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Governor takes LGBT rights battle to state Supreme Court

Edit The Argus Press 02 Dec 2017
A state district judge and a state appeal court have agreed that the order was an unconstitutional attempt to expand state law ... Edwards' lawyers argue that the executive order, referred to in court documents as JBE 16-11, is not a law, but an executive branch policy that Edwards has the authority to set....

John Bel Edwards to take LGBT rights battle to state Supreme Court

Edit The Advocate 02 Dec 2017
... judge and a state appeal court have agreed that the order was an unconstitutional attempt to expand state law....

Divorce bills 101

Edit Manila Standard Today 02 Dec 2017
The time for the re-enactment of a divorce law has come. I say reenactment because many do not know that divorce is not new here despite the fact that now, the Philippines is the only country in the whole world that does not have such a national law ... In 1917, the Americans replaced Siete Partidas with Act 2710, or the divorce law that had two (2) grounds, adultery on the woman’s part and concubinage on the man’s....

Pakistan’s tryst with religious extremists

Edit The Hindu 02 Dec 2017
The Tehreek-i-Labbaik, led by radical cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, known for his hard-line stand on the country’s blasphemy laws, blocked the capital city’s main entrance last month, demanding Law Minister Zahid Hamid’s resignation over blasphemy allegations ... An inquiry was also ordered into the matter and the dust was settling down ... Labbaik supporters, who seized the main entrance to Islamabad, said they wanted the Law Minister to go....

Is It Too Late for Robert Mueller to Save Us?

Edit Slate 02 Dec 2017
On one track is the chug-chug of law and order, as embodied in the Mueller investigation ... At this moment when all options remain open, we should accept the possibility that Mueller may come to represent the highest and most binding expression of law and order in America....

Ghanaians Urged To Collaborate With The Military

Edit Modern Ghana 02 Dec 2017
Mr. Dominic Nitiwul, the Minister of Defense on Thursday entreated the general public and other law enforcement agencies to cooperate with the Military to promote peace, law and order in the country. He observed that there were a lot of ill ... ....

NAO report highlights issues surrounding contravention payments within Transport Malta

Edit Independent Online 02 Dec 2017
Transport Malta in response cited the law where it states that the responsibility falls on the Local Enforcement System Agency (LESA). The NAO also remarked that no formal system is in place between TM and LESA in order to follow-up on payments that need collecting making it all the more difficult to settle such dues ... law on LESA and not TM”....

Rensselaer County district attorney indicted

Edit The Daily Gazette 02 Dec 2017
They center on the 2015 executive order from Gov ... The attorney general sought more information following Thevenin's death to determine whether it fell under the executive order ... The AG then received the power from Cuomo to investigate any "unlawful acts or omissions" by the district attorney or other law enforcement officer involved....

Understanding the impeachment process

Edit Manila Standard Today 02 Dec 2017
The right to due process of law is a ... Putting it more succinctly, since the investigating prosecutor has no power to order the execution or the arrest of the respondent, or to order the respondent to pay a fine, the cross examination of the complainant and his witnesses under such circumstances is not mandated by the Constitution or by law....

MNS sends letters to Thane shops, asks for signboards with bigger Marathi text

Edit Mid Day 02 Dec 2017
A garments storeroom in Thane with the name displayed according to law ... A store in Thane with the name displayed as per law ... Do the needful and take strong action and book the culprit so that law and order is maintained in Maharashtra." ... If MNS tries to threaten any of the shopkeepers, we will tackle them in 'FRTWA style' by taking them to court and get them arrested and ensure that they are taken to task 'lawfully' ... The 2001 order....

Man who insulted magistrate in Gozo granted bail

Edit Independent Online 02 Dec 2017
A man who insulted a magistrate was arraigned under arrest in the Gozo law courts and charged with threats, disturbing public piece and disobeying legitimate orders by the authorities, the police said. The 51-year-old of Ghajnsielem was charged before Magistrate Paul Coppini. The incident took place on 30 November before Magistrate Monica Vella ... Magistrate Vella ordered the man’s arrest ... ....

Aircel-Maxis deal: Enforcement Directorate raids P Chidambaram’s kin

Edit Deccan Chronicle 02 Dec 2017
Among those properties that were searched include Sadayavel Kailasam, brother-in-law of the former union minister ... As and when the attachment order is served, suitable action will be taken in accordance with law” ... ED had also said that Karti closed certain bank accounts and attempted to close other bank accounts in order to frustrate the process of attachment” under the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act)....

Activists to SC: Refrain from ruling in favour of any one community

Edit Indian Express 02 Dec 2017
Referring to the 2010 verdict of Allahabad HC, which ordered division of the disputed land among Ram Lalla, Nirmohi Akhara and Sunni Wakf Board, it said “The judgment gives an impression that it is more of a political solution adopted by a court, not a decision-based, as it should have been, strictly on facts and law.” The application said ......
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