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Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, 602 U.S. 367 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case to challenge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s approval of mifepristone, a drug frequently used in medical abortion procedures.
The following year, in the United States, the IRS again revoked the Church's tax exempt status. The Church brought a declaratory judgment action in the United States Court of Federal Claims with respect to its tax-exempt status for the years covered. The Court of Federal Claims upheld the revocation on the ground that the Church had not been ...
The Texas city of El Paso was the first American city to individually restrict cannabis, in 1915. The scene for this city ban was set in 1913, when a man killed a police officer in neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, while chasing an El Paso couple. [7]
Texas has a reputation for a low tax. [267] According to the Tax Foundation, Texans' state and local tax burdens are seventh-lowest nationally; state and local taxes cost $3,580 per capita, or 8.4 percent of resident incomes. [268] Texas is one of seven states that lack a state income tax. [268] [269]
Republic of Texas policies changed the status of many living in the region. The constitution forbade free blacks from living in Texas permanently. Individual slaves could only be freed by congressional order, and the newly emancipated person would then be forced to leave Texas. [ 300 ]
Pages in category "Texas law" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. Law of Texas; 0–9. 2019 Texas property tax reform; A. ... Legal status of Texas; LGBT ...
[10] [11] A Texas convention debated the annexation offer and almost unanimously passed an ordinance assenting to it on July 4, 1845. [12] The convention debated through August 28, and adopted the Constitution of the State of Texas on August 27, 1845. [13] The citizens of Texas approved an annexation ordinance and new constitution on October 13 ...
A poll tax, also called a per capita tax, or capitation tax, is a tax that levies a set amount per individual. It is an example of the concept of fixed tax. One of the earliest taxes mentioned in the Bible of a half-shekel per annum from each adult Jew (Ex. 30:11–16) was a form of the poll tax. Poll taxes are administratively cheap because ...