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Stumbling and Mumbling (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
The housing lobby wants the government to take special measures to revive its fortunes and the Chancellor is thinking (I use the word loosely) of imposing a windfall tax on energy companies. These two proposals are, as Anthony says , the same thing. They are ad hoc interventions into the economy in violation of the principle that economic affairs should be governed by general laws applicable...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Not a subject that comes through my office (but one can still hope), but one that is possible and becomes more possible with every new business arriving on the Internet. Nor do I usually suggest reading a long, scholarly blog post, but TRADE SECRETS AND THE ROME II REGULATION ON THE LAW APPLICABLE TO NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS from The Trade Secrets Blog is both long and scholarly: Not the...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
... traditionally lived, segregated from the Hausa-speaking indigenous population. With sharia law applicable in Kano, it is in the bars and hotels of the sabon gari - where Islamic jurisprudence does not reach - that Idris does his business. He works with a group of Hausa-speaking women from all over the north who live in a dingy, nameless hole-in-the-wall hotel, whose anonymity seems deliberate....
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... (iii) RAMs ability to successfully address any rating agency capital requirements within the applicable timeframes, (iv) a further downgrade in financial strength ratings of RAM Re by S&P or Moody's, (v) higher risk of loss due to deterioration in the credit markets resulting from poor performance of residential mortgage loans, (vi) new competitors entering the market for financial guaranty...
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Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
... and were unjustifiable. “Such attacks are clearly in violation of international humanitarian law [IHL], the Geneva Conventions and other laws applicable to armed hostilities,” Ahmad Nadir Nadiry, a spokesman of the AIHRC, told IRIN on 30 July. Nadiry accused the Taliban of repeated and systematic violations of IHL and the Geneva Conventions and said the insurgents’ tactics often deliberately...
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
... and were unjustifiable."Such attacks are clearly in violation of international humanitarian law [IHL], the Geneva Conventions and other laws applicable to armed hostilities," Ahmad Nadir Nadiry, a spokesman of the AIHRC, told IRIN on 30 July.Nadiry accused the Taliban of repeated and systematic violations of IHL and the Geneva Conventions and said the insurgents' tactics often deliberately...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
... and were unjustifiable. "Such attacks are clearly in violation of international humanitarian law [IHL], the Geneva Conventions and other laws applicable to armed hostilities," Ahmad Nadir Nadiry, a spokesman of the AIHRC, told IRIN on 30 July. Nadiry accused the Taliban of repeated and systematic violations of IHL and the Geneva Conventions and said the insurgents' tactics often deliberately...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
... the owners of cyber cafés in and around the central business district and briefed them about the laws applicable to their units. “We told the owners to instal a software that would register the IP call-log of the users and capture details of his biometrics, including thumb impressions. The system has been introduced on an experimental basis in a few states,” said Vineet Goyel, the...
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beSpacific (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
... Enforcement Challenges Exist, , July 24, 2008 Cayman Islands: Review of Cayman Islands and U.S. Laws Applicable to U.S. Persons' Financial Activity in the Cayman Islands, (GAO-08-1028SP), an E-supplement to GAO-08-778, July 2008 - , July 24, 2008 Commercial Drivers: Certification Process for Drivers with Serious Medical Conditions, , July 24, 2008 Developing Countries: U.S. Financing...
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New Urban Legends (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
... statement about Senator McCain's presidential eligibility because the issue is a matter of law rather than a matter of fact, and the law is ambiguous. There is no disputing that, under the U.S. statutes and laws applicable to the offspring of Americans living abroad and to the Canal Zone, John McCain is a citizen of the United States. However, the difference between "citizen" and...
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The Shotgun (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
... into the Union. As requested by Senator McCain's campaign, distinguished constitutional lawyers Laurence Tribe and Theodore Olson examined the law and issued a detailed opinion offering two reasons that Senator McCain was a natural born citizen. Neither is sound under current law. The Tribe-Olson Opinion suggests that the Canal Zone, then under exclusive U.S. jurisdiction, may have been covered...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
... that adversely affect the performance of the company's investments; changes in regulations or laws applicable to CastlePoint, its subsidiaries, brokers or customers including tax laws in Bermuda and the United States; acceptance of CastlePoint's products and services, including new products and services; changes in the availability, cost or quality of reinsurance and failure...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
... markets that adversely affect the performance of our investments; changes in regulations or laws applicable to us, our subsidiaries, brokers or customers; changes in the level of demand for our insurance and reinsurance products and services, including new products and services; changes in the availability, cost or quality of reinsurance and failure of our reinsurers to pay claims...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
... of its awareness programmes has organised a programme at AMG Degree College to spread awareness on laws applicable to Indian Christians. The programme would begin at 3.30 p.m. on Friday on the college premises, the Committee Chairman said in a release.The programme would include provisions related to succession, inheritance, marriage and divorce.Further details can be had over Phone...
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Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Gabriel J. Chin (University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Senator McCain was born in 1936...
