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He said doing so was likely illegal even if the City Council agreed to it, because of “housing first” policies codified in state law.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
European lawmakers are in the process of ratifying that treaty but haven’t yet codified it in law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The justices could choose to focus on a 1952 law passed by Congress that codified birthright citizenship and not wade into the larger constitutional debate, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law expert.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
“There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made — a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements,” Murphy wrote.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026
He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
