The Law Commission for England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission propose repealing 817 acts, as set out in the draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill that accompanies their report.
Two experts FORBES spoke with, Arif Panju of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and Alicia Wagner Calzada of law firm Haynes Boone, both proponents of the statute, say that the spirit of the law is designed to protect citizens and journalists with less cash from being bullied by interests with more cash.
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Bryan and the other defense attorneys in the case also argue that the assaults didn't amount to a hate crime under the federal statute, arguing that the law wasn't meant to prosecute a given religious group's dispute among its own members.
In his ruling, Judge Sanders swatted aside free-speech arguments, saying the Texas statute prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law is "content-neutral" because it doesn't target the expression of any particular opinion.
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the justices the law was a "targeted statute that's designed to deal with a particular" problem: "the misappropriation of the government-conferred honor and esteem" that such a decoration represents.
Although the deadline for appealing was January 2, Florida lawmakers can still tweak the current statute or pass a new law that accommodates the court ruling.
The government's hope must be that this view gains currency, before another business-deterring law hits the statute books.
The justices must decide whether a law known as the Alien Tort Statute permits US courts to rule on that case.
That law shortened the statute of limitations after which charges are time-barred, a provision that directly benefited Mr Berlusconi.
That undermines the argument that Congress, by failing to step in and clarify the law, intended the 1867 statute to apply to anything that looks and smells like a tax.
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The suit on Myfortic is a significant expansion of the Anti-Kickback Statute that is inconsistent with law and policy in this area and the theory in this case threatens to undermine pharmaceutical company discounting practices that benefit both consumers and payers, including the government.
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The Supreme Court's judgment is expected in a few months, probably around the time that the Law Commission, a body that tidies up the statute book, comes out with its own proposals for change.
The changes to the law will take effect along with the rest of the statute in 90 days.
While it is true that the JCT assumed that dependents of such employees would not be eligible for the subsidy, the statute is ambiguous and the JCT interpretation does not have the force of law.
By the time the law firm got around to filing, the one-year statute of limitations had expired, says James Rosen, the attorney Blanks hired to sue his former lawyers.
But the IRS says the "and" in the 1965 rewrite of the statute can be read as an "or, " which renders the law ambiguous, thus requiring a judge to discern Congress' intent, which was to tax long-distance calls.
The definition of "celebrity" and what constitutes a legitimate photograph would be defined by statute and the court decisions interpreting the law.
Sixteen states have established the right of publicity solely through statute, and 10 states have recognized the right solely under common law.
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Whether the justices rely on points of law, environmental science or economics, the facts and the statute will yield the same answer: Overturn the Ninth Circuit ruling.
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Though Mr. Ota understood that the Hawaii statute was not applicable to these properties, he decided not to research the law of partition in Oregon, Florida, and California.
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The independent counsel statute comes up for renewal in June, with congressional hearings on extending the law scheduled for later this month.
He added that the Supreme Court should not have accepted the case in the first place because the Washington court had already ruled on the law's legal validity and asked the legislature to draft a narrower statute.
This is double the three year statute of limitation previously mandated by federal law.
The Law Commission, which tidies up the statute book, is planning a consultation paper in the first half of next year.
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That statute protects marriage under federal law as the union of a man and a woman, and declares that one state may not redefine marriage for other states.
The problem is so common that the Uniform Law Commission, the group that recommends uniform state laws, is working on a recommended statute that states could adopt to deal with post-death access to digital assets.
He said the law needed changing, as it currently revolved around a common law principle and should be put into statute, and also needed clarifying.
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What is written in the statute book is not necessarily an indication of how the law will be applied, however.
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The penalties under the healthcare law may be collected by the Internal Revenue Service, they said, but the wording of the statute as well as its intent make it clear it is not a tax.
"If you read the statute carefully, it literally creates an obligation for all law enforcement agencies to determine status of individuals, " said Marc Miller, a vice dean and law professor at the University of Arizona.
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