If sex or age come into play, they can turn to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA).
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Until recently, the kiddie tax only applied to children under the age of 14, but in 2005, the Tax Increase Protection and Reconciliation Act moved the age to 18, and the new legislation that was passed on Friday expanded it further: Effective Jan. 1, 2008, the kiddie tax will apply to children age 18 and younger as well as college students under the age of 24.
In the evening, the young men, all in their early 20s, act their raucous age, playing loud music and laughing hilariously at absurd jokes.
While ministers had threatened to use the Parliament Act to push the age of consent measure through the Lords, the same act cannot be used to repeal Section 28 because the legislation began its current parliamentary passage in the upper house.
Congress rejected this 1937 proposal and turned against further New Deal measures, but not before the Social Security Act creating old-age pensions went into effect.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 forbids employment discrimination against anyone at least 40 years of age in the United States.
First, you do need to know exactly what the CARD Act means to college-age consumers.
His father, an actor and opera singer, had encouraged his son to act in films from the age of six.
But what we've discovered is that young people can often demonstrate a remarkable capacity to act as adults, whatever their age.
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The CARD Act also requires that students under age 21 show proof of sufficient income or get a co-signer to obtain credit.
The comedian, best known for his faulty microphone act, died earlier this month at the age of 87.
This illustrates an age-old, auto industry balancing act: new-and-improved versus tried-and-true.
His bill would "solely and simply" amend the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to raise the threshold from the current age of consent of 16.
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It has since been ascertained, beyond a doubt, that the murderer of the unfortunate gentleman is no other than his third son, Richard Dadd, a fine young man, 24 years age, and that he committed the act whilst labouring under an aberration of intellect.
Six days later, the Supreme Court upheld the old-age-insurance provisions of the Social Security Act.
To make matters worse, the Credit CARD Act of 2009 restricted credit access for people under the age of 21.
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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.
The same age as the turkey ceremony is 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal rulemaking.
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Also, remember that disabled children are considered to have the legal rights of an adult when they reach the age of 18 years of age even if the disabled person is unable to act on their own.
In an age when everyone is vying for victimhood status, the Dream Act youth are among the few who are genuine victims.
Military power in the information age will depend on the ability to collect, process, act upon and disseminate information so as to achieve dominant battle-space awareness.
The review found more than 20 areas of concern including that the council failed to comply with the law because the Children's Act states a child is a child until they are 18 years of age.
With more people having grown up in a digital age, with information just a Google search away, and the act of spending money or expressing an opinion an increasingly frictionless experience, voting would be a lot more prevalent if it was just easier.
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In a ruling last week, Judge Christopher A. Boyko of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio agreed with Citigroup that Brinson had cited the wrong laws in her complaint, but concluded that she has a case under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which prohibits creditor-on-debtor discrimination based on race, age, marital status and the like.
The NYPD has been a national leader in recognizing that policing in an age of terror requires not only proactive intelligence collection but the ability to act decisively upon the fruits of that collection rather than waiting for disaster to strike, and then reacting.
In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), predicting that portable health records would usher in a new golden age.
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What he meant was that in an age where almost nobody reads, you can be forgiven for thinking that the simple act of picking up a book is revolutionary.
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Of course, if the Affordable Care Act is repealed (as most Republicans would like to do) then raising the Medicare eligibility age would be extremely burdensome on older adults.
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More than 200 children under 10 years of age have committed crimes in Norfolk over the last five years, a Freedom of Information Act request has revealed.
By age 8, Eigsti's talent was so obvious he was invited to be the opening act for David Benoit.
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