21.   Judges in other states have ruled that similar laws violate the constitutional provision that forbids increasing a punishment after a crime has been committed.

22.   Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the law may violate the constitutionally protected right to travel by setting up financial roadblocks to migrating welfare recipients.

23.   Judge Leonard Sand found that the law violated First Amendment rights because it sets no time limits on when the Police Department must act on a permit request.

24.   Last month, a federal district court in Philadelphia blocked enforcement of the CDA, saying that the law violates First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech.

25.   Officials have suggested that the release on Thursday is a one-time-only humanitarian gesture and that a law would violate the Constitution.

26.   Pennsylvania, which also went to court claiming that the law violated its constitutional rights, lost its case too, and its compliance is still spotty.

27.   Pennsylvania, which also went to court claiming the law violated its constitutional rights, lost its case too, but its compliance remains spotty.

28.   Representatives of alcohol companies disagree, claiming in their lawsuit the law violates free-speech rights and will unfairly hurt businesses.

29.   Riggs said the law violated his Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

30.   Some New York utility companies immediately threatened a court challenge to the new legislation, saying the law could violate constitutional protections for interstate commerce.