1.   Federal officials began to violate the civil rights laws in addition to refusing to enforce them.

2.   Furthermore, Days noted that technicalities in the criminal civil rights laws made conviction difficult.

3.   And despite the civil rights laws, police abuse and hate crimes against Latinos are on the rise.

4.   An ongoing barrage of high-profile lawsuits, and changes in civil rights laws, say experts.

5.   And he broke legal ground by establishing that sexual harassment in the workplace was a violation of civil rights laws.

6.   Another would require bounty hunters to follow the same civil rights laws as police do.

7.   Another group that favors the new gay civil rights law is people who attend church.

8.   As a child of the segregated south, he extolled the civil rights laws that Paula Jones ultimately used to sue Clinton for sexual harassment.

9.   As a young man I fought for passage of civil rights laws that would eliminate the vestiges of slavery and the continued denial of equal rights to black Americans.

10.   Ashcroft, the lone Bush Cabinet appointee still awaiting Senate confirmation, has been criticized for failing to enforce civil rights laws while governor and attorney general of Missouri.