However, first-time offenders with no criminal history will typically spend much less time in prison than the maximum sentence, said Mary Fan, a former federal prosecutor who specializes in criminal law and procedure at the University of Washington School of Law.
Once passed, there is no automatic procedure to remove law unless repealed by Parliament.
This would involve myriad changes and accommodations, some of which involve exceedingly complex and arcane matters of patent law and procedure.
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The test questions for the MBE (Multistate Bar Examination) portion focus on Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property and Torts.
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Recruits are trained extensively in tactical operations and law enforcement procedure.
And, in 2000, the US Supreme Court invalidated a similar Nebraska law barring the procedure for the same reason.
He promised to give the parliament a stronger voice in the EU's law-making procedure, receiving warm applause from much of the parliament.
Hibnick said she mentioned her frustrations to a classmate, who happened to be a research assistant for a Harvard professor who specializes in civil procedure and class-action law.
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One case explores a first-year law school civil procedure issue, while another gets deeply into the weeds of bankruptcy jurisprudence, thanks to a three-decade estate battle involving the late Anna Nicole Smith.
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That is the essence of what we do as lawyers: advocate for clients within a system that seeks to make decisions based on law and established procedure, not whim or ideology or political power.
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The law governing the procedure for such trials -- which has been recently revised -- permits appeals before sentencing, and the court will decide how to deal with issues of defendants being involved in other cases.
They found success five years ago when the justices, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld a federal ban on a controversial late-term procedure, rejecting concerns the law didn't take into account the physical safety of the woman.
Meanwhile, the Canvassing Board of Palm Beach County, where Al Gore won 64% of the vote, suspended its hand recount in deference to a legal opinion by the secretary of state that the procedure was unlawful under Florida law.
The roots of the row stretch back to the parliamentary elections, which followed a procedure set by an electoral law providing for two-thirds of the seats to be allocated by party lists and the rest to be fought by individuals running as independents.
That is why the sponsors of HB 3328 decided to use it as the procedure for the hydraulic fracturing disclosure law.
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The manual provides that, subject to any applicable rule of international law or to any regulations prescribed by the president, military commissions shall be guided by the appropriate principles of law and rules of procedure and evidence prescribed for courts-martial.
"Nothing has been done out of the usual procedure and outside of what is stipulated by law, " Reuters quoted her as saying.
Once they are licensed, there is no law against doctors performing any medical procedure they want to, as long as the patient consents to it.
If two-thirds of the Senate can be persuaded that a bilateral chemical weapons accord is in the U.S. interest, despite its utter unverifiability, there is a constitutionally mandated procedure for making the terms of such an accord the supreme law of the land.
The existing law will now remain in force while further discussions on procedure are held, our correspondent says.
Partly as a result, Beijing is now putting the finishing touches to a new bankruptcy law which vastly increases the rights of creditors and clarifies the procedure.
While proponents say the law will protect the welfare of a woman undergoing a medical procedure, opponents say it will force the closure of North Dakota's only clinic that performs abortions.
Only 14 became law, many to define whether state or local governments could regulate the procedure.
Most important, by changing international law, politicians would send a strong signal that they were serious about creating a procedure to deal with default.
By law, a physician or hospital cannot charge premium pricing for a Medicare-reimbursed service or procedure.
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