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Congressional staffers said many lawmakers and White House officials initially didn't realize that the bill, which nominally deals only with notarizations, could have big impact on foreclosure cases.
Terri-Jean Bedford, left, and Valerie Scott, shown in 2009, along with a third woman, launched a constitutional challenge of Canada's anti-prostitution laws. An Ontario court ruled Tuesday the Criminal Code provisions relating to prostitution contribute to the danger faced by sex-trade workers. (Michael Turschic/CBC)
An Ontario court has thrown out key provisions of Canada's anti-prostitution laws in response to a constitutional challenge by a Toronto dominatrix and two prostitutes in 2009.
Ontario's Superior Court of Justice ruled Tuesday the Criminal Code provisions relating to prostitution contribute to the danger faced by sex-trade workers.
'This decision means that sex workers can now pick up the phone and call the police and report a bad client.'— Valerie Scott
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In New York the statutory rape laws have an exception for a teen or young adult whose age is within three years of his/her partner's age; that should be a model for other states.
UK plans universal access to high-speed Internet
Another way we in the USA are falling behind the rest of the developed world.
The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset
Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.
15 Shocking Tales of How Sex Laws Are Screwing the American People
In New York the statutory rape laws have an exception for a teen or young adult whose age is within three years of his/her partner's age; that should be a model for other states.
UK plans universal access to high-speed Internet
Another way we in the USA are falling behind the rest of the developed world.
The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset
Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.
In New York the statutory rape laws have an exception for a teen or young adult whose age is within three years of his/her partner's age; that should be a model for other states.
UK plans universal access to high-speed Internet
Another way we in the USA are falling behind the rest of the developed world.
The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset
Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.
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one nation?
Jul. 23rd, 2005 03:57 pmIn Ken Burns' Civil War documentary an historian is quoted as saying that before the civil war people said "The United States are" and after the civil war we say "The United States is." If the Roberts nomination is approved the southern victory on the constitutional issue of states rights will be pretty near complete, and we will have to go back to speaking of The United States in the plural. And when that happens we in the blue states will have to use that very states rights argument to insist on the right of our states to keep abortion legal, to ban anti-gay discrimination, to control gun ownership and purchases, to enforce strict state environmental standards, and to keep religion out of the public sphere.
one nation?
Jul. 23rd, 2005 03:57 pmIn Ken Burns' Civil War documentary an historian is quoted as saying that before the civil war people said "The United States are" and after the civil war we say "The United States is." If the Roberts nomination is approved the southern victory on the constitutional issue of states rights will be pretty near complete, and we will have to go back to speaking of The United States in the plural. And when that happens we in the blue states will have to use that very states rights argument to insist on the right of our states to keep abortion legal, to ban anti-gay discrimination, to control gun ownership and purchases, to enforce strict state environmental standards, and to keep religion out of the public sphere.
