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Recent Updates in Current Legal Topics

The Law Library of Congress has added several items recently to the Current Legal Topics page.

Campaign Finance
This report examines campaign finance laws, including those governing the length of the campaign period, funding sources and disclosure requirements, restrictions on contributions and expenditures, and free speech implications of such restrictions, in Australia, France, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom.

State Legislation on Comprehensive Health Care Coverage
As the national debate on health care continues, state laws provide small scale models of legislation that might be implemented on a larger scale. State Legislation on Comprehensive Health Care Coverage provides an overview of certain legislation in Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont as well as links to state codes.

Sex Selection & Abortion
This report provides an analysis of laws on the subject of sex selection and abortion in Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand.

Habeas Corpus Rights
This report analyzes the right available to persons in Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Kingdom, and Yemen to challenge the legality of their arrest or detention.

Supreme Court Nominations: Sonia Sotomayor
Sotomayor was confirmed on August 6, 2009 by a vote of 68-31.

Source: Recent Updates in Current Legal Topics

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