Still, homosexuality is officially illegal — Article 534 of the Lebanese penal code outlaws "unnatural sexual acts" — and there are occasional reports of police crackdowns.
But it's interesting that the court decided the case on fundamental rights grounds: so it doesn't matter remotely what ground you transfer on, if that process is still illegal under articles 7 and 8 of the charter, it can't be done".
While some delegates thought this illegal, the Articles of Confederation were closer to a treaty between sovereign states than they were to a national constitution, so the genuine legal problems were limited.
I read "Under Rule, Hailing a Cab for a Stranger Can Be Illegal" (news article, Nov. 26) with interest.
In King v Burwell, the law's opponents argue that its subsidies for individuals buying health insurance on the federally organised online exchanges are illegal (see article).
But I had always argued that regime change, which was clearly what the Amercians wanted, was illegal under article two of the UN charter.
Roopbaan was not Xulhaz's only attempt to normalise homosexuality in Bangladesh, where it is still technically illegal under Article 377 of the constitution.
Updated at 12.42pm GMT 11.51am GMT Spain Paul Hamilos points out an interesting comment piece in eldiaro.es, in which lawyer Gustavo Boye, editor of the satirical magazine Mongolia, raises the point that the reported American monitoring of Spanish phones would be illegal under article 97 of the penal code.
Some educators returned students' test booklets and urged them to revise their answers, others gave pupils two days instead of one to complete their essays, and one teacher circulated copies of test questions via e-mail to her colleagues at other schools, noting that what she was doing was "probably illegal," the article says.
