How to Use shield law in a Sentence

shield law

noun
  • The justices added questions about last year's shield law to the appeal and Tuesday's arguments.
    CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The providers are eagerly waiting for the shield law to pass in California.
    Caroline Kitchener, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
  • But neither of those pharmacies is located in a state with a shield law.
    Caroline Kitchener, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
  • More than two dozen cases challenging the federal shield law have been filed around the country.
    New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
  • But many states, including Georgia, have no shield laws, and there is no federal shield law.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In July, the kind of telemedicine shield law that Prine wanted advanced in a single state: Massachusetts.
    Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The shield laws upend the usual telemedicine model, under which out-of-state health providers must be licensed in the states where patients are located.
    Pam Belluck, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Shain said that a shield law would give the state another tool to go to suppliers and tell them their identity would be protected.
    Mallika Kallingal and Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
  • For transgender youths and their families, the messaging around shield laws has a strong appeal.
    Arit John, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • More recently, women in states with bans have also been able to order the pills because of shield laws that protect providers that prescribe and mail pills to such patients.
    Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • In other parts of the country, families can, at the very least, depend on neighboring states with shield laws that protect access to trans healthcare.
    Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • And within a few years, Congress would pass shield laws protecting gunmakers from being sued.
    Avi Selk, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • On the shield law, attorneys for the inmates argue South Carolina's law is more secretive than any other state.
    CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The decision is the second this month to broadly shield law enforcement officers from being sued.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • During Pantaleo's trial his disciplinary records were not allowed to be released publicly due to the shield law.
    Sonia Moghe, CNN, 23 June 2020
  • Cohen saw Connecticut’s shield law as an important first step.
    Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • McMaster also asked the Legislature to approve a shield law to protect the identity of drug companies that provide the state drugs to carry out the death penalty by lethal injection.
    Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Connecticut’s shield law is weak, said Kay, a constitutional law expert.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The seizure had appeared to signal a clash over the scope of California’s shield law, which allows journalists to refuse to disclose the sources of their information and withhold unpublished materials.
    Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Depending upon the final outcome of the election and who ends up in leadership roles, the next Congress could increase emphasis on social media regulation and changes to the shield law known as Section 230.
    Steven Rosenbush, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Hartford police officers will don body cameras by the end of the year, a push by city leaders to boost transparency, protect the public and shield law enforcement officials from false accusations.
    Jenna Carlesso, Courant Community, 29 June 2018
  • Washington State lawmakers passed a shield law on Tuesday offering protection to anyone traveling from out-of-state for abortions.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Gawker argues that the search-and-seize action violates California's journalist shield law.
    Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2010
  • California’s shield law allows journalists to keep their sources confidential and protects them from search warrants.
    Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The 2005 shield law was the culmination of an extended effort by the National Rifle Association.
    New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Illinois has already passed a shield law taking immediate effect, which protects providers and patients from out-of-state legal action involving abortions.
    Megan Rose, ProPublica, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Glasser said that under the state’s reporter’s shield law, Tchekmedyian could not be compelled to reveal her sources and investigators were barred from obtaining search warrants aimed at Tchekmedyian.
    Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Six months later, the Appellate Division overturned her decision, saying the shield law protected Ms. Robles.
    New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Connecticut, under Democratic Governor Ned Lamont, is leading the nation with its shield law, designed to neutralize the bounty laws.
    Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • News media groups have criticized it as a violation of California’s shield law, which protects journalists from being forced to reveal confidential sources and from search warrants.
    Washington Post, 23 July 2019

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