How to Use shield law in a Sentence

shield law

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  • The Southern states, though, don’t have a single shield law among them.
    — Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The state has enacted shield laws to protect against other state bans.
    — Kinsey Crowley, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2024
  • 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
  • But the state had to pass a shield law keeping the drug supplier and much of the protocol for executions secret to be able to reopen the death chamber.
    — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Changes since Dobbs: New York has passed several shield laws to protect providers and patients from out of state investigations.
    — Kinsey Crowley, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 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
  • The new shield laws circumvent traditional telemedicine laws, which often require out-of-state health providers to be licensed in the states where patients are located.
    — Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 14 May 2024
  • The state's high court allowed the inmates to add arguments that the shield law was too secret by not releasing the potency, purity and stabilization of lethal injection drugs.
    — CBS News, 31 July 2024
  • Connecticut is currently one of 14 states with shield laws to protect patients and medical professionals who seek and provide this care.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Rhodes wrote that under Kansas’ journalist shield law, the paper is entitled to a hearing before the authorities review any of the information seized.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The Nevada Supreme Court ruled that his devices are protected under the state’s shield laws for journalists, preventing police and prosecutors from having unfettered access.
    — Ksnv-Tv News Staff, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024

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