Politics Law

“It also helps voters understand how the First Amendment applies to the political … of current law regarding religious expression in American public life,” Rogers said. “While the drafters of this document may disagree about how the legal line …

As a matter of fact, not attaching value or importance to anything other than politics is the very reason we have so much polarization today. Thinking in legal terms requires knowledge of law, whereas thinking in political terms is much … Continue reading →

The legal limit for donations to a single campaign … when the donations are all financed by the same entity. State law says that no person shall contribute to a campaign or political committee “through or in the name of … Continue reading →

Last Thursday, 15 prominent Chinese legal and demographic scholars issued an open letter … There is also the problem of institutional “stickiness”: the policy has become law and, as a “fundamental state policy,” enshrined in the Constitution.

The policy was reflected in a bargaining agreement, and was found to not have been created for the purpose of avoiding discovery requests. Accordingly, the Times did not have the legal right, over the reporter’s objection, to obtain the flash … Continue reading →

But the shifts also reflect larger changes in the legal profession … if you will. “Law has traditionally been more hierarchical,” said Rich Gold, head of the public policy and regulatory group at Holland & Knight LLP, which will soon … Continue reading →

The change was recommended by a 2011 Law Commission report on the Misuse of Drugs Act. Mr Dunne confirmed the producers of the party pills and other legal highs would bare the cost of testing. He did not know how … Continue reading →

Obama signed a federal law on Monday, July 9, banning the sale of synthetic … “President Obama’s swift approval of this federal ban is the final nail in the coffin for the legal sale of bath salts in smoke shops … Continue reading →

“The new law means the game of ‘catch up’ with the legal highs industry will be over once and for all,” Dunne said. “None of these products will come to market if they have not been proven safe – and … Continue reading →

and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics,” Basescu … government decree and a separate law scrapping a 50 percent turnout threshold for referendums. All eyes are now on a tangle of legal statutes that have blurred the … Continue reading →