BIO's annual conference usually features a crowded session on patent law.
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Also loosening the regulatory chokehold on entrepreneurs is the one piece of bipartisan liberalization legislation to become law this session of Congress: the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act.
"The court may transact any business at a special session outside the circuit that it might transact at a regular session, " according to the law.
With fixes to ensure the legislation only targets rogue websites and does not create unintended problems by requiring actual website blocking or traffic filtering, support for online anti-piracy legislation is likely to strongly consolidate as the bills progress, enabling it to become law in this Congressional session.
Now Mr Hazare has announced that he will resume his hunger strike if parliament fails to pass the anti-corruption law during the upcoming winter session.
The first minister said seven Court of Session judges had already found in favour of Scottish law, stating it was compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights.
They refused to recall a joint session of both houses of parliament to rescind the regency law and then pulled out of the Catholic-Liberal coalition, prompting the government's collapse.
He is insisting that the United States Senate accede during the post-Thanksgiving lame-duck session to his demand for the repeal of a 1993 law prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the armed forces.
During the first legislative session after her election, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul.
The Massachusetts law requires restaurant managers to go through a training session about food allergies.
The law was passed at second reading at the voting session on 18 May 2010.
The bill failed to gain a second reading before the time limit on the session ran out, meaning it stands little chance of becoming law.
Republican Governor Scott Walker signed the bill into law March 11, after Republicans used emergency-session rules to push the measure through even though they lacked a quorum in the state Senate.
On 16 October, Ms Dorries told a committee of MPs responsible for allocating business in the main chamber on some days each parliamentary session that she would be seeking a full Commons debate on abortion law in 2013, in addition to the Westminster Hall debate.
During the first legislative session after her election as governor, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul.
Last year, Gov. Patrick signed the sales tax holiday law on July 31, the last day of the legislative session, giving taxpayers two weeks official notice before it started on Aug. 14th.
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In the next Parliamentary Session, the centre-piece will be John Reid's immigration and law and order reforms.
Bentley had called lawmakers in for a special session Thursday to consider, among a handful of other reasons, revising that law.
By law, the president must resubmit nominations that did not receive floor action in the previous session of Congress.
The Supreme Court is not in session, though it is hearing arguments about the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law.
The law will then need to be ratified by Parliament within six weeks of the start of the next session, which opens on Feb. 21.
It has changed the law so couples seeking a court order over child contact or a financial matter must attend a mediation assessment session first.
The Constitution gives federal courts jurisdiction over maritime law, he notes, which explains why the Supreme Court takes a maritime case in just about every session.
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And because he knew the open-meetings law was the bill that would anger legislators most, he rammed it through at the beginning of the session to avoid logjams and trade-offs later.
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