Three months later, the laws were repealed by the state Legislature and removed from the penal code.

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To get this far, Turkey has taken such dramatic steps as abolishing the death penalty, accepting Kurdish as a language in schools, scrapping state security courts, revising the penal code and tightening civilian control over the army.

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Separately, a class action filed the same month by California clients of Salomon's Atlanta office charged the firm with violating California penal code for failing to warn residents of that state that they were being taped.

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And neither does the State of California, which makes it a misdemeanor to solemnize a marriage without first reviewing the marriage license (Penal Code, Section 360).

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