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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
Oregon has several strange laws still technically enforceable. Laws involving fortune-telling and playing golf in parks are among the state's oddest. Odd Oregon laws that may surprise you, such as ...
All books in the series have been faced with bans, and the American Library Association reported them as being among the most challenged books in 2013 and 2014. The books were most commonly banned due to assertions that the main characters are disrespectful to authority and that the humor is inappropriate.
According to a survey by PEN America, about 10,000 books were banned from US schools under Republican-led censorship laws in the 2023/2024 academic year, nearly tripling the number for the previous academic year. [8] [9] Many of the book titles targeted dealt with BIPOC and LGBTQ issues. The book bans are largely the result of laws passed in ...
School districts in 26 states have banned or opened investigations into more than 1,100 books, according to an April 2022 report from PEN America. More states banning books as restrictive ...
From a statute that could keep Bigfoot from harm to punishment for carrying too much gum, there are countless bizarre and antiquated laws in the United States and abroad. 41 Weird Laws From Around ...
Coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) in his book The Peter Principle. In his follow-up book, The Peter Prescription, he offered possible solutions to the problems his principle could cause. Planck's law, in physics, describes the spectral radiance of a black body at a given temperature. After Max Planck.
The book is written by Gorsuch and one of his former clerks, Janie Nitze. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch co-authors book on laws. 'Over Ruled' to be released Aug. 6