The Supreme Court is currently considering whether to approve the legalization of medical diagnostic patents.
"We have seen an increasing momentum towards the legalization of equality in marriage, " Sklar told CNN.
The legalization of software patents produced a backlash in the software industry.
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Dr. Clinton Anderson, APA associate executive director, said that the timing of the resolution is an indirect result of several states' legalization of marriage.
Monday is the day immigrant advocates have set aside for a work and school boycott to push their campaign for legalization of undocumented workers.
Still there is ambiguity on the pace of growth in the Las Vegas gaming industry given pressure stemming from the legalization of casino gaming in other U.S. states.
What is clearly needed at this juncture is not the legalization of such technology flows whose effect would simply be to permit the Soviet military industrial base to be efficiently retooled.
"Immigration is very fashionable, and it's her pet cause, " said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, a national organization that campaigns against the legalization of illegal immigrants.
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After all, in 2011 Gallup found that a plurality of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, and in 2010 fully 70% of Americans supported using marijuana to alleviate pain and suffering.
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But the more important step in the de facto legalization of software patents came in 1982, when Congress created a new court called the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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The next stage was to implant a UPP, or Police Pacification Unit, a team of police officers specially trained in community relations to establish state presence and allow the conditions to begin the legalization of the favela.
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The argument fell short of an outright appeal for immediate legalization of gay marriage nationwide, but it was the first time a president had asked the high court to expand the right of gays and lesbians to wed.
Mr. Cuomo cast the deal as the capstone on a year of victories that included the legalization of same-sex marriage and the passage of a plan to raise tax revenue from high-income New Yorkers while lowering taxes on the middle class.
As Khalifa deals with the classic dilemma of the successful musician stay true to independent roots or chase the larger pop prize one demographic trend perhaps playing to his advantage is the recent legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Washington.
But the main objection at the time was to a style of play densely and dangerously packed offensive strategies that, it turns out, could be largely corrected with rule changes, like the legalization of the forward pass and the doubling of the first-down distance from five yards to ten.
The new pope may not halt the region's recent shift toward more liberal social issues, illustrated by the recent legalization of abortions in Mexico City and the strong gay rights movement in countries such as Argentina, said Julia Young, a professor of Latin American history at the Catholic University in Washington, D.
One of the things that was said around the table is the American people still don't have enough confidence that Congress and any administration is going to get serious about border security, and so they're concerned that any immigration reform simply will be a short-term legalization of undocumented workers with no long-term solution with respect to future flows of illegal immigration.
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The liberal grandchildren of legalization advocates will grumble about the soulless marijuana corporations and the conservative grandchildren of anti-legalization activists will play golf at the country club with marijuana inc. executives, toast George Soros at the 19th hole afterwards and discuss how they can get the damn liberals in Congress to stop blocking capital gains tax cuts.
Advocates of legalization say the costs of prohibition, mainly through the criminal justice system, place a great burden on taxpayers and governments.
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Ferrand speculates that Restrepo's attachment to Zelaya's restoration may have something to do with his sympathy for the radical drug-legalization agenda of George Soros, a key CAP benefactor.
Thus, if conservatives support the legalization and naturalization of illegals, their compassion would be rewarded with electoral defeats.
Advocates of legalization have welcomed Colorado and Washington's new laws, arguing that criminalizing drugs creates serious though unintended social problems.
Jennifer Allen is with the Border Action Network, which is pushing for not only a guest worker program but legalization for millions of immigrants already here.
Supporters of legalization see it differently, arguing that the best way to make sure immigrants do not pose an unfair threat to American workers is to make the immigrants legal.
The possibility of drug legalization has gained traction in Central America, which is being squeezed between suppliers to the south and consumers to the north.
While they did not embrace wholesale legalization for production and sale of any amount of marijuana, voters in these states nonetheless chose to make it legal to possess and grow marijuana.
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They're busy doing research at the moment into the legalization or decriminalization or further criminalization of prostitution at the moment.
Full legalization would drastically reduce the amount of money flowing to drug lords and violent organizations (the line between drug lords and terrorists is extremely fuzzy or nonexistent), reducing the crime rate and hopefully helping Mexico a little.
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But here the president seems to be trying to do the opposite by softening the substance of policy (by pushing legalization) while making his rhetoric harsher.
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