The prosecutions were pursued privately by the council under Section 178 of the Town and Country Planning Act in which it as an "offence to wilfully obstruct" a local planning authority taking enforcement action.
One of the NAACP attorneys who argued the case, Debo Adegbile, said when Congress renewed the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it understood that the act makes sure minority inclusion is considered up front.
"The government figured it had to step in, it had to act before things got much worse, so it came in, it shut Washington Mutual down and arranged to sell it, " Zarroli says.
This case in the Second Circuit was unique in that it lacked the precedent upon which to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in the way that this administration had defended it in previous cases.
But they are all 80 years of age or older, making it imperative to act now in order to preserve it before it's too late.
But the authorities should take it positively and act on it in a transparent way.
The passage of the Orphan Drug Act in 1983 made it financially worthwhile for drug companies to chase treatments for disorders like multiple sclerosis, rare cancers, even rare genetic disease.
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To understand what possesses the international community - that is, the US and the EU - to act in this way it is worth considering the EU's moves regarding Israel and the Palestinians this past week.
And initially when community groups started to form health care projects in the late 1930s, they really saw this as an expansion of the Social Security Act that it passed in 1935.
So long as the partnership in crime continues, the partners act for each other in carrying it forward.
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The NFL argues that the SSA 4 does not require it to act in good faith in 2011 or subsequent seasons, that lockouts are recognized bargaining tools and that it is entitled to maximize its post-SSA leverage.
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So it can act as a canary in the coal mine as it were.
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Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, making it illegal to access copyrighted content and break digital rights management technologies.
The World Anti-Doping Agency has a further three weeks to intervene, should the cycling union act in a manner which it believes to be incorrect.
My testing shows that this signal is this is backward-looking and not very useful, but since a large number of people believe it, they act on it resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But while the language of politicians and pundits is ultimately aimed at persuading people to act in certain ways, it can only get there by first persuading them to talk in certain ways.
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The Martin Act is fierce in that it can preempt federal law and it does not require the New York Attorney General to prove that defendants acted with intent to defraud, only that they acted negligently.
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Its head of child protection John Cameron said: "We want this to mark a cultural shift so that if a child speaks out against someone, we take what they are saying seriously and we act upon it always in future".
In 2007, however, the Howard government passed an act that allowed it to muscle in on water management in the Murray-Darling basin, constitutionally a state responsibility.
It requires each of us to act responsibly in our own lives, and it requires all of us to look inward -- to ask not only how we can end this scourge, but also how we can root out the inequities and the attitudes on which this scourge thrives.
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The donation was vetted by experts in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act before the board approved it in May 2011, Mr. Miller said.
The Social Security department then took it on and after the equality act reformed discrimination laws in the UK, it had to start the law from scratch.
Rubio captured the fundamental flaw in the so-called Affordable Care Act: it makes health insurance more expensive, in turn making hiring more expensive, and our health-care entitlements more expensive.
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When it comes to the Recovery Act, again, every specific provision in it people like.
Obama was not in the U.S. Senate when Congress voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, but he supported it in the Illinois state legislature.
It's possible when the Dangerous Wild Animals Act was passed in 1976, which made it illegal to own exotic but dangerous animals, a handful of owners released their pets into the wild.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998 extended the US term of copyright to bring it in line with international norms.
It must act now while it still has funds left in its reputational equity bank.
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Since Congress did not act last year on this proposal, I am introducing it in this year's budget -- and I once again urge Congress to act on it.
Despite bipartisan support in the past, the Dream Act never passed Congress after it became caught up in the broader debate over reshaping the nation's immigration system, including what to do with the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally.
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