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…ngton is an exception, however, and makes personal cultivation a felony unless it is done by a person registered in the state’s medical marijuana database.) Unlike state medical cannabis laws, which may restrict the form of can- nabis products available, recreational laws permit...

…Los Angeles, CA 90017-580o May 19, 2008 VIA FACSIMILE Honorable Mark Filip Office of the Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Judge Filip: Joe D. Whitley Alston & Bird LLP The Atlantic Building 950 F...

…Los Angeles, CA 90017-5800 VIA FACSIMILE May 19, 2008 Honorable Mark Filip Office of the Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Judge Filip: Joe D. Whitley Alston & Bird LLP The Atlantic Building 950 F...

…mary international law that is “(1) universal and obligatory, (2) specific and definable, and (3) of mutual concern [to States.]” Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc., 562 F.3d 163, 177 (2d Cir. 2009), cert. denied, 130 S. Ct. 3541 (2010). As the district court recognized, SPA233 (Terrorist...

30 Origins and Structure From the 1950s to the 1970s, when the United States maintained an alliance with the regime of Chiang Kai-shek on Taiwan, pro-PRC organizations faced challenges gaining traction in the United States. During the 1950s, the FBI, aided by pro-Kuomintang sec...

…e individuals active in New Zealand politics have also attended Peaceful Reunification Association meetings, where they stated their intention to promote China’s policies with respect to Tibet, promoted a think tank tied to the Belt and Road Initiative, and repeated slogans from...

…distinctive form of criminal justice federalism: federal enforcement authority wholly overlaps the territorial scope of state criminal law, and the federal code substantially overlaps much of what is covered in state criminal codes. The resulting structure of redundant federal-st...

189 twelfth among all the Chinese websites in the United States. Its reporting hews closely to China’s official media: ¢ Example 1: On June 27, 2017, the US Department of State, in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report 2017, put China at Tier 3, the lowest class. In reporti...

SECTION 2 State and Local Governments In late 2017, an American city in the mid-Atlantic region was invited to form a sister city relationship with a town in southern China. The American partner city was home to a large number of national security professionals and university a...

…her Chinese organizations cultivate relationships with local officials follows a general pattern. First, in the United States, China demands that sister city relationships and state-to-province sister relations be carried out under “principles” on which Sino-US relations were es...

Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 the truck he was out with had 2 other leaf blowers on the truck that he could identify as being over 65dBA but he only tested the one they were using and wrote a violation for that one. Ms. Van Buren asked about the testing method...

Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 the truck he was out with had 2 other leaf blowers on the truck that he could identify as being over 65dBA but he only tested the one they were using and wrote a violation for that one. Ms. Van Buren asked about the testing method...

… war comes complete with its own spy-versus-spy intrigues, disinformation campaigns, shadowy proxy forces, supercharged state rhetoric—and very high stakes. "The cold war is a reality," says one senior Saudi official. "Iran is looking to expand its influence. This instability ov...

…ummits during this period. Before serving on the NSC staff, Dr. Melby was a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, responsible for trade and energy issues. Previously, he worked at the International Energy Agency in Paris. He has also served with...

… China has used America’s openness to convey its message both to English- and Chinese-speaking residents of the United States. US rules allow foreign media companies, even ones run by foreign governments, to broadcast freely via American cable and satellite networks. Unlike in C...