Each year a universal health care law is introduced in the legislature and labor friendly changes to workers compensation laws are constantly sought.

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Samuel Issacharoff, whose specialty is Constitutional law, told me there is certainly no federal law or Constitutional provision establishing a universal right to make campaign contributions.

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Metropolitan Police detectives held Col Lama under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.

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Detectives with specialist experience of war crimes arrested the officer under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.

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Instead, Universal argued, state common law applies. (As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).

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The new law, Kennedy said, might have a major impact on passing universal health care nationally.

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