Merck has better facts on its side--it pulled Vioxx off the market early on, and it's unlikely many more plaintiffs will emerge before state statute of limitations laws doom their claims--but the company could easily wind up spending two to three times as much as it expects.
Three states - Tennessee, Louisiana and Arizona - have already enacted a statute known as American Laws for American Courts (ALAC).
Mr Berlusconi's eagerness to cling to office may owe something to his wish to put laws on the statute book that may help him off serious legal hooks.
In other words, the independent counsel's referral and the majority counsel's presentation suggest that there is some kind of equal sign between a violation by a president of any number of laws in the statute books on the one side, and the impeachment provisions of Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution on the other.
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Japan is so centralised, however, that the party says as many as 200 laws on the national statute book complicate the Osaka merger.
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Under our system of laws, if a statute does not criminalize a practice with sufficient clarity, it cannot be the basis of a criminal conviction.
To her, DOMA did have a significant impact because of the reach of the federal laws affected by the statute and the benefits it denied to same-sex couples.
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Mr Andreotti had been facing charges for "organised crime" prior to this, but the court ruled that the charges had expired under the statute of limitation before the new laws were introduced.
Since he dissolved parliament two years ago, Abdullah has governed his kingdom by decree, promulgating 160 laws, which will remain on the statute books until parliament gets around to debating them.
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Although the killing occurred in Colombia, the lawsuit argues that U.S. federal laws -- including the Alien Tort Statute and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act -- give American courts jurisdiction in the case.
The problem is so common that the Uniform Law Commission, the group that recommends uniform state laws, is working on a recommended statute that states could adopt to deal with post-death access to digital assets.
The violation of my privacy is punished by law (UCC 1 1-308-308 1-103 and the Rome Statute), and such other national and international laws and treaties as may apply, and by tort and common law.
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National patrimony laws are notoriously hard to find in the statute books (to say nothing of the possibility that the words will be Greek to you).
Today, we celebrate one of our Nation's first laws to protect that right -- the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
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That was six years ahead of Row vs Wade and more than three decades before remaining anti-gay laws in the United States were struck from the statute book.
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In July, the pope issued a new set of laws for reviewing abuse cases and defrocking abusive clerics, doubling the statute of limitations for sexual-abuse cases to 20 years.
At the same time, we have benefitted from laws that have strengthened our crime-fighting abilities, including the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, Anti-Terrorism laws, the Economic Espionage Act, and the Health Care Fraud Statute.
But Mr Miliband accused the prime minister of giving "no leadership on top pay" - and said laws requiring banks to disclose high-paid employees was already on the statute book and could be implemented by ministers.
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