It "was almost unanimous that it was an anomaly and bad law, " he said.
But does the fact of a bad law make it right to break it?
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"Nothing in the evidence or conclusions have jumped out at us to say that this is bad law, " he said.
Should Twitter defend a person who disregards a bad law, the way a newspaper might previously have protected a source?
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As lawmaker fantasy runs aground on the rough shores of reality, the Treasury Department is stuck trying to implement a bad law full of dangerous ambiguity.
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So instead of making the IRS bigger in response to a bad healthcare law, why not repeal that bad law and shrink the size of the IRS?
"This is bad law - it's not a good way to be doing law - tagging it on to the end of a criminal justice bill, " she said.
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Republicans who have tried to amend parts of the law have faced criticism from other opponents of the act, who say it is a strategic mistake to try to make what they consider a bad law slightly better.
Which is why I would rather see an end to bad privacy law than an end to drones.
This may sound dry and technical, but the OECD wants all nations to participate in this pact, which has existed for a couple of decades but was radically expanded last year to give high-tax governments sweeping new powers to impose bad tax law on income generated in low-tax jurisdictions.
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Indeed, the only category of physicians where we find more physicians believing that the ACA was a step in the wrong direction are the surgical specialist who believe the law is bad news by a wide margin of 60 percent to 28 percent.
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Some components of the law were so bad that there was bipartisan support to junk them.
He says his own mother has told him she thinks the doggy law is a bad idea.
For Bill Singer, shareholder at the Stark and Stark law firm, bad management is a reason to sell a stock or not invest in it at all.
In this columnist's view, the shield law is a bad idea for another reason: By granting a special legal privilege to journalists, it would make them beholden to the federal government.
Things got so bad that Maryland passed a law in 2006 that pretty much targeted Wal-Mart to demand that it spend 8% of payroll on health benefits or pay the difference to Medicaid.
This creates all sorts of bad incentives and dubious relationships with law enforcement.
However, I think there is a not-so-obvious case for why this aspect of the law may be a bad idea: it could allow fairness norms to increase unemployment.
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To the extent that her causes interfere with getting higher returns from the best-performing investment funds, the trustees would be violating their duties and the law to take her bad counsel.
While we can argue whether these law changes are good or bad for the country or fair or unfair, it cannot be argued that they are simple.
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Bounty hunters are typically imagined as big burly men who make a living by working within (or outside of) the law to bring down the bad guys.
While much has been written about how graduate school generally, and law school specifically, are bad choices in this economy some applicants may nevertheless have decided that now is the time to enroll.
Advocates of active defense argue that cybercrime is rampant and companies are frustrated with their ability to get adequate assistance from law enforcement to catch the bad guys, much less get them prosecuted and sent to jail.
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In the course of my time in the law I have seen many bad men, and I have heard evidence about many terrible crimes which have been committed, but I have heard no case more tragic nor more terrible than this one.
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