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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
Caragea's plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1813 Romania: Bubonic plague: 60,000 [129] 1817–1819 Ireland typhus epidemic 1817–1819 Ireland Typhus: 65,000 [130] First cholera pandemic: 1817–1824 Asia, Europe Cholera: 100,000+ [131] 1820 Savannah yellow fever epidemic 1820 Savannah, Georgia, United States Yellow fever: 700 [132]
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.
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Aug. 18—After nearly two years of school closures and quarantines caused by COVID-19, state standardized test results published by the Georgia Department of Education paint a clearer picture of ...
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