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Posted: September 18th, 2009, 12:00pm MSD
Government ethics - It was reported on September 14, 2009, that the Supreme Court of India, setting aside a judgment of the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court, ruled that no central or state government sanction is needed...
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Posted: September 18th, 2009, 12:00pm MSD
Banks and financial institutions - The Council of Ministers approved new regulations to encourage foreign banks to do business in Iran. The new regulations, organized in four parts and totaling 13 articles, are dated March 18, 2009, and entitled "The Executive...
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Posted: September 18th, 2009, 12:00pm MSD
Religion - A federal appeals court has ruled that a federal law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), requires the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to provide prison inmates held in segregated units of prisons access...
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Posted: September 18th, 2009, 12:00pm MSD
Right of privacy - In a ruling issued August 26, 2009, a federal appeals court addressed the matter of procedures federal courts should observe in issuing search warrants and subpoenas for electronically stored information, holding that the "plain view" exception...
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Posted: September 18th, 2009, 12:00pm MSD
Elections - The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut has held that Connecticut's public campaign financing program, the Citizens' Election Program (CEP), violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by discriminating against minor parties....