But with DOMA on the books, even the most liberal state laws are of limited use.
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The PSLRA tightened pleading standards but still allowed for lawsuits over fiduciary duties to remain in procedurally more liberal state courts.
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Thurmond was quite a liberal state governor: he denounced lynching, and called for more money to be spent on black schools.
Mr Brown won a special election in 2010, making him the first Republican in the liberal state's seat in nearly four decades.
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It is, of course, one thing to pick off a God-believing, pro-war Democrat senator like Lieberman in a secular and liberal state like Connecticut.
While he couldn't defeat Ted Kennedy, he did become the governor of the liberal state of Massachusetts in 2002, running as a pro-choice moderate.
Gladstone saw that the maintenance of the liberal state was incompatible with holding within its centralized grip a large disaffected community of settled mind.
Certain ideas about equality are woven into the fabric of the liberal state, and quite inseparable from it: first and foremost, equality before the law.
In Connecticut, normally a reliably liberal state, a Democratic congressman, Chris Murphy, is making heavy weather of his campaign against Linda McMahon, a wrestling tycoon.
Mr. Hill sees two very different kinds of challenges to the liberal, state-based world order.
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But they reveal little understanding of the complex interest-group politics and broader meaning of Medicare in America, as a social insurance program, as a pillar of the liberal welfare state, as a force in the lives of millions of people.
Hegel saw history as an evolution of ideas that would culminate in the ideal liberal-democratic state.
Legal precedent for this was set in 1977, when the Mescalero Apache Tribe of New Mexico, seeking to replace dwindling timber harvesting revenues from their 185, 000-hectare reservation, began selling hunting licenses with terms more liberal than the state's.
Legal precedent for this was set in 1977, when the Mescalero Apache Tribe of New Mexico, seeking to replace dwindling timber harvesting revenues from their 460, 000-acre reservation, began selling hunting licenses with terms more liberal than the state's.
In Mr. Pryor's case, Republicans have been looking to highlight gun rights as part of a broader argument that he is too liberal for a state that has turned more conservative in the five years since he was first elected.
During his campaign for governor, and during his time in office, his stated positions reflected the more liberal constituency of his state.
In those states there may be workaround in which the assets are rolled over (tax-free) to the plan in a state with liberal transfer rules.
New York grandparents should either give cash to the parents, letting them set up a 529, or look for a state with liberal transfer rules.
Republicans, however, have a shot at picking up a seat in Wisconsin, where a popular ex-governor, Tommy Thompson, is taking on Tammy Baldwin, a gay congresswoman from liberal Madison, the state capital.
Barry O'Farrell, the state's Liberal leader and now its premier, will complicate life for Ms Gillard.
Between 2005 and 2007, data was collected from 24 four-year institutions, including state universities and liberal-arts colleges.
His liberal critics retort that the state has a duty to protect minorities, rather than sacrifice them to some supposed public good.
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"It's a heavily Democratic state in which liberal political views really do prevail, " says Marc Landy, a professor of political science at Boston College.
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Liberal reform of India's state-controlled financial and overprotected retail sectors, for example, looks unlikelier than ever.
William Beveridge - father of the modern welfare state - was a Liberal politician, after all, and there are elements in our system today historians agree he would not recognise.
This has nothing to do with being conservative or liberal, but rather encouraging each state to look at all of their options, including the Utah and Massachusetts approaches, and develop a state-designed approach to address state-specific issues.
At the time that I had begun taking out privately dispersed student loans I was in my second year of schooling in which I had transferred from a liberal arts college to an accredited state community college to allow me to peruse a career in Engineering as well as participate in collegiate athletics.
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Yet his respect for precedent and the authority of the state could often trump his liberal instincts.
Though it may have a reputation for being liberal and laid-back, the state remains a battleground on issues such as affirmative action, welfare and immigration.
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy went to a state school, Lochaber High, and Glasgow University.
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