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... Reference Librarian at University of Washington's Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, has published The United States Code, Prima Facie Evidence, and Positive Law, 101 Law Library Journal 545 (2009). Here is the abstract: This article "examines the history of the U.S. Code, ... Law Revision Counsel, Positive law, Prima facie evidence of the law, Status of law, Status of legislation, Statutory information systems, United States Code, United States House of Representatives, United States ...

... issue in a trademark infringement suit against the importer of gray market imports is the factual question of whether United States consumers are faced with a likelihood of confusion.[32] Traditionally, resolution of the question depended on whom United States ... by country basis and not on a European Union level, the Commission makes it practically impossible for Member States to extend the geographical protection of a national trademark.[45] The concept of unionizing trademark law was born in the ...

... in the Convention. The Convention establishes an institution -- the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf - that offers a coastal State the opportunity to maximize international recognition and legal certainty with respect to the continental shelf beyond ... States. Apart from the benefits of these substantive provisions, joining the Convention would give the United States a "seat at the table" in the interpretation and development of the law of the sea. As a leading maritime power and ...

... breach arose from excess shipments that promptly were followed by shipments well below allowances. According to the United States, compensation for breach of the agreement, however inadvertent the breach, had to punish the sector of the Canadian ... will use correlative means - legislation, publicity, illegal withholding of funds - when it is unable to prevail in the legal process. The United States will prolong legal proceedings as long as necessary to make foreign competitors feel the pain of a ...

... The difference in the length of these constitutions provides us with a great deal of information about how the Constitution of the United States should be interpreted, because there is a substantial difference in principle AND intent ... or made a mistake about the Constitution. What they understood is what the Constitution was. It is coherent to say that this or that ratifier, or even this or that state convention, made a mistake and misunderstood the Constitution I do think the binding meaning is ...

... of the international press nicely summarize the complexities of energy and environmental relationships between the United States and Brazil. This relationship is a window, generally, on the differences in outlook and approach between developed ... right to contribute to global warming by facilitating an equivalent reduction in contributions to global warming by developed states. This purchase would help leverage Brazilian economic development that, in turn, requires environmental degradation that ...

... two countries concerning any matter related to the Treaty or other matters concerning the political or commercial relations of the two states. Hence, you could mount a nationwide campaign in Mexico to convince the Mexican government to invoke Article 21 ... precious time to mount additional challenges to the imposition of the death penalty upon people of all colors here in the United States. Obviously, the invocation of Article 21 would require you to build a substantial grass roots campaign and ...

... Spanish intiolerance and cultural marginalization in the homeland, played a critical role in the evolution of the protection of religious liberty in the United States. It is the story of religion, migration, race, culture, assimilation. It is a story tinged with irony. It is ... residents' "great concern regarding the possibility of public ritualistic animal sacrifices" and drew attention to the state-law animal cruelty prohibition. The resolution emphasized Hialeah's policy "to oppose the ritual ...

... plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief") that a complaint must contain "enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face." There had been some confusion in the lower federal courts as to ... , there is a rich experience with heightened pleading standards that might provide concrete rules for application in the United States. For instance, perhaps moderating principles of judicial administration might be explored to lessen the seemingly blunt ...

... and targeted. Our prediction that significant trade remedy disputes over clothing and textiles are not likely with the United States is based on the organization and structure of American government as much as it is on the nature of the merchandise. The United States federal ... . For various reasons, the Congressmen and Senators most interested in tax-writing tend to come from rural states with small populations. U.S. textile and apparel manufacturing tends to be concentrated in the more populous ...