1.   But the bill faced stiff opposition from medical professionals who worried that the law would amount to coercion and set a dangerous precedent.

2.   But these laws amount to a belated reaction.

3.   If artists and actors were exempted from the law while pastors were not, the law might amount to unconstitutional discrimination against religion in violation of the First Amendment.

4.   In Wyoming, a task force has recommended rejecting the money, in part because its members said the law amounted to the federal government dictating morality.

5.   In the New York case, lawyers for the producers argued before Sand that the law clearly amounted to government censorship.

6.   The camp, asserting that the law amounted to unconstitutional discrimination against interstate commerce, sought a refund for back taxes from the town of Harrison, near Portland.

7.   The justices rejected a challenge by three Santa Ana residents, who claimed that the law amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

8.   Wilson said the law amounts to a new unfunded federal mandate.

9.   Acting on an EU challenge, the WTO ruled that the Foreign Sales Corporation law amounted to an illegal trade subsidy.

10.   The lawyers guild, meanwhile, warns that the law still amounts to subsidizing churches.