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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
The law withholds state funding from any library that bans books for "partisan or doctrinal" reasons. It makes mandatory the Library Bill of Rights published by the American Library Association. Governor J. B. Pritzker signed the law on June 12, 2023, and it took effect at the start of the following year.
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.
According to Macon, Georgia's tourism page, one of the total head-scratcher laws which still exists in the state today is that you can't use profanity in the presence of a dead body. Evidently ...
Banned in the Irish Free State. [168] The Laws of Life: Halliday Sutherland: 1935 Non-fiction Banned in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education and Calendar-based contraceptive methods – even though The Laws of Life had been granted a Cum permissu superiorum endorsement by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster. [170] Honourable ...
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 ...
Judy Blume coming of age. Harry Potter J. K. Rowling witchcraft controversy. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 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.
Uncommon Laws. The United States tax code is anything but simple. The instructions for the standard 1040 tax form alone are more than 100 pages long, and good luck getting through them in one sitting.