counsel
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County counsel Dawyn R. Harrison told the supervisors the ordinance “would most likely be challenged on the supremacy clause,” which holds that federal law supersedes state and local law.
From Los Angeles Times
Democratic strategist Bill Carrick is presented as saying modern advisors would be reluctant to counsel candidates to exit unless they had committed serious crimes.
From Los Angeles Times
They also put up perimeter fencing to make it harder for people to climb the poles, said Verizon deputy general counsel Rudy Reyes.
Mark Rosenbaum, senior special counsel for strategic litigation for the public interest law firm Public Counsel, agreed that enforcement will be the key to whether the new office is effective.
From Los Angeles Times
Even well-meaning efforts by professionals—such as the “diet and exercise” counsel typically offered by doctors—rarely produced durable weight loss.
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