81.   Local communities make a bad situation worse by using planning laws, such as minimum plot size, to exclude low-income families.

82.   Last year two New York Times reporters were charged by the Mexican government, which frequently uses this law against reporters, but the charges were dropped.

83.   Louis Rhodes, executive director of the Arizona Civil Liberties Union, said his group is concerned that the new law will be used to hamper free speech.

84.   More frequently, these laws are used against drug traffickers, bank swindlers and fraudulent stock traders.

85.   Morgenthau said the defendants in his recent investigation used a law that allows companies to avoid many financial reporting requirements when issuing stock outside the United States.

86.   Most scientists abhor the idea of human cloning, but they are equally alarmed that laws could be used as blunt instruments to thwart research.

87.   Ms. Wilson noted that state officials, using state laws, had already shut down some unlicensed online pharmacies.

88.   Only three people are reported to have used the law since it survived a series of other legal challenges last fall.

89.   Opponents belittled the evidence of bias and said such a law could be used in court to bog down any application of the death penalty.

90.   Opponents said that courts in states where similar initiatives have passed have used the law to limit legal protections for gay and lesbian families.