Opposition parties are using the case to highlight the state's poor law and order situation while Mr Yadav and his party colleagues are blaming the media for projecting a negative image of the state.
Instead of recognising the improvements, the current law penalises Tennessee for the poor scores.
Critics have long argued that the voter ID law targeted minorities and the poor in the state.
In part, the myth is hard to shake because most people have a very poor understanding of the complex law.
" That is an important first step, he thinks, but "in lots of places, there's still a big gap between what the law says and what the poor experience.
Religious tempers had been calmed, government functioning made more transparent (through the right to information law), and a series of welfare measures for the rural poor (pre-eminently, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme) initiated.
The idea that the wealthy or the powerful or the famous should receive preferential treatment under the law, treatment that is different from that accorded to the poor and the weak, is anathema to everything that is great and good and special about the United States.
The rule of law applies to the weak and the strong, the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless.
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Proponents credit the law with boosting the scores of poor and minority children.
NGOs (staffed overwhelmingly with lawyers) have concentrated on training and providing information on the arcana of trade law to delegates from poor countries.
He has said he had no alternative but to follow a career in the media after graduating with "a very poor law degree".
Since SCHIP was signed into law, the uninsured rate among poor children has dropped to 16.9% in 2005 from 22.5% in 1996, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Whoever came up with the idea, the 2011 law meant failure to agree would cut both cherished Democratic programmes that helped the poor and defence spending beloved of Republicans.
Since every high school, no matter how low its standards, has a top decile, the law gave UT a lot of poor and minority kids who never would have made it on the basis of academic ability.
The Democratic Party challenged the Indiana law, contending that it imposed an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote for poor and elderly voters.
Some in Congress are urging state governments to opt out of the health care law's provisions setting up health insurance exchanges and expanding Medicaid coverage for the poor and disabled.
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Nevertheless, the laws are a poor way to start building a society in Northern Ireland based on respect for the rule of law.
They said that those challenging the law had provided adequate evidence of significant burdens on the poor and the elderly.
It seeks to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law and cut spending on Medicaid, a government health programme for the poor, by giving control of its distribution to states.
During his fourteen years in power he changed Venezuela from a poor country with democratic institutions, a rule of law and freedom of the press to an even poorer country with a quasi-dictatorship, no rule of law and no freedom of the press.
Republicans said the law was needed to prevent voter fraud, while Democrats said people who are poor or elderly often do not have such identification and are unable to get the certified birth certificate and other secondary proof of identification needed to get a state-provided ID in Indiana.
The law creating Aid to Families with Dependent Children nowhere stated that all families defined as poor should be entitled to hand-outs.
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Born poor, Yadav was studying law at Patna University when he was drawn into politics in the 1970s.
They say they flouted the law only because the planning authorities never answered their requests, or because they were too poor to go by the rulebook and desperately needed a roof over their head.
Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.
Police and gendarmes say the law and order record of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's government has failed to address poor pay and funding while at the same time making it harder to secure convictions.
The draft law also raises the question of how the government will be able to finance development in the poor and over-crowded heartland of Java if it loses a large chunk of its income to the outlying islands.
Even those who had a warm heart for the poor, such as the Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), argued that equality before the law required some inequality, as it was just that the most productive should earn more.
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