legalize
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On Aug. 5, New York will become the 14th U.S. state to legalize Medical Aid in Dying, or MAID.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The combination of a years-long fight to legalize street vending in Los Angeles and months of harassment from U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Barstool was humming and Portnoy had his first Nantucket house when state legislatures began to legalize online gambling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Polymarket has an advantage there: U.S. states with the highest Hispanic populations, namely Texas and California, have yet to legalize traditional sports betting.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
When word of Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation reached the Hermitage, all of the newly freed people were told they must legalize their marriages.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
June 26, 2015 United States Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024
The 100-page "family code" legalizes same-sex marriage and civil unions, allows same-sex couples to adopt children, and promotes equal sharing of domestic rights and responsibilities between men and women.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed into law a bill that effectively legalizes the cryptocurrency sector in the country.
From The Verge ● Mar. 17, 2022
“If California legalizes sports gambling it becomes very unlikely that another state would arise as the consumer-oriented opposer of sports gambling.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
The act legalizes the deportation of people suspected of having “ties to terrorism.”
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Marriage equality was legalized in all 50 states by the Supreme Court 11 years ago in Obergefell v.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
The state’s supremacy in the sports-betting space is also noteworthy because New York only legalized online sports wagering in 2022.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
Since California had legalized the procedure decades earlier, Seymour reasoned that he should respect women’s choices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Cuba's housing market emerged only in 2011, when the government legalized home sales.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Du Bois praised and embraced Washington’s emphasis on “thrift, patience, and industrial training for the masses,” but sharply disagreed with his public acceptance of segregation, disenfranchisement, and legalized discrimination.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Call me naive, but that’s what I thought most sports betting would look like after the Supreme Court struck down a law in 2018 that had prevented states from legalizing the practice.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
He put his effort into legalizing people already here—nearly three million, the largest such legalization in U.S. history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
However, if those states end up legalizing sports betting, the company said, it will stop offering sports-prediction markets and offer its traditional sports-betting platform instead.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 24, 2025
Accordingly, he called for legalizing the practice so it could be “brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Two men loudly discuss how Patel has been successful in legalizing their family members.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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