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Under California’s penal code, employers can face grand theft charges for stealing more than $950 in wages or tips from one employee or a total of $2,350 from two or more employees within a year.
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Calmatters, The Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2024
Under the Philippine penal code, such public remarks may constitute a crime of threatening to inflict a wrong on a person or his family and is punishable by a jail term and fine.
—Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2024
Independent India inherited illiberal laws—from sedition to criminal defamation—from the British colonial-era penal code, and the once dominant Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress party) deployed them with aplomb.
—Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2021
Thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets across Slovakia recently to rally against Fico’s pro-Russian and other policies, including plans to amend the penal code and cancel a top prosecution dealing with corruption.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2024
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Calmatters, The Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2024
Under the Philippine penal code, such public remarks may constitute a crime of threatening to inflict a wrong on a person or his family and is punishable by a jail term and fine.
—Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2024
Independent India inherited illiberal laws—from sedition to criminal defamation—from the British colonial-era penal code, and the once dominant Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress party) deployed them with aplomb.
—Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2021
Thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets across Slovakia recently to rally against Fico’s pro-Russian and other policies, including plans to amend the penal code and cancel a top prosecution dealing with corruption.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2024
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“Penal code.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penal%20code. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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