that the basic general release offered by the text is a release from: «any and all actions, causes of action, suits, proceedings, [insert a host of other things like debts etc.], and demands of any nature and kind whatsoever, and howsoever arising, whther in law or in equity or otherwise, whether express or implied and whether presently known or unknow, which the Releasor ever had, now has or may hereafter have against the Releasees, or any of them, for, or by reason of, or in any way arising our of [blank].»

Its research has helped produce important statistics for the insurance industry including figures of those who text while driving despite laws against it.

The accident will likely raise your insurance premiums even if you live in a state where texting and driving isn't against the law.

To this end, motorists have been getting the opportunity to see that NY troopers are enforcing the laws against things like texting and talking on a cell phone while driving.

Albany, NY (July 12, 2011) Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed a new law that strengthens the enforcement against drivers who use handheld electronic devices for activities such as texting while a vehicle is in motion.