"Today's Papers" received a number of sage emails from readers pointing out an oops in yesterday's column: California's gun control climate wasn't affected by the Brady bill because it already had in place a much stricter waiting-and-checking statute covering handgun purchases.

By charging racketeering rather than fraud, the plaintiff's lawyers in the case effectively sidestepped some of the strict statute of limitations requirements that usually apply in securities cases.

During the years 1930-31, he and thirteen teammates were banned for a relatively minor infraction of the strict amateur statutes, having received ten instead of the allowed five Reichsmark as compensation for playing in an away game.

Under that law's strict statute of limitations, an employee must begin legal action within a year after the purported discriminatory action.

With a small population that retains its agricultural base, in addition to strict environmental statutes that include the outlawing of roadside billboards, much of the Vermont countryside really does evoke lines from Frost.

They called for stricter statutes and greater disclosure of expenditures by cable companies.

The overturned law, which replaced a stricter statute, required landlords to visually inspect apartments built before 1960 when a child under 6 lived there, and specified that the city would take over repairs if a landlord failed to make them.

In striking down the new law, the judge said that his action reinstated the stricter original statute, along with earlier court findings holding the city in contempt for failing to enforce that law.

It has no juries and is not bound by strict statutes of limitations.

There are strict statutes that haven't been observed, here.