In October of 2004, Florida police arrested Shelton and charged him with nine felony counts: three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of delivery of cocaine, one count of fleeing law enforcement, one count of driving with a suspended license, one count of reckless driving, and two counts of criminal mischief.
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To Olson's argument, Tribe replied that the Florida justices weren't writing new code but merely interpreting conflicting Florida statutes. (One sets a tight deadline for certification and the other allows hand recounts, which can take a long time.) And anyway, Tribe argued in his typically agile brief, the electoral-count law simply offers incentives to states who follow its provisions--but doesn't punish them if they don't.
Making people pay what they already owe under current law doesn't count as a tax hike.
"If this is not jungle law, let this count, " he is quoted as saying from the dock.
Olson, a stellar appellate lawyer who worked in Reagan's Justice Department alongside Kenneth Starr, argued that the Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.
In a court of law, it can sometimes count against a woman if she has male friends.
He must count on the law showing immediate results next year, pushing large numbers of the 4.4m unemployed (10.6% of the workforce) off the welfare rolls and into work.
Real change won't arrive until anyone who signs up to work in Greece stockbroker, IMF administrator or basketball player knows that he or she can count on Greek law for protection.
And if the law is overturned, we can count on the president to raise the issue on the campaign trail.
Property rights, the rule of law, transparency and even trust count, too.
Critics of the law and we can count Judge Hudson among them, now say it crosses the constitutional line by requiring people to engage in economic activity instead of merely refraining from doing so.
If nothing else, it would prove that even when you can't count on the rule of law in Washington, there's always poetic justice.
The letter goes on to explain that these downloads legally count as exports under the law, telling Wilson to remove the plans from public access immediately.
While the statutes require that the secretary certify the vote seven days after the election, which is today, the law also gives the secretary discretion to count votes that come in after the certification.
There's a lesson here: Don't count on U.S. law to bail you out of a foreign investment.
This year, Congress has passed and the president has signed into law 39 pieces of legislation by my quick count.
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The woman pleaded guilty in December to a single count of violating federal medical privacy law for commercial purposes, but herself died of cancer before she could be sentenced, the newspaper reports.
He also faces five counts of war crimes, including acts of terrorism and torture, and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
So, as provided under Florida law, I have decided to contest this inaccurate and incomplete count, in order to ensure the greatest possible credibility for the outcome.
U.S. tax law treats royalty costs as mere deductions, while foreign income taxes count as dollar-for-dollar credits against U.S. income tax.
The defeated reform would have toughened enforcement against serial violators like Massey it had 515 violations in 2009 which routinely game the system and count on years of appeals to allow them to keep flouting the law.
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While the law says the IPAB can try innovative approaches to modernize care, the Congressional Budget Office does not count these programs as achieving any meaningful cost savings.
She did everything she could to delay the hand counts that Florida law allows, and then said that since counties had missed their deadline, the results wouldn't count.
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