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Utah’s Senate Bill 314, signed by the governor last March, imposes new limitations on liquor licenses and the sale of alcoholic beverages. Among other things, it eliminates discount pricing of alcoholic beverages offered by social clubs and links the issuance of liquor licenses to social clubs to both population quotas and the number of public [...]

Let me set something straight about anti-choice laws; they are never what they seem. It is never about getting minors to talk to their parents, ensuring that women make choices that they don’t regret, or ensuring that a fetus doesn’t feel pain during the procedure. One restriction leads to another, and their goals are always [...]

An op-ed published on Jurist earlier this month discusses a little-noticed decision handed down last December by Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court which for the first time interpreted the provision in Iraq’s Constitution (Art. 2) prohibiting civil laws from violating “settled rulings” of Islam.  At issue was a provision in Iraq’s Law of Evidence requiring contracts [...]