Since the Tennessee Plan was adopted, only one judge has ever lost a retention election Now a movement is building to either amend the state constitution to incorporate the Tennessee Plan as the official method for judicial choice, or, by a new statute, require popular elections for all judges as clearly stated in the state's founding document.
"SUPERCAR" is a title without official qualifications, a mark of achievement awarded by popular acclaim, not based on codified statutes.
New York's law, like dozens of choking statutes across the nation, is popular with law enforcement officials.
Constitutional monarchs have limited political power, and are constituted by tradition and precedent, popular opinion, or by legal codes or statutes.
Just about that time, however, the enfeoffment to uses, which had been popular in England, was abolished by Henry VIII's Statute of Uses in 1535.
The federal liability-protection legislation mimicks statutes in nine states where paddling is popular, including Louisiana.
The granting of these patents was highly popular with the monarch, both before and after the statute of Monopolies, because of the potential for raising revenue.
The site is popular with lawyers and is equally accessible to nonlawyers who would rather read statutes and judicial opinions than simplified summaries.
In Part 3 of this series, I will look at the distinct constitutional implications of the Supreme Court striking down DOMA, a federal statute, as opposed to Prop 8, a constitutional amendment enacted by a popular vote, and why the Court might look very differently at the institutional precedents set by striking down each of the two statutes.
A former Zynga employee named Robert Fulop has filed suit against the popular social gaming company for violating the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the California statute that prevents employee discrimination.
In Washington, the first state in the country to pass a stringent "three strikes" law by popular initiative a decade ago, a bipartisan group of legislators passed several laws this year reversing some of their more punitive statutes.
