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[citation needed] The first General Assembly of the Indiana Territory met on July 29, 1805, and shortly after the Revised Statutes of 1807 was the official body of law. [citation needed] Indiana's constitution, adopted in 1816, specified that all laws in effect for the Territory would be considered laws of the state, until they expired or were ...
Section 1 of Indiana Senate Bill 50 stated that Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is not an authorization for a “provider” to refuse to offer or provide services, facilities, use of public accommodations, goods, employment, or housing to an individual on the bases of certain characteristics, including, but not limited to ...
Jones case (1854), Indiana became the first state to establish the right for a defendant to obtain court records free of charge. [26] The 1909 case of Woessner v. Bullick [ 27 ] established that the Court could invalidate a governor's veto if proper veto procedures were not followed, in effect ruling the pocket-veto as unconstitutional. [ 28 ]
Civil law is sometimes referred to as neo-Roman law, Romano-Germanic law or Continental law. The expression "civil law" is a translation of Latin jus civile, or "citizens' law", which was the late imperial term for its legal system, as opposed to the laws governing conquered peoples (jus gentium); hence, the Justinian Code's title Corpus Juris Civilis.
The current Speaker of the House as of March 2020 is Representative Todd Huston. [26] In 2015, the House of Representatives has a Republican majority of 70 seats, while the Democrats have 30 seats. [26] [27] The House offices are located in the east wing of the second floor of the Indiana Statehouse and the House chambers are on the third floor ...
During arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in this week's major transgender rights case, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the lawyer defending Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Sylvia Mathews Burwell joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -46.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
In 1795, Indiana as part of the Northwest Territory passed the "buggery" law, which punished male sodomy with death.In 1807, the Indiana Territory enacted a criminal code which included a sodomy provision, eliminating the gender-specifics (meaning it would be applicable to both heterosexual and homosexual conduct), reducing the penalty to one to five years' imprisonment, a fine of 100 to 500 ...