The attorneys general are basing their case on nuisance doctrines established by common laws.
Even the more modest goal of a free-trade area, if it is to be a credible one, means that they can no longer shirk agreement on a few common laws (on matters such as competition policy) and some minimal common institutions, including a permanent tribunal to settle trade disputes.
What's missing is there are other solutions that should be addressed, including metal health and common sense laws that keep guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't have them.
But to have a lasting impact, Congress must join the administration by passing common sense laws like requiring a universal background check for anyone trying to buy a gun, and restoring a ban on military-style assault weapons and a 10-round limit for magazines.
Others simply appropriated large areas of common land using laws passed by the Scottish parliament in the 1690's.
Far from intending to threaten the religious or civil liberties of the majority Christian population (which remains vastly superior in numbers), the goal was to create a common framework of laws but otherwise leave everyone to their own devices.
"Look, I have suffered more than most from gun violence, and I certainly want to do all I can to reduce gun violence and I understand it helps to have common sense gun laws, " she said recently on the campaign trail.
Governments, and the politicians that run them, do not obey the laws of common sense.
Again and again, North Korea has defied international accords, laws and common sense, creating and exporting long-range missiles, building nuclear capabilities and engaging in kidnappings, sabotage and cyberattack.
Under the common law and the laws of Virginia, the house was part of the land that is the real estate we refer to as the Vienna property.
Neither common sense nor the laws of war require Israel to deviate from the usual rule, which is to kill as many enemies as you can and avoid casualties on your own side.
But on the other side of the picket line Australia's union leaders now face new laws, common nowadays in Europe and America, which reduce the power unions have traditionally wielded through secondary picketing and sympathy strikes.
While the definition of marriage is still left to the states, they say, the federal government has stepped in before to enforce order, as when it declared uniform national policy on death taxes regardless of whether states had community-property laws or common-law marriage.
Naturally, that would make variances between federal and state laws even more common.
When the GST was originally enacted, most state laws included the common law Rule against Perpetuities (RAP) or some similar rule.
Though the use of such laws is not common in countries with claims to modernity, it is far from unique to Malaysia.
As we publish new data privacy research, this too will be accessible directly from the heat map (for example, common questions on EU privacy laws and establishing your own data privacy framework within your organization).
Privacy laws are somewhat more common in Latin America, where countries such as Argentina and Chile boast relatively strict European-style regimes.
The hate speech and blasphemy laws that are now common in many European countries lack clarity as to precisely what they aim to criminalize.
In 2011, it launched the so-called "Istanbul Process" to find common ground with proponents of shariah blasphemy laws who seek to strip us of our First Amendment freedoms.
Because the discussion regarding materiality in a federal securities fraud action are also applicable in the main to fraud claims alleged under the common law, the state blue sky laws, or other anti-fraud federal and state statutes, the discussion of materiality will not treat the latter separately.
Broader, less detailed, laws that leave some room for common-sense implementation would avoid such absurdities.
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They say that they need new laws, which are little more than common sense.
Yet the hot food v. cold food line is common in many U.S. sales tax laws.
Enemies of America, as opposed to our common criminals, seek not merely to break our laws but to destroy our society.
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In India, it is still common for the bride to live with her in-laws.
This consultant and a money manager shared a common parent company and therefore, under the federal securities laws, they were affiliated.
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Internet service providers have long argued that, like telephone companies, they were "common carriers" who could not be subject to libel laws.
The power of the CFA in a common-law system must include a power to finally interpret all laws in Hong Kong.
Pate said the Freemen want a "guarantee of free passage" for one or two of their members to leave the compound and help set up a "common law grand jury" to determine if they have broken any laws.
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