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This law still exists in the state, separate from other laws that continue to ban same-sex marriage. An effort to strike the fornication law from the books in 2014 failed, according to the ...
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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
Dozens of state and federal laws go into effect on Jan. 1, including laws on abortion rights, gender transition care and minimum wage. Since Roe v.
The U.S. state of New York enacted bail reform, in an act that stood from January to June 2020. As part of the New York State Fiscal Year (SFY) Budget for 2019–2020, passed on April 1, 2019, [1] [2] cash bail was eliminated for most misdemeanor and non-violent felony charges, [3] including stalking, assault without serious injury, burglary, many drug offenses, and some categories of arson ...
Minnesota, New York, Delaware also have new gun laws coming into effect in the New Year. Minnesota passed a binary trigger ban, which goes into effect on Jan. 1. A binary trigger allows a gun to ...
[41] [42] [43] The blue laws that apply in Bergen County are state laws from which all 20 other counties in the state have opted out. [44] The county, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation; five major malls lie within the county.
Just a few weeks after it went into effect, a married man and a 25-year-old woman were the first people arrested under the new law after the man’s wife sued for divorce, according to a New York ...
In his first State of the State address in January 2009, New York governor David Paterson was critical of the Rockefeller drug laws, stating, "I can't think of a criminal justice strategy that has been more unsuccessful than the Rockefeller drug laws." [15] In April 2009, the New York Penal Law and the New York Criminal Procedure Law were ...