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28 Aug 2017, 2:59 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
It is at least as reasonable to assumethat Congress, and those seeking the improvementsprovided by the America Invents Act, knew that “person”did not include the United States, lest additional complexitiesappear in the path of enactment of the AmericaInvents Act.Footnote 1 of the dissentThe panel majority states that in this dissent I“engage[] in mere speculation that Congress intended toexclude the government from filing petitions… [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 9:39 am
Here's the abstract:At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses – a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of States sharing freshwater systems. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 6:09 am by Benjamin Wittes
The United States is grateful to the Government of Uruguay for its willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 6:00 am by Dennis N. Brager
Status as an American citizen, legal permanent resident, and other circumstances can result in a tax obligation to the United States government. [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 8:17 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
  The nation-to-nation relationship we enjoy as tribal nations has never been confined to the borders of the United States. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 4:27 pm by William Weinberg
The documentation leaves no question that the history of drugs in this country is a history of the United States government, and in particular the military/security agencies, as the drug kingpin. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 4:00 am by Kevin Kaufman
The United States is the only country in the OECD with no VAT. [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 2:13 pm by The Book Review Editor
Brenner’s thesis, that the United States has made itself enormously vulnerable with its rapidly-acquired dependency on networked computers for just about everything, does not break a great deal of new ground, nor does Brenner offer especially bold prescriptions for the ills he diagnoses. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 1:45 pm by FM Librarian
Publications:2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview: Haiti (OCHA, Jan. 2019) [text]Briefing: Haiti’s New Crisis and the Humanitarian Risks (IRIN, Feb. 2019) [text]"The Deported Americans," California Sunday Magazine, 31 Jan. 2019 [text]Expanding Operations in Central America 2019 (UNHCR, Feb. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]*The Global Compact for Refugees as a Soft Law Instrument: Lessons from the Application of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees in Mexico (RLI Blog, March 2019)… [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 5:48 am by Stefanie Levine
The United States Senate passed the America Invents Act on September 8, 2011 by a vote of 89-9. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 5:48 am by Stefanie Levine
The United States Senate passed the America Invents Act on September 8, 2011 by a vote of 89-9. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 12:40 am
In a statement issued yesterday reversing a policy of the Bush administration, the State Department said that the United States now supports the United Nations Statement on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Food safety in the United States is being jeopardized by surveillance and workforce cutbacks and other gaps in the public health system, a new study from the nonpartisan Trust for America's Health (TFAH) concludes.The wide-ranging "Ready or Not? [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 1:18 pm by WIMS
Nov 16: According to a release from the United Nations, the world risks economic crises larger than the recent global financial disruption unless governments, policy-makers and delegates to the forthcoming UN conference on climate change take action to combat global warming, major investors warned today. [read post]
5 Sep 2009, 3:05 am
Everybody's talking about Which Way Home, the documentary about children from Central America who ride alone atop trains in their bid to make it to the United States. [read post]
3 Jun 2018, 7:26 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via Common Dreams: “The United Nations has released a scathing report on poverty and inequality in the United States. [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 2:56 pm by Amy Howe
The number of refugees entering the United States is not, they say, “historically high. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 6:48 am by Craig R. Hersch
 Where China finds itself today is much where the United States was in the 1950s –at the zenith of its industrial/manufacturing economy. [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
There have now been countless reports on the cover-up of child sex abuse in the United States starting with the Catholic Church, broken down into its dioceses, like Boston; Philadelphia, which I discussed here; and most of the rest of Pennsylvania, which I discussed here. [read post]