So if the vote did not create a legal state of Palestine, what did it accomplish?
But that decision hit a legal roadblock when State Supreme Court Justice Johnny Baynes on Thursday found fault with the initial vote, saying the university didn't abide by a law requiring open meetings to be held on the decision.
Lord Bingham concluded that a former head of state enjoys immunity as well because one English statute confers on a head of state the same legal protections as those enjoyed by an ambassador, which a second statute spells out as including immunity for official acts during his tenure as an ambassador even after he has left his post.
If a case arises in which a foreign law or foreign legal doctrine is involved in a dispute in a state court, ALAC prevents the use of that foreign law or foreign legal doctrine if any of the parties' constitutional rights or state public policy would be violated in the process.
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Among that agency's tasks is to study whether there is a way to make drilling legal in state parks a proposal that has riled environmental groups.
The involvement of a state in this issue, while certainly legal, also raised practical concerns of a single state, even if it is the state where many investment banks are headquartered, setting policy that governs national and international businesses.
The Massachusetts legislature voted against a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, which is legal in the state because of a court ruling.
Thirty-eight states signed a legal brief backing the State of Maryland in the case.
Abraham sued Hyundai and James Menzie, its personnel manager, in a California state court on a host of legal theories, including a novel reading of California's civil rights law, the Unruh Act.
The department believes the tax is legal under a 1971 state law which allows cities of more than a million people to collect sales tax on weight-control salons, health salons, gymnasiums, and Turkish and sauna baths.
Alderman challenged the constitutionality of the law, since it criminalized his possession of an item within a single state where it was legal, but the Ninth Circuit rejected that challenge, citing a seemingly analogous 1977 Supreme Court decision called Scarborough upholding a federal law banning felons from owning handguns.
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Since American corporate law is a state-by-state affair, the legal side of what B Lab does gets complicated.
At times, the complaint filed by the state reads less like a legal document and more like a press release, extolling the fine virtues of a Penn State education amidst the hard-working townsfolk of central Pennsylvania.
Several parties have a stake in what happens to this girl: Her biological mother and father, the adoptive parents, the federal government, the Oklahoma-based tribe, and a legal guardian appointed by the state to represent the child's interests.
Mr. Allman wryly tells the story of how Disney interests used shadow companies, shrewd legal maneuvering and a compliant state legislature to take absolute control of the 47 square miles of central Florida wasteland that became Disney World and turned the Orlando area into an El Dorado of amusement.
Before the ruling, the legislature had been threatening to hold a special session to appoint a slate of Republican electors should Mr Bush lose the state to Mr Gore on a legal ruling.
The second case could deliver a final ruling on an ongoing legal wrangle over a gay marriage ban in the state of California, a law known as Proposition 8.
It said it will make a legal challenge if the secretary of state does not meet its request.
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Sylvia Roberts graduated in the late 1950s from Tulane Law School, intent on having a legal career in her beloved home state of Louisiana.
Fleming said it was the official position of the sheriff's office that if she has a legal complaint she should call the state attorney general.
He won his first race for Congress, in 1978, by a mere 139 votes after a hand recount and a prolonged legal wrangle that reached the state's Supreme Court.
That it might not be in the best interest of a man with his own past legal troubles to give testimony undermining a high-profile state prosecution did not, apparently, deter him.
EU-wide criteria would make clear which country's legal system applies when an inheritance concerns more than one member state, a move designed to reduce costly legal disputes and cut red tape for heirs.
His administration has agreed to enforce the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which is the legal framework that allows a state to control its own definition of marriage and avoid having to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the Canvassing Board of Palm Beach County, where Al Gore won 64% of the vote, suspended its hand recount in deference to a legal opinion by the secretary of state that the procedure was unlawful under Florida law.
The Capobiancos think the issue should be about whether the ICWA law can improperly block adoption proceedings voluntarily initiated by a non-Indian mother who had sole custody of her child, due to what the adoptive parents say is the Indian father's failure to establish a legal parent-child relationship under state law.
Seeking to demonstrate the Obama administration's early commitment to the country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met last week with Afghan women legal professionals who were in Washington on a State Department training program on justice reform in Afghanistan.
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Ms Lagarde decided to use arbitration to settle a long-running legal battle between the state and Mr Tapie.
Sheriff Donnie Harrison said he was unsure whether it was legal to bring a loaded gun on state fairgrounds.
Mr Hayworth has defended the adverts, saying he did not know about consumer complaints and a state attorney general's legal action.
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