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15 strange enforceable laws in Texas No. 1: Selling your organs. Tex. Pen. Code. §48.02 says it's illegal to sell human organs in Texas: your eyes, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, skin, and other ...
Strange laws. Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
Updated October 16, 2017 at 1:33 PM. 9 Weird (But True) Food Laws in America. Plenty of fascinating and strange food laws are rumored to exist across the country, but whether they are fact or ...
Blue laws, also known as Sunday laws, are laws that restrict or ban some or all activities on specified days (most often on Sundays in the western world), particularly to promote the observance of a day of rest. [1] Such laws may restrict shopping or ban sale of certain items on specific days. Blue laws are enforced in parts of the United ...
A 2023 analysis by The Washington Post found that a majority of book challenges in over 100 school districts from the 2021–2022 school year were filed by just 11 people. [30] Based on a survey by PEN, about 10,000 books were banned from US schools by Republican-led censorship laws in the 2023/2024 academic year.
The government has clawed back more than $2.5 billion that veterans received, data shows. Melissa Chan. August 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM. Damon Bird moved in with his daughter to repay the roughly ...
Texas’s embraced this line of thinking anyway in 2022, after courts ruled that the state was violating the law by arresting migrants on state trespassing charges, a justification a Texas court ...
Resting place. Cook-Walden Capital Park Cemetery. Education. Florida State University. Occupation. Activist. Albert Leslie Cochran (June 24, 1951 – March 8, 2012) was an American homeless man, peace activist, cross-dresser, urban outdoorsman, and outspoken critic of police treatment of the homeless. Cochran was known in Austin as Leslie.