Read more law stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/795/law.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:31:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74588/states-consider-uniting-to-offer-one-bar-exam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGood news for aspiring lawyers: State bar associations are considering adopting a national bar exam. The move would allow lawyers trying to find a job in a competitive market to practice in any state; consumers would be able to use one lawyer for cases that span state lines, potentially saving...http://www.newser.com/story/74588/states-consider-uniting-to-offer-one-bar-exam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74208/old-paris-law-still-stands-no-pants-for-women.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTurns out fashion-forward Paris has some rather retro regulations. Namely, a ban on women wearing pants. It's the type of law associated with the Sudan, not the Champs-Elysées, but more than 200 years after it was enacted by the city's police chief, the law stands. But today's cops may have...http://www.newser.com/story/74208/old-paris-law-still-stands-no-pants-for-women.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 11:06:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72724/calif-holds-hearings-on-legalizing-pot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe push to legalize—and, especially appealing at the moment, tax—marijuana is picking up momentum in California, with legislators holding hearings today on what would be the first such law in the nation. Organizers are currently collecting signatures to put three separate pot legalization initiatives on the ballot next...http://www.newser.com/story/72724/calif-holds-hearings-on-legalizing-pot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 3:21:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61862/japanese-law-prevents-boys-life-saving-transplant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Japanese law prevents 11-year-old Hiroki Ando from receiving the heart he so desperately needs, CNN reports. Ando suffers from cardiomyopathy and will likely die—as his sister did 5 years ago—without a heart transplant. But the minimum age for organ donations in Japan is 15. "This stipulation has...http://www.newser.com/story/61862/japanese-law-prevents-boys-life-saving-transplant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 14 Jun 2009 16:35:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58155/sentimental-souter-just-give-them-my-love.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSupreme Court Justice David Souter thinks the worth of a jurist is “not in the great moments, but in being part of the great stream,” he said in an emotional farewell today to appeals-court judges. Souter said he didn’t intend that news of his retirement be leaked but was glad...http://www.newser.com/story/58155/sentimental-souter-just-give-them-my-love.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 05 May 2009 16:42:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56244/crowd-attacks-afghan-women-protesting-new-marriage-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA group of some 1000 Afghans today swarmed a demonstration of 300 women in Kabul protesting a new conservative marriage law. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart. The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex from his...http://www.newser.com/story/56244/crowd-attacks-afghan-women-protesting-new-marriage-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Apr 2009 9:40:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54393/new-york-to-roll-back-strict-70s-drug-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNew York's governor and legislative leaders have agreed to repeal some of the nation's most draconian drug laws, the New York Times reports. The move to dismantle strict mandatory sentencing guidelines set down in 1973 means judges will have the option of sending many first-time nonviolent drug offenders to treatment...http://www.newser.com/story/54393/new-york-to-roll-back-strict-70s-drug-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 26 Mar 2009 5:40:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53646/nh-weighs-communism-aka-seat-belt-law.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe accusations of creating a "nanny state" are ringing out, which must mean it's time for New Hampshire to debate legislating the use of seatbelts. The only state without a law requiring adults to buckle up, the "Live Free or Die" state is embroiled in a battle over whether to...http://www.newser.com/story/53646/nh-weighs-communism-aka-seat-belt-law.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Mar 2009 11:03:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53496/eu-rules-starve-spanish-vultures.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMadrid’s regional government hopes to relax EU laws that call for rotting livestock to be removed from fields—a precaution against mad cow disease—because the removal denies carrion-munching vultures a meal, the AP reports. “When a sheep or cow dies in the countryside,” said one ornithologist, “we have to...http://www.newser.com/story/53496/eu-rules-starve-spanish-vultures.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Mar 2009 18:46:38 CDT