The two-year old social network has found immense success among college-educated females between the ages of 25 and 34, but it has yet to turn the act of pinning into an act of participatory commerce.
Even the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed under Commerce Clause powers because it targeted employers, schools and businesses, all arguably economic actors.
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In defending the constitutionality of the Act, the federal government relies upon the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as the enumerated power supposedly delegating authority to the federal government for this regulatory compulsion.
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Section 105(a) of the Implementation Act authorizes the President to establish or designate within the Department of Commerce an office that shall be responsible for providing administrative assistance to panels established under chapter 20 of the Agreement.
Judge Boyce Martin, a Carter appointee and Judge Jeffrey Sutton, a George W. Bush appointee, upheld the individual mandate of the Act under Congress's Commerce Clause power.
The reason for George's bullishness on Sturm Ruger is the Senate's passage last Friday of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (S. 397) by a 65-to-31 vote.
While the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was enacted in 2005 to mandate that gun locks be provided with every weapon that is sold by a gun dealer, the ones we have tested are not secure and offer minimal to no security.
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By contrast, the U.S. Commerce Department (roughly MITI's counterpart) was unable to play a corresponding role despite the spirit of then-pending legislation (the Bingaman amendment to the FY1989 DOD Authorization Act) requiring Defense to consult with Commerce in the negotiation of bilateral memorandums of understanding.
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This is the direct result of major rewrites of the Export Administration Act in 1985 and 1988, by which Congress awarded the Commerce Department exclusive responsibility in a number of relevant areas.
The SBA's Office of Advocacy monitors federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Department of Commerce and the Securities and Exchange Commission--in accordance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980--to make sure they aren't creating new rules that place a disproportionate burden on small businesses.
The act gives the president the power to prevent disruption of interstate commerce.
The Court of Appeals case involved the criminal conviction of a pharma sales rep, Alfred Caronia, for conspiracy to introduce a misbranded drug into interstate commerce in violation of the Federal Drug and Cosmetic Act.
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In 1964, the commerce clause formed part of the basis for the Civil Rights Act, and the Court upheld the argument that the clause grants Congress the power to prohibit racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants.
R. 4276, the House version of the FY 1999 Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary Appropriations Act now awaiting House action.
Congress has invoked its commerce power to pass a vast array of laws, from the Endangered Species Act to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, often over conservative complaints that such regulation exceeded the intent of the Constitution's framers.
Since the Toxic Substances Control Act took effect in 1976, the EPA has tested only 200 of the 80, 000 chemicals in commerce and regulated just five.
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.
Don Evans, secretary of commerce in the president's first term and a friend of 40 years, says that act demonstrated the president's commitment to his family and to the Bush family's belief in public service.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote from the liberal side of the bench, urging the court to uphold the Act in its entirety and rejecting the Roberts view that the individual mandate exceeds the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
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