Word: legalizations
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...Whatever happens to the Goldstone report, Israeli officials are under a growing shadow of possible prosecution by advocacy groups using the courts in a number of Western countries to press for legal action over the Gaza war - so much so that some senior Israeli figures have reportedly had to factor the prospect of facing arrest into their travel plans. Some reports suggest that nearly 1,000 such lawsuits are pending, making it dangerous for prominent Israelis to travel abroad. Two weeks ago, Barak narrowly avoided arrest on a trip to the U.K. after a court ruled that he was protected...
...Harvard Crimson faced a similar legal battle with the Harvard police department over incident reports, when The Crimson argued that the department must provide the same information as public police forces because it is endowed with “special state powers.” In 2006, the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that the Harvard Police were not required...
...soon as North Carolina's law went into effect in December, Katy Parker, legal director for the state's American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) chapter, started fielding calls. Offenders wanted to know if the law prevented them from going to church; pastors worried it would keep worshippers away...
David Hoyle, the state senator who sponsored the bill, says it took two years to pass, partly because legal advisers took care to word it to withstand legal challenges...
...electricity union veered left, supporting the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), which claims to defend Mexico's workers' rights. PRD lawmakers denounced Calderón's move as unconstitutional, and demanded that it be reversed by Congress. (Calderón and the majority of lawmakers insist the move was legal.) "In this recession, the 'President of jobs' is sending 44,000 employees to the street and leaving their families destitute. What type of policy is this?" PRD head Jesus Ortega told TIME. "We will fight this with all our might...