The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network was founded in 1993 to advocate an end to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the U. S. Armed Forces.

The lawsuit was co-sponsored by the Association of Faith-Based Organizations and argued by the Christian Legal Society.

Legal realism was a view popular with some Scandinavian and American writers.

The Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer ( German Legal Antiquities, 1828 ) was a comprehensive compilation of sources of law from all Germanic languages, whose structure allowed an initial understanding of older German legal traditions not influenced by Roman law.

Legal risk was not the only kind Pasteur undertook.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

Legal issues over back taxes possibly owed by the PDS on former SED assets were eventually settled in 1995, when an agreement between the PDS and the Independent Commission on Property of Political Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR was confirmed by the Berlin Administrative Court.

* Legal realism was a view popular with some Scandinavian and American writers.

Legal and illegal home brewing was popular during Prohibition.

The advisory opinion was issued in response to a formal request made by the International Seabed Authority following two prior applications the Authority's Legal and Technical Commission had received from the Republics of Nauru and Tonga regarding proposed activities ( a plan of work to explore for polymetallic nodules ) to be undertaken in the Area by two State-sponsored contractors ( Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. ( sponsored by the Republic of Nauru ) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. ( sponsored by the Kingdom of Tonga ).

Legal obstacles for cohabitation were removed in 1926 in a reform of the Criminal Code, while the phenomenon was socially accepted much later on.

This article was inspired in part by OpenLaw and has spawned The Wiki Legal Journal, a site set up by members of the Wake Forest Law Review where authors can submit papers for critique in a wiki environment.

During the Qing dynasty, criminal justice was based on extremely detailed Great Qing Legal Code.

Legal translation was very important from 1896 to 1936 during which period the Chinese absorbed and codified their version of Western laws.

The two were denied Legal Aid, as was policy for libel cases, despite having very limited income.

Legal actions were taken by his younger brothers and Latimer, at the time of his marriage to Catherine, was having financial difficulties.

Cello was an early shareware 16-bit multipurpose web browser for Windows 3. 1 developed by Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.

In response, the Legal Tender Act of 1862 was passed.

Legal argument ensued over the course of the next twenty years until, in October 1966, the UN General Assembly decided to end the mandate, declaring that South Africa had no other right to administer the territory and that henceforth South-West Africa was to come under the direct responsibility of the UN ( Resolution 2145 XXI of 27 October 1966 ).

Legal issues over back taxes possibly owed by the PDS on former SED assets were eventually settled in 1995, when an agreement between the PDS and the Independent Commission on Property of Political Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR was confirmed by the Berlin Administrative Court.

During a case in the TV law drama Boston Legal, a method of proving reasonable doubt was credited to Perry Mason with much success.

The Home School Legal Defense Association was cofounded in 1983 by Michael Farris, who would later establish Patrick Henry College, and Michael Smith.

The legislation was debated at second reading at the end of November 1979 and was referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs.

Legal experts who had followed the trial said that the prosecutors found it hard to present a convincing case due to the 25 years that had elapsed since Calvi's death.

Pacific Legal Foundation lost at every court level and withdrew the suit the day before it was due to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court.

Legal service initiatives, such as neighbourhood mediation and legal services, frequently have to close due to lack of demand while others are overwhelmed with clients.

An anomaly is that most of the businesses are no longer representative of Chinatown, yet due to a city requirement to post all identifying signage in Chinese characters even national chains -- Starbucks, Hooters, Ruby Tuesday, Ann Taylor, Urban Outfitters, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Legal Sea Foods -- hang their names in Chinese outside their stores.

Legal reform and review of the concern is ongoing and the convictions are controversial due to issues of whether a government or one's self is justified to control one's own body in private situations where the only harm is to consenting adults.

Legal battles for the rights to Valiant trademarks occurred as a rival group, Valiant Intellectual Properties LLC ( VIP ), made filings for some titles, due to a belief that Acclaim Entertainment had failed to renew the trademarks correctly.

In " Witches of Mass Destruction ", an episode of the American television series Boston Legal, Alan Shore represents a client suing the US Military for the loss of her brother, who had to stay in Iraq beyond the time specified in his National Guard service contract due to the " Stop-Loss " program.

He challenged the law in court, with assistance from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, arguing that the comic strip is a communications medium that should be classed with books, magazines, and newspapers ( which are not subject to sales taxes due to First Amendment provisions ).

Legal privileges, such as the Eight Deliberations, were not applicable to the Ten Abominations due to their seriousness.

In May 2012 the Financial Times reported that Zhou had relinquished the operational control of the party's Political and Legal Affairs Commission to Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu due to his support for former Chinese politician Bo Xilai, and had lost his right to select his successor when he retires from the Politburo Standing Committee in fall 2012.

The " Timeline / Links " section of The Joe and Valerie Wilson Legal Support Trust provides links to " several timelines assembled by various national publications, which should help to shed some light on the events as they transpired ," including this timeline, while observing: " Understanding the series of events that occurred around the exposure of Valerie Wilson's covert CIA status is somewhat difficult due to the misleading and contradictory statements given by various officials regarding the leak.

* In the Boston Legal episode " Word Salad Days ", a mother sues a video game company after her 15-year old son dies of a heart attack due to exhaustion from playing a game for two days straight.

Legal support from the ACLU can take the form of direct legal representation, or preparation of amicus curiae briefs expressing legal arguments ( when another law firm is already providing representation ).

Legal scholar Kenji Yoshino argues that the history of conversion therapy can be divided broadly into three phases: an early Freudian period, a period of mainstream approval of conversion therapy during a time when the mental health establishment became the " primary superintendent " of sexuality, and a post-Stonewall period wherein the mainstream medical profession disavowed conversion therapy.

However, this self-regulation will come to an end when those bodies themselves come under the regulation of the Legal Standards Board, composed of non-lawyers, under the Legal Services Act 2007.

Legal powers were granted that year, and extensive groundwork and slum clearance were carried out until 1904, when construction on the terminus proper began.

Legal appeals of Luciano's conviction continued until October 10, 1938, when the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.

Legal disputes between Whitwam and Noone have forced the former to rename the band " Herman's Hermits starring Barry Whitwam " when they tour in North America, but they remain billed as " Herman's Hermits " worldwide.

Legal difficulties originated shortly after the group's formation, when Matthew Katz insisted that an additional provision be added to his management contract, giving him ownership of the group name.

Neologisms and portmanteau words were coined from the word as early as 1993 when Lincoln Caplan, in his book " Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire ", used the word " Skaddenfreude " to describe the delight that competitors of Skadden Arps took in its troubles of the early 1990s.

The United States Congress had enacted the Legal Tender Acts during the U. S. Civil War when southern Democrats were absent from the Congress, and thus their Jacksonian hard money views were underrepresented.

The 1870 case Hepburn v. Griswold found unconstitutional the use of greenbacks when applied to debts established prior to the First Legal Tender Act as the five Democrats on the Court, Nelson, Grier, Clifford, Field, and Chase, ruled against the Civil War legislation in a 5-3 decision.

The Chief Justice of Australia, Robert French, wrote of the early 1970s " when we were involved with other Perth lawyers in establishing an Aboriginal Legal Service for Western Australia.

Two of its more recent sitcoms found more success when they transferred away from ITV – Men Behaving Badly, which moved to the BBC in 1994 and Is It Legal ?, which moved to Channel 4 in 1997.

* Legal issues: when PAs are not carried out appropriately, legal issues could result that place the organization at risk.

Rai Sahib Karam Chand Jain continued to remain the Legal Advisor when this department was later transferred to the Home Department under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act brought into force in 1946.

Legal disputes have arisen when musical ghostwriters have tried to claim royalties, when an allegedly ghostwritten song becomes a money-making hit.

This resulted in a letter from the current co-chair of Lambda Legal to Bill Thom dated September 25, 2012 in which he says " The world is a vastly better place for LGBT people than when I started practice 20 years ago and is almost unrecognizable from the world in which you took on the heroic and unprecedented task of fighting back.

Litigation resulted from debts incurred before the Civil War ( when gold coins were common ) and 5 years later, the debtor wanted to pay the debt in full with " Legal Tender " ( worth only 55 cents on the gold dollar ).

The United States Supreme Court, with Salmon P. Chase ( former Secretary of the Treasury ) ruled the practice of legal tender unconstitutional in Hepburn v. Griswold in 1869, but later reversed its ruling within a month when confusion in the markets caused everybody not to accept " Legal Tender " notes at all.

It also revealed that when Lahis had applied to be registered as a lawyer in 1955 the matter had been examined by the Israeli Legal Council.

degree, a direct-entry undergraduate degree, meets all professional requirements when coupled with the Diploma in Legal Practice.