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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

It overwhelmingly passed a bill to legalize the new stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

Supreme Court struck down the ban on sports betting, paving the way for states to legalize in-person and online betting.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

I write that America is my home in my heart, and how citizenship will legalize what I already feel.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

In 2026, Idaho legalized starters-homes on small lots and Virginia allowed accessory dwelling units by right.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Nearly 70% of DraftKings Predictions sports trading volume is coming from states without legalized Sportsbook, according to Hickey, signaling that predictions markets aren’t cannibalizing DraftKings’ sports-betting business at a high rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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

After a second Opium War, the Tientsin Treaties legalized the ravaging opium trade, legalized a British-French-American control of China’s customs.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Since the early 1970s, Steinem used her voice and influence to work toward legalizing safe abortions while championing survivors of rape and domestic violence and pushing for equal pay in the workplace.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Bass proposed legalizing vacation rentals in her budget this year, though the proposal was removed from the budget by the City Council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

And indeed, those early- legalizing states saw crime begin to fall earlier than the other forty-five states and the District of Columbia.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt