How to Use shield law in a Sentence

shield law

noun
  • There is no there’s no federal shield law.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The lawsuit, one of the first of its kind, tests the future of shield laws.
    — Nicole Cobler, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The shield laws have not yet been directly challenged in court.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • So what are shield laws exactly, and what does the future hold for them?
    — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The Southern states, though, don’t have a single shield law among them.
    — Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The state has enacted shield laws to protect against other state bans.
    — Kinsey Crowley, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2024
  • But neither of those pharmacies is located in a state with a shield law.
    — Caroline Kitchener, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
  • The cases represent the first time shield laws are being tested in court.
    — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Weingart also pressed Bonjean on why the rape shield law would not apply.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The case is expected to reach the Supreme Court and test the future of shield laws.
    — Nicole Cobler, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
  • More than two dozen cases challenging the federal shield law have been filed around the country.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
  • But many states, including Georgia, have no shield laws, and there is no federal shield law.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The state added a firing squad option and passed a shield law to keep much of the details of executions private.
    — CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Or a California doctor may decide that being a shield law provider is just too risky.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Other states have passed shield laws to protect access to gender-affirming care for trans people.
    — Orion Rummler, Them, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Cohen saw Connecticut’s shield law as an important first step.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • For transgender youths and their families, the messaging around shield laws has a strong appeal.
    — Arit John, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The providers are eagerly waiting for the shield law to pass in California.
    — Caroline Kitchener, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
  • The justices added questions about last year's shield law to the appeal and Tuesday's arguments.
    — CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Shain said that a shield law would give the state another tool to go to suppliers and tell them their identity would be protected.
    — Mallika Kallingal and Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
  • And within a few years, Congress would pass shield laws protecting gunmakers from being sued.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The shield laws upend the usual telemedicine model, under which out-of-state health providers must be licensed in the states where patients are located.
    — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The decision is the second this month to broadly shield law enforcement officers from being sued.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • More recently, women in states with bans have also been able to order the pills because of shield laws that protect providers that prescribe and mail pills to such patients.
    — Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Connecticut’s shield law is weak, said Kay, a constitutional law expert.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In other parts of the country, families can, at the very least, depend on neighboring states with shield laws that protect access to trans healthcare.
    — Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • During Pantaleo's trial his disciplinary records were not allowed to be released publicly due to the shield law.
    — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 23 June 2020
  • But the state had to pass a shield law keeping the drug supplier and much of the protocol for executions secret to be able to reopen the death chamber.
    — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Recent legal attacks against doctors in New York and California have put shield laws to the test.
    — Patrick Adams, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • States filing lawsuits that challenge shield laws are going to face obstacles, and cases will be difficult to win, legal experts said.
    — The Hill, 9 Aug. 2025

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