Or is international law defined in such a way that it applies only to General Pinochet?
But even all these operations have to be conducted within international law, defined in this case as the provisions of the UN Law of the Sea Convention.
The ruling reverses a voter-approved law that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Even if the law is interpreted in favor of overturning Proposition 8, I suspect the ruling will be limited to the issues at law as defined in California.
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Even if they're given just probation, the law went and defined all kinds of crimes like that as serious, aggravated felonies.
The strength of the study is that it examines meticulously Shariah as law as it is defined and interpreted by Shariah authorities themselves.
In the United States, where, of course, there is just such a constitution, civic duties are defined in law - they're the responsibilities of citizens to their country, such as obeying the law and paying taxes.
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Debt unwindings are generally well-defined in law.
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What that law really did was it defined all kinds of simple crimes.
But states are already allowed to experiment now, as long as beneficiaries meet the work quotas defined by current law.
The government's main argument goes like this: "Toll telephone service" is defined in the law as service billed by distance and time.
Water quality must also have reached the microbiological Guideline Standards of the Bathing Water Directive - the highest defined by European Law.
Registered domestic partners cannot file using a married filing separately or jointly filing status, because they are not spouses as defined by federal law.
That is the system of zakat as defined by shariah law.
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However, the limitation in section 36C(d)(1)(C) does not apply to adoptions by registered domestic partners because registered domestic partners are not spouses as defined by federal law.
Although the law prohibits one spouse from itemizing deductions if the other spouse claims the standard deduction (section 63(c)(6)(A)), registered domestic partners are not spouses as defined by federal law and this provision does not apply to them.
In fact, the law's stiffer funding requirements for defined-benefit plans will likely push companies with underfunded plans to freeze them, says Jack VanDerhei, a Temple University professor and fellow at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
"The fact you can pack more technology into different consumer electronics devices, on an unrelenting and steady pace defined by Moore's Law, means there will always be another gee-whiz gadget that will intoxicate, " says IDC analyst Crawford Del Prete.
Mr. Clement responded to Justice Kennedy that Doma merely defined marriage for the purposes of federal law, such as Social Security benefits.
The separate case over the Defense of Marriage Act involves a 1996 law that says for federal purposes, marriage is defined as only between one man and one woman.
Experts also suggested using clearly defined terms and articles in the new law to avoid ambiguity, while also noting that overregulation can become an obstacle, as witnessed in many laws around the world.
Assuming it makes sense to create a workplace cause of action for intentionally inflicted emotional distress that does not meet the requirements of the common law tort, this bill, with its ill-defined and hopelessly broad restrictions on workplace conduct was not the measure to do it.
Almost five months ago, his EPA issued its long-awaited regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, regulations that were required by law once the EPA deemed those gases a pollutant as defined by the Clean Air Act (a finding that was, in fact, made on December 15, 2009).
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The definition of "celebrity" and what constitutes a legitimate photograph would be defined by statute and the court decisions interpreting the law.
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The movement away from defined benefits won't be reversed by the new law.
And people have defined that to mean either being a judge or being a law professor.
The law creating Aid to Families with Dependent Children nowhere stated that all families defined as poor should be entitled to hand-outs.
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Default and bankruptcy are a well-defined process in which debt holders always do better than stockholders as a matter of law.
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