Minutes from an internal Ministry of Defence committee - released as part of a Freedom of Information request - note a discussion on the interpretation of the OSPAR convention on waste dumping.

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Also of note is that HHS conceded it will permit state-based exchanges, upon request, to have their individual mandate exemptions processed by a federally managed service, once again placing a bigger burden of the reform on the federal government.

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Instead, Universal argued, state common law applies. (As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).

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