Blatant discrimination in the shape of the Defence of Marriage Act enshrines in law that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Since the Social Security Act became law in 1935, hundreds of amendments have added to the complexity.
President Bill Clinton signed the act into law in 1996, but said earlier this month that he now believes it is unconstitutional and should be overturned.
Seventy-eight years ago, on April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act became law in the United States, making it legal to manufacture and sell alcohol for the first time in 14 years.
Defense companies have good reason to think they are being disproportionately targeted by budgeteers, since the Obama Administration had already spent two years slashing weapons accounts even before the Budget Control Act became law in August of 2011.
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In 1986, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated federal wiretapping law in an effort to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of cell phone users.
The proposal was fleshed out in a white paper - Policing in the 21st Century - and enacted in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, which became law in 2011.
This guidance is part of a series of important UI reforms designed to contribute to job creation and job placement that the President proposed in the American Jobs Act, were signed into law in February and are now being implemented.
The RESTORE Act, which was signed into law as part of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law 112-141), established a mechanism for providing funding to the Gulf region to restore ecosystems and rebuild local economies damaged by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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The same bill could then be re-introduced in the Commons in 2013 and, under the terms of the Parliament Act, would become law in the form it left the Commons, once the Lords amended or rejected it.
And while there is a right to privacy in Britain under the human rights act, the law is much stricter in France.
The Budget Control Act, signed in to law in August 2011, was meant to end the nation's debt crisis and force lawmakers to come up with a measured approach to reduce the deficit.
After spending much of last year in denial about the meaning of the Budget Control Act that the president signed into law in August, the defense industry is waking up to a harsh reality.
On the issue you raised in the beginning, the President signed into law a Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law that puts rules of the road in place to help prevent another financial crisis -- a crisis, by the way, that cost millions of American jobs -- and this act includes the strongest consumer protections in American history.
The applicable criminal law in federal law is the Computer Abuse Act of 1984, which has been amended several times over the years, said Reed Freeman, another e-commerce lawyer at Arent Fox.
Critics contend that the Patriot Act was rushed into law in a moment of panic.
Second, I would not act in ways that contravened the law, because again, I believe that law should be upheld, and one shouldn't break it.
The whole controversy arises from the Hatch-Waxman Act, a 1984 law in which Congress cleverly shoved the question of whether generics could compete with entrenched patentholders in front of the courts.
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The JOBS Act, which became law in April, was designed to cut red tape and reduce the burdens of financial disclosure for small companies seeking to raise capital in the stock and bond markets.
The trial is the first conducted under the Military Commissions Act, a law passed in 2006 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against an earlier Bush administration plan for trying Guantanamo Bay detainees under military rules.
While the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was signed into law in the United States in 2008, the protection it will provide against discrimination by employers and health insurance companies for employment and coverage issues has not been clearly established.
The broad scope of the Clinton Administrations's legislative initiative in this area is reminiscent of its recent efforts to effect wholesale and permanent dismantling of statutory restrictions concerning the Palestine Liberation Organization. (2) In both cases, the Administration has insisted that Congress act precipitously to effect sweeping changes in the law of the land.
In his memoirs, former Prime Minister Tony Blair was particularly outspoken about the Freedom of Information Act, a law introduced when he was in Downing Street.
In 2001, Mr. Spitzer used the Martin Act, an aggressive New York state law created in 1921, to shed light on Wall Street's research practices.
And in 2010, President Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act, which made progress in reducing the 100-to-1 disparity between sentences for powder and crack cocaine that disproportionately affected minorities and also eliminated the mandatory minimum sentence for simple possession of crack cocaine.
The survey was required under the terms of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a bipartisan law passed in 2003.
R. 4853, the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010, into law in December 2010.
"It's difficult for consumers to act in their own interest if the law doesn't meet their basic expectations, " Mr. Strickling said.
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