• The California foie gras law or Senate Bill 1520 (S.B. 1520) is a California State statute that prohibits the "force feed[ing of] a bird for the purpose...
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    Foie gras (French for 'fat liver'); French: [fwa ɡʁɑ], English: /ˌfwɑːˈɡrɑː/ ) is a specialty food product made of the liver of a duck or goose. According...
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    The production of foie gras (the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened) involves the controversial force-feeding of birds with more...
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    of which have pledged not to sell foie gras. Stephen Starr, owner of 11 restaurants in Philadelphia, removed foie gras from his menus in that city due to...
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    stopped serving foie gras on animal-cruelty grounds. Sohn flagrantly flouted the law by developing a "celebrity" dog made with foie gras, naming it after...
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    The law of California consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law, as well as case law. The California Codes form...
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    Taxes in California are collected by state and local governments through a number of tax categories. Sales tax is imposed on retailers (not consumers)...
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    The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences...
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    Gardens v. City of Los Angeles, 231 Cal. App .3d 1563, 1568 (1991); California Gambling Law Resources Lopez, Frank (2019-04-01). "'Proposition players' keep...
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  • Charlie Trotter (category California Culinary Academy alumni)
    for his outspokenness in matters of ethics, most famously when he took foie gras off the menu in 2002 for ethical reasons. However, Trotter refused to...
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    property, civil and constitutional rights, and criminal law. Under the original 1849 California Constitution, the Court started with a chief justice and...
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    statutory law of New York in the 1860s". In that aspect, it was "by no means revolutionary but rather conservative". For example, as enacted in California, the...
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    The California Alien Land Law of 1913 (also known as the Webb–Haney Act) prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land...
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    court judge in California, one must have been a member of the State Bar of California for at least ten years. One quirk of California law is that when a...
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  • groups welcome India's ban on foie gras". EU food law. 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2015. "India 'sets precedent' with foie gras import ban". Agra Europe. 2014...
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    Bicycle law in California is the parts of the California Vehicle Code that set out the law for persons cycling in California, and a subset of bicycle law in...
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    confiscation by law enforcement of illegal retail and grow operations has continued and in some cases stepped up after legalization. California's main regulatory...
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    mandate is a type of extraordinary writ in the U.S. state of California. In California, certain writs are used by the superior courts, courts of appeal...
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    California criminal law generally follows the law of the United States. However, there are both substantive and procedural differences between how the...
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  • Le Papillon (restaurant) (category French-American culture in California)
    production and sale of foie gras in California, but the law didn't go into effect until July 1, 2012. San Francisco Bay Area portal Foie gras controversy West...
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    statutes adopted by the California legislature and that have either been signed into law by the governor or that have become law without the governor's...
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    The California Health and Safety Code is the codification of general statutory law covering the subject areas of health and safety in the state of California...
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  • of birds to make foie gras. Although foie gras has been banned in many countries in Europe, as well as in the U.S. state of California, because of an absence...
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