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The state assembly of Georgia appealed this decision to the United States Supreme Court. Both PRO and the state of Georgia urged the Supreme Court to grant certiorari to the government's appeal; on June 24, 2019, the Supreme Court agreed to review the case (No. 18-1150). [7] [14] [15] [16] The Court heard oral arguments in the case on December ...
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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain was listed by the American Library Association as the 5th most commonly banned book in the U.S. due to racism in 2007. [72] NewSouth Books received media attention for publishing an expurgated edition of the work that censored the words nigger and Injun.
It seems Georgia has a number of bizarre and antiquated laws in place, including one prohibiting people from carrying ice cream in a back pocket. While this practice must be extremely messy, it ...
Georgia’s pro-EU President Salome Zourabichvili used her veto, but parliament overrode her with a simple majority, and the bill became law. Rights advocates cast the law as an existential threat.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Check out the slideshow above to discover nine weird, funny and absurd but true food laws. More From Kitchen Daily: Six Weird Food Tours in America Why Gazpacho Isn't Taxed: And Other Weird Food Taxes
The suit argues libraries are forced to preemptively remove books due to inability to afford defense costs in the case of a lawsuit. In May 2024, a library too small to create an adults-only section barred minors from entering unless a parent or guardian had completed a complex, three-part waiver. [119] [120]