The Scottish government has defended its policy and says it is acting within the law.
Fortunately, these firms all had a chance to defend themselves, and ultimately convinced courts that they were acting within the law.
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Whether it is actually her duty and whether she was acting under Florida law will be challenged in Florida courts and in federal court today.
Global media watchdog the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Mr Daou's arrest was "another example of Malian security agents acting outside the law in trying to harass journalists".
Andersen maintains it had no intention to obstruct justice and that it was acting within the law because it had not yet received its own subpoena clearly requiring it to preserve documents.
The bureau argued that only trademark agencies could represent clients applying for trademarks, and that the trademark law made no mention of law firms acting in this capacity.
During the debate, mullahs and other traditionalist MPs accused President Karzai of acting against Islamic Sharia law by signing the decree in the first place, the BBC's David Loyn reports from Kabul.
Sir Robin - who is also a law professor at University College London (UCL) - is now acting as a consultant to a law firm helping Samsung defend itself against a patent infringement complaint filed in the US by network equipment provider Ericsson.
But the court relied on a basic principle of most established legal systems, that what is not specifically prohibited should be allowed, and ruled that the trademark law did not prohibit lawyers from acting as agents and that, moreover, a 1997 law governing lawyers said that they could provide any legal service, and that filing trademarks was certainly a legal service.
"It would be a very despicable act, especially since these individuals are acting in accordance with state law, " Nick said.
The gardener at the convent in Paris who offers Valjean sanctuary, knowing that he is a fugitive, but also knowing what kind of man he is, is acting according to a higher law.
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But the French government, which says it expelled thousands of Roma this year and in 2009, says it is acting in accordance with EU law by repatriating Roma who have been in France for more than three months without work.
The law is supported by Republicans in Congress, and lawyers acting for the House of Representatives leadership are defending the law instead of the US government.
That is, the US is acting to undermine the rule of law in Israel twice.
After the dispute, the prosecution said the defendant tried to make the weapon disappear to create a "false impression of a law-abiding citizen acting in self-defence".
Turner , a specialist in constitutional law who is currently a professor of the University of Virginia School of Law and a former acting Assistant Secretary of State.
Law firm Manleys, acting for Meadows Care Ltd and Pathfinders Childcare Ltd, has filed a joint writ with the High Court which alleges that the councillor's comments also damaged the reputation of both companies.
Law-abiding citizens acting in self-defense actually shoot and kill many more criminals each year than police do, and with a much lower percentage of incidents where an innocent person is mistakenly identified as a criminal.
Under no circumstances should the Congress be railroaded into acting on so vast a rewriting of the law of the land without so much as a single hearing into the implications and advisability of doing so.
The claims are being brought by a number of Merseyside law firms, with Camps of Birkenhead acting for 4, 500 people.
Instead, the court unanimously decided that if the Florida court's ruling were based entirely on its interpretation of state law, then it would have been acting within its authority and the Supreme Court would not get involved.
The solicitor, on the other end of the telephone conference acting for the local authority, who will know the law and what is relevant and the ordinary citizen may not.
According to the affidavit, neither Kendall Myers nor Gwendolyn Myers ever provided notification to the Attorney General that either of them was acting as an agent of a foreign government, as required by law.
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The three other officers suspended pending investigation were acting chief executive Ian Coleman, finance director David Taylor-Smith, and law boss Bill Norman.
At the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival this past July, Salam Fayyad, acting prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, spoke enthusiastically about the rule of law in a future Palestine.
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In a joint news conference on Iran's state-run Press TV, Muallem said the Syrian army was acting to defend the people and was doing so within the framework of the law.
Thomas Schweich, the acting U.S. assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, says that under a recently revised strategy against opium, the United States plans to bolster local Afghan officials like Abdul Majid with millions of dollars.
"The historic monetary sanctions against CR Intrinsic and its affiliates are a sharp warning that the SEC will hold hedge fund advisory firms and their funds accountable when employees break the law to benefit the firm, " George S. Canellos, acting director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement.
In the assembly on Tuesday, Mr Givan expressed concern that Mr Maskey was not acting within the MLAs' code of conduct with regard to upholding the rule of law and promoting good community relations.
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