To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking and ignore it otherwise is not reasoned decision making, but sophistry.

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The justices must decide whether a law known as the Alien Tort Statute permits US courts to rule on that case.

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This free-for-all is almost as alien to the better educated, more law-abiding, Sunni citizens of Taiz, the most urbanised region in the north, or Hodeida, its main port, as it is to the southerners.

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The law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they're in the United States illegally.

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If a felony is a crime punishable by more than one year in prison, then Mexican law makes it a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.

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Under Mexican law, it is a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.

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The judge also rejected the argument that the prohibition on an alien standing for election to the Chief Pleas was a breach of EC law.

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The law under which Mr Karadzic has been sued is known as the Alien Tort Claims Act, originally a part of the Judiciary Act of 1789.

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Foreign investors are also waiting for a proper foreclosure law to be promulgated, possibly in October, and the issue of alien ownership of property dealt with.

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Shell, a Dutch corporation, argued that the law used to bring the company before a U.S. court, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), should not apply.

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