Constitutional Committee

• Bill Would Establish Constitutional Committee

By MARC KOVAC Dix Capital Bureau

• Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
• May 20, 2011

• Gunmen Kill Former Judge Who Had Been a Sunni Candidate to Constitutional Committee

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen on Wednesday killed a former judge whose name once was on a list of Sunni Arabs joining a parliamentary committee to draft Iraq's new constitution, officials said. Separately, a Filipino hostage was released after almost eight months in captivity. Former judge Jassim al-Issawi, whose candidacy to join the 55- member committee was later dropped, was a law professor at Baghdad University and the former editor-in-chief of Al-Siyadah newspaper, said Salih al-Mutlak, secretary general of the Sunni National Dialogue Council

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• June 22, 2005

• Assembly of the State of California, Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr., Speaker of the Assembly of the State of California; Honorable Peter R. Chacon, Chairman, Assembly Committee on Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments; Assembly Committee on Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments of the Assembly of the State of California, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. United States Department of Commerce, Defendant-Appellant., 968 F.2d 916 (9th Cir. 1992)

Mark Stern, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant. Charles C. Marson, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, San Francisco, Cal., for...

• Federal Circuits

• Philadelphia Committee for Constitutional Justice: Clinton Protesters and Teamsters End Ten Year Legal Battle

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Don Adams of the Philadelphia Committee For Constitutional Justice, Cell: +1-215-620-3055, getsmarty@hotmail.com

• U.S. Newswire
• March 21, 2008

• Measure restricts constitutional amendments: committee rejects proposals to allow a citizen statutory initiative process.

A move to restrict constitutional amendments, particularly those proposed by initiative, is moving forward in the Florida Legislature. The House Jud...

• Florida Bar News
• April 01, 2005

• Iraqi Official: Sunni Member of Constitutional Drafting Committee Killed

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- One of the Sunni Arabs appointed to a committee to draft Iraq's constitution was assassinated Tuesday in a drive-by shooting, an Iraqi official said. Mijbil Issa was gunned down, along with an adviser to the committee and a bodyguard, in the Karradah area of Baghdad, according to Mohammed Abed-Rabbou, another Sunni member of the drafting committee.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• July 19, 2005

• Senate Legal And Constitutional Committee Reports On AML Bill.

On 28 November 2006, the Senate's Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs released its report on the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2007, January 2007

• Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 - Does It Achieve The Outcome Proposed By The Senate Committee On Legal And Constitutional Affairs (Committee).

As mentioned in our August 2009 Update, the Committee recommended the passing of the Personal Property Securities Bill 2009 (PPS Bill) on the basis th...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Critics Fear Unintended Consequences

In a state where most campaigns are decided in the primary, a group of would-be reformers wants to force political discourse to the center by upending the entire election system. The group, known as the Open Government Committee, is crafting a constitutional amendment for the 2012 ballot that would restructure elections in Arizona. Under the proposal, all candidates in a race would run on a single ballot in the primary, with the top two candidates proceeding to the general election, regardless of party.

• Arizona Capitol Times
• July 12, 2011

• Legislative Roundup

Days remaining in session: 30 Anti-gay-marriage measures: The House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee essentially killed two proposed constitutional amendments that would define marriage, for legal purposes in New Mexico, as being between one man and one woman.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• February 18, 2011