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The film ends reminding the viewer that in the hour it took to watch it, six families had been kicked out of their homes, 60 people were arrested for Pass Law violations and 60 children have died of malnutrition.

Last Grave at Dimbaza

Human cloning, he believes, is inevitable, and states should, therefore, pass laws regulating cloning to protect the children produced.

Ralph C. Brashier, Inheritance Law and the Evolving Family

If Utah can't pass laws prohibiting Internet gambling, it will have lost a large measure of its ability to define what people in this part of the country consider to be proper conduct.

Gambling and globalism

They would also require countries to pass laws similar to America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans "circumvention" of technological barriers to copying.

Copyrighting the air: WIPO roundup

Now, having said that, states ought to be able to have the right to pass laws that enable people to be able to have rights like others.

Rants & raves

Sekula-Gibbs of the dermatology department of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and the Texas Dermatology Society helped pass laws to regulate tanning parlors in Texas.

Texas law protects teens from tanning beds

A federal advisory committee said in its recently released report that Congress should pass laws to protect Americans' civil liberties when the government sifts through computer records and data files for information about terrorists.

U.S. government still mining data

Such concerns have led some countries--such as Sweden--to pass laws separating church and state, in most Anglo-Saxon countries, a strong tradition of tolerance and respect has led to the full acceptance of all kinds of religious practices.

State laws--private initiatives

Public outrage soon led many states to pass laws regulating child labor.

For the Amish, tradition and the Law Collide: wary of idle hands, the Amish are seeking an exemption from child labor laws for their teenage boys

The first part would authorize the Legislature to pass laws determining limits on noneconomic damages for providers of medical or health care.

TEXANS VOTING ON WHETHER TO PROTECT DAMAGES CAP

Then there has to be an infrastructure of companies producing vegan products in order to generate money for advertising (such as Silk from White Wave on National Public Radio), pressure on distributors and stores to carry more vegan products, influence on regulators and legislators to pass laws that favor the industry, and other economies of scale.