Until now, it has been widely accepted in law-enforcement circles that such an attack in the U.S. was less likely because of the difficulty that organizers would have in marshaling the spiritual support to keep the would-be suicide focused on the task.
In February, unions accepted a new law making it easier to sack workers, provided companies reformed their management and tried to find other ways to avoid shedding labour.
Even though Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution allows Congress to issue Letters of Marque, they were forbidden in the 1856 Paris Declaration, which as been accepted as customary international law. (Theodore Richard produced an excellent journal paper on this topic analyzing the use of private security providers for piracy).
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Antitrust law is widely accepted to be a tool for protecting consumers against the most damaging practice of monopolists, which is to artificially restrict supply so they can drive up prices and profits, and not a legal weapon for small companies to attack their larger competitors.
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The New York-based group already represented the clinic for free in a lawsuit over a 2011 law banning the widely accepted use of a medication that induces abortion.
Since Canadian marriage licences are accepted in America, this puts American law into confusion.
They are part of the law of respondeat superior and accepted as established principles in civil tort situations.
But long before the latest summit, Britain had accepted its incorporation, with the full force of law.
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But, if it can be shown by the actual behaviour of states that a rule is widely enough accepted, such rules can attain the status of law, and be so recognised by courts and governments.
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At one point he accepted that issue ads might make a nonsense of existing law, but implied it might be the law that needed changing.
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He warned anyone found to have accepted such material would "face the full force of the law".
And yet the referral would place him below the law that gives every American the right to assert legally accepted privileges without fearing being thrown out of his job.
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In a 5-0 vote, the justices rejected claims that the law primarily benefited religious institutions that run private schools and accepted arguments that it gave families choice and allowed parents to determine where the money went.
Under the 1994 law, these included semi-automatic versions of rifles that accepted detachable magazines and possessed at least two other characteristics, such as a protruding pistol grip, flash suppressor (or a threaded barrel to accept one), or a folding or telescoping stock.
In outlining his objections to the Texas law, Holder said he also objects because student IDs would not be accepted while concealed handgun licenses would be.
It also said that changes to the law had not led to more unruly children and that they were widely accepted by both the general public and parents.
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.
On Tuesday the government announced it is to change the law so requests to exchange driving licences from outside the EU will only be accepted if the licence holder can prove they passed a driving test in a country where the testing standards are comparable with those in Britain.
Under the 1994 law (now expired), these included semi-automatic versions of rifles that accepted detachable magazines and possessed at least two other characteristics, such as a protruding pistol grip, flash suppressor (or a threaded barrel to accept one), or a folding or telescoping stock.
If Libya's transitional authorities want the country to be accepted as a part of the international community, "then they now need to understand that international law applies to Libya just as much as it applies to every other state, " he said.
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The company has accepted responsibility for two specific spills in the region in 2008, saying it would settle the case under Nigerian law.
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Argentine President Cristina Kirchner has claimed that paying 100% to these holdouts would violate Argentine law, which states that no holders of the defaulted bonds can be offered better terms than those accepted by 93% of investors in 2005 and 2010.
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