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.
"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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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.
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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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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Thus, if conservatives support the legalization and naturalization of illegals, their compassion would be rewarded with electoral defeats.
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.
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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Because while an amnesty and a path to legalization could clear the way for millions of workers to join unions, there will just be a new wave of illegals right behind them, providing the same cheap labor.
More than 1 million farmworkers applied for legalization under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Expansion or legalization by other states could further impact the number of tourists visiting Las Vegas.
"Successful reform mandates the most expansive earned legalization provisions that would make eligible the largest number of undocumented persons, " Stern says in a statement on the SEIU Web site, adding that guest worker programs aren't sufficient.
Legalization allowed Mejia to get a job erecting the metal frames of big box stores.
They're willing to consider legalization but insist that illegal immigrants should not be put ahead of those waiting for citizenship legally.
Rand Paul, sort of, of all people, has talked about a pathway to legalization.
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Kentucky was one of the first states to offer squatters a path to legalization.
Toleration of something certainly does not automatically translate into advocating its legalization.
Obviously, there is some overlap between the two categories and issues like abortion or drug legalization could be seen as having economic aspects, but the separation of social and economic issues helps to illuminate and clarify political ideologies for analytical purposes.
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There are many Republicans who are interested in moving forward on this question by providing a path to legalization, but they have been restrained by the hard-line elements of their party.
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