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The Equal Access to Intrastate Commerce Act is a 2011 Tennessee act that amends the Tennessee Human Rights Act to define the term "sex" to mean an individual person as male or female as indicated on the individual's birth certificate and prohibits, with exception to employees of a local government, any local government in Tennessee from enacting ordinances, resolutions, or any other means ...
One naming law that some [7] find restrictive is California's ban on diacritics such as in José, a common Spanish name.The Office of Vital Records in California requires that names contain only the 26 alphabetical characters of the English language, plus hyphens and apostrophes.
The law states that documents shall "be open for personal inspection by any citizen of Tennessee." Despite the law's provisions, federal court rulings have overturned similar state specific statutes and open up records in these states to all U.S. citizens. [2] In a U.S. Supreme Court ruling McBurney v.
A bill that requires local law enforcement in Tennessee to communicate with federal officials regarding the immigration status of a person will now head to Gov. Bill Lee's desk for his signature.
Chin, Gabriel J. "The civil rights revolution comes to immigration law: A new look at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965." North Carolina Law Review 75 (1996): 273+. Daniels. Roger, ed. Immigration and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman (2010) Rosenfield, Harry N. "Necessary administrative reforms in the Immigration and Nationality Act of ...
The provision is part of the sweeping immigration bill proposed by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee that includes the creation of the Centralized Immigration Enforcement Division, which would work with the ...
The law enabled those who had resided in the country for two years and had kept their current state of residence for a year to apply for citizenship. However, it restricted naturalization to "free white persons" of "good character". Oddly, the law authorized any "court of record" to perform naturalization.
The Republican-led Tennessee House advanced a proposal Thursday that would require law enforcement agencies in the state to communicate with federal immigration authorities if they discover people ...