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Quotes About Law

Justice Scalia wrote for the Court that former attorney general Ashcroft was protected by qualified immunity because there was no clearly established law that his conduct was unconstitutional.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
Smith v. Maryland, it held that police can obtain a list of phone numbers that a person calls, or receives calls from, without needing to get a warrant or have probable cause.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
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it ruled that people have a lower expectation of privacy with motor vehicles, and that cars are regulated by the government. In Cady v. Dombrowski
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
For suspects undergoing police interrogation, the rulings provide very little protection from coercion, so long as the officers don't use physical force.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
Once police pull the car over, they can order the driver and the passenger out of the car.19 They can then search the passenger area of the car, including all containers within it.20 This is to protect the officers, the Court explained, to ensure that the car contains no weapon that an individual might reach for.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
In Navarette v. California in 2014, the Court ruled that an anonymous tip that a person is driving erratically is a sufficient basis for a police stop.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
Harris v. New York that a statement obtained without complying with Miranda could be used to impeach a criminal defendant who took the witness stand.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
What had Wardlow done to create "reasonable suspicion"? He was in what the Court said was "an area known for heavy narcotics trafficking."38 That is another way of saying, it was a predominantly Black neighborhood. And he walked the other direction after seeing police cars.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning in organic substance; organic competence is unconscious. Still more briefly, and put in a form which is admittedly rather obscure and open to misunderstanding: Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
I remember an interesting little paper by Max Planck on the topic 'The Dynamical and the Statistical Type of Law' ('Dynamische und Statistische Gesetzmässigkeit'). The distinction is precisely the one we have here labelled as 'order from order' and 'order from disorder'.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
But the term code-script is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow. They are law-code and executive power – or, to use another simile, they are architect's plan and builder's craft – in one.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
would not have deliberately attracted if you had been doing it on purpose, but much of your attraction is not done by deliberate intent, but rather by default…. It is important to understand that you get what you think about, whether you want it or not. And chronic thoughts about unwanted things invite, or ask for, matching experiences. The Law of Attraction makes it so. Relationships, or co-creating with others
~ Esther Hicks
Struggle, struggle, struggle never leads to a happy ending. It defies Law. "When I get there, then I'll be happy" is not a productive mind-set because unless you are happy, you cannot get there. When you decide to first be happy—then you will get there.
~ Esther Hicks
would not have deliberately attracted if you had been doing it on purpose, but much of your attraction is not done by deliberate intent, but rather by default…. It is important to understand that you get what you think about, whether you want it or not. And chronic thoughts about unwanted things invite, or ask for, matching experiences. The Law of Attraction makes it so. Relationships, or co-creating with others, is
~ Esther Hicks
Many around you want to point out "reality" to you. They say, "Face the facts. Look at what-is. " And we say to you, if you are able to see only what-is—then, by the Law of Attraction, you will create only more of what-is. . . . You must be able to put your thoughts beyond what-is in order to attract something different or something more.
~ Esther Hicks
It is all about vibrational alignment. Do not look for immediate measurable physical results. Instead, look for improvement in your mood, your attitude, and your emotions. When you feel better, you are more in alignment—and everything else will follow. It is Law.
~ Esther Hicks
The Law of Attraction says, "The essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn." And what that means is: If I feel unappreciated because of circumstances that have recently occurred in my experience, the Law of Attraction cannot now surround me with people who appreciate me. That would defy the Law of Attraction.
~ Esther Hicks
be stoned and the owner given the death penalty. If a ransom is agreed upon
~ Eugene H. Peterson
In France, a law now requires large companies not to expect their employees to send or respond to emails after work hours.
~ Eula Biss
Unfortunately ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking it,
~ Evangeline Anderson
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
~ Theresa May
What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?
~ Peter Maurer
The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.
~ Pope Shenouda III